Welcome to FACT’s 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 Freestyles and Confessions needs.
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Battles
‘Dot Net’
Dir: Ben Jones
Battles team with Ben Jones for this sensory-overloading video that shows an imagined vision of art galleries, play spaces and smart phones, sharing “an idealised vision of the interaction between man and technology” that is slyly dystopic.
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Vaghe Stelle
‘The Last H.O.P.E.’
Dir: Alan Sondheim
Italian electronic producer Vaghe Stelle teamed with contemporary artist / cyberspace theorist Alan Sondheim for ‘The Last H.O.P.E.’, generating a glitched-out, apocalyptic virtual world in this disorienting video.
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The Internet
‘Get Away’
Dir: Calmatic
Odd Future neo-soul revivalists The Internet mix rooftop performances with Hennessy-soaked party footage and a narrative that finds Syd tha Kyd chasing love.
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Patrick Cowley
‘Deep Inside You’
Dir: Josh Cheon
Patrick Cowley’s soundtrack for 1980 gay porn film Muscle Up has been given the reissue treatment by Dark Entries, and while the filmmaker originally used a variable speed oscillator to change the pitch and speed of Crowley’s music, Dark Entries has recut PG-13 clips of the film to fit the original compositions.
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Sevdaliza
‘The Valley’
Dir: Zahra Reijs
While lacking the narrative of ‘Backseat Love’ or the worldcraft of ‘That Other Girl’, Sevdaliza proves she can do a lot with a costume change and a facial expression with the video for the EBM-leaning ‘The Valley’.
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Chance the Rapper
‘Family Matters’
Dir: Jake Linden and Austin Vesely
Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment rework Kanye West’s ‘Family Business’, cutting together concert, behind-the-scenes and home video footage.
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A State of Mind feat. MF DOOM
‘Masking’
Dir: Monkey Eggs
Who else could hip-hop traditionalists ASM recruit for ‘Masking’ other than MF Doom? Doom features as King Dumile as Monkey Eggs turns the song into an anime-inspired epic.
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Triad God
‘Gwan Ye Gong’
Dir: Jim Alexander
The reclusive Hippos In Tanks eccentric returns with the Palmistry-produced ‘Gwan Ye Gong’, burning hell money in a short-but-striking look at this Chinese ritual.
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Dan Friel
‘Rattler’
Dir: Philip Leaman and Zoie Omega
Want to watch a bunch of kids party to noise pop in slow motion? Dan Friel and collaborators Philip Leaman and Zoie Omega have you covered with one of the year’s cutest, glitteriest videos.
