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Two from Amon Tobin.

The first one is a personal favorite of mine, "El-Wraith" off Out From Out Where. A lone Spanish guitar emerges out of a science fiction soundtrack and segues into a creepy bass crawl that always reminds me of robot monsters crawling out of the sand. I tend to think of this track as the shadow of Delerium's classic Silence... if songs could cast shadows I guess. The video itself is an amazing piece of stop motion animation depicting visions from a mysterious Chronopolis ruled by what looks like golem pharaohs of some kind.



Next up is "Keep Your Distance" from his latest album Foley Room. A delightfully sinister track made all the better by some clever video editing from the opening of the proto-rivethead cult classic Hardware. A movie that profoundly influenced my sense of aesthetics for over a decade (when I began working for my friend at his fetish club over at 688 I always had this movie in the back of my head). To this day I still wish I had the whole cowboy duster/gas mask get up so I could dress like an apocalyptic gunslinger or a member of Fields of the Nephilim.

But I digress. On with the video...

Hardware

on 2007-08-10 08:58 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] destructodeluxo.livejournal.com
What a great and highly underrated film.
Lemmy was in part paid in whiskey for his role.
Carl McCoy was probly paid in a quantity of souls from dead orphans.
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