Music videos and anime go waaaay back—well at least to Daft Punk‘s 2001 album Discovery anyway, which had tracks from the album set to episodic animations that, with their powers combined, formed the film Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. Following in this fine tradition is Louis & McCourt’s video for Mat Zo and Porter Robinson‘s “Easy.” Louis & McCourt are part of the animation collective The Line, who produced the vid.
Set in a futuristic Neo Tokyo world, it features a fashion model and her Pokémon-type flying pet. A model who’s a little fed up with the demands made on her, so blasts about on her bike before unleashing some kind of explosive device and nuking everything in sight. Which means she ends up in a colorful forest full of pink trees—as you do. The piece feels very Akira-ish but with a more whimsical edge to it.
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Much like the Daft Punk series, electronic music and anime make for great bedfellows—if you had to imagine something in your head when hearing a trancey house number like this one, chances are it would involve futuristic anime.
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