Noisia’s Full Metal Racket

Noisia’s Full Metal Racket

10 March, 2010 | 3.35AM

• Written by: Philip Sherburne
• Filed under: Videos: amon tobin, noisia, spor

We should warn you at the outset that this video is totally NSFM—not safe for mealtime, that is.

The Dutch heavyweights of drum’n’bass and electro, Noisia, test your gag reflex with their video for ‘Machine Gun’, which begins as a clever collage of abstract imagery and commences in a bloody orgy of mangled flesh and raw meat.

I don’t mean to be flippant—it’s actually pretty powerful stuff. The band says that the video is intended as “an abstract story of mankind and its self-destructiveness, loosely based on the tale of Frankenstein’s monster.” Directed by Superelectric’s Henk Loorbach, the images reference an impressive range of sources, from Hannah Hoch’s Weimar-era photomontages to Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ to punk illustrator Pushead’s morbid imagery.

All those gun barrels and bullet wounds give a whole new meaning to the word “banger"—fittingly for a group that’s pushing the limits of electro at its most hardcore. Noisia’s ‘Machine Gun’ EP is out this week, and it features equally storming remixes from Spor, 16 Bit and Amon Tobin, spanning d’n’b, dubstep and full-metal electro-techno.

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