Barker & Baumecker - 'Spur' (Clark Remix)

What this video is

Released in September 2013 as part of Clark's 'Feast / Beast' remix anthology on Warp Records, this video sits at the intersection of two significant cultural currents: the Berlin-rooted Ostgut Ton techno underground (home label of Barker & Baumecker) and the Warp Records tradition of commissioning avant-garde visual artists for electronic music promotion. Cyriak's involvement bridges the UK web-surrealism art…

Why it matters

Represents a key artefact of 2010s experimental electronic music visual culture, demonstrating how Warp Records and Ostgut Ton-adjacent artists leveraged surrealist internet animation — rather than performance or narrative — as the dominant visual language for non-club electronica. Cyriak's work…

The director

Cyriak Harris (born 19 September 1974) is an English freelance animator, artist, and composer from Brighton, known mononymously as Cyriak. He is internationally recognised for surreal, recursive web animations employing the Droste effect, built primarily in…