Pepe Deluxe Unveil 'Go Supersonic' Video - Watch Now
Thursday, 02 August 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Finnish electronic hip-hop/breakbeat outfit Pepe Deluxé have unveiled the brand new music video for their track ‘Go Supersonic’ - and it’s rather bonkers.
‘Go Supersonic’ is the throbbing, party-minded heart of the band’s latest album ‘Queen of the Wave’. album. Exhilarating and outrageous, like a glorious 60’s B-movie soundtrack exploding with psychedelic funk and baroque pop, the track is a real pace-changer - imagine Love’s ‘Forever Changes’ revved up on speed with high-octane vocals (in this case courtesy of Moomins and Shrek voice actress Sara Welling).
It’s an extraordinary track, belonging to an equally extraordinary conceptual journey of a record - which itself is based around themes of Atlantis, Venus, sci-fi futurism and reincarnation. Several years in the making, ‘Queen of the Wave’ is simply put ‘the most impressive album ever painstakingly assembled across space and time’ (Pop Matters - 10/10).
For six years, Finland’s Jari Salo (aka James Spectrum) and Sweden’s Paul Malmström waited for the world’s largest instrument, the Great Stalacpipe Organ (built into one of the Caverns of Luray, Virginia) to be repaired – all for less than 2 minutes of music. The album itself contains no samples, although it does feature an array of weird and wonderful instruments of yesteryear including a modified Edison ghost hunting machine (all painstakingly restored and played to sound like snippets from ultra rare records).
Such invention and attention to detail has not only resulted in an album of astonishingly unique music, but also an aesthetic very much Pepe Deluxé’s own with album companions, artwork and the videos themselves are all product of Pepe Deluxé’s collective imaginations and eccentric flair.
Jari and Paul will donate all the profits from the sales of the album to John Nurminen Foundation to be used in the Clean Baltic Sea project. The aim of the project is to protect and achieve a visible improvement in the condition of the Baltic Sea, one of the most endangered and polluted seas in the world.
Check out the new video below!
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