"Lorn - 555-5555" from "Rarities" Purchase @ lorn.bandcamp.com/album/rarities Video excerpt from "Neo Tokyo" 1987 Segment by Katsuhiro Otomo of Akira fame.
It sounds like a ship's creaking mast to me. I've had this song autoplay multiple times and thought this was some video about fighting a Kraken just from the sound.
Brenda Saltijeral this is from Neo Tokyo, a collection of 3 anime short films. This guy's other viral video, Lorn - Sega Sunset, also uses one of the short films from that movie.
I still can't believe people hand painted all these gorgeous animations frame by frame, like damn. Especially mechanical hand-drawn animation, so many little technical details, it always makes my jaw drop. And the music goes so well with these scenes, thanks for uploading!
The machines pulse, push, their rusted joints and hinges stick and stutter as they force past long expired petroleum lubricant. You can hear the wires hum inside the walls, the things supposed to be servants and the nest they all connect to. Their decaying continuation fills the air with plastic, hot silicon. Breath chocked by fumes of solder, waft it away with the ventilation as it breaks down, hope to eat again. Can you even call this death? It's very decay brings it so much life. Only when it falls apart does it show its face as part of nature. We don't know if it will repeat again.
This is insane.. I Literally just watched that short for the first time 2 days ago, and discovered Lorn yesterday. And now one of his songs is set to this short. I love it haha.
This takes me back to when we used to make anime music videos with windows movie maker on XP. The goal was to find the sickest beat and pair it with the most obscure/out there anime.
Love the days when animation with less restriction, but filled with explosive imaginations, weirdly good music and distinctly ehtic compared to nowadays
*Construction Cancellation Order* A revolution in the fictional South American country of the Aloana Republic has resulted in a new government being installed; this new government refuses to accept a contract detailing the construction of Facility 444. The company responsible for the construction has begun to lose millions, so salaryman Tsutomu Sugioka (Yū Mizushima/Robert Axelrod) is sent to stop production. The work is completely automated, carried out by robots programmed to finish the job no matter the consequences and led by a robot identified as 444-1 (Hiroshi Ōtake/Jeff Winkless). Witnessing the destruction of several robots and Robot 444-1's refusal to cease operations, Tsutomu begins to lose his patience and is nearly killed by 444-1 who was programmed to eliminate anything that poses a threat to the project. He retaliates by destroying 444-1 and follows its powercord that leads to the energy source of the robots in an attempt to finally end the production. Unknown to Tsutomu, the old government has been restored and they have agreed to honor the contract once more. _Source:_ wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Tokyo_(film)#Construction_Cancellation_Order_2
got DAMN I woke up and heard this riff in my head, I had NO idea but I suspected it was a lorn track. I finally found it on an old playist I saved, my day is complete
just feel that this is the time when Japan seems to grow economically aggressive. so fast, so uncontrollable, the city is so shitty looking, so tight, try to be so uniform, it doesn't even look like it is built by human's soul. but it is justified, they need the win after their absolute darkness, from it, risen its lord, strangling everyone with stagnation and pointlessness, and there is nothing to be done. That was my favorite anime style. and I know no one will dare to do it again, because it will be fckin depressing. it's too much.
I started listening to lorn in the past few months but I just found this and it triggered a deep memory. I saw this when it was released and have been wondering what it was for years
lorns music is very visual. it reminds me of beethoven, sometimes without really much emotion or purpose, just very visual. its easy to imagine, for example, machines and all sorts of this and that bouncing and clicking about.
well he's said in interviews that its not so much about making a song, "but making the sounds the song would hear watching it's childhood house burn to the ground" lmao
Sometimes the computer cuts so much corners you cannot see the human aspect of some things. Hand drawn original anime with frame by frame drawings are the best thing on this planet. Very underrated. And whomever decided to mix songs with anime deserves a cookie
I feel like Lorn didn't have a sophisticated message in mind while producing this track. It sounds cool, no question. Yet its completely different to what he usually composes. The title is just a play on the dialing sound a telephone makes when constantly hammering on the number 5 button. The main synth in the background even re-enacts this sound. The key is never changed. Both on the dial and in the chord.
Not being a substance user myself, I am not sure what is the substance that would induce the subjective experience that this music video supposed to resemble, but Lorn videos are made to resemble subjective experiences people have while on drugs.
Reminds me of that crashed war plane scene in Heavy Metal. Except with decrepit robots. The title reminds me of Interstella, 5555. All themes I heartily enjoy. Thanks yet again, for being kickass. ,\m/
