Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse

What this video is

Released August 7, 2018, T69 Collapse marked Aphex Twin's first new visual output since 2014's Syro era, arriving via a weeks-long global ARG-style guerrilla poster campaign across London, Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo. The video crystallized a cultural moment in which AI-assisted tools and photogrammetric scanning entered the music video production vocabulary, with Weirdcore's use of Transfusion.AI and 3D…

Why it matters

T69 Collapse is a landmark IDM music video in that it fully subordinates narrative and performance conventions to algorithmic and data-driven visual logic — the video is not an illustration of the music but a parallel data-structure operating in sync with it. It represents the apex of the Warp…

The director

Weirdcore is a London-based, anonymous video designer and visual artist known for long-term collaboration with Aphex Twin and work with Tame Impala, Gwen Stefani, Adidas, and Radiohead. Active in music video direction since at least 2010, Weirdcore is known…