The great SBTRKT returns with a visual treatment for one of his bigger tracks, and boy is it a doozy. Part cyborg barbershop haircut, part dystopian future porn, the video for “Trials of the Past” takes the UK producer’s deep post-dubstep music into weird, uncharted territories. Peep it below…
15
Jan
The UK producer's dystopian cyborg future porn
23
Jun
Jona Becholt & Claire Evans release first videos for "Shangri-La"
At the beginning of the month we posted YACHT’s Fly On, UFO mixtape, and it turned out to be incredibly popular with the ladies. Who knew they liked their sci-fi tinged disco mixes so much? The mixtape was in preparation for YACHT’s brand new album Shangri-La, the latest volley from the inimitable DFA Records — […]
2
Jun
Claire L. Evans drops a little Science Fiction You Can Dance To
One half of YACHT, Claire L. Evans, has put together a mixtape for Boing Boing celebrating two of the group’s loves: science fiction and esoteric dance music. It’s an entertaining one-hour mix, full of bizarre treats and UFO movie-inspired madness. The mixtape, titled Fly On, UFO, is essentially “Science Fiction You Can Dance To”, and […]
23
Dec
The beginning of a series of Godard-inspired musings
The upcoming Alphaville Series takes its name from hipster God and French New Wave pioneer Jean Luc Godard’s 1965 film of the same name. The themes from the 1960s cinematic movement— full of stylistic experimentation and philosophical dialogue — centered on the ills of contemporary society. Godard’s Alphaville is about a city called Alphaville, a […]
Midnight Juggernauts‘ Dystopia was one of the best albums of 2007, taking dance music exactly where it needed to go — elevated from the brainless serotonin backwash of 4/4 monotony to the edge of, dare I say it, prog. Part Pink Floyd psychedelia, part Ennio Morricone paranoid dreamscape, part disco synth fancy, Melbourne’s Midnight Juggernauts […]
