Ross From Friends - The Daisy
Ross From Friends—AKA British producer Felix Clary Weatherall—returns with Tread, his keenly anticipated new album, due for release on 22nd October via Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder impint.
Lead single The Daisy exemplifies the spirit of the album. A bewitching club track that skips out of the speakers, the peppy 2-step drums cosying up to swollen pads that tug on your heart strings. Drawing its name from one of the opening steps in solving the classic Rubik’s Cube puzzle, the single also comes alongside a video which peers into the world of competitive speed-cubing. Directed by Rudá Santosand commissioned as part of Crack Magazine’s ‘Three Minutes’ program, the video also features a cameo from Felix as a speed-cubing competition judge.
As the director describes the concept: - We follow a young girl on a time-warping journey as she becomes a speed-cuber. She must battle through all the step countdowns to reach her goal in time. The idea had always been to follow a kid through a speed-cubing competition. To make it fresh & enticing we added a conceptual layer to that narrative in order to give the cube and all its magical aspects some character. I’ve always thought the cube was a mysterious and fantastical object – so the idea to play with some of these sci-fi elements seemed very fitting and came naturally to me in the writing process. Having some of the UK’s best speedcubers acting in the video really helped us bring this vision to life. The goal was for it to function as both an ode to speedcubing as a sport as well as a thrilling and engaging short piece of its own. -
