Altered Zones

From out of Gunk TV's bubbling pop culture cauldron comes this new video from Raw Thrills, aka Zak Mering, aka one-half of Brooklyn's Greatest Hits. "Cyborg Wars," a track he recorded when the duo were tracking their debut LP in Paris this Summer, is inspired by the Euro club sounds he encountered while out painting the town with bandmate Tyler Thacker. Now that he's given it the Gunk TV treatment, you can watch as space robots battle it out Gladiator-style over a soundtrack of skittish trance synths and bass that's as colossal, warped, and blown-out as a bad case of elephant flatulence. It certainly doesn't sound like anything we've heard from Mering before, and I can't really describe his take on the idiom without falling back on a phrase he suggested himself, which is "[doing it with] gangster conviction." --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones