Official Video for Squarepusher's ‘Detroit People Mover’ directed by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman.
There had long been an intention to shoot a video for this piece on the Detroit People Mover itself. As production got under way, it was apparent that the typically empty train has a peculiar resonance with the desolation settling on urban areas across the world. Director Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman explores our new-found isolation on a driver-less journey through the city, contrasting it with human contact in images from Detroit’s history produced by an correspondingly autonomous printer.
This bleak urban portrait serves as a drastic contrast to Squarepusher’s last visual representation for ‘Terminal Slam’, which with its bustling street scenes was shot just three months before, including at the busiest crossing in the world in Shibuya. These varied aesthetics not only reflect the sudden change of conditions but two very different sound worlds that co-exist within this project.
“I like the way both of these videos articulate salient points about our urban environments - in ‘Terminal Slam’ about the prevalence of advertising and possibilities for its subversion, and here regarding our zombie cities that despite the lack of everyday human contact continue marching on. The track itself is part of a series begun in 1993 inspired by the music of Detroit.” – Squarepusher
‘Detroit People Mover’ features on Squarepusher’s new album ‘Be Up A Hello’, and new EP ‘Lamental’, both available now.
Buy/Stream ‘Lamental’ EP.
Squarepusher Store → https://squarepusher.net/release/1784...
Bleep → https://squarepusher.ffm.to/lamental....
+more → https://squarepusher.ffm.to/lamental.oyd
Buy/Stream ‘Be Up A Hello’.
Squarepusher Store → https://squarepusher.net/release/1566...
Bleep →https://squarepusher.ffm.to/be-up-a-h...
+more → https://squarepusher.ffm.to/be-up-a-h...
Rescheduled International live dates:
July
Fri 3 LEV Festival La Nave, Gijon ESP
August
Fri 14 Boomtown Festival Matterley Bowl UK
Sat 29 Primavera Festival Barcelona ESP
September
Sat 12 Riverside Festival Glasgow UK
October
Thu 8 Melkweg Amsterdam NLD
Fri 9 Botanique Brussels BEL
Mon 19 Concorde 2 Brighton UK
Wed 21 Brudenell Leeds UK
Thu 22 Metronome Nottingham UK
Fri 23 Roundhouse London UK
November
Mon 23 U Street Washington DC USA
Tues 24 Union Transfer Philadelphia USA
Fri 27 Brooklyn Steel New York USA
Sat 28 Sinclair Boston USA
Sun 29 SAT Montreal USA
Mon 30 Danforth Toronto USA
December
Wed 2 Majestic Theatre Detroit USA
Thu 3 Metro Chicago USA
Sun 6 Gothic Theatre Denver USA
Tue 8 Neumos Seattle USA
Wed 9 Wonder Ballroom Portland USA
Thu 10 Regency San Francisco USA
Sat 12 1720 Los Angeles USA
February 2021
Tue 16 Quattro Nagoya JPN
Wed 17 Quattro Osaka JPN
Thu 18 Studio Coast Tokyo JPN
Tickets available at https://squarepusher.net
Subscribe to Squarepusher,
https://www.youtube.com/user/squarepu...
Subscribe to Warp,
https://www.youtube.com/user/warpreco...
http://squarepusher.net/
https://www.facebook.com/squarepusher
https://twitter.com/_SQUAREPUSHER
There had long been an intention to shoot a video for this piece on the Detroit People Mover itself. As production got under way, it was apparent that the typically empty train has a peculiar resonance with the desolation settling on urban areas across the world. Director Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman explores our new-found isolation on a driver-less journey through the city, contrasting it with human contact in images from Detroit’s history produced by an correspondingly autonomous printer.
This bleak urban portrait serves as a drastic contrast to Squarepusher’s last visual representation for ‘Terminal Slam’, which with its bustling street scenes was shot just three months before, including at the busiest crossing in the world in Shibuya. These varied aesthetics not only reflect the sudden change of conditions but two very different sound worlds that co-exist within this project.
“I like the way both of these videos articulate salient points about our urban environments - in ‘Terminal Slam’ about the prevalence of advertising and possibilities for its subversion, and here regarding our zombie cities that despite the lack of everyday human contact continue marching on. The track itself is part of a series begun in 1993 inspired by the music of Detroit.” – Squarepusher
‘Detroit People Mover’ features on Squarepusher’s new album ‘Be Up A Hello’, and new EP ‘Lamental’, both available now.
Buy/Stream ‘Lamental’ EP.
Squarepusher Store → https://squarepusher.net/release/1784...
Bleep → https://squarepusher.ffm.to/lamental....
+more → https://squarepusher.ffm.to/lamental.oyd
Buy/Stream ‘Be Up A Hello’.
Squarepusher Store → https://squarepusher.net/release/1566...
Bleep →https://squarepusher.ffm.to/be-up-a-h...
+more → https://squarepusher.ffm.to/be-up-a-h...
Rescheduled International live dates:
July
Fri 3 LEV Festival La Nave, Gijon ESP
August
Fri 14 Boomtown Festival Matterley Bowl UK
Sat 29 Primavera Festival Barcelona ESP
September
Sat 12 Riverside Festival Glasgow UK
October
Thu 8 Melkweg Amsterdam NLD
Fri 9 Botanique Brussels BEL
Mon 19 Concorde 2 Brighton UK
Wed 21 Brudenell Leeds UK
Thu 22 Metronome Nottingham UK
Fri 23 Roundhouse London UK
November
Mon 23 U Street Washington DC USA
Tues 24 Union Transfer Philadelphia USA
Fri 27 Brooklyn Steel New York USA
Sat 28 Sinclair Boston USA
Sun 29 SAT Montreal USA
Mon 30 Danforth Toronto USA
December
Wed 2 Majestic Theatre Detroit USA
Thu 3 Metro Chicago USA
Sun 6 Gothic Theatre Denver USA
Tue 8 Neumos Seattle USA
Wed 9 Wonder Ballroom Portland USA
Thu 10 Regency San Francisco USA
Sat 12 1720 Los Angeles USA
February 2021
Tue 16 Quattro Nagoya JPN
Wed 17 Quattro Osaka JPN
Thu 18 Studio Coast Tokyo JPN
Tickets available at https://squarepusher.net
Subscribe to Squarepusher,
https://www.youtube.com/user/squarepu...
Subscribe to Warp,
https://www.youtube.com/user/warpreco...
http://squarepusher.net/
https://www.facebook.com/squarepusher
https://twitter.com/_SQUAREPUSHER
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