Warp

Clocks getting smashed apart by stylish people. That’s how Warp opens—The Bloody Beetroots and Steve Aoki teaming up on something that actually has an image, which for electronic music is already unusual.

I know that’s a harsh thing to say about the whole genre. Most of it’s just calculated nothing, expensive ambience, the sound equivalent of watching someone operate machinery without thinking. But Aoki has something different. There’s an actual intention behind what he’s doing, a sense that he sat down and made decisions instead of just dragging sliders and hoping something sticks. So when this showed up, I paid attention.

The video is where it matters. These are genuinely stylish people—not just attractive, actually styled with intention—destroying watches, jumping around, doing things that feel almost transgressive for a music video. There’s an energy to it like everyone’s been asleep and finally waking up angry. Playful and violent at the same time.

The track itself is solid. Driving synths, that propulsive thing Aoki does well. But it’s the video that makes this work. That’s the thing that stays with you.