Slovenska Televiza released their 5-track EP “Documento” last year via Peripheral Minimal. This week the electronic duo returns with a new video for the “Documento” track “Muskiz.” The visuals contain a secret message–a series of letters that comprise a URL–and putting the link together will take you to a previously unreleased track and video from the pair.
“Muskiz” is named after an oil refinery in the Basque country of Northern Spain. An imposing collection of buildings and chimneys, Slovenska Televiza says it’s one one of those sights you “never forget.” The duo explains:
“Traveling at night from Bilbao, taking the curve in the heights of Montańo Peak, suddenly appears at the bottom of the valley an extensive network of lights that can only originate from a perfect planning. It’s the Muskiz refinery, with its superhuman dimensions, its gigantic chimneys spitting fire, like in a science fiction movie. But it’s real, here and now, as the car goes down the road, in front of your eyes. That image is never forgotten.”
Slovenska Televiza goes on to say that “Muskiz” is a metaphor for our human desire to control nature–“the eternal struggle to dominate the elements.” The video for the cut was directed by the band’s Wladyslaw Trejo. Using archival footage from a 1930’s film called “More Power to You,” Trejo’s visuals seem to juxtapose the enormous planning and execution that goes into building a refinery like Muskiz with the unspoken realities of Nature’s destruction in the process.
Don’t hesitate to decode Slovenska Televiza’s secret message as it leads to one of the duo’s most interesting video accomplishments to date! And the unreleased track with it is pretty darn cool, too! Crack that code…
