Now THIS is animation! Headless Productions, an up-and-coming animation studio based out of Barcelona, just put out a short studio reel covering their recent and upcoming projects and it is sweeping through animation blogs across the web. Headless is the studio behind 2007's Nocturna, a gorgeous film that really set the stage for what this group could accomplish. The reel covers upcoming projects I'm a Monster, Mr. Collieu, and my personal favorite The Strange Case of Dad's Missing Head. If nothing else, the video shows what inspiring work an independent studio can produce when given the chance. Please, enjoy.

Soundgarden is most definitely BACK and I am LOVING IT! This video from their Nudedragons show last week gave me some serious chills.

I started compiling this mix over New Year's weekend, before I was swept up in a Japanophile fever prior to my Tokyo trip (resulting in the thematically relevant KaijuMix). My goal when I started producing these mixes was to put together an Aphex Twin set, but I lacked the skills to piece together music so wrought with tempo changes and syncopation. One could say I still lack those skills, but I gave it another shot just the same (if nothing else than to clear out the gigs of .flac files I ripped from my CDs to my laptop). Aphex is easily my favorite electronic artist, and although his output has slowed these past few years, his library is still impressive. I pulled tracks from several of his aliases, including AFX, Polygon Window, and others, and from wholly different periods of his career; you should be able to pick out a number of shifts in his sound over the course of the mix.

Grab the .mp3 from the link above and leave comments below. Thanks for listening!

Stereorobo // AFXMIX // April 18, 2010

1. Laughable Butane Bob
2. Meltphace 6
3. Acrid Avid Jam Shred
4. Girl-Boy Song
5. Flim
6. Polynomial-C
7. Donkey Rhubarb
8. Quixote
9. Icct Hedral
10. Humanoid Must Not Escape
11. Wet Tip Hen Ax
12. Fingerbib
13. Boxing Day
14. On DScape Mix
15. Heliosphan

I knew a Scott Pilgrim video game was in the works - Mal said as much months ago over Twitter. I knew Ubisoft was publishing it - it was the only maker that made sense given the cities Mal visited to oversee its production. What I DIDN'T know, and this is where things get really interesting, was revealed last night at PAX East in Boston before an enormous crowd at the Hynes Convention Center:

1. Anamanaguchi is contributing to the soundtrack!
2. Paul Robertson is in charge of art direction!

There is exciting news and there is EXCITING NEWS!!!!!!11!!1!! This clearly falls under the latter. Anamanaguchi is one of the best touring chiptune groups, with dozens of amazing 8-bit inspired songs and is a huge hit at cons like PAX. Paul Robertson is the top-notch pixel artist responsible for Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 and a host of other shorts. This is my most anticipated game of the year; nothing can come close.

Here is a clip of Anamanaguchi performing the theme to the game, followed by further linkage.

• Attract Mode: Scott Pilgrim the Video Game!
• Fort90: Scott Pilgrim the Video Game
• Techland: Scott Pilgrim at PAX East

You would have had to been under a rock today to miss this, but the Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World trailer has finally hit!!! The movie version of my favorite comic in the world is set to launch August 13 this year, and features the brilliant work of director Edgar Wright and Michael Cera in the titular role. I am SO EXCITED for this movie I am struck speechless; watch the trailer and succumb yourself!