Admit it, you have probably pressed your face (or other body parts) up to a photocopier to pass the time or mess with your co-workers on a particularly slow day in the office. This act of tomfoolery is turned into a work of art by director Daniel Brereton, who has previously conceived videos for other musicians like Django Django and Metronomy. His latest video, for up-and-coming London-based DJ and producer Daniel Avery, uses a distorted medley of scanned images, reappropriating the common object to create a video you can't watch just once.Brereton pieces together the warped faces of models pressed up to glass into a sinisterly beautiful stop-motion set to the cosmic, oscillating vibes from Avery's new track "Taste" off his debut EP Need Electric.Currently signed to Erol Alkan‘s Phantasy label, Alkan talks about the trio’s collaboration: "Both Daniels and I met up one afternoon and spoke about some of our favorite videos and any ideas that we had for a visual connection to “Taste.” Daniel B took it far further than we had ever imagined—we are absolutely delighted with what he’s come up with. He managed to capture a visual balance to what I personally feel the music holds, in the melody, a feeling of nature gone wrong, and that general essence of it still being outsider music."@embovoy
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Daniel Avery's Music Video For "Taste" Finds An Eerie Use For The Ordinary Scanner
Director Daniel Brereton and Daniel Avery collaborate on the UK DJ’s latest eyebrow-raising video.