Earlier this year, Nocando topped off one of El-P’s tracks from his 2010 instrumental release Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixxx3 with vocals, forming a West Coast/East Coast collaboration that begs for a full album of material.
We saw the video for the track from El-P in August, a strangely uplifting depiction of a young boy attempting to rise above the urban decay around him.
Nocando’s version – directed by Kyle Gray – turns our attention to the withered wasteland at the Salton Sea, a toxic graveyard that offers a West Coast counterpart to this dire vision of what feels like a real-world backdrop to The Road.
Check out a behind-the-scenes look at the video, shot and edited by Humberto Hidalgo: