Hudson Mohawke - Joy Fantastic (feat. Olivier Daysoul)

What this video is

Released as a music video in early 2010 to accompany the track from Hudson Mohawke's debut album Butter (Warp Records, October 2009), the video sits at the intersection of Glasgow's LuckyMe collective and Warp's broader experimental electronic visual culture. Hudson Mohawke (Ross Birchard) was a founding member of LuckyMe and a leading figure in the late-2000s 'wonky' scene. The track features vocalist Olivier…

Why it matters

A key visual document of the UK wonky/post-IDM moment, 'Joy Fantastic' captures the synthetic funk strand of Hudson Mohawke's Butter era — a period AllMusic described as combining 'icebox IDM crunch, DayGlo synthesizer funk and late-80s/early-90s R&B flourishes.' The Konx-Om-Pax-directed video…

The director

Tom Scholefield, operating as Konx-Om-Pax, is a Glasgow-based animator, director, illustrator, and electronic music composer. He began directing in 2006 and taught himself 3D animation through the Cinema 4D software. He has directed videos for Hudson…