Taken from the new album, In Colour. Pre-order here: yt-r.uk/jxxpre Directed by: Erik Wernquist Photos by NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. jamiexx.com theyoungturks.co.uk
Saw Jamie play at festival 2 years ago. He finished his set with this track when it was still unreleased. To this day, hearing that gorgeous synth line for the first time, in a field full of people, off my tits, remains the best musical experience of my life.
from the start of this track you think it's just a basic average old skool rave tune, then it just gradually turns into something absolutely epic and out of this world. love it.
@ROOTSCONTRA Yes it does... Cheesy jungle vocal samples, disgusting drum break, big bassline - it's exactly what late 90's/early 00's two step/UK garage sounds like.
so I looked into this more, and the vocal samples are from a 1995 BBC Radio 1 jungle mix called One In The Jungle. This was the very first time jungle was played on air in the UK which is a real milestone. At the end of the mix (and the Jamie XX track) MC Strings says "Many thanks, because you're keeping the vibe alive". This is as jungle influenced as a track can be :D
9 years later this video still brings tears to my eyes. We’re so close to being as one and so divided at the moment. This can be our future if we all desire life and love.
I want a 360 video version like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mK8CZW6jxy8.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jIxQXGTl_mo.html or ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hFjzFSidX3s.html
Holy hell I'd kill to see a full length film with this art style and Jamie XX doing soundtrack. Some cyberpunk colonies on Mars mixed with Mad Max type thing.
***** i don't know what you're talking but anyway, i recently heard that denis villeneuve is going to direct next blade runner. i'm not a fan of his movies but i think he will do a good job
Jon Z urm there is one, quite popular but rather old, movie that has this very style like the music video. although it does not have a soundtrack like this, considering it was so long ago
I'm an idiot. Listened to this track in the background of doing work while never appreciating the beauty of the clip because I never took 5 minutes to view the whole video, thinking it's a still image. Our overstimulated busy lives, in a nutshell. A huge moral slap.
Everytime when I'm depressed I smoke and listen to this song and evertime when the synth begin I laugh out loud and cry at the same time This is what called ART
Still listening in 2021. I remember the day this album came out. I was on a flight from Seattle to San Francisco end of May 2015. I saw (from her phone) that the girl seating next to me was listening to Jamie’s album because of the colorful cover. I asked her if that was Jamie xx new album and she said “Yes, it just came out today” I quickly went to my Spotify and downloaded the album before take off. I listened to this track on repeat for the entire flight. Then I saw him live in 2015 at the Capitol Hill Block Party. I can’t wait for more music from him. ❤️
One day people will live there and that to me is fucking amazing. Seriously wish I could freeze myself for a couple of hundred years just to see how far we get and what we will achieve.
Kenshiro ehm... Freezing won't do any good to you, since the most basic part of consciousness is continuity. There's an awesome procrastination blog about science, called "Wait But Why" and they wrote a piece about it ("What Makes You You?"). So, i guess, immortalists are our best shot.
In the future, I plan to play this song for my son, my daughter, or maybe a nephew or niece. Jamie xx would be in his late forties, and I''d say to them, "This is what I grew up with. Go spread this treasure to those who are unaware of it." Just like my dad.
First day after Shanghai's 2022 lockdown. Just finished work, and now I'm listening to this song while getting ready to hit the bar after 61 days locked inside my home. Hope is the thing I'm feeling. Even more when I remember I'm about to leave this hell behind! Good days are coming!
I usually don't post comments on youtube, but when I read the comments here, and found that I can relate myself too them, I felt a deep urge to post a comment and tell everyone how I feel about this song. This song is a cosmic experience. Totally out of the world. The way this song can make me feel, no other music can do this to you. This is not just a musical piece, it is a tribute to our metaphysical existence. The video is staggeringly beautiful and it complements the audio so well. I love it. No words can express the way it makes me feel. I really admire Jamie XX for his incredible talent. Wish him all the best.
this song is beatiful and it helped me get through a lot, thank you jamie xx for making such a beautiful song. Without this i would be in a bad place rn
It's fucking ridiculous that this song has two music videos. It's also fucking ridiculous that both music videos are fucking amazing, beautiful pieces of art. (And the song ain't too shabby, either!)
I didn't realise musicians still made music and videos of this incredible magnitude. It's just amazing in every way. Does anybody think this would've gone really well with a movie like Ad Astra or Midnight Express, given their themes and visuals?
This is the best depiction ever of terraforming a planet, its slow bu constant over centurys of work, along wiht that is a beautiful score perfect for this
The cut at 1:56 timed to the lead/bass synth is transcendent. This is such an impressive music video, the anthemic mixed transposed with the galactic. ✨
I got this album and I still haven't listened to it because I have been repeating this song before I got a chance to listen to the others, also if you're not using headphones or good speakers you're missing like half the whole song
This song is perhaps one of the most sublime I've ever listened to. Especially the 2nd part. It perfectly captures the emptiness, sadness and beauty of space. Take note, this is how to make a song great (instead of using 100 unnecessary instruments and a horribly-overused tuner mic).
This made the hairs on my neck stand up. That to me is a meter of a perfect combination of audio and visual culmination which is rare in modern music videos. So thankful. Thank you based god.
that surround synth melody revokes in me moments when you fall asleep and have a breakthrough that feels like missing a stair or falling. the early childhood also comes to mind.
I hardly ever write a comment, but this track just makes me. This track takes the bits and pieces used so many times before, but instead of becoming another rip-off, it evolves to a beautiful story in itself. It takes the right amount of time to build-up the rhythm, adding the bass line first at around 2 minutes in, then, nearly at 3 minutes, comes the melodic part, while all this time the rhythm keeps pushing it forward. It's almost tribal. A mix of darkness and uplifting anticipation. Didn't see the movie clip until long after this track crept under my skin. Wernquist beautifully connects the power of the track to the fantastic imagery that becomes a whole movie in just a little less than 5 minutes. Wow. Just. Wow.
"Oh my Gosh!" is basically what I would be saying if I was experiencing traveling to Mars in real life. Seeing the red planet slowly begin to get closer and closer. I wouldn't know what to believe aside from awe. Terraforming is probably a trending topic. It's the coolest idea since space travel.
This is what will happen if the space industry is given enough room to do what it must. The dream is there, it's not difficult to make it a reality, you only need the willpower. The rest, money & technology, comes with the package. An exciting look into a possible future... Please make it happen.
Imagine being from another world. You're possibly listening out, as an "Alien", picking up our airwaves. Maybe it's us in a billion years. Erik Wernquist listened to the tune and he made a video. A video that I will always come back to. Self-conscious beings will always find a way.
To me personally, this video represents everything humanity could be if we let go of all religion, government, and politics, and left all of our prejudices behind on this beautiful little rock we were raised on. We're meant for so much more. The only question is if we can do this before we all kill each other.
I've been listening to this track on a loop for a few years now, and recently finished kim stanley robinson's Mars trilogy. This clip, this music is an incredible emotional echo, it has everything, the power, the epic side, the minuscule side of humanity.
6 лет назад
This video remainds me that we need to take care of the earth.
what's so great about this video is that terraforming mars would likely take hundreds of years, an here we get this process spanning multiple generations in under 5 minutes. there's something really fascinating about that
I've listened to this song on here no less than 50 times, and I have only just noticed how unbelievably amazing this video is! Very fitting with the song, too.
i always saw jamie xx as an artist. too many musicians make obvious statements with their music and in return they have to limit their repertoire to appeal to a dumbed down audience that only exists because they believe it to exist. i think jamie understands that music transcends words, that's why i find his work interesting to listen to.
