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August 18, 2015 4:35 PM

Swedish prog-rock band Dungen has a wildly mesmerizing new video for a new track called "Franks Kaktus." Join us, if you will, in Cafe Franks Kaktus
posted by salishsea (14 comments total)

WAIT THERE'S NEW DUNGEN COMING????

I NEED A KLAXON FOR THIS
posted by selfnoise at 5:13 PM on August 18, 2015 [3 favorites]

a.k.a. "Dungen Discovers Beastie Boys Videos Circa 1989-94."
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 5:16 PM on August 18, 2015

Nice. Prog-rock sure has changed since the days of Genesis, eh? </old>
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 5:17 PM on August 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

I like it, I'm getting a very "Score to Dirty Harry or possibly Magnum Force" vibe.
posted by Room 641-A at 5:22 PM on August 18, 2015 [3 favorites]

I got Bullitt, but yeah.
posted by notyou at 5:28 PM on August 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

Thank you! Dungen is fantastic.
posted by Xavier Xavier at 5:42 PM on August 18, 2015

Fun fact: Dungen is/was basically a one-man multi-instrumentalist show fronted by a Swede who, as a teen, started out in hip-hop. You can't make this stuff up. Great psych rock stuff (the prog label can get a little weird, but yes: prog too).
posted by Xavier Xavier at 5:46 PM on August 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

Guitar player Reine Fisk is well worth looking into.

For instance ...
posted by philip-random at 6:12 PM on August 18, 2015 [2 favorites]

That was hilarious. Nice groove.
posted by Thella at 6:23 PM on August 18, 2015 [1 favorite]

huh...I'll just show myself out...



leaves whistling
posted by a humble nudibranch at 8:13 PM on August 18, 2015

So when is the song supposed to start?
posted by monospace at 8:30 PM on August 18, 2015

This is some kind of inverse of those StSanders Santana Shreds videos.
posted by bigschmoove at 9:34 PM on August 18, 2015

I kind of like the song, but the whole "let's make our music video retro-shitty on purpose" hipster thing has gotten so old, it might actually be due for a whole new wave of retro nostalgia in just a few years (but then it'll probably have RealMedia streaming artifacts and 'BUFFERING' messages in the middle). Seriously, it's the laziest "funny" and "ironic" bullshit shtick imaginable at this point.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 11:45 PM on August 18, 2015

I like it, I'm getting a very "Score to Dirty Harry or possibly Magnum Force" vibe.
posted by Room 641-A at 1:22 AM on August 19 [3 favorites +] [!]

I got Bullitt, but yeah.
posted by notyou at 1:28 AM on August 19 [1 favorite +] [!]

Both Bullitt and Dirty Harry were scored by Lalo Schifrin, so that makes sense.
posted by Acey at 10:39 AM on August 19, 2015 [2 favorites]