To celebrate 15 years in business, renowned beeps’n’bleeps label Warp Records have compiled over thirty of their finest music videos onto one DVD. The collection includes most of their classic releases, from the acid house of LFO to Anti-Pop Consortium’s unique hip-hop electronica. The videos can be watched individually by artist or in chronological order, though the latter annoyingly doesn’t feature on-screen track credits, and as an extra there’s a gallery of the best album covers.

Inside MTV Warped you’ll find directorial contributions from Jarvis Cocker on Nightmares on Wax’s ‘Aftermath’ and the surreal junkyard explosion of Aphex Twin’s ‘On’, David Slade’s amusingly literal mind-blowing ad for Warp, and numerous videos heavily influenced by Japanese horror films. One of the best is Chris Cunningham’s deranged promo for Squarepusher’s ‘Come On My Selector’, and along with his collaborations with Aphex Twin, Cunningham perverse imagination provides the most outstanding moments. ‘Come to Daddy’ is not a superb music video, it’s also one of the most effective pieces of horror ever made, and you also get the full 10 minute director’s cut of the hilarious ‘Windowlicker’.

Most of the other videos share an appropriately twisted character, though few ever match the standard set by Cunningham. Nevertheless this is an essential purchase for the true Warp-ed minds out there. And for the casual fan this is as good a way as any to collect some of the most innovative and inventive music of the past 15 years.

8/10

(Warp Records)

words: Colm Larkin