Love the idea behind this video for “Liquid Crystals” by the Denver indie-rock band Vitamins. Unlike most archival music vids you see on the web these days where the song comes first and footage is plucked out of a digital library and paired with the music, “Liquid Crystals” is actually a score composed by the band for Jean Painleve’s 1930’s short film of the same name. Now I’ve seen a couple of these “bands provide the soundtrack to an old obscure movie” things live here in Portland recently, however, none are as polished as this seven-minute arrangement — with the music matching perfectly to the visuals of the film up to the “syncing of the strings whenever liquid flows” as noted by one commenter.

Check out the video above and head on over to the band’s myspace page to listen in on some more of their great stuff (really dig “Sequined Dress”).

Tags: Liquid Crystals, Video, Vitamins

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