Honestly, BPRM (as I’ve just labelled it) is my new favourite audio-visual subculture. It combines rural/suburban landscapes with sounds that feel like your brain on a come-down (with a few fading bubbles of euphoria fizzing round the edges). The first two also whack in a healthy dose of text-based rave nostalgia. What’s not to love.
Earlier in the week I stumbled across this amazing video for the incredible Bicep track Glue:
Love. Love. Love. So many of my favourite things in one place. Congrats to Joe Wilson, and the team at Topsafe.
It made my mind wander back to this belter of a video from Erol Alkan from a few years ago. A Hold on Love. Massively smiled at this story all over again. Nice work Daniel Brereton (check his site, there’s lots more music vid goodness).
Then, tonight I came across this from Bibio – Phantom Brickworks III (Edit), from the new album Phantom Brickworks.
Any other examples of the genre spring to mind? Please add in the comments below.
can’t see the wood for the e’s!
Mikeeeeeeee Waring. Nice of you to swing by :-)
Ahhh. Always a pleasure taitster. The caption and the trees took me right back to a super little spot under an M50 motorway bridge, in the summer of ’92
(Excuse the shameless plug)… This track by OH/EX/OH puts music to the best locations Rochdale has to offer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_x7dw0pQPM
The Bibio track is spookily similar in style…
More like pre-rave maybe, but recently saw this video and thought of this post! https://youtu.be/h7qTI6Njp9g
Nice. Thanks Kevin. Definitely fits the vibe.