Anyone with sufficient knowledge of the history of popular electronic music will pick up on multiple resonances from the fantastical and fantastic music video for Pasocom Music Club’s “UFO-Mie” (which means “UFO Pose” in English, surely slyly conceived title). Directed by ayafuji and produced by Toshikuni the video features a green alien who arrives in Tokyo on a flying saucer and then proceeds to show of his fine fance moves on the street, in pedestrial walkways, sidewalks, in front of a food stall, in a shelter for bicycles with graffiti on the walls and alongside construction zones, on a rooftop and in the often ignored or neglected pockets of the urban landscape. The song, featuring a high energy rap from The Hair Kid and modified vocals repeating the chorus of “My little green homie is a DJ” is reminiscent of 90s and early 2000s club hits from the likes of Daft Punk circa Homework and Fatboy Slim from You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby. That playful use of rhythm and melody and unabashed mashing together of club music and hip-hop aesthetics. Even the visual sense of the video reflects that lineage and that of the more quirky videos of Aphex Twin. But Pascom Music Club updates the sounds, the production and the reference points to resonate more with the present. Yet it hooks you in with a similar appeal to fun strangeness. Watch the video for “UFO-Mie” on YouTube and follow Tokyo’s Pasocom Music Club at the links below. The project’s For The Aliens EP dropped October 27, 2023.
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