Trevor Jackson directed the excellent homage.

Diagonal Records boss Powell has teamed with XL for ‘Sylvester Stallone’ / ‘Smut’, his latest blast of gritty, industrial electronics.

The video for ‘Sylvester Stallone’ — directed by underground polymath Trevor Jackson — pays tribute to two film classics, David Cronenberg’s Scanners and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, as a Powell-soundtracked Ludovico session causes… well, we won’t spoil that bit.

“Method acting — it’s in my blood,” tweets Powell. Watch the video below.