Armadillo Scooter Wear

Gauntlet � The extended cut
(DarkFibre vs High Frequency Bandwidth)

The plot�
‘A mysterious hero on a scooter drives through a distopian concrete landscape inhabited by quarrelling lovers, out of work party clowns, defiant old hags and red haired twins, only to be subjected to seemingly random acts of wanton destruction.

Who is placing glass, fire and concrete walls in front of the scooter and enticing him to his doom? Who knows…. but Armadillo Scooterwear emerges triumphant…. because that�s what it�s made to do! It even protects from the malevolence of custard pies.

Production
Gauntlet is a creative head to head brought together by Armadillo Scooterwear and hatched in the concrete jungles of London. Building on Armadillo�s extraordinary viral Tough Enough, this strange mini film/ music promo is a collaboration between award winning London directing duo DarkFibre, High Frequency Bandwidth (Dom Beken and Alex Paterson from The Orb) and LA supremo editor Nick Lofting, with advertising agency Haam and Kaas, shot by the seminal Michael Bonvillian (Cloverfield, Zombieland, Lost)

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�We always wanted to release the extended version, we love the beautifully shot epic nature of the cut�

DarkFibre

Renowned for their transgressive and often unsettling work, DarkFibre lurch between projects involving transsexual hookers, lunatics, spacemen, commercials, music and film. Finding inspiration in the gutter, fringes and backwaters of our planet, DarkFibre create beauty that is transcendental, seductive, confrontational� tapping into the collective psyche. Shortlisted for the Oscars, awards for architecture, dabbling in performance art and media agitation, DarkFibre go where the inspiration leads.

www.darkfibrefilms.co.uk

High Frequency Bandwidth

�a technical term regarding aural expansion developments called High Frequency Bandwidth.

These initials are important. �All our song titles fit the letters H. F. B.,� says Dr Alex Paterson, who has embarked on the new High Frequency Bandwidth project with Dom Beken. The two men are about to make some Huge F***ing Broohaha with their mission to inject some original hiphop innovation, sonic anarchy and earth-level raunch into the electronic foragings they�ve become known for with, for starters, The Orb, Transit Kings and Belka and Strelka.

HFB�s Debut releases EPs#1-3 and an album are due for release from Feb 2010.