NASA: A Volta

A Volta is a collaborative effort from the North American South American music Colective NASA, featuring vocals by Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Love Foxxx, video director Logan, and artists The Date Farmers. The result is a video that resembles a bizarre, retro computer game fused with a pulpy Latin American crime movie.

In A Volta, a selection of isometric, chunky three-dimensional robot-like characters wander around a similarly blocky metropolis, killing, robbing, torturing and generally misbehaving in a vague, slight crime story. The 3D characters are voiced in a flat, toneless fashion that makes them sound like weird androids, speaking in Scarface-style Spanish soundbites. Profanity filled subtitles accompany the action.

The Date Farmers influence is striking in terms of the character and world design - their world is devoid of normal perspective and saturated in pop culture violence. The Date Farmers are known, apart from their paintings and collages, for their series of blocky robots made out of scrap materials, and these robots have been used by Logan as a template of sorts for the deranged characters than wander throughout the CG city during the video. Its a bizarre and off-putting perspective, but mesmerising all the same.