King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Unveil New "Black Hot Soup (DJ Shadow "My Own Reality" Re-Write) Music Video from Butterfly 3001 Remix Album [KGWL]
This past Friday, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have released a new single and music video for "Black Hot Soup" (DJ Shadow "My Own Reality" Re-Write) from their forthcoming remix album. Following last month's "Neu Butterfly" (Peaches Remix) and "Shanghai" (Dub By The Scientist,) King Gizzard continue their star-studded remix streak with "Black Hot Soup" (DJ Shadow "My Own Reality" Re-Write) and expand on it with an accompanying video directed by John Angus Stewart, starring iconic Australian author, satirist, radio presenter, and documentary-maker John Safran and featuring appearances from Alkiviadis Grapsas & John Dimoulas. "'Black Hot Soup" is an almost perfect way to describe the world as we know it in the present. A bubbling, thick, sticky, confusing angry place that seems to be made for generations long past. Therefore, I wanted to portray a character, somehow, revelling in the chaos, dancing on the ashes of society. There is an inherent freedom watching someone hitting bottom so hard with a smile," shared director John Angus Stewart.
"To me, it's a non-cynical representation of expression through music! As DJ Shadow fully re-worked "Black Hot Soup," I cast John Safran to fully re-work the song again within a performance. Calling it a "dance" is a stretch, I'd call it more of a full-body dry heave," Stewart continued. King Gizzard's Joey Walker elaborates: "We've put off doing a remix album for a long time. Maybe, it was conscious; maybe, it wasn't, but it's happening now. That's not to say that Butterfly 3000 makes the most sense to remix. It might seem like the obvious one, but it's not. Yes, it's Electronic, but so is a fridge. Have you tried to dance to Butterfly [3000]? It's hard. It ties your shoelaces together. It's duplicitous in its simplicity, but Butterfly 3001 expands on this. It, also, deviates and obliterates. We're honoured to have such esteemed people go to work on these songs. We hope you love this album as much as we do. See you in DA CLUB!!!" King Gizzard & Three Lizard Wizard's Butterfly 3001 comes out 1/21 on KGLW.
