Mexico City-based producer, A—rp, has shared a brutally Darwinian music video off his forthcoming debut album, I Bleed For Me And Mine, coming out via prolific Mexican multimedia platform ENSAMBLE. Directed by artist Azul Carazo, who has done visual work with the project before, "Vida Come Vida" (Life Feeds On Life) depicts the bloody struggle among earth's animals for survival, soundtracked by aggressively mumbled chanting amidst thrilling, deteriorated techno. Where in another set of hands this might seem like an embrace of simplistic nihilism, Carazo and Daniel Arp instead seem to ask us to think twice about how human power dynamics are being played out on a planetary scale.Speaking to the context of the track on his forthcoming album, Arp told THUMP via email: "I Bleed For Me And Mine spans from weird structured and almost baroque interpretations of day-by-day ritual to ambient pictures of my afternoons, passing through sound memories of strange and amazing places presented as techno music."The record will be out June 1 on digital formats.Follow Alexander on Twitter.
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