We still love videos for Noisia’s tracks. It’s not their high budget, but a superb creativity that attracts us: the guys demonstrate it literally in everything. Today we’ll tell you about official videos for 3 dnb tracks from this Dutch band.
Noisia – Shellshock (feat. Foreign Beggars)
Warning, spoilers! Video for Shellshock is, in fact, a short film, with a little boy as its main character. According to the plot, his dad asks him what happened when he was on intense therapy, but the boy can’t answer. Then, we are transported to where the accident happened: there is a group of well-armed people, with one of them – a Foreign Beggars member – rapping over the music. The security bump into a dangerous beast and open fire on him, but do not succeed – the monster easily kicks them off. Someone throws a grenade, causing an explosion – and we immediately get exposed to another scene, with Noisia themselves, and another Foreign Beggars member starring as security guards. They group and start looking around, as if expecting a beast’s attack. Boom! – and here they are, lying on the floor unconscious, and the cuplrit happens to be the boy himself, who apparently doesn’t even realize that he is capable of turning into a monster.
The picture was directed by Tony Truand, who also shoot videos for Contact and Choosing For You – collaborative hip-hop tracks from Noisia and Foreign Beggars.
Noisia & Mayhem – Exodus feat. KRS One
Video for Exodus is the same epic as the original track, perfectly fitting this neurofunk masterpiece. Alexander Lehmann started working on this project in 2007 and finished it only 3 years later, having completed an enormous work on all the details. With the help of computer graphics, he created a tremendous futuristic city, which rises above the ocean, but is doomed to be destroyed in the nearest hours. The skies unfold, and the city is assaulted by an enemy: their weapon demolishes the whole buildings with its laser beam. The city defense turns out to be useless, and the massive air attack imminently ruins everything.
In 2011 Alexander Lehmann released a making-of the music video, showcasing the whole creative process in a fake programme called Animation Maker. Here you can also spot an excerpt of the video for Concussion, which is still not published anywhere in the full length.
There emerged even some enthusiastic people, who did their own sound interpretations of the finished video. If you wonder how they added sound effects and changed the music itself, then check out this video:
Noisia – Could This Be
In 2012 Alexander Lehmann again showed his great skills in a video for Could This Be. It looks impressive thanks to the 3D graphics, depicting the bizarre transformations of a plane, constantly moving somewhere. The track itself comes as a part of the Split The Atom LP re-issue, which was released on mau5trap.
One of YouTube users did a really interesting explanation of the track and the video, implying that there is a hidden meaning:
This song refers to the feelings one has of possibly breaking out of society’s structural regimes. One doesn’t just decide one day to go against it, it requires lots of thinking and planing which is seen in the beginning of the video with the big plane breaking out of societies barriers. The big plane itself breaking down in the air is how one faces many attacks from the world once you come out as different but even then one should still fight for their cause. That is when the actual small but main plane detaches and settles on its course. The plan flying along the way and crashing on the ground is the big moments of uproar one will face as they continue to trudge along this path of difference from societies norms and in the end the plane crashes into a ‘skyscraper in nature’ and finally one feels free from the songs eerie sense. “Could this be” is possibly a song that asks that could coming out about ones differences and beliefs regardless of what society thinks and possibly destructing oneself (with the onslaught of remarks and uproar that will be caused by this) be the only way to allow others to come out and grow and become their true selves (this is seen with the tree growing in the end).
If you are also interested in Noisia’s non-dnb stuff, we recommend you to watch videos for Tommy’s Theme, Split The Atom and Machine Gun.