Future Brown - Room 302 ft. Tink

What this video is

Released February 2015 via Warp Records, 'Room 302' emerges at the intersection of several underground currents: the global bass movement pioneered by Future Brown's multinational membership (Fatima Al-Qadiri, J-Cush, Nguzunguzu), Chicago's ascendant drill and R&B scene embodied by Tink, and the Dazed Media art-fashion ecosystem. The video's commission for a Royal Academy of Arts exhibition positions it within a…

Why it matters

A landmark artefact of the 2014–2015 global bass and experimental R&B crossover moment. Future Brown's synthesis of grime, footwork, kuduro, and R&B — here rendered as woozy sci-fi minimalism — represents a key node in post-internet music's dismantling of genre geography. The gallery-commission…

The director

Nic Hamilton is an Australian video artist and director based in the moving image space, credited with 12 music video directing credits on IMVDb. He was designated a 'Dazed Visionary' and worked with Dazed Media's in-house video team. His portfolio is…