Archive for category Urban'
Taken from their forthcoming third album, Chase & Status join forces with Alex Southam for the promo to Lost & Not Found – their homage to the early 90s rave culture which inspired them. Taken from the perspective of a young cyclist, Alex’s inventive ‘fly on the wall’ one-shot promo centres around a motel and [...]
Monday, 10. June 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Agile Films, Alex Southam, Chase & Status, Julia Frost, Lost & Not Found, Mercury
Shot in an impressive mansion just outside London with his regular DP Aaron Reid, Matthew Walker delivers this stylish promo for K Koke’s My Time with an exquisite performance from vocalist Bridget Kelly. “I wanted to take K Koke away from the streets and focus on his elevation to the top of his game” explains [...]
Thursday, 6. June 2013 | No comments »
Tags: HSI London, K Koke ft Bridget Kelly, Lisa Foo, Matthew Walker, My Time, Sony Music
Rising young British hiphop soul star Joel Compass’s tale of betrayal in Fucked Up is compellingly realised in this fine video by Ryan Patrick, via Doomsday Entertainment. Joel’s mental body leaves his real one to satisfy his libidinous thoughts for an available female at a party who’s not his girlfriend. It’s delivered in cut-glass clarity, [...]
Wednesday, 5. June 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Dilly Gent, Doomsday Entertainment, Fucked Up, Joel Compass, Ryan Patrick
Emil Nava quickly follows up the release of his new Jessie J video for Wild, with a new one for Katy B. And in contrast to the pared-down studio shoot for Jessie’s Wild, the promo for What Love Is Made Of is a richly colourful, superbly photographed snapshot of life among the boy racers, shot [...]
Friday, 31. May 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Emil Nava, Katy B, Lisa Foo, Pulse Films, Sony Music, What Love Is Made Of
Complimenting the distinctly 80s feel of Lay Her Down, Konstantin Ermakov shoots Skepta in a large graffiti-strewn warehouse-like space in this colourful promo for the new single from his Konichiwa album. “It was a pleasure working on the video,” says Konstantin, “A few months back I actually made a small web video and put together [...]
Tuesday, 21. May 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Konstantin Ermakov, Lay Her Down, Skepta ft Kano
Zebra Katz puts in a stirling performance in Nathaniel Brown’s dark but stylistically and visually pleasing piece for the New York rapper’s minimal and brooding Y I Do. “I believe the idea of doing music videos that act only as a means to create a visual for the song is an old way of thinking [...]
Monday, 20. May 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Nathaniel Brown, Y I Do?, Zebra Katz
SoMe deliver a dark and minimal promo to Pusha T’s Numbers On The Board which sees the track’s producer Kanye West make a brief appearance during Pusha’s highly watchable crazy-eyed performance… Pusha T Numbers On The Board (Def Jam/Island) Director: SoMe Production Company: Iconoclast DP: Nathaniel Aron Producer: Roman Pichon Herrera Line Producer: Thomas Vignali [...]
Friday, 17. May 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Def Jam/Island, Iconoclast, Numbers On The Board, Pusha T, SoMe
Paul Gore, with some additional creative swagger from Lana Del Rey director Yoann Lemoine, throws a Great Gatsby-style party for John Legend and Rick Ross in his promo for Who Do We Think We Are. Powered by some near-naked beauties and oozing opulance and glamour, Mr Gore’s lavish black tie event perfectly compliments the smooth [...]
Wednesday, 15. May 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Columbia Records, John Legend ft Rick Ross, Paul Gore, Who Do We Think We Are
I don’t think we should be too surprised that a combination of Dizzee Rascal, Robbie Williams, Andreas Nilsson and a song called Goin’ Crazy should result in a video that establishes its own parallel universe of nuttiness. Andreas comes into this having made his genre-screwing video for 2Chainz and Kanye West, and just finishing an [...]
Friday, 10. May 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Andreas Nilsson, Dizzee Rascal, Goin' Crazy, Robbie Williams
World-renowned fashion photographer Indrani has a stab promo making with her video for the next Alicia Keys single New Day. Intercut with footage from her iTunes Festival performance at the Roundhouse last year, Alicia can be seen strutting her stuff down a New York alleyway accompanied by a posse of male dancers… Alicia Keys New [...]
Friday, 3. May 2013 | No comments »
Tags: Alicia Keys, Good Company, Indrani, New Day, RCA