We’ve been loving the latest Battles record La Di Da Di which just came out a month ago, and we’ve got more to love. They just dropped their video for “Dot Net” and it’s pretty rad. The video is directed by Ben Jones and comments on the interaction between man and technology. As Jones told Pitchfork…
The exploration of the digital territory between abstract graphic user interfaces, polyrhythms and human interaction was a paramount inspiration of this video. Prodding and proving the causality of passive engagement vs hyper-addiction concerning the influence of “screen time” (using the video and audio of an iPad or iPhone or etc….). In the end we kept returning to this jump off: “Is this a dope music vid to have on your Apple Watch? Yes or No?”
We think yes. Check out the video above. La Di Da Di is out now via Warp.