Amnesia Scanner is a Berlin-based electronic music duo that also works in the realms of performance art, design, and production. Created by the Finnish-born artists Ville Haimala and Martti Kalliala, the pair have been releasing music under the moniker since 2014. Exploring the ways in which technology mediates our contemporary experience, the project is informed by issues related to system vulnerabilities, information overload, and sensory excess. Amnesia Scanner is currently readying their debut LP Another Life for release on September 7th via PAN.
The duo’s new video for the Another Life track “AS A.W.O.L” was directed and edited by PWR Studio, who also handled the video’s costuming and design. The track itself is pitched somewhere between avant-electronics and the hedonism and exuberance of EDM. Following a chiming synth-line down a head-spinning k-hole, the cut’s alien sounding vocals and warped bass wobble are coupled with a disorienting sense of negative space. The visuals feature a strangely garbed crew of nutters, and the time slurred images of their chaotic movements are both exhilarating and disturbing all at once.
