In the early and mid-90s, Pharcyde (along with De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest) were the kings of alternative hip-hop. Featuring socially concious rhymes, jazz-influenced beats and some extremely talented raps, The Pharcyde acheived moderate commercial success, culminating with their appearance at Lollapalooza 1994, before things started taking a turn for the worst, with several members leaving to form solo projects. “Drop” was one of the few songs Pharcyde had to chart with Billboard, hitting #5 in the rap charts and featuring this great video directed by Spike Jonze, who worked with several Pharcyde-related projects in his career. Spot the Mike D and AdRock (Beastie Boys) cameos!

Watch the video for “Drop” by The Pharcyde after the jump..

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Hold on to your bandwidth, cause this is a monster post. Cosmos: A Pesonal Voyage was a 13-part documentary series studying the origin of life and our place in the universe, produced in 1978 and 1979 in Los Angeles by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan and Steven Soter for PBS. The budget was huge for a public-television documentary at the time, clocking in at roughly $8.3 million US, with it being rumoured that the LA affiliate, KCET, went into heavy debt due to it’s production. But it all worked out in the end, with the documentary being a huge hit, winning an Emmy and Peabody Award and being broadcast in more than 60 countries by over 600 million people. Cosmos was the most widely watched series in the history of public television until the 1990′s Civil War documentary.

Watch all 13 episodes of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” here! (Thanks to DXG for the link!)

Scottish knob-tweakers, Boards of Canada, have been creating their unique style (many people have tried to imitate over the years) of dreamy electronica for almost 20 years and just keep getting better and better. The secretive duo, consisting of brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin Sandison, have been quiet about their plans for upcoming new work, but, that’s par for the course for a group that hid the fact that they were related for years until an interview in Pitchfork revealed that they were keeping it a secret in order to avoid comparisons to similar sibling groups (Orbital for one). With dark themes and experiments with subliminal messages, Boards of Canada constantly reach out from their dark myst to provide fans with pure electronica gems every few years, content with sitting back and enjoying the relative quiet that living in suburban Scotland provides.

Watch the brilliant video for Board of Canada’s “Dayvan Cowboy” after the jump..

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3 friends one day decided that the theatrical trailer of The Matrix just wasn’t good enough, it was missing something, some ‘oomph’ that would take it to the next level. That ‘oomph’ turned out to be, The Muppets. Thus, the Muppet Matrix was born. Taking 2 months, the creators took the original Matrix trailer, replaced all of the major characters with 10 fully animated 3D muppets, and 150 shots later, The Muppet Matrix was born, a complete remake of the original theatrical trailer for The Matrix, featuring unofficial Muppet look-alikes.

Watch The Muppet Matrix after the jump..

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I’ve recently started watching Northern Exposure again from the very beginning, which is reminding of how much I loved this show. Airing from 1990 – 1995, Northern Exposure was a quirky, dramatic, comedic jewel, taking place in a small Alaskan town, which to this very day I want to live in. The show’s quirkiness came from it’s wide variety of influences, most notably, the show’s creators who were members of the Esalen Institute in California, which presents an eclectic and “spritual” worldview, exemplified in the writings of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. The show’s rich appreciation for Native American culture and mythology also gave the writer’s a rich background of material to use in future episodes and was also one of the few shows to present a wonderfully positive view of Native American culture (kudos!). Because of the show’s quirkiness however, it was often compared to Twin Peaks, something that would flatter the hell out of me, might have gotten a bit annoying after several years. This is where one of my fondest memories of Northern Exposure comes from, episode 5 of season 1, where Northern Exposure does a spot on parody of Twin Peaks, even goning so far as to film sequences at Snoqualmie Falls in northern Washington, the infamous waterfall seen throughout Twin Peaks.

Watch Northern Exposure’s parody of Twin Peaks after the jump..

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It seems all my late night calls to Q-Tip finally paid off, with the announcement yesterday from Take Two Games (and our nerdy gamer cousins) that the Midnight Marauders themselves, A Tribe Called Quest, will be reuniting for a dozen date tour promoting 2K Sports’ newest basketball title, NBA 2K7. I have to admit, I’m impressed with how well Take Two coalesces with the music industry, not in that EA, we’ll support whatever the kids listen to when they’re applying their mascara crap either, but actual meaningful, interesting music artists who deserve all the support they get.

Watch the video for A Tribe Called Quest’s “Electric Relaxation” after the jump..

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Yeah yeah, we’re all about videos lately, we know we know. But seriously, who couldn’t resist watching the Family Guy pilot for free? Not I, that much you already know. Before Seth Macfarlane had his hit series Family Guy on air, he started out just like the rest of us would, with a dream and a pilot reel. This is the original 7 minute pilot, submitted to Fox, which for the life of me I have no idea how on Earth Family Guy made it on the air. Don’t get me wrong, the show is brilliant, but never could I imagine Fox’s suits watching this and enthusiastically pumping their fists in the air. Then again, this is Fox we’re talking about, so, you never know.

Watch 7 minutes of Family Guy brilliance, after the jump..

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Not happy with just posting the previous Broadcast video we’re back to our favorite British noise-makers, this time with their video for “Papercuts” off of the infamous Warp DVD from several years back. From 2000, the video for “Papercuts” was directed by Barback and definitely scores as one of our top Broadcast tracks. Broadcast records for Duophic Records, Warp, and Tommy Boy. Enjoy.

“Papercuts” by Brodcast after the jump..

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A very determined fan of Mythbusters has created a small blog which will begin providing links to Mythbusters episodes which are free to watch via Google Video. Though I would venture to say the legality is in question, any self-respecting nerd is a Mythbusters fan and wouldn’t care where their fix comes from, so have at it, while it lasts. Ahhh Mythbusters, the “Jackass” for nerds.

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Weird Al is back and back hard with this great parody video of Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’ Dirty”, featuring everyone’s favorite vegan turning it into a guaranteed Digg, YouTube and MySpace favorite titled “White and Nerdy”. I have to admit, Al is impressing me with this new single, which not only bangs pretty hard, but his rhymes are extremely good. From Weird Al’s forthcoming album, we present to you “White and Nerdy” which just dropped today and features Al all spiffy and clean, looking like a mid-90′s emo rocker.

Blast that shit and watch the video after the jump..

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