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Henry's Cat enjoys a collection of videos set to the music of Warp Records.. Warp Records is arguably the most respected electronica label on the planet. Their artists, such as Aphex Twin, Autechre, Plaid and, more recently, actor/filmmaker Vincent Gallo, are renowned for their challenging music, as well as being at the bleeding edge of modern audio exploration. It is little wonder that music this interesting has lead to the creation of some of the most bizarre promo's out there. Reel Warp presents a collection of new films, made in conjunction with Creative Review, set to the music of Warp artists. There are five different tunes, each having two videos. There is also a selection of the older Warp video creations, including the award winning Come To Daddy and Windowlicker films, directed by Chris Cunningham. The recent promos are interesting, part of the new breed of music videos, where the visualization is entirely dictated by the sound rather than the music, bass pulses that make the image hop, analogue crunches that blur the picture, break beats that cut the scene, very much inspired by the work of Cunningham. The most impressive of the new batch is probably Lynn Fox's piece to accompany the Chris Clark track Gob Coit, a swarm of digital bees surrounding a dancer who is pulverized by the music, twitching and snapping at every glitch of the tune. The other video for Gob Coit, directed by Richard Fenwick, is a flyover of various landscapes that heave and shift in reaction to subsonic tones. The videos for Plaid's Itsu, one detailing the operations of Pork Corp (Dir. Pleix Collective) and the other home laser pistol assembly (Dir. Geoff McFetridge), are particular fun, somewhat contrasted against Brothomstates's 25101999 that has a more serious tone, which passes through into the videos where Ariane Geil's presentation depicts ribbons of light fluctuating, entrancingly, while Nano's is a harsh digital noise breakdown of landscape. For the Mira Calix tune, Little Numba, the visuals are radically different; Sam Tootal's vision is centered upon text and the fractional breakdown of stills, whereas Daniele Lunghini presents a more traditional animation. Of the other releases, the excellent video for Autechre's Ganz Graf, directed by Alexander Rutherford and the Chris Cunningham shorts, which are still excellent, help to make this essential viewing for anyone who is interested in either electronic music or the future of music video. |
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