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New #Spotify playlist for your spirit vacation

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Come shake your thing with us at Jify's Basement this Thursday. It's Jeff Cristiani's (Tezeo) birthday so it's very likely to be full on party vibes.

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Basically the show of the summer right here. Mercury Lounge @rushmidnight @themastmusic 9pm tomorrow night. (at Mercury Lounge)

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Following the Crystal Moselle-directed short film of three teenage ballerinas for the single "Shapeshifting", COLOR WAR returns with another intimate story of youth and womanhood and the private moments that fill that fleeting space.  This video arrived in our inbox fully-formed, courtesy of a young Parisian director Laure Atanasyan.  We had not previously met Laure, and yet her images transported us instantly to that time in our lives when we felt so ardent and so vulnerable.  

Directed by LAURE ATANASYAN

Featuring MARION FRIZOT, GUILLAUME POYET Cinematography and editing by LAURE ATANASYAN Special thanks to HUGO CANELA, REMI CALMONT

Subscribe: http://bit.ly/1GOIotV

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The new video and remix for our track Hallways just premiered on Noisey today, check it out HERE Free download of the sexydark remix by Brenn & César If you love the original song, you can download "Hallways" on iTunes or Bandcamp

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TONIGHT :: SHEA STADIUM w @_northamerica @roniiamusic @exocomet 8pm $8 (at Shea Stadium)

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Check out this video collaboration by COTTON PROJECT x WEST COAST featuring our track Plate Tectonics

‘NO WALLS’

Directed by Cristina Streciwik and Rabih Aidar Creative Direction: Rafael Varandas e Rachel Mancini Produced by Planalto Script: Cotton Project

Music: Color War - Plate Tectonics Lumerians - Burning Mirrors

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Interview with Shapeshifting director Crystal Moselle on Noisey

Here at Noisey we spend a lot of time watching music videos. We are music video connoisseurs and choosy motherfuckers so it takes a lot to make us go, "Damn!" Color War's video for "Shapeshifting" not only made us go "Damn!" it also made us go:

"WTF! Are bodies supposed to bend that way?" 

"Ugh. We wish we were this cool at 14."

"Dancing with Elmo in Times Square looks pretty sweet."

We last wrote about Brooklyn duo Color War in late 2013 when they released their airy synth-pop tune "SOS," but this track takes a slightly different tact: they sound like Warpaint if they spent and entire year listening to Italo disco on downers. It's dope. 

But back to the video. It features three teenage ballerinas, who had relocated to NYC from who knows where, to attend a ballet summer school. The trio dance all over the city—in playgrounds, down crosswalks, in parks; they bend their bodies to scaffolding and lamp posts and freestyle with the exuberance and unselfconsciousness that comes with being young and excited and awesome at your chosen skill. 

We're so into this video that we tracked down Brooklyn-based director and documentary filmmaker, Crystal Moselle, for a mini-Behind the Lens. We needed to find out more.

Noisey: What were the reactions from people in the street when you were filming this? In some of the shots—like that insane one where one of them is doing the splits up a traffic pole—no one appears to be batting an eyelid.  Crystal Moselle: Most times it all happened so fast and so spontaneously that people had to look twice to see what was happening. Once we got to Times Square they got a ton of attention and people couldn't stop taking photos. I was trying to curb it but it was impossible.    How did you come up with this idea? Had you been waiting for a song to implement this video? Or was there something about this song that made you think of three girls dancing around the city streets in slo-mo? Well Cassiel (the girl with bright blue eyes and Timbaland boots) and I had met in South Africa on a commercial I was directing about 2 years ago. She was only 12!  We totally bonded on set and kept in touch. She came to New York this summer to do a ballet program and we decided that we had to do a project together. She's such a brilliant dancer but she also has such a fun charismatic personality so I wanted to fuse the two of those traits. We wanted to show this transformation between those two. It was so fun working with these girls. They were so fearless. We just ran around and freestyled along the way.  

How much does Cassiel look like Topanga from Boy Meets World!? You're not the first to say that... she also looks Adriana Lima!   In the playground scene, what song were they miming to? A tween song? I can't remember, but those girls can do no wrong those girls. Every moment is gold.

