A few months ago we stepped out entirely from our comfort zone and produced the video for Candy Rock’s debut single ‘Candy Shop’ amid a torrent of champagne, beautiful girls and costume changes in a dilapidated former music superstore somewhere in the heart of London.

And here it is. Medlo go girl-pop.

A couple of months ago Medlo chipped in some donated time and shot a meeting of creative minds for The Yes Men – corporate pranksters and scourge of unethical businesses everywhere. They were planning a Bhopal drinking water event so we scuttled over to Soho where the advertising team were readying their designs and captured them in full creative flow.

That footage has now been edited (not by us, we should stress) and posted online. So here it is…

If you haven’t already seen their new movie – The Yes Men Fix the World – then we heartily encourage you to do so. It’s achingly funny and desperately relevant. Go watch!

This is from Dza…

My brother and I will be playing some new remixes at ‘La Boutique Electronique on 25th July.

We’ll be mixing up some of our latest video remix material. Stuff like dis:

http://blip.tv/file/2146036

Tickets are very limited…..hopefully see you there.

Here is some blurb:
ditto presents La Boutique Electronique

A Two-Ring Circus of Film, Fun & Electro
July 25th, Sosho, Shoreditch, 9pm – 3am
With a fantastic line-up of the best in electronic and dance music, film and art.

‘Yuki’ will be performing ‘Live’ at the Latitude festival in Suffolk on the 19th July and will continue her journey to LBE in London on the 25th July along with 2bit, Mike Bryant & Jon Fugler (former Fluke), please see the website for full details?

Tickets are £10 via PayPal and are available from
http://www.ditto.tv/lbe.html

Demand for the show is huge, so book early to avoid disappointment.

So… as everyone in the world now knows; the king of pop is dead. Long live the memory of Michael Jackson! No one will ever replace him.

The loss of the worlds greatest popstar is doubly painful for us as we were in the process of beginning a documentary on his London shows, having been granted access by AEG – the company who’d previously hired Dza and Phil to cover the Prince shows last year.

Footage of his press launch had already been filmed and we were just about to begin full time work on it when news of his death broke; equipment had been bought, subjects confirmed, contracts signed and I was even moving to London for the duration of his residency.

Now, of course, none of this will ever come to pass. We had grandiose plans to cut a feature out of our material and, whether or not that would ever have been seen, it would have provided a terrific calling card for Medlo and enabled us to work on bigger and better projects.

No doubt it would have won us 4 Oscars and we’d be millionaires by now.

It’s still hard to come to terms with the loss – of a man, of a legend and of an opportunity that will never – ever – come to pass again. We spent much of the week following his death in shock, just blinking into the midday sun and uttering half finished sentences that amounted to the same statement – “I can’t believe he died.”

Our thoughts are with his family, and his fans. And with ourselves too.

RIP

Medlo have created and contributed a brand new exclusive video mash-up to Ditto, a sparkling and fresh arts event in the London Roundhouse, and will be screening it live for the first (and only) time on Saturday 16th May.

Ditto is a one-off performance of music, film, visual art and dance from some of the country’s most talented creatives, and will be broadcast live across the net as well as being a physical and actual event that is real and totally attendable.

Head to ditto.tv for all the information you’ll ever need, and click here for the e-flyer.

Reigns – ‘Everything Beyond These Walls Has Been Razed’

From the album ‘The House on the Causeway’ – out now on Monotreme Records.

Produced by Medlo and illustrated by Phlegm Comics.

We at Medlo towers would just like to take this opportunity to mark the very sad passing of the musician Aaron Stout, and to offer our deepest condolences to his friends and family. We’re all saddened and shocked by his untimely departure and hope that his legacy of beautiful music may go some small way to easing the pain of his death.

We had the pleasure of working with Aaron when we produced the music video for his single ‘Spacestation‘ and although we only ever talked by email I remember being struck by the fluidity of his ideas and being flattered by the trust he placed in us to do his work justice.

He was a wonderfully talented musician and a lovely human being. He will be missed greatly and our thoughts are with those closest to him.

Hush now has a poster, as well as a website which the Medlo featurettes have started appearing on.

www.hushmovie.co.uk/

Here’s the first one released; First Day.

We’re very happy to announce that we’re currently in the finishing throes of our latest music video project; our second animated collaboration with Phlegm Comics for Monotreme Records‘ latest release – Reigns.

It’s a beautifully moody tale ripped straight from the sleeve stories of the album and will be available online very early on into March. There’s nothing to show yet, but Phlegm has posted some stills on his blog so head over there and soak up the gorgeous work he’s been doing.

Reigns’ album The Last House on the Causeway is released on the 9th March.

Here’s the first Medlo / Phlegm / Monotreme collaboration – ‘Spacestation’ by Aaron Stout.

Late in 2007 I spent many late nights on the set of Hush, the new thriller from Warp Films and director Mark Tonderai. The Medlo promo materials have yet to make their way online but a trailer has just been released and here it is in all it’s atmospheric glory.

Hush is released on March 13th. Go see…!