Squarepusher - 'Dark Steering' taken from 'Ufabulum'

What this video is

Released in April 2012 as the lead single from Squarepusher's tenth album Ufabulum (Warp Records), 'Dark Steering' arrived at a moment when electronic music's relationship with live visual spectacle was being radically renegotiated. Jenkinson's rejection of live instrumentation in favour of purely programmed music — and his concurrent development of a custom video-synthesiser generating real-time audio-reactive…

Why it matters

A landmark artefact of post-IDM audiovisual practice: 'Dark Steering' demonstrates the maturation of Squarepusher's drill'n'bass and acid-techno lineage into a fully integrated audio-visual compositional system. The video is significant as a rare example of a music video whose imagery is entirely…

The director

Rollo Jackson is a British director, photographer, and filmmaker based in London. A self-taught filmmaker, he rose through UK dance music culture to direct music videos and films for artists including James Blake, Hot Chip, Jamie xx, and Warp Records acts.…