Mount Kimbie - You Took Your Time Feat. King Krule

What this video is

Released in July 2013 as a video single from Mount Kimbie's Warp Records debut album Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, this video arrives at a pivotal moment in UK electronic music's critical transition from underground club culture toward prestige label art-electronic production. The choice to film in Tilbury, Essex — a post-industrial estuary town on London's working-class periphery — situates the video squarely…

Why it matters

Landmark document of the post-dubstep / art-electronic convergence moment, demonstrating that UK bass-derived electronic music had fully absorbed cinematic and literary ambitions by 2013. The Warp Records context aligns the video with the label's decades-long investment in visually rigorous music…

The director

Swedish music video, commercial, and documentary director born in Bergsjön, a suburb north of Gothenburg. Graduated in film and direction from Gothenburg University in 2007, winning a Kodak Cinematography Award that year. His music videos have been nominated…