Ecco2k Returns With “Aldehydes and Ketones,” a Self-Directed Film Shot Across 12 Countries

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Ecco2k took five years to put out a solo song, then turned up with a film that took six years to shoot. “Aldehydes and Ketones,” out Thursday (Oct. 22), is the Drain Gang member’s first solo release since 2021’s PXE EP, and he shot, directed, edited and stars in its video, which The FADER says was filmed across 12 countries. Watch it below.

The Swedish artist, real name Zak Arogundade, plays a protagonist called “Echo,” who The FADER says moves through half-built, almost ruinous places: gaping skies, industrial landscapes and what it calls the “manmade and natural sublimes.” The video’s YouTube credits list him as director, editor and director of photography, and its end card is dated 2021–2026. The instrumental is by Gud, the longtime friend and collaborator who produced the song, per The FADER.

Where he’s been

Dazed went location-hunting frame by frame. Hong Kong has the most footage, it says, from a view of the Bank of China building to the Dragon’s Back hiking trail, and his changing outfits and hair suggest he went at least twice. The plane lifting off over a beach is the plane-spotting beach next to Sydney Airport. A bus stop at sunset is in Tbilisi, Georgia. The satellite dish he lugs through a Moroccan town is a brand called Echolink, which Dazed says is specific to the country, and the misty wind farm is Stronelairg, near Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park.

Ecco2k founded Drain Gang with Bladee, Thaiboy Digital and producer Whitearmor, the Swedish crew that Dazed credits as pioneers of “the internet-native cloud rap movement in the 2010s.” His crewmates kept releasing albums while he went quiet after his cult 2019 debut, E. Dazed calls the new song “an immersive electronic track heavily implied to begin a new album campaign,” though no album has been announced. For more of the scene around him, see our look at the artists running the underground.

Update, Nov. 3

A second song has arrived. Apple Music now lists “Aldehydes and Ketones / Sky Burial,” a two-song single released through 9th. (Ninth) on Nov. 3, with the new “Sky Burial” running 3:28.

Aldehydes and Ketones / Sky BurialEcco2kListen on Apple Music

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