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Video: Gotham City Creepers - "Gotham City Creepers"

Trouble & Bass crew premieres a new Chicago house track by busting a gothic vogue move.

In the early days of Chicago house—you know, the Phuture and Marshall Jefferson era—the line was blurred between the goth/New Wave club, the gay club, and the proto-rave party. Seems like this is just the atmosphere the Trouble & Bass squad were looking to recreate for this video—directed by Ellen Frances and styled by Mari Kussman—with a gothic Gotham twist that is the Brooklyn crew's signature. Actually, it's fair to say that for these bass vampires, Halloween is every day.

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To a dark and pumping tune that is very reminiscent of Adonis' "No Way Back," Drop the Lime (seen here as his shadowy alter-ego Curses) and Star Eyes lead a crew of futuristic warriors—perhaps the Gotham City Creepers themselves?—in a creepy dance party complete with vinyl-clad Celso Satori and Jamil Rafael from the House of LaBeija, plenty of Zana Bayne-clad fashionable babes, and the girls from Creep looking for all the world like Sisters of Mercy. We're not really sure who the track is by, exactly (though it sounds like Star Eyes on the vocal), or when it will be out but the crew tells us "sometime in the dead of winter before Christ's Mass." Uh, you mean, December?