Thor Rixon’s audio-visual venture with Deep Aztec “Dark Side” dropped out of a Word-Art wormhole from the ’90s today. The track was born in Rixon’s Berlin bedroom studio when Deep Aztec popped over the pond for a sonic sojourn.
The blend of nu-disco, lo-fi and house is produced completely on analog drum-machines, synthesizers, samplers and Rixon’s very own custom-built modular synth to achieve a cognac of grainy grooves and sentimental bedroom pop.
Shot in Cape Town by FarOutFilms earlier this year, editor and animator Caitie Weare crafted the funky tune into a nostalgic lo-fi aesthetic to match the tone of the track with old-school groovy footage laid under scenes of the lo-fi disco dukes jamming out to synthy zings – finessed by cinematographer Julian Evans from the FarOutFilms stable.
Although ice-cream palettes and themes of nostalgia suggest otherwise, the track’s message is a little more sombre, channeling the issue of entering the dark side of a good time.
