Another nice example of how the Amiga was used as a low-cost video production workhorse.
According to an article in a 1993 issue of "Amiga Kickstart" magazine (see links below), the music video for House Of Usher's techno track "Shades" was created on an Amiga 500+, using DeluxePaint IV.
And you don't need glasses to immediately recognize somehow familiar colors and shapes. This looks very much like a production from the Amiga demo scene, only the sound quality is better, and the animation clips are more random. Nowadays, the visuals may seem a little naive. But at the time, this was pretty hip stuff, yeah, you would see something like this at a rave party. The music video in its entirety doesn't run on an Amiga 500 - there's some video editing, and obviously CD-quality audio. "Shades" was a little hit in the German techno scene, and the video was shown on MTV and some other channels.
Here's a capture of "Shades" by House Of Usher (1992) playing on MTV:
"Shades" by House Of Usher (1992) music video clip
video source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj7MC1oYzno
Amiga Kickstart 1993-01 article at archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/amiga-kickstart-93-01/page/100/mode/2up
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