Sunday, May 1, 2011

VIDEO: Gold Panda // Marriage (Star Slinger Remix)

With so much hype surrounding the royal wedding, marriage is most certainly in the public's consciousness. People are still talking about it in the US—and frankly, the wedding hat memes are insufferable, if hilarious. Still, we don't get to have a princess who wears a crazy pink toilet seat on her head—we just get Michelle Obama and her teeny right eye (but you know we love our FLOTUS, regardless).

The wedding aside, it's clear the UK has been a significant cultural influence for the US, especially recently, at least in terms of how it's shaped our bass music scene. As an American, it's great to support American artists and musicians, but the UK at-large seems to be pumping out amazing producer after amazing producer—and when props are due, they're due.


Star Slinger, whose high horse is as well-deserved as it is well-groomed, is one such producer; his remix of Gold Panda's "Marriage" serves as tangible evidence. Visual artist Anže Sekelj and photographer Lucijan Kranjc, a.k.a. Slovenian duo How Do I Computer, put together a music video exhibiting an unparalleled control of vision, using projections and light mapping. According to XLR8R they attempt to "add motion to non-moving objects in real space without physically interfering with the environment and trying to give a new perspective with portraying the intangible in marriage." Still images of average household objects become canvasses for a visual breadth of emotions.


Gold Panda - Marriage (Star Slinger Remix) OFFICIAL from How Do I Computer on Vimeo.

Below is the video for the original single, by Israeli artist Ronni Shendar. From her site:

"A very lucky me got to make a new video for dear-talented-heartbreaking-dreamer Gold Panda’s beautiful track ‘Marriage’. 
When Gold Panda approached me, it was a period I was touring (with the Glitterbug live show), so the only way to make the video was to do it along the way. And so I used the opportunity to film the wonderful people and places I met. 
I wanted to keep the personal humbleness of the track, it’s warmth and beauty and to simply focus on people and the notion of something shared, regardless of place, situation or climate zone… I always showed whoever I filmed footage from previous shoots, so people would see one another, and in some sense strangers became friends and the video grew a life of its own. 
The amazing thing was that many strangers came up to me along the way so fascinated by the light of the lantern and asked me if they could please have one… So I left most behind and came back home loving the idea that the video just continues on its own around the globe."


Gold Panda - Marriage from Ronni Shendar on Vimeo.

Check out LA's Baths remix, my personal favorite off the Marriage EP, as well as remixes by Forest Swords and Halls:

Gold Panda: Marriage EP by Gold Panda
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