Toronto rap crew Notes to Self joined forced with British director RUFFMERCY, aka Russ Murphy, for the Canadian National Exhibition-shot video for ‘Popular Music’ from their album Target Market [Recoil], out now via Decon Records. Bronze One and Ben from Notes co-directed the clip.
“The CNE is our Disney Land, our Universal Studios. Food pavilions where you can eat Poutine and Shish Taouk in one-sitting, washed down with an ice cream waffle sandwich or mini sugar donuts ala Tiny Tom,” Bronze One said in a statement. “Ride the rickety ass wooden roller-coaster: ‘The Flyer,’ the lightning fast car: ‘The Polar Bear Express,’ the spinning cages they call ‘The Zipper’ and swinging gondola’s on a massive Ferris Wheel lit by the park. All run by old Dudes who have built and rebuilt these steel-traps for 101 years. The same ones who hire young locals to take money from the kids who want to get high and ride.”
“Ben & Bronze have been going to The Ex for years with their families & friends, Notes to Self even performed ‘Yellow & Grey’ and ‘Worst Comes to Worst’ on-stage with their big brothers, Dilated Peoples in 2009 — so its location always had “potential music video” written all over it, especially for Notes as their love of all things nostalgic is nothing less than whole-hearted. Nothing screams classic fair grounds quite like The Canadian National Exhibition,” he continued.
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