Watch Ultra_eko's New Music Video For "Alexandre Cazes"
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South London’s own Ultra_eko recently released his debut album “Off the Grid”, and we’ve got it ready for you to stream below.
One of the featured tracks on the album is “Alexandre Cazes”, and Ultra_eko has just dropped the Eli Lev directed music video for it. Speaking about the music video during our exclusive interview with Ultra_eko, he says:
‘Alexandre Cazes’ is the latest visual to drop from my debut album, ‘Off the Grid’. It is a lyric video, again produced by Israeli video artist Eli Lev, whom I hold in such high regard. The title of the track refers to the infamous Alexandre Cazes, owner and administrator of dark web marketplace Alpha Bay. The site was closed when Cazes was arrested in Thailand in July of 2017; he subsequently hung himself in his prison cell before extradition to the US. I used the figure of Cazes to frame the track, as I saw him as a sort of figurehead of the dark side of capitalism, a free market taken to its inevitable extreme, when anything is available to be bought or sold and there is no jurisdiction upon it. The track itself centres around a drug dealer, who personifies Alphabay and Cazes on a smaller scale. He is ruthless, without compassion and empathy; that which he does have is buried deep; he does not want emotion or moral concerns to affect his ability to exploit and destroy those he uses for personal gain.”
Watch the “Alexandre Cazes” visual now, stream the “Off the Grid” album on Spotify, read the rest of our interview HERE, and connect with Ultra_eko on his social media.