Altered Zones

Brooklyn electronic duo Gatekeeper have a charming habit of going a bit overboard. In a recent interview with Altered Zones, they professed a hope that their ongoing collaboration with artist collective Thunder Horse, the fellow Chicago transplants who design the visuals for their live sets, would culminate in bombastic pyrotechnics displays; for now, they loom darkly behind gadgets that play themselves and the supreme exaggeration of synthesizers that double as smoke machines. To mark the release of their debut EP on Merok next Monday, Gatekeeper have teamed with Thunder Horse on a monolithic black plastic VHS tape with videos for each of the album's six tracks, which are premiering one-by-one this week on 20 Jazz Funk Greats.

Following yesterday's "Serpent" and last month's "Chains" (below), this video for "Oracle" is a spin on the user-generated animated music video, where fans chop up footage from old anime films to celebrate their favorite songs. "Our version of the AMV was the same concept," Aaron David told us via Gchat, "except all the characters are removed, leaving only the cities, machines, and supernatural occurrences." Gatekeeper/Thunder Horse stitch these fragments into a narrative of urban apocalypse-- appropriately hyperbolic, but delicately turned. (20 Jazz Funk Greats co-premiere)

Giza EP is out December 13th via Merok. Gatekeeper's VHS collaboration with Thunder Horse will be available the week of release via Merok, and thereafter from Hippos In Tanks

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