Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Sci-fi hip-hop music video game

Futurology
This Flash clip by a band that calls themselves DJ Funken Wagnalls feat. Cottonmouth, MC, AKA the Robot Underground is an awsome piece of work which combines hip-hop, animation, and video games into a totally kick-ass music video. The clip for a song called Futurology is suppose to be "a history of sci-fi literature in hip-hop radio drama form." It starts off as a normal music video but then turns into a Asteroid-type game and the ending you get depends on how well you do. Look out for visual references to classic video games like Spy Hunter and sci-fi films like Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Also, listen to the lyrical references spanning from Shelley's Frankenstein to Huxley's Brave New World. It's mind-blowing!

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