Electric President: Monsters

directed by : ben cooper & mark hubbard
www.radicalface.com
track: monsters
artist: Electric President
album : Sleep well
morr music 2008

This was the first of the two "live" videos that were planned. I got the idea from watching performances of David Bowie on the BBC (I think the sessions were from '72). I liked how he played live, slightly different versions of the songs. I figured it would be fun to do something similar, only in more interesting settings than just a stage. So we filmed and recorded the song at the same time, and any extra tracking (clapping, tambourine, accordion) was done the same way. So it's kinda like live multi-tracking.

This particular session took over 13 hours. We filmed this about three days after I nearly broke my leg filming for another one of the videos, and I still couldn't put any weight on that foot. So whenever we had technical difficulties (which was often), I had to hobble around all the lamps to set things straight again. Add to that, we hadn't really practiced the song together before that day, and I, as always, had trouble remembering my lyrics. It was exhausting and frustrating, and I think I set the healing of my ankle back a good week or two, but we were happy with how it came out in the end.

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[willable11]

best musician of our time-straight up-everything that ben cooper produses is gold

[bloodshedhero]

@HLGObjective Whenever you listen to a new genre, or meet a new race of people, or view art of a new style, they all will appear the same at first. And by "new" I mean "new to you." But there is nothing wrong with this, it is natural... you are not used to distinguishing the songs of this genre, similar to asking an English speaking person to distinguish letters of a foreign alphabet, or as in asking a young child to differentiate between numbers... at first they will all appear nearly the same.

[radicallemon]

Anyone know the chords in order? Would really appreciate it:)

[Greengulchleaves]

:D I just found out that radical face and electric president are connected!! :D

[GamerCaddy]

i want to hang out with him !!!

[kandicewithaktopten]

i wanna get "in through your window the sky will fall....tattooed on me somewhere :)

[GrunnyWatchers]

@grumpybritishguy They're still pretty underground but there's a sparse following, at least in Colorado where I'm from.

[grumpybritishguy]

@sumthangstoopid man i couldnt agree more. the emotions that come with this song are so powerful. btw i live where these guys live, i met alex once at a bar. are you from here? wondering how popular they are.

[BeTheBestMe]

I am very small in any world but I am currently in the movie biz and recently read a script i think your sound would be perfect for. Again, i am small potatoes but would love it if I could put your sound to a movie that it fit with :)

[askidnovus]

Really, good, chillin and pure music. Thx for it! Best wishes from Bavaria Germany!

[ASJbeeetch]

I heard Adrift in Space or Whatever on Weeds the other night. I'm glad they're getting at least some exposure. They deserve to be heard by everyone at least once.