DJ Doc has spent the summer touring and performing hits from their fifth album. You can catch their video for Run to U [ASF] online. This is a live performance so you can check out the group's stage presence and back dancers. The "bounce bounce bounce" part is starting to grow on me.

Always energetic and vibrant, J looks good in her new video for Time Out [ASF]. Particularly likeable is a black suit-and-tie number. The song itself is light technopop, but no one is going to turn off a video full of good-looking people dressed in sharp clothes.

You may have not heard of the group FISH before they showed up on video countdown lists, however, after watching their poignant video You [ASF], one might like to hear more from them. They've got a straight-forward sound in their music that is reflected in the style of the video. The last color scene of the movie is also amusing.

Perhaps I'm just a bit slow, but I haven't a clue as to what I was supposed to get out of the thoroughly British video by Flower Band for their single Goodbye [ASF]. The text that periodically flashed on the screen was too small to be legible, but maybe it would provide the key to the movie. It's a low-budget video unless you count the airfare to the UK for filming.

Though you may not be a huge Cleo fan, but you'll probably agree that the video for Mosoon (Inconsistency) [ASF] is neat. Whoever designed it really has an eye for color. Forget the music and choreography, just watch the colors as they pass by. The use of blues, reds and yellows--not to mention the magentas and purples--its just nice to watch.

SZ (Street Zine) gives us another brightly colored video for Noogooyah [ASF], and although it's questionable whether another girl trio is needed, it's nice to see something other than the frailty typical of S.E.S. or Fin.K.L. Okay, teenaged boys are still going to watch this video to see SZ in sports bras, and the women weren't doing any of the amateur boxing, but it still exhibited a life not usually associated with girl singers.

The opening scenes of Taesaja's Again [ASF] video are neat with a segue from a full-color sunrise to a black-and-white techno spot. My personal recommendation to today's rap/pop stars: quit waving your hands and arms around1x It's distracting and do you really need all that emphasis? Eminem looks like he's doing aerobics at this point, and although Taesaja isn't nearly as bad, it's still kind of goofy.

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