Watch: DEEDS - "Video Dreams"

15 July 2014, 15:21 | Written by Melanie Battolla

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I Ching were Best Fit Recordings’ first signings. The London-based outfit produced retro-inspired Electronic music which manifested itself officially on their first and only 7”, “It’s Me”/“Drive”, before splitting shortly after. Rollo Smallcombe, one of the minds behind I Ching, has been working on a new project, DEEDS, and has unveiled its debut track “Video Dreams” with accompanying visuals.

Echoing I Ching’s own fascination with VHS-ripped visuals and archaic CG graphics, the video is filled with looping clips and extracts from old movies, music videos and indiscernible material. The visuals are delivered psychotically, an unrelenting stream of imagery, charged with fading tones and chimeric visions, harmoniously merging with its sound. “Video Dreams” is equally imbued sonically with nostalgia for the past.

Fragments of synths that walk in between the realms of synth pop and an occult-sounding cross between the chloroform- anaesthetised beats of Witch House and Goblin’s “Suspiria” open the track, before swelling into a flurry of keyboards and a heavy pop sounding climax.

DEEDS’ debut seems to fit better in the months of harvest, rather than in these last glimpses of summer, so be sure to keep an eye on him for the next months, when the weather will fit its dark electronic melancholy.