Warp Records, purveyor of fine electronic records since 1989, produce their first-ever DVD collection, featuring the best Warp videos stretching back 15 years. The disc includes directorial work from Chris Cunningham, Alex Rutterford and David Slade, alongside directors such as Lynn Fox, Pleix, Ed Holdsworth and Laurent Briet.

In an age when videos have become a better marketing tool than the music itself, it’s refreshing to watch a DVD where the music still ultimately reigns supreme. As you would expect, some of the early video’s have a very cut and paste approach and are a bit repetitive, mainly due to budget constraints, but the best videos on show are simply classics. The two video’s that the majority of people buying this collective will be after are the Aphex Twin shorts for Come To Daddy and Windowlicker, both available here as Director's Cuts. Come To Daddy is perhaps the most stunningly adventurous music video since Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The urban calm of an old lady taking her dog for a walk in a run down housing estate is shattered by the site of a dozen miniature unisex Richard D.James terrifying the neighbours. The video then gets difficult to describe, but suffice to say an alien type man-monster then escapes from a TV set, Poltergeist-style, opens its huge jaws and hairdryer’s the poor granny. Then we have the site of James' wasted skeletal body tending to his unisex flock like the devil incarnate. Chris Cunningham’s video is beautifully directed and perfectly molded to what is quite simply a brilliant track; it’s almost worth purchasing the DVD for this alone.

However, there are many other treats to be found. Squarepusher’s Come On My Selector is another Cunningham classic, an off the wall drum’n’bass track set in Japan, where a little Asian girl beats up a hospital porter, and wires his brain up to her pet dog’s. It’s a very humourous short and, again, the genius resides on both sides of the fence to produce great results. Aphex Twin’s Windowlicker soon follows, and Cunningham is back to his old trick of implanting Richard D.James face onto, on this occasion, a variety of prostitutes. James then has sex, with himself, in the back of a stretch limo before grooving out the rest of this techno-inspired track with his Aphexwomen dance troupe. It’s so well done that it’s impossible to tell whether the face masks are digital or prosthetic, but the real art is in how Cunningham edits the video to blend in with James’ unique style of complex computer programming.

Other visual feasts on the DVD include the computer art of Alex Rutterford’s video for the Autechre track, Gantz Graf (Chris Cunnigham also directs the duo’s Second Bad Vilbel on this disc), and Lynn Fox' video for Chris Clark’s Gob Coitus, featuring a man being harrassed in a parking lot by a repulsive giant hornet. It’s enough to put you off your dinner. Mainstream Techno outift LFO feature three times on the DVD, with their classic 1991 hit LFO, 1994’s Tied Up and last year’s Freak (Director’s Cut). This latter video is another beaut, Daniel Levi directs a bunch of ultra-cool schoolgirls into some sexy playground moves set to this cyber-techno track. Luke Vibert’s addictive I Love Acid also has a nice cartoon-style video adapted to its languid dancefloor chic.

Elsewhere on the disc you will find other videos for Warp names that are sure to interest you, including Sabres Of Paradise, Jimi Tenor, Broadcast, Plaid, Mira Calix and Nightmares On Wax amongst others. The DVD also arrives with a bonus audio CD featuring a one-hour super-evolved warpmix, edited and sequenced by Buddy Peace & 'ZILLA'. Thanks mainly to Chris Cunningham’s contributions, the man’s a genius, this DVD collective has few competitors. A must for all Warp aficionado’s.