Carolina Melis and Alessandro Monaco have made a video for our song ‘Internet Warrior’. Watch it below, it’s totally cool. Here’s what the two directors have got to say about it:
“The idea was to create a magical world: a mixture of organic forms and geometrical shapes. At time this video is like a journey into a vintage underwater dimension, then it suddenly turns into a graphical playground. There are no cuts, the idea was to create an ongoing continuous flow which starts with a macro view of a lobster and ends with a planetary view of the world. We started working on this video from a vintage book of diorama. We didn’t story-boarded and planned, we just started with one image and we let this work grew day after day following the natural development of the animation. It’s a very exciting and beautiful track and it has been a great pleasure to work on it.”
This is also a convenient opportunity to direct your attention to the recently released ‘Internet Warrior’ EP that features the single + remixes by amazing artists such as Caribou, Zambri, The Depreciation Guild, Shlohmo & The Phenomenal Handclap Band. It’s available on 12″ vinyl accompanied by a digital download here!
You should go buy this extremely fine compilation. It’s curated by Elijah Wood and the money goes to kids with serious medical conditions. Please support here (US citizens) or here (UK citizens).
We put out a remix EP a couple of weeks ago. And now the vinyl has finally arrived at the office.
The remixes are plucked from a quiver of talented artists, coincidentally all North American on this occasion. Currently touting his eagerly anticipated fifth album, Leaf-alumnus Caribou weighs in with his “liquid, techno-stroked” (Stereogum) remix of ‘Eleanor Speaks’, already a blogsville hit and destined to be a dancefloor essential this summer, with DJs as diverse as Trentemøller and Four Tet getting behind it.
Shlohmo (not the UK beatboxer Shlomo, but the West Coast indie hip-hopper and Wedidit Collective member) offers a sparkly slice of backpack thug life, with a blippy, bouncey take on ‘Swim’. Coming up close behind is hotly tipped Brooklyn-based sister-fronted outfit, Zambri, with a woozy, echoey, bruised darkwave distortion that takes ‘Eleanor Speaks’ deep into dystopia. You need to play this one loud. New York’s Phenomenal Handclap Band give ‘Swim’ an understated cosmic disco revamp, while The Depreciation Guild (who dabble in a little side project called The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart) take ‘Internet Warrior’ into a mirrored hall of shoegazey, mindbending effects.
We’re eager to ship these ones to you. You’ll of course get the digital version with The Depriciation Guild bonus track when buying it from our shop
And as if that wasn’t enough we’ve also remixed their song ‘Modern Drift’. LISTEN HERE
Aaaaaaand to top it all we all met up last week to make a video for all of you. A huge thank you to Andreas Munksgaard & Kristian Sidelmann for filming and editing the video.
We have the pleasure of playing a one-of-a-kind show with our good friends from the amazing band Bear In Heaven. It goes down on August 10, 2010 at Lille Vega, Copenhagen – Denmark. The amazing band Treefight For Sunlight will open the night.
