If in rock music the image of a band is associated with the singer or, anyway, to people behind the instruments creating some kind of cult of personality, in electronic music there isn’t anything like that. The gap between music and musician combined with the fact that club music is still a stranger to the majors circuit, pushes video maker out from the cliché of “video with the band playing”, to build a language that interacts with music and makes it a visual experience as well as auditory.
After 7 months from the beautifully filmed video for Hold Me, Delta Heavy publish another amazing video for their new single: Get By. With a camera, some old toys and a lot of evil, Ian Robertson staged a splatter version of Toy Story, to the rhythm of dubstep of course. The video is divided into two well separate parts alternating, exactly like the song, thus making visible the structure of the arrangement. In the first part, more quiet, the director shows us the sounds with some oscilloscopes and spectrograms built from old toys animated in stop motion and perfectly synchronized with audio. In the second part, the evil one, the same toys are torn apart by the director, with a series of very interesting effects like Guess Who’s characters’ terrified faces or the red Battleship’s markers coming out like blood from the veins.
Ian Robertson is a talented director, in this website he gifted us with some production notes, we’ll tell you only that 7 Hungry Hippos were harmed during the making of the film, discover the others yourselves!
[...] forget to watch also Delta Heavy – Get By’s music video for more toy madness. [...]