Cornelius Shares Original 1997 "Mic Check" Video

Every tired fetishist for the recent musical past owns a Sub Pop shirt, and yes, Sub Pop did some stuff that will remain forever tattooed in half-cut conversations with your beer league hockey team about CDs lost to old roommates. However, watch a person in their late teens or early twenties explore that time in non-chart pop music*, and eagerly await them falling into the magnificent sinkhole that is Matador, just so you can gain back that experience for a second. Soundtrackers of the Kids in the Hall Brain Candy movie, and encouragers of Jon Spencer, Matador's best work might have been the cross-continent signings of swinging Japanese artists like Pizzicato Five and Cornelius, the latter of which is going out on tour again in America, and has shared a video from twenty years ago today. "Mic Check" is just as the title describes, but quickly blooms into a dreamy, retro groove that Keigo Oyamada was known for back then. The 90s weren't all Mother Love Bones, Whigfields, and Woodstock rapes. We just choose to remember it that way, and perhaps we shouldn't. 

*j/k people that age don't listen to music