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Welcome to FACT’s newest feature: the weekly video round-up.

As we note at the end of every year, music videos have never been better. But too often, music videos — along with documentaries, live sets and interview clips — get lost in the shuffle of news and new music.

With that in mind, FACT is doing what it does for mixes, mixtapes, vinyl and more: rounding up the internet’s best videos on a weekly basis. And to remove our bias, we won’t be including our own content — you’ll have to stay tuned to FACT TV for all your Against The Clock, FACT Freestyle and Big Narstie needs.

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Blanck Mass
‘Dead Format’
Dir: Konx-om-Pax

Scottish artist Tom “Konx-om-Pax” Scholfield is no stranger to FACT, having worked extensively with LuckyMe, Hyperdub and Brainfeeder. In the video for Benjamin Power’s powerhouse Blanck Mass single ‘Dead Format’, Scholfield explores the same organic and synthetic intersection that Power explores throughout Dumb Flesh. The video features mechanical organs, burning flora and “dumb flesh,” and the animated sequence plays like a trepanning session.

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Bok Bok & Sweyn Jupiter
‘Papaya Lipgloss’
Dir: Nic Hamilton

Bok Bok leaves the studio of ‘Melba’s Call’ and enters a new digital space for ‘Papaya Lipgloss’, his latest collaboration with Nic Hamilton. It’s a world of servers and switchblades, with digitally-perfect gear, papayas and cans of liquid mutagen straight out of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

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Junglepussy
‘Me’
Dir: Suspects NYC

Junglepussy goes old school on the video for ‘Me’, a standout on last year’s excellent Satisfaction Guaranteed. The New York rapper-to-watch explores purity of mind, body and soul as she cuts together a range of images and experiences: fall in the park, mystic silhouettes, urban police encounters, Miss Cleo and more. She name-drops “Brandy, Foxy, Kim, and Missy, Patra, and Erykah,” and there are plenty of self-aware nods to hip-hop and R&B video tropes past.

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Scuba
‘All I Think About Is Death’
Dir: Sam Geer

Scuba goes high-concept in the video for ‘All I Think About Is Death’, portraying a female protagonist who is a prisoner of an otherworldly asylum. Neon injections reveal kaleidoscopic chemical reactions and digital dreams. Does the doctor with a handgun show our hero the way home? To be continued…

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Kendrick Lamar
‘King Kunta’
Dir: Director X

Kendrick Lamar offers his version of a classic Compton rap video, albeit one with the same tone as To Pimp A Butterfly. Whether driving a Cadillac or sitting in a throne, hanging at a swap meet or the corner store, riding with low-riders or motorcycles, Kendrick does Kendrick in a (Vine-ready) frame that suggests some of the angry claustrophobia present in his deceptively political funk jam.

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Sia
‘Big Girls Cry’
Dir: Sia & Daniel Askill

Sia completes the trilogy of videos that includes ‘Chandelier’ and ‘Elastic Heart’ with her starkest, simplest offering yet. Dancer Maddie Ziegler returns as Sia’s preteen doppelganger, limited her movement to whatever she can do with an elastic face and cat-like mime. As with ‘Electric Heart’, mini-Sia battles unknown forces — both internal and external — with Shia LaBeouf replaced with a pair of disembodied hands.

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GoldLink
‘Sober Thoughts’
Dir: Shomi Patwary

GoldLink’s Kaytranada-produced single receives a similarly throwback video treatment, bringing his bad relationship jam to life. The video follows a few video vixens through one versatile setting as fights and playtime turn to house parties and dice games before revealing a gallery of twisted clowns and red-light after-parties.

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Beneath
’50/50′
Dir: Eugene Ward

Beneath’s latest bit of vicious techno comes to life in a video directed by the multi-talented Eugene Ward (aka Dro Carey, Tuff Sherm). The clip bathes timestamped found footage, neon chaos seemingly at the cellular level and blasts of eight-bit color in acid, with transitions popularized in the ’80s and ’90s.

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Squarepusher
‘Rayc Fire 2’
Dir: Jim Demuth

Tom “Squarepusher” Jenkinson completed each track on his forthcoming Damogen Furies LP in a single take; the video for ‘Rayc Fire 2’ is a live session that captures the man-versus-machine process. Visuals by Black Box Echo and Jenkinson himself are projected everywhere, and the video is edited with the same controlled-chaos of his tracks.

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Morten_HD
‘False Doors’

Norwegian club producer Morten_HD teams with Levels Are Very High, giving Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal masterpiece The Holy Mountain a “club edit” and turning the high priests, all seeing eyes and tarot imagery into a hypnotic collage.

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