Ultraflex ✦ Work Out Tonight - Ultraflex ✦ Work Out Tonight

What this video is

Released August 17, 2020, during the global COVID-19 pandemic, 'Work Out Tonight' emerged when home-shot music video production had become a cultural norm of necessity. The clip's deliberate low-budget domestic aesthetic aligns with a broader 2020 trend of intimate DIY visual production while also functioning as an intentional artistic choice consistent with Ultraflex's self-described Soviet disco and 1980s…

Why it matters

Significant as a document of the late-2010s/early-2020s Soviet-disco and italo-boogie revival operating through the Berlin underground scene. Ultraflex's debut single cycle — of which this is the second track — helped codify an emerging micro-genre fusing analogue electronics, dancefloor boogie,…

The director

Kaya Wilkins (born August 14, 1990, New Jersey; raised Nesoddtangen, Norway) is a Norwegian-American musician, actress, composer, model, and visual artist operating as Okay Kaya. She debuted musically in 2015 with 'Damn, Gravity' and has released multiple…