Rustie has shared a new video for "First Mythz," the second track off his recent EVENIFUDONTBELIEVE album that came out via Warp earlier this month. The trance-driven melodic dance song juxtaposes vocal samples of dolphins with the hard-hitting trap clap track, so it is only fitting that the video elaborates upon the Scottish producer's return to a seapunk aesthetic by showcasing a montage of tropical island vacation footage starring lots of dolphins among other marine animals. Watch the video below.
No one knew that Glaswegian EDM titan Russell Whyte was even churning out a new album this year, so it comes as no surprise that the new video also came without warning or much pomp and circumstance during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session this week, Pitchfork reports.
The video plays like an audio visualizer on Ritalin, except the synthy beat has been synced up with stills from home movies and rolls of disposable camera film as it visually lurches through a power couple's beach vacation as told by a '90s Club Med commercial. One moment features schools of fish; next there's a group of windsurfers; now they're riding waverunners on the turquoise body of water; next there a coastline; now we're underwater; and so on. The video does not disappoint: yes, it focuses on dolphins in time with the dolphin chatter at that first drop. The whole audiovisual experience is like a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper come to life.
The video evokes the entire new album's overall super-positive vibe. There's something ecstatically triumphant about dolphins dancing and ocean waves crashing to the beat with an uplifting electronic dance track. That same emotion seems inherent in the artist himself: there's something equally inspiring about an artist who, as Spin points out, recently recorded a song while in the hospital "just because he was so elated to be alive." Talk about good vibes.
