Hurry on over to YouTube, where you can experience Scott Pagano’s visual wizardry in all it’s widescreen glory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sLRMAkc2aM

Remember him? He did half the videos on This Binary Universe and served up visuals for the live tour. I’ve met the guy. He kicks enormous amounts of ass. Apple Pro did a profile on him here.

No, this probably isn’t a mistaken jumping of the gun, so put your YouTube FLV rippers away. It’s posted under the official account of Black Hole Recordings, Tiesto’s label responsible for the release of Emotional Technology in the UK (under the Special Collector’s Edition). Blippy, bleepy goodness, albeit in sub-5 minute edited glory. Blame MTV for not playing 9 minute videos unless they’re claymations by Tool or baseball bats to cars by Michael Jackson. For many people this is their first experience hearing Rose of Jericho from a pure, stereo source, and it rewards accordingly. I personally dig the shit out of it, and would use it in my sets without a second thought. It slots in nicely with the Lost Language brand of progressive trance, home to Tilt, Leama, Andy Moor and Quivver’s Space Manoeuvres project.

Note: The release of this video makes a pretty solid case for the single itself appearing tomorrow, June 9 on schedule, as opposed to the listed June 23 date from the leaked tracklistings.

Buckle up folks, the slippery slope of frenzy has begun.

Update:

The YouTube entry specifies that the upcoming album will be released on Black Hole Recordings. I think it’s fair to assume at this point that Black Hole will be handling UK distribution of the album, while Nettwerk will provide the US edition. It’s probably also fair to assume the tracklistings will have slight variances, just as we’ve seen in the past with ESCM (here and here), Movement In Still Life (here and here), and Emotional Technology (here and here).

Further rumored is the appearance of Rose of Jericho on Beatport, sometime late tonight or tomorrow morning. No word on other avenues of distribution such as iTunes or Amazon MP3, but the price for Beatport releases typically lands at $2.49 per track, plus $1.00 for WAV handling.