We are very excited to announce the premiere of dankVIBES’ first ever conceptual music video for BRO SAFARI and UFO!’s insanely good and creepy song, “ANIMAL,” exclusive via VICE MAGAZINES electronic outlet, THUMP. First off, let me say how honored we are to have had the opportunity to work with such talented individuals. Knick of Bro Safari sent me a draft of “Animal” back in late February of this year, and said he thought it could make for an awesome music video. Upon first hearing the song, I knew we could make an extremely powerful/spooky video for it, and the image that popped into my head was primal people doing a dance around the fire. The story itself ended up developing over the course of a few weeks, and then Knick and I floated around some ideas and finalized the plan in earl May. We had a pretty low budget for the video, and ended up shooting everything on May 26th, in the span of one, 10 hour night (originally planned on shooting 2 nights, but we got rained out). It was an incredible experience working with such an awesome video crew, cast, and fire-control-crew that night (huge shoutout to these guys for enduring an INSANE amount of CHIGGER BITES). Below is a full list cast/crew listing. I hope you enjoy.
CREW
Director and Editor: Evan Adamson
Producers: Evan Adamson and Knick Weiller
Director of Photography and Co-Producer: Russ Hull
Camera Operator: Scott Clark
Production Manager: Rachel Ecklund
Gaffer: Suezean Matarazzo
Key Grip: Nathan Matarazzo
Best Boy: Terrance Mendoza
Props and Makeup: Ty Reeves
Grip: Connor Pickens
Production Assistants: Nick Pacione, Mike Drohan, Arthur Garibay
Behind the scenes video/photos: Nick Pacione
Fire Control/EMT: Nathan Mendenhall and Brian Nixon (Manchaca Fire/Rescue)
CAST
Damsel in distress: Ashley Landheer
Cult leader: Joseph Madro
Cult members: Jeffrey Perabo Stanley Weiner Davis Rutkauskas Joseph Soto Callie Carson Emily McGee Mannie Garcia Jacob Lipman















Australia seems to be some sort of Mecca for electronic music and EDM, with so many uniquely talented producers and musicians sprouting up all over its coasts. The most recent group to catch our attention is LEADERBOY, a Sydney based producer/songwriter duo. WHAT SO NOT gave us the introduction when they opened their Triple J mix with LEADERBOY’s latest track, “Wicked in This Neighborhood.” The best way I can describe it: Super fresh, retro-progressive, future-funk-electro. Definitely somewhat reminiscent of Daft Punk and the Chemical Brothers. Lets hope these guys keep making more dank shizz like this. ENJOY THE FREE DOWNLOADS.


