Check out this new video from Felix Cartel. The video is to his track “Volcano”, from his debut LP, Popular Music. On the track, Felix Cartel mashes electro, house, dance, and pop to come up with a sound that can only be described as ‘bangin.’

The video that accompanies the track is no different. Directed by Ace Norton, who has done videos for the likes of LCD Soundsystem and She and Him, decided to take a mash-up approach to the video. What he has done is quite freaky, but cool at the same time. Norton took the 1980 Dan Rather broadcast from the Mt. St. Helen’s eruption and superimposed a singing mouth featuring the vocals of Johnny Whitney from the Blood Brothers over Rather’s talking head. Really interesting stuff.

Norton had this to say about the idea/concept for the video:

“As a kid, my parents would put on the CBS Evening News every night while we ate dinner,” notes Norton. “When they fired Dan Rather, I didn’t realize how comforting his voice was until it wasn’t there anymore. With all this coverage about the volcano in Iceland, it only seemed right to give the man one last broadcast, and make it about the biggest news story of all time – the impending apocalypse. This video is Dante’s Peak, meets Ron Burgandy, meets Poltergeist.”

All I have to say is good job to both.

enjoY!

Dragonette – Take It Like A Man (Felix Cartel Remix)