Video Of The Day SLF IMG & FILMMAKER
After last year’s debut EP, “Chiodi,” via Luca Venezia‘s (aka Curses) Ombra International imprint, also on co-production and mixing duties, SLF IMG, the up-and-coming Italian Synth Punk/Sex Wave duo of Umberto Cavalloni and Giacomo Stefani are recently back with their second EP, “Chimera,” on fellow Italian label, Nubians of Plutonia Records.
Three cold-twinkly and moodily bouncy Electro-Synth-Pop originals with a cosmic dark Disco flair, paired with a remix by the dynamic and eclectic Colombian DJ-producer Faunes Efe, a.k.a. Filmmaker.
Rather than the colorful, crushed nostalgia of SLF IMG’s original, Filmmaker‘s re-work of “Let It Go” implants dull, thick, grey mists atop to smush gloomy emotional vocals into a distorted unhuman chant, relentlessly churned by 80s-old school rumbling, punchy drum patterns, alongside menacing, cavernous bass lines, jolting and ploughing under a warped, stifling mood of whimpering alienation, splattering echoes, and cold shivering brassy glows, to elicit a sense of desolation and otherness at the hands of a sinister, oppressive force.
In the video clip created by Cryptovaultvisuals, a dystopic visual fusion of spirituality, science, government, business, and transhumanism, sculpted by an imaginarium of lights, shadows, symbols, and suggestions, syncs with the cosmic sorrow of the soundtrack. Real and fantastical imagery underlies the tragic lyrics that relay the bittersweet aspect of a transcendent ego death wherein a person becomes free from the pull of a toxic society, but, at the same time, they must watch others who are still stuck in the trap.
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