How did you hook up with Color War? Well Julie Brooke Williams, my stylist on the video, was also in South Africa and her and I had made the plan to do something with Cassiel. I mentioned that I wanted to work with a band and she made the connect. I fell in love with their music—it was so perfect—and it all went beautifully! The band are so talented and hilarious… hopefully they're my new best friends. 

WATCH the video for Shapeshifting

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PAPERMAG Music Video of the Day

COLOR WAR'S "SHAPESHIFTING" VIDEO IS ONE BIG, BEAUTIFUL URBAN BALLET PIECE

by Gary Pini

Brilliant video -- and the kind that doesn't come around every day -- for Color War's single, "Shapeshifting." The Brooklyn duo of Lindsay Mound and Billy J provide the music, and the clip was shot here in NYC's Madison Square Park and Times Square. But the stars are three ballet dancers with enough youthful exuberance and total abandon to outshine cartoon legends and superheros. The video was directed by Crystal Moselle and the dancers are Cassiel Eatlock, Isabel Ball and Elizabeth Van Genderen. Kudos all around!

View on papermag.com

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Watch our new video for Shapeshifting on Nowness

Today we premiered our latest music video, directed by the amazing and wonderful Crystal Moselle, and featuring a trio of teenage dancers Cassiel Eatock, Isabel Ball and Elizabeth Van Genderen traversing the big city.  The video explores transformation through the eyes of a young girl—a glowing coming of age story full of wonder and discovery.

Watch the full video HERE

STREAM "Shapeshifting" on Soundcloud

And don't forget to catch us at SISTER this Tuesday in Albuquerque, NM with Ex Cops and Dum Dum Girls.  This show will likely sell out so buy your tickets asap.

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SATURDAY at GLASSLANDS

We're playing our fav venue Glasslands with sweet lineup TELEPATHE and LINCOLN JESSER.

Since we go on first, you're advised to show up when doors open at 8pm.

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Wednesday @ CAMEO with The Point!

Wed September 17, 2014

CAMEO GALLERY 93 N 6th St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (map)

+ COLOR WAR ++ THE POINT

Come see this special show with our band-boyfriend/girlfriend THE POINT, featuring Michael O'Neill (MEN, Ladybug Transistor) and Sammy Tunis (The Lisps), a couple of seriously rad musicians whom we've been obsessing over for a long long time.  

Their new LP is out October 5, featuring artwork from our Lindsay Mound.  

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Ann Arbor duo Hollow & Akimbo (Jon Visger and Brian Konicek) released their self-titled debut earlier this year, and we remixed "Still Life" off that record, which you can listen to above (via Soundcloud).

Visger, under the name of his own solo project Absofacto, previously did a remix of our song "SOS", transforming it into a steamy dance-floor burner

Hollow and Akimbo have gotten some high praise from NPR's Soundcheck among others, and they're playing shows tonight (Glasslands) and tomorrow night (Pianos) so go check em out if you're in NYC!

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Here's a video of us performing "SOS" live at Baby's All Right in Brooklyn (June 23, 2014).  Thanks to Luke Mess and Casey Savage for the camera work.  We'd love to play your town too.

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COLOR WAR Mixtape 01: Love Odyssey (download) Out today on the Four Horsemen Soundcloud

Tracklist

00:00 - Yann Tomita - Doctor Domestics Physical Effect 2 02:21 - Infinity Frequencies - Product Information Loop 02:51 - Telex - Plus De Distance 05:42 - COLOR WAR - Obelisk 10:30 - Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (Party Provider edit) 14:29 - Yellow Magic Orchestra - 1000 Knives 18:11 - Beat Weekend / Aaliyah - Come Over 22:23 - Konami Kukeiha Club - Theme of Simon Belmont 23:09 - Ash Ra Tempel - Midnight on Mars 26:43 - Yazoo - Situation (COLOR WAR Karaoke Edit) 31:32 - Only Children - Down Fever 31:50 - Strawberry Switchblade - Who Knows What Love Is? 32:50 - Tangerine Dream - Love On A Train 36:30 - Dave Stewart & Candy Dulfer - Lily Was Here  39:40 - COLOR WAR - SOS (DJ Clap Remix) 42:45 - Harold Budd - Balthus Bemused By Color 43:42 - Lustt - Pillow Talk 49:25 - L. Pierre - Sad Laugh 52:50 - Klaatu - Little Neutrino 59:32 - Bulgarian State Television Choir - Vocalisa I Horo (A Cappella Horo Reel Dance)

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