Gesaffelstein And Pharrell Take Turns Being The Creepiest People In The Future In 'Blast Off' Video

Record producer, songwriter, and disc jockey Gesaffelstein premiered the visual for his recently released single "Blast Off" soon after his Coachella set on yesterday (April 14). The dystopian futuristic sounding tune features Pharrell who is the star of the accompanying visual that matches the song's intensity. It's not quite Blade Runner, iRobot, or TRON, however it's still an unsettling look at a dark future. Beware the man on the piano. Beware the eyes beyond the sunshades.


The video for "Blast Off" is every bit as sharp and futuristic because the song already is. Someone, presumably Gesaffelstein, stands in the background, almost out of frame, playing a keyboard that looks like a high-end auctionable item from The Jetsons. Hands, legs, and entire people made of neon colored dots move rapidly and unhumanly like androids at 1.5x speed. We, as viewers, keep seeing what looks a circuit board or symbol network that changes colors at it expands. Whichever sort of dark world this is, Pharrell acts because the normalcy beacon that keeps us grounded. Well...Initially. He's dancing around in futuristic glasses for the initial verse although by the second the glasses are removed, revealing his eyes to be burning pools of sunlight. In case you stare directly into them, you'll be in danger of going blind.


Gesaffelstein just dropped his second studio album Hyperion in March. It features The Weeknd, HAIM, and Electric Youth. His debut LP, Aleph, came out in 2013.


Take a look at the robotic video up above.