Videos

Earlier this month U.K.-based experimental electronica artist Invictus Hi-Fi released an interesting concept album, The Market Deities. Throughout six expansive tracks sure to please fans of leftfield acts like Black Moth Super Rainbow and Dan Deacon, the mysterious producer stitches together songs comprised of smatterings of electronic styles — everything from offbeat electro to contorted trip-hop — with washes of vocal samples.

The thesis of the album investigates one burning question: “If the financial market had gods, what would they sound like?”

We’re thrilled to world premiere the music video for “The Alpha,” a bleep fest heard on the new release.

The plot follows a mysterious protagonist wearing an MF DOOM-style helmet interacting in the real and digital worlds. As the vocal sample explains what alpha means, we see vintage snippets of stockbrokers chasing alpha in the form of return on investment (ROI). In the age of Robinhood day traders, the topic couldn’t be more timely.

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Ahead of the release of new music coming later this year, Swedish singer/songwriter/producer David Åhlén (pictured above) has collaborated with visual artist Gustaf Järver on a striking music video for his new single, “If I Have You.” The song is culled from Åhlén’s My Face Will Shine EP released today on Jivvär Records.

We’re elated to world premiere the video of the achingly beautiful minimal masterpiece that’s complemented by an expressive video of a lone dancer interpreting the song. The footage was filmed amid the majestic natural splendor of Jämtland at Helagsmassivet, a mountain in Sweden, on a clear and windy day.

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Today sees the release of Off World, a collaborative album between multi-instrumentalist, singer and poet Hayden Chisholm and electronic music artist Wolff Parkinson White.

Good things are indeed well worth waiting for: the duo — who are half of Nils Wogram’s classic jazz quartet Root 70 — took nearly a decade years to bring the ten-song collection to life.

We’re extremely pleased to world premiere the music video for the album’s opening track. It was directed and edited by Chisholm and realized with fellow creatives Jochen Rueckert and Masato Tsutsui.

Within the frame of a single shot is a clever triptych. It’s a meditation staged in a cafe composed of two men playing chess, a video screen bursting with motion graphics and Chisholm singing at a table behind the men.

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We’ve sung the praises of musical explorer Graham “Dids” Dowdall many times.

In addition to crafting compelling ambient/electronica soundscapes under his Gagarin alias, he’s played with Nico, collaborated with John Cale, Ludus, Eric Random, Suns of Arqa, Band of Holy Jo and Low Bias. He is a member of avant-rock legends Pere Ubu and duo Roshi featuring Pars Radio.

Today, we’re thrilled to world premiere the video for Prophane’s Dark Angeline Mix of “Eskil,” a selection from 2020’s The Great North Wood album, directed by Dan @ Discordance.

As an onslaught of colors, shapes and images fill the screen, the uptempo iteration of “Eskil” crafted by French DJ/producer Prophane spews some serious boom bap on his first commercially released remix. The Frenchman juxtaposes big, hulking beats with ravey synth melodies and IDM swagger that call to mind classic ’90s productions for the dance floor.

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