Though it’s been a few months now since Boys Noize released his fourth full length album ‘Mayday’, it’s a record that takes plenty of time to digest and properly appreciate. It seems perfectly timed then that it’s only now that we’re getting the video for ‘2 Live’, a collaborative track with T.E.E.D on the release. It follows two lovers exploring Mexico City and building VR headsets that let them escape their reality together. The video was directed by LIL INTERNET and SUSBOY, with the two taking huge inspiration from the city in their vision and thinking towards the track. Here are some words LIL INTERNET shared on his love of Mexico City as a shooting location:

“Mexico City is the most cyberpunk city I’ve ever been to … like there are guys selling bootleg software and 64GB memory cards on the street as if they were fake Louis bags. There’s these endless malls of tiny stalls selling electronics, and there’s literally 4 malls that sell nothing but Anime.  In Mexico.  4 entire malls, like 4 stories high, with half a floor dedicated to Dance Dance Revolution machines.  Shooting there is very difficult, security, the people, nobody likes cameras.  Most of the video I had to pretend I was just holding the camera casually and not actually shooting.  The fact we could shoot in anime malls, illegal steroid markets, and a 2,000 year old pyramid was worth it though.  This is by far the most dangerous video I’ve shot though and I’m really proud how well it turned out for being a seriously one-man crew clandestine undertaking.  When the Sus Boy visuals came back I was like,’OK, we really did it.’  A lot of times videos are Murphy’s Law situations where everything goes wrong, but this time everything basically went right.  Mexico City is my favorite city after shooting this video though, I would move there in a second!!””

The juxtaposition of quickly moving shots alongside one another is a motif that all the clips from ‘Mayday’ seem to be using. Given that Boys Noize has also done a lot of work on scoring ‘Snowden’, this year’s biographical thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and a lot of sounds on the album are incredibly industrial and heavy, it comes as no surprise.