This is the second video of the Midnight series. Following the same system of action on cardboard on asphalt at midnight.
The soundtracks to these videos are constructed deliberately using a similar systematic structure. Mixed live, old songwriters pitched down and enmeshed in more current dark beats.
One of it’s concerns is a misreading of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Ribbon of Darkness” as “River of Darkness”:
Tears I never had before
Ribbon of darkness over me
Clouds a-atherin’ o’er my head
Which I misread and chopped/rearranged to be:
Fears I’ve never had before
Bound together in all my years
River of darkness over me
I dubbed out Run-DMC’s “Mary Mary” into a sratched echoy mess, and strung it into the intro for Rick James’ “Cold Blooded”, and held the whole thing together with L-Wiz’s “Girlfriend”. Then I mixed in and rearranged Gordon’s text.
This pulls from several sub-genre I am obviously obsessed with: Screwed and Chopped, Dubscape, Midwestern Hardcore, and Singers and Songwriters of my childhood.