Friday videos, and a plug for Soma FM's Xmas music stream

I'm off work for a whole week! Yay!

Here's a Berlin band that I really like, Quarks. Hard to find any videos of them. They also started to suck after they were picked up by Sony. But their older music is very honest and lifelike, I just love them:



Which reminds me of Ulrich Schnauss, who's also German (from Kiel). Again, first 2 albums were sheer brilliance. This track seems to be from something released more reecently. The shoegazers love him, though he's not really shoegaze (too many keyboards).



Someone posted a comment on YouTube that Ulrich Schnauss used to be "in Boards of Canada before they hit it big", which seems kinda funny cos BoC is Scottish. Anyway, I've probably posted BoC's "Disengage" before, but here it is again (audio only with a still for the video) - brilliant frickin' session, better than any of their studio work by far.



And by the way, If you're looking for a streaming site for Christmas music, I highly recommend SomaFM's "Xmas in Frisko" feed. Lots of funny music interspersed with serious music and crappy pop music. Go check them out!