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Choose Your Own Adventure is taken from the Vanishing Twin album of the same name. Available to order here: http://smarturl.it/ChooseDirect

This video follows a trio of psychedelic astronauts as they hunt for human hearts in ghostly brutalist settings. At loss within a seemingly abandoned metropolis, these silver-clad adventurers sport enigmatic spiral badges on their chests. In between their routine musical performances, they hunt for a sign of life, which they find in a very literal form. The death of a fourth astronaut ensues, but as this one comes back to life, the tables turn. The premise of the video was loosely inspired by themes present in the song’s lyrics as well as in the band’s debut album of the same name. Elliott drew inspiration from 60’s and 70’s sci-fi b-movies, and shot the video in two well-known brutalist London landmarks: Alexandra Road Estate and Brownfield Estate.

Directed and Produced by Elliott Arndt

Cinematographer: Daniel Lucas

Editor and Colourist: Yehan Jehan

Assistant: Adélaide Pratoussy

Featuring Marta Salogni, Harriet Barrow and Korallia Stergides

Special thanks to Phil MFU, Mathilda Zerty and Lomography

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MUSIC FROM PLANET EARTH: PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

Soundway Records was conceived in 2002 by label owner Miles Cleret whilst returning from Ghana with a hoard of dusty old 45s and LPs that had mostly not been heard outside the former Gold Coast since their original release. Planned on a whim the trip was not one of the carefully planned research expeditions that Miles would later embark on to any number of far-flung tropical destinations. On the contrary he left England with no idea of what he might find or that it might be the start of a career in the record business.

Although the label has it's roots in West Africa the scope has grown to include many other parts of the tropical belt with the aim of making available recordings that have in most cases never been available outside of their original countries and often not even there for over 30 years. Over the years Soundway's modus operandi has been to approach the music from a different angle from many of the more established "World Music" labels. By focusing on more obscure artists as well as big names and often concentrating on progressive recordings more in sync with Cleret's generation and background in DJ culture and dance-music. Styles have included afro-beat, funk, highlife, ethio-jazz, molam, calypso, cumbia, champeta, biguine, latin-jazz and disco as well as many unclassifiable recordings.

Since 2012 Soundway has begun releasing new material from a carefully selected handful of contemporary recording artists including acclaimed acts Ondatropica, Bomba Estereo and Ibibio Sound Machine

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