Filip Tasevski-Fitz is the artist behind the digital dance undertaking, Blackstate, based mostly in Skopje, Macedonia. For his newest undertaking, ‘The Arsonist’, he’s set the video within the extaordinary Lodge Drim, positioned on the shores of Lake Ohrid in Macedonia.

Constructed within the mid Seventies, its curved design, spectacular central spiral staircase, broad home windows and concrete terraces search for all of the world like a cruise ship, and embody the aspirations of that period. It’s additionally the proper place to shoot a music video.

‘The Arsonist’, from Blackstate’s album, ‘Whereas The World’s On Hearth’, is smooth, propulsive, and futuristic, and it units up Tasevski-Fitz as a producer with an unimaginable creativeness and sense of play. The curves of Lodge Drim replicate the great otherness of ‘The Arsonist’, and in some ways, symbolize the liberation he’s singing about.

Blackstate encourages us to precise ourselves to the fullest, it doesn’t matter what obstacles are seemingly in our method.

‘The Arsonist’ offers Tasevski-Fitz the chance to display his mastery of melody inside the digital music type, considerably reminsicent of Christopher Walken within the video for Fats Boy Slim’s ‘Weapon Of Selection’.

With a monitor stuffed with compulsive synth textures, melodic threads, and a stuttering beat that mesmerises the listener, the video is gripping and absorbing. Previous to dedicating himself to the dancefloor, Tasevski-Fitz fronted a punk rock band, and whereas ‘The Arsonist’ is extra disco than punk, he’s woven their beliefs into his sound and perspective. 

Dancers Anastasija Danchevska (who additionally designed the choreography) and Dejan Bitrovski transfer with erotic and bodily energy, whereas the cinematography, lighting, and the precise design of the Lodge Drim, give the clip an otherworldly vibe. Director Aleksandra Kostadinovska, a Macedonian photographer with an impeccable sense of stability, color, and composition, makes certain that each single body within the clip is a shocking shot, and compels you to look at it time and again, so that you will be certain you’ve not missed something.

Try the unimaginable music video for ‘The Arsonist’ beneath, and discover out extra about Filip Tasevski-Fitz and Blackstate on-line on their official web site, YouTube, Fb, and Instagram.

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