Stephen Mallinder - ＂Satellite＂

What this video is

Released in October 2019 as part of Um Dada — Stephen Mallinder's first solo album in over 35 years — 'Satellite' arrives at a moment of renewed critical interest in the industrial-electronic lineage Mallinder helped found with Cabaret Voltaire in 1973. The video, a 2D motion graphics and collage work by Bristol-based designer Joe Shearsby, foregrounds the Dadaist visual logic embedded in the album's title and…

Why it matters

Occupies a precise and rare intersection of post-industrial UK electro, leftfield house, and Dada-informed avant-garde practice. Sits, as The Quietus observed, 'too abrasive and knowing for the lo-fi tech-house crowd, but too funky and colourful for the grimdark industrial warehouse techno scene'…

The director

Bristol-based 2D motion designer, graphic designer and illustrator specialising in collage and mixed media. His practice spans music video, live visuals, title design and typography, with work commissioned by Dais Records and Denovali Records. Collaborator…