Shobaleader One - Iambic 5 Poetry

What this video is

Released April 5, 2017 via Warp Records to accompany the live album Elektrac, 'Iambic 5 Poetry' is Shobaleader One's jazz-fusion reinterpretation of a Squarepusher track originally released in 1999. Shobaleader One is a project centred on electronic artist Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), whose band members perform under aliases and deliberately conceal their identities — a conceptual stance that the video reinforces…

Why it matters

Represents a pivotal intersection of 1990s IDM heritage and 2010s live-electronic jazz-fusion revival. As a music video for a live-album track that itself covers a canonical Squarepusher recording, it functions as a meta-document of electronic music's self-referential archival impulse. The…

The director

Liam Karim Achaïbou and Ryan Vernava are the UK-based co-founders of film and arts collective Brain Wash, launched in 2009. Vernava trained at the National Film & Television School; Achaïbou is self-taught in film, photography, and tech with a background in…