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Gesaffelstein - Reset

‘Reset’ is the first new Gesaffelstein drop in five years (not counting his work on the “My Dear Melancholy” EP with The Weekend), but it doesn’t come out guns blazing. It’s a lot more subtle than that. Is the title a comment on his own career? The repetitive nature of his own music? Is it an intention? A manifesto? The video will trigger even more discussion: it’s a a simple but brilliant and haunting sequence of loops in which we see a hip hop battle reset over and over, increasingly swallowing up everyone involved in a vicious circle of props, tattoos, wigs and body-manipulation. It’s kinda scary, but it also has clown-sized sneakers, so ….

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