We’ve been doing our best to help spread the word about ZZK‘s tour of North America and the label’s fundraising endeavors over the past few months, so we’re happy to see it’s all coming to fruition. Through their efforts on KickStarter, label co-founder El G and his band of merry, South American musicmakers have garnered enough funding to start production on ZZK TV. This first episode was filmed throughout New York City while on tour, and features plenty of live performance footage and interviews from ZZK artists Chancha Vía Circuito, El Remolón, and Tremor, along with a load of obligatory randomness. If the quality of material keeps up with each installment, we can’t wait to see what Episode Two brings.

When describing the ’80s-obsessed, electro-funk of NY duo Chromeo, rarely—if ever—does the word “creepy” come to mind, but that’s exactly what the video for the outfit’s new song is. “Don’t Turn the Lights On” is on the soft-spoken side of Dave1’s and P-Thugg’s retro-futuristic R&B sound, and is lifted of their forthcoming third album, Business Casual. While the bespectacled frontman politely croons the song’s chorus and his bearded cohort quietly jams out on some keys, the lights flick from on to off, leaving the band’s glowing eyes and vibrant grins floating in air. The disembodying effect is applied to a wide cast of characters who each get a chance to do some weird shit with their illuminated organs, like so many Cheshire Cats. As “Lights” progresses, things continue to grow stranger and more funny within the video. We always knew Chromeo had a sense of humor, but some of this stuff is totally absurd, which is great.

For those of us still reeling from our first viewing of Inception, the word “totem” can only mean one thing. We won’t reiterate that here, so as to avoid a spoiler possibility, but now it’s time that we make room in our minds for totem to mean something else entirely. In the weeks leading up to the release of Matthew Dear‘s new full-length album, Black City, the consistently innovative Ghostly label has teamed with NY-based design team Boym Partners to produce what they are calling “a proposal, an entreaty to listeners everywhere to reconsider our relationship to music in the digital era.” The object, which you can see in the video above, was made to represent the themes of Dear’s forthcoming opus, reference an element of his conceptual city’s skyline, and serve as an actual conduit for the music itself. In addition to granting its owner access to the album and exclusive portions of MatthewDear.com, the totem will also reveal a track not available on the standard release. You can snag your own hand-crafted, limited-edition piece for $125 at the Ghostly store when they go on sale Tuesday, August 3.

Sheffield bass prodigy Toddla T has a new video for his song “Sky Surfing,” a track voiced by Jamaican dancehall MC Wayne Marshall. True to form, the tune is pretty manic, as is the Douster remix we recently offered for download, but the video might be even crazier. Featuring Toddla T dressed up in Superman, or perhaps SuperToddla, attire, the clip features cross-dressing grannies, bug-eyed criminals, and a lot of the young beatmaker mugging for the camera in saggy underpants and flexing his wispy arms. SuperToddla also appears to have a major problem with people who let their dogs shit on the street on don’t pick it up. Bring a plastic baggie or beware of his wrath!