This   is a submission for the Stones Throw Records Video Contest 2011, celebrating the label’s 15th anniversary. The video is both inspired and soundtracked by the Madvillain track of the same name. We follow the lone figure of a run-down clown as he travels through picturesque woodland and fields, on a search. The video is a meditation on escapism, and the line between comedy and tragedy.

A music video for Madvillain’s Fancy Clown feat. Viktor Vaughn. A film by Matthew Wood.  if you ask me this is a play on the words rather artfully done and I applaud Matt woods effort. good lookin out to Sharp for putting me on.

as you kmay know the roots now have a new album titled “Undun”  Here is a performance from their mainstay act on late night with jimmy fallon dem. enjoy this tidbit of hard rhymes on regular ass tv.

“Levels was created in a small basement studio below Shafiq (Husayn)’s home in Los Angeles. Bilal, Shafiq, and I produced the foundation of what would become the song under a certain creative hypnosis. It seemed as if, before our ears, the synthetic sounds and beeps congealed into a single living, pulsating organism. It would then soon sprout wings, carrying under them an all-encompassing message. Levels has since taken a life unto its own, bringing in interpretations from Flying Lotus and Sonnymoon; furthering what may be no called the “Levels Experiment.” The remix I provided follows in the tradition of the original song’s spirit: an ambitious exploration of sound, space and emotion; an aviary craft bursting into the embers of a maiden flight. -Ken Barrientos (KenBts.)

Director Mikael Colombu takes the reigns for the visuals. So what we end up with is a great song with a far  out there video live from planet Ethio X set in 16311 A.D. Check the vid above and interpret it as you will.