What is the film about?

“ME SO HORNACEK” featuring Prolyphic is the third video from “MEGALITH,” the debut album of AUPHEUS, released through Strange Famous Records.

A little background information...

This is the third and final video from the MEGALITH trilogy.

As with the other videos in the series it was a transatlantic collaboration with Prolyphic being in the US and me in the UK.

I made the beat with Prolyphic in mind. Despite the fact that I had some specific themes in mind for the MEGALITH album, we didn’t discuss any lyrical themes or subject matter beforehand; I really dig what he does so just wanted to see what he would come up with instinctively. He came back with something that I was not expecting – a song referencing Jeff Hornacek with a nod to a classic Miami Bass track.

As a kid in the 90s I was a huge basketball fan and also played a hell of a lot of NBA Jam on the Megadrive, so that along with the old school hip hop references meant that this felt like an appropriate fit for the album, as well as bringing something fun and unexpected into the mix.

I asked Prolyphic to film himself performing the track, gave him a loose brief in terms of the framing and lighting I was looking for and left the rest up to him.

Once that was shot, Pro sent the footage over to me here in London where I edited and added the motion graphics and animation.

For the beat I made use of 2 Korg monotrons, the standard model and the monotron delay. Most of the electronic sounds in the track are those two, riding the knobs and ribbons manually, sampling them and running through effects in Logic.