Video directors can create twisted pictures from the blandest of pop tunes, so if the music comes from the Warp label, you know you're in for a pretty fucked up ride. Aphex Twin doesn't sound like he's dreaming of idyllic situations in Come to Daddy, what with the screams of "I want your soul ", but who could have dreamed up a group of children, all with Aphex's bearded face, welcoming a slimy Nosferatu-type creature who climbs out of a TV set to shout your grandma's head off?
It could only be Chris Cunningham. His videos for Aphex and Squarepusher (including the full-length cut of Windowlicker, and the amazingly synchronised Come on My Selector) are perhaps the most infamous in this collection, but going down the ages of Warp, there are plenty of other takes, including videos by Jarvis Cocker (for Nightmares on Wax), Alex Rutterford (Autechre), Ed Holdsworth (Prefuse 73), Lynn Fox (Chris Clark)and many others in this 32-track collection. It comes with a bonus CD mix of Warp tracks by Buddy Peace and Zilla.
A touch of darkness, when all around is light.
ARTIST / SONG / DIRECTOR / YEAR -
Sweet Exorcist "Testone" Martin Wallace & Jarvis Cocker/1990
LFO "LFO" 1991
Nightmares on Wax "Aftermath" Jarvis Cocker/1991
Aphex Twin "On" Jarvis Cocker/1993
"I Smell Quality" David Slade/1994
LFO "Tied Up" David Slade/1994
Sabres of Paradise "Wilmot" Douglas Hart/1994
Seefeel "Fracture" Seefeel/1994
Aphex Twin "Donkey Rhubarb" David Slade/1995
Autechre "Second Bad Vilbel" Chris Cunningham/1995
Aphex Twin "Come To Daddy (Directors Cut)" Chris Cunningham/1997
Squarepusher "Come on My Selector" Chris Cunningham/1997
Jimi Tenor Midsummers Night Jimi Tenor and Sökö Kaukoranta/1998
Aphex Twin Windowlicker (Directors cut) Chris Cunningham/1999
Jimi Tenor Total Devastation Jimi tenor and Sökö Kaukoranta/1999
Broadcast "Papercuts" Barback/2000
Jamie Lidell "Daddys Car" Frederic D/2000
John Callaghan "I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind"
John Callaghan / 2000
Anti-Pop Consortium "Perpendicular / Vector"
by Caliber 16 / 2001
Plaid "Eyen" Jean Luc Chansay/2001
Anti-Pop Consortium "Ghostlawns" Carlos Arias/2002
Autechre "Gantz_Graf" Alex Rutterford/2002
Aphex Twin "Nannou" Laurent Briet/2003
Chris Clark "Gob Coitus" Lynn Fox/2003
LFO "Freak (Directors Cut)" Daniel Levi/2003
Luke Vibert "I Love Acid" Delicious 9/2003
Mira Calix "Little Numba" (CR Vid) Daniele Lunghini/2003
Plaid "Itsu" (CR Vid) Pleix/2003
Prefuse 73 "Half Of What" (CR vid) Ed Holdsworth/2003
"Opto-Scientific" (Shown at Fondation Vasarely) tDR/2003
Beans "Mutescreamer" Adam Levite/2004
Jamie Lidell "The City" Frederic D/2004
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