Cheap Thrills
Redeem the Void Within
Redeem the Void Within [prod. by Terch]
On another casual Sunday, me and WSDM369 felt like shooting something for my new track ‘Redeem the Void within’
It’s been a while I had wanted to shoot some stuff around the periphery of Brussels, so we ended up at a graffiti spot in between the highways. WSDM369 took his drone with and… Off we went! Also right next to Volta CityGate there’s this abandoned gas station that burned down a couple of months ago, this place had always intrigued me.. always found it a bit of a post-apocalyptic location. It’s full of trash and graffiti, at one point some people used to live here. For the audiovisual transitions I played with some runway AI FX.
Cheap Thrills [Mixtape] 34min
Cheap Thrills is a rough compilation of 12 tracks and 2 interludes. Most of these tracks embody an alternative cloudy atmosphere with nostalgic undertones, introspective, socio-political and sometimes esoteric poetry fused with, transcendental cloudy hooks recorded on a collection of both 8 self-produced sample-based beats but also 4 additional curated beats from producers Clockwork and Terch.
For the next 34 minutes we suggest the listener to sit back, listen and travel along with the Brussels-Berlin Based artist. Revealing a mix of very personal events and observations – building up to a gradually more layered and sometimes slightly lo-fi futuristic listening experience. An inner journey throughout multiple themes and dimensions, vinco.zone, both mc and producer, speaks about city life, mental hygiene, family ties, nomadism/homelessness, feelings of love and loss, friendship and community, bureaucracy, life in (post-)capitalist societies, the addictions and substance abuse that come along with living in this kind of society, the human dependence on technology resulting in isolation hopefully transmuting to solitude to meet cosmic and spiritual awareness. Diving deep in a transcendental process of making music itself.
Vanilla Sugar [prod. by Clockwork]
For this track I was looking for a simple fusion between animation and real-time shots, alongside some strong colour-graded contrasted scenes and locations. Together with WSDM369 we took my old Sony camcorder and taped a couple of shots at Botanique, my art studio and even visited a small construction-site.