New Album: "Wolfenstein" by Choco Valens
Miami’s-own leatherface, Choco Valens, pushes forward with his third project Wolfenstein, the latest of his yearly album drops. He’s teased us all year with singles like Dead Nazis, Space for Greatness, and even an XXXTentacion tribute, Riot. Tune in Thursday, February 4th, at 7:00pm to @dirty5ive’s Instagram Live — we’ll be having the man himself live on #D5LIVE for an interview and performance hosted by JAKX. We’ll be taking a deep dive into the inspiration and creation of his new album, plus much more!
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*Make sure you check back on this post, we’ll be updating it with a link to the full #D5LIVE video!
*Update 02/08/21 — After numerous attempts to get the infamously glitchy and laggy instagram live feature to work, Choco and I recorded almost an hour of an interview which only a dozen ears and eyes were blessed with. I took this as a lesson and gained a little more patience in the process while learning that there is never a victory without a battle. By this time I had drank four Jai Alai IPAs (please sponsor me, lol), I had already ran through my list of questions, and was in the process of smoking a super fire joint, so you can imagine by this time I was, well… just watch.
When Choco called me with the news that he had a dope new record, Space for Greatness, that needed visuals, I already knew we were going to make magic. Aside from various photo shoots, I had the pleasure of working with him previously on the Mumble Massacre music video where we transformed a heavily forested area of Amelia Earhart Park into a Leatherface murder scene.
This song, however, did not feature his masked alter-ego, just his god-given face. I decided to run with the idea of embedding small clips from the Quentin Tarantino-directed movie, Pulp Fiction, since the song already started with a skit from the film. I went for a grainy/vintage look editing-wise to feel like an old school film and to match with Tarantino’s scenes a bit. As fate would have it, while we were walking back to the car from shooting at one location, we stumbled upon a private residence with an amazing mural from the movie across the front façade. After being mind blown at the sheer coincidence, without a second thought, we rushed through the gate to start filming. Right after recording the last shot, a lady that lived there kicked us out and my camera died — it was meant to be.
Watch the Space for Greatness video below, directed by me @Dirtylen5.
Directed by @Dirtylen5
WRITTEN BY JOAQUIN PINEDA @1991JAKX @DIRTY5IVE
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