Synopsis
In a bleak futuristic world, household robots face an approaching recycling process that will erase their identities. As malfunctions spread, the machines begin moving erratically through streets, turning their final moments into strange, rhythmic dances. Some recognize what is happening and choose to seize control of their fate, rushing into traffic rather than submit to dehumanizing disposal. The video's glitchy animation and mechanical movements transform Africa HiTech's bass-heavy track into a darkly comic story about obsolescence, autonomy and a robot uprising that ends in liberation.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was released in June 2011, shortly after Africa HiTech's debut album, 93 Million Miles, arrived on Warp Records.
- The song uses elements of Ini Kamoze's 1984 reggae track "World-A-Music," redirecting that source material into a futuristic electronic setting.
- The video's concept was described as a form of "robot-rapture": the machines deliberately reject an impersonal recycling system and select their own final fate.
- Africa HiTech reportedly re-edited the track to fit the finished film more closely, making the music and the robots' movements feel unusually synchronized.
- The project was also associated with a separate VIP version of the track, which received its own alternate video treatment using black-and-white carnival footage rather than the robot narrative.