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IS TROPICAL - Land of The Nod

Music Video
ArtistIS TROPICAL

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Synopsis

Jackie Chan battles his way through a rapidly mutating collage of kung fu footage, with punches, jumps and bodies smeared across the screen in time with the song. Scenes bleed into one another as the image breaks apart, stretches and reforms, creating the sensation of an action film caught inside a malfunctioning video file. Rather than following a conventional storyline, the clip turns Chan's physical performance into a kinetic visual loop, matching the track's uneasy dream-state mood with controlled digital chaos.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The song appears on Is Tropical's debut album, "Native To", released by Kitsune Musique on June 13, 2011.
  • The video was being highlighted online by January 20, 2012, several months after the album's release.
  • Its central visual device is datamoshing, a technique that manipulates compressed video data to create smears, trails and abrupt transitions between shots.
  • Jackie Chan is the clip's defining screen presence, but the footage is treated less like a movie excerpt than raw material for an audiovisual collage.
  • The editing is closely synchronized to the music. Movements often appear to punch through one shot and continue inside another, making the glitches feel choreographed rather than accidental.
  • The video reflects the early-2010s fascination with glitch aesthetics, when compression errors and damaged digital imagery were increasingly used as deliberate music-video language.
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