"Actor: Aphex Twin"

• The Work Of Director Chris Cunningham | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £21.32   |  Saving you £-3.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Work of Director Chris Cunningham, like the other volumes in the acclaimed Director's Series (Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry) offers a feast of visual ingenuity, with one major difference: unlike the relatively playful brightness of Jonze and Gondry, Cunningham wants to involve you in his nightmares. From the urban monstrosities of Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" to the limb-shattering weirdness of Leftfield's "Afrika Shox", Cunningham's music videos emphasise the freakish and the bizarre, but they are also arrestingly beautiful and otherworldly, as in the aquatic effects used for Portishead's "Only You", combining underwater movements with ominous urban landscapes. Some of Cunningham's shock effects are horrifically effective (his 'flex" video installation, excerpted here with music by Aphex Twin, is as disturbing as anything conjured by David Cronenberg), while others are cathartic or, in the case of Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker", outrageously amusing. And while the eerie elegance of Madonna's "Frozen" arose from a chaotic production, the signature work in this collection is clearly Björk's "All Is Full of Love", a masterfully simple yet breathtaking vision of intimacy involving advanced robotics and seamless CGI composites. In these and other videos, Cunningham advances a unique aesthetic, infusing each video and commercial he makes with a dark, occasionally gothic sensibility. That these frequently nightmarish visions are also infectiously hypnotic is a tribute to Cunningham's striking originality. --Jeff Shannon

• Various Artists - Warp Vision: the Videos 1989 - 2004 | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-2.24 (-12.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Warp Records release their first ever DVD collection featuring the best of all the Warp video clips since the staunchly independent label's inception in 1989. Tracks include: 01. Sweet Exorcist - Testone 02. LFO - LFO 03. Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath 04. Aphex Twin - On 05. I Smell Quality 06. LFO - Tied Up 07. Sabres of Paradise - Wilmot 08. Seefeel - Fracture 09. Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb 10. Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel 11. Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy 12. Squarepusher - Come On My Selector 13. Jimi Tenor - Midsummers Night 14. Aphex Twin - Windowlicker 15. Jimi Tenor - Total Devastation 16. Broadcast - Papercuts 17. Jamie Lidell - Daddy's Car 18. John Callaghan - I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind 19. Antipop Consortium - Perpendicular / Vector 20. Plaid - Eyen 21. Antipop Consortium - Ghostlawns 22. Autechre - Gantz Graf 23. Aphex Twin - Nannou 24. Chris Clark - Gob Coitus 25. LFO - Freak 26. Luke Vibert - I Love Acid 27. Mira Calix - Little Numba 28. Plaid - Itsu 29. Prefuse 73 - Half Of What 30. Opto - Scientific 31. Beans - Mutescreamer 32. Jamie Lidell - The City

• Onedotzero - Select DVD 3 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Following on from the sell out success of onedotzero_select DVDs 1 and 2 onedotzero's third compilation features further fresh moving image across music videos motion graphics short films and the latest Japanese moving image work confirming onedotzero as the leading outlet for pioneering visual styles. Onedotzero_select dvd 3 features twenty creative works from directors at the forefront of the new wave of moving image. Leading graphic talents include Precursor Richard Fenwick Intro Pleix and Psyop with rising stars Ruben Fleischer Simon Robson and Dan Chambers to create a vibrant and essential mix of creative visions and styles. Continuing onedotzero's strong affiliation with pioneering music styles and independent labels music featured includes Aphex Twin (Warp) Mogwai (PIAS) alongside this year's hotly tipped artists Madvillain (Stones Throw) and DJ Format and 2004's major breakthrough act Franz Ferdinand. Tracklisting: Intro / Baghdad Blog - Aphex Twin [UK][Warp] / Dan Chambers - Tube Mice [UK] / Timo Schaedel - Fake [Germany] / Precursor - Quietus [UK] / Simon Robson - What Barry Says [UK] / Richard Fenwick - Rnd # 00 Safety Procedures [UK] / Pleix - E-Baby [France] / Psyop - Anthem [USA] / Jonas Odell - Take Me Out: Franz Ferdinand [UK] / Plates Animation - Hunted By A Freak: Mogwai [Canada][Pias] / James Reitano [Tfu Studios] All Caps: Madvillain [USA][Stones Throw] / Tokyo Plastic + The Sancho Plan - Drum Machine [UK] / Ruben Fleischer - We Know Something You Don't Know: DJ Format [USA][Pias] / Woof Wan Bau - Wanna Be That Way: Ikara Colt [UK] / Logan - Murmurs Of Earth : Side B [USA] / Nakd - Fly [Brazil] / Designers Republic - Opto-Scientific [UK] / Rex Crowle - Violence [UK] / Lester Woog + Cruz - Fat Bros [Japan]