DJ Shadow & De La Soul "Reimagine" the Moon Landing for "Rocket Fuel" Video
‘Our Pathetic Age’ is almost here.
Over one month after the release of the visual for “Urgent, Important, Please Read,” DJ Shadow is unveiling another new music video in support of one of his latest project’s singles. Specifically, the veteran producer-DJ is introducing a vignette for Our Pathetic Age‘s De La Soul collaboration “Rocket Fuel.” For the aforementioned video, Shadow enlists previous visual collaborator Sam Pilling; together, they use their latest collaborative piece to “reimagine” the moon landing, using a conspiracy theory as their guide.
“More than anything, I try to get a sense of the mood of society as a whole. The subtle signals that humans send each other, the way people behave, their frustrations and ebbs and flows. In my part of the world, people are scared. There’s rampant homelessness, and a real fear of falling into generational poverty. People are addicted to, and addled by distraction; they’re angry and confused, and disaffected by their own governmental institutions,” DJ Shadow shared in an official press statement on Our Pathetic Age. “There’s songs that are inspired by this energy and seek to harness it, to make sense of it. In some cases, there’s attempts to salve the wound; in others, the songs merely observe but don’t offer solutions. Despite the title, it’s a hopeful, vibrant album…there is always light in darkness. I want it to reflect the times we live in, a signpost in the ground to mark the era…Our Pathetic Age.”
You can take a look at DJ Shadow and De La Soul’s new music video for “Rocket Fuel” above, and check out the tracklist for DJ Shadow’s upcoming studio album Our Pathetic Age — which will hit streaming services tonight — below.
DJ Shadow – Our Pathetic Age (Tracklist)
1. Nature Always Wins
2. Slingblade
3. Intersectionality
4. Beauty, Power, Motion, Life, Work, Chaos, Law
5. Juggernaut
6. Firestorm
7. Weightless
8. Rosie
9. If I Died Today
10. My Lonely Room
11. We Are Always Alone
12. Drone Warfare (feat. Nas, Pharaohe Monch)
13. Rain On Snow (feat. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon)
14. Rocket Fuel (feat. De La Soul)
15. C.O.N.F.O.R.M. (feat. Gift of Gab, Lateef The Truth Speaker, Infamous Taz)
16. Small Colleges (Stay With Me) (feat. Wiki, Paul Banks)
17. JoJo’s Words (feat. Stro)
18. Kings & Queens (feat. Run the Jewels)
19. Taxin’ (feat. Dave East)
20. Dark Side of the Heart (feat. Fantastic Negrito, Jumbo is Dr.ama)
21. I Am Not A Robot (Interlude)
22. Urgent, Important, Please Read (feat. Rockwell Knuckles, Tef Poe, Daemon)
23. Our Pathetic Age (feat. Samuel T. Herring)
24. Been Used Ta (feat. Pusha T) BONUS TRACK
25. Two Notes (feat. Barny Fletcher) BONUS TRACK
