Blcokhead - The Music Scene

"Singing and dancing, man expresses his sense of belonging to a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and talk and is on the brink of flying and dancing, up and away into the air above. His gestures speak of his enchantment. Just as the animals now talk and the earth gives milk and honey, there now sounds out from within man some-thing supernatural: he feels himself to be a god, he himself now moves in such ecstasy and sublimity as once he saw the gods move in his dreams. Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: all nature's artistic power reveals itself here, amidst shivers of intoxication, to the highest, most blissful satisfaction of the primordial unity. Here man, the noblest clay, the most precious marble, is kneaded and carved and, to the accompaniment of the chisel-blows of the Dionysiac world-artist, the call of the Eleusinian Mysteries rings out: 'Fall ye to the ground, ye millions? Feelst thou thy Creator, world?" (Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy pp. 18)




I mostly associated Nietzsche's words with the animation to this song more so than the content of the song itself, but I certainly think that there's something sublime in the track and something dionysiac in the rhythm. The opening sample, the titular "music scene" seems ironic given the dreamy, upbeat quality of the song and so appears even more apt to me given Nietzsche's contrasting dualities of pessimism and optimism. It's music that has movement, but none that might be frantic. There's also a pretty direct reference to drugs that connects the music to intoxication of one form or another. In any case, I think the music in conjunction with the visuals captures the above quote pretty well.