Casiokids - Finn bikkjen!

What this video is

Released in 2010–2011 during the international breakthrough phase of the Bergen, Norway indie scene, 'Finn Bikkjen!' represents a key artifact of Scandinavian electro-pop entering global blog-era consciousness. Casiokids were among the first Norwegian-language pop acts released in the United States (via Polyvinyl Records), and the video's commission of an English director to interpret Norwegian lyrical content…

Why it matters

A flagship visual document of Nordic indietronica and the so-called 'Skweee' Scandinavian electro movement, the video pairs the band's 8-bit electro-funk and afrobeat-inflected synthpop with an English director's surrealist storybook imagery — demonstrating how cross-cultural creative exchange…

The director

Greg Taylor is an English music video director active in the late 2000s–early 2010s indie and art-pop space. Credited by Casiokids' singer Ketil Kinden Endresen as the sole creative force behind 'Finn Bikkjen!', with the band providing only thematic lyric…