Powell's Sylvester Stallone video gets a taste of A Clockwork Orange

Powell's Sylvester Stallone video gets a taste of A Clockwork Orange

March 15, 2015

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March 15, 2015

''There's definitely an imaginary club in my head, it's open 24 hours a day, and it never bloody stops,'' Oscar Powell was joking in May 2014, in an interview for The Quietus.

His attitude doesn't seem to have changed much, as his recent EP released in February 2015 on XL Recordings consist of two bloody renegaded electronic tracks that will definitely hammer one's sensitive sides. The video for ‘Sylvester Stallone' - directed by British multi-developed artist and excellent DJ Trevor Jackson - pays tribute to two cult films: David Cronenberg’s Scanners and Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.

Oscar Powell has been making electronic music since 2011, when he launched the London-based independent record label named Diagonal, a fine and cozy place for other projects such as Death Comet Crew (a band which features musicians Michael Diekmann, Shinichi Shimokawa and Stuart Argabright), Russell Haswell (a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Coventry, UK), Streetwalker (an electronic project consisting in Beau Wanzer and Elon Katz), Consumer Electronics, James A. Donadio's side project called Prostitutes and plenty of other projects.

"I don't think there's a better feeling in the world than DJing when things are vaguely going to plan, you know what I mean?" Powell says in the same interview for The Quietus. "That feeling when you get into a place where you know you've got them, the crowd is responding, and you're up for it, and we can go anywhere we want together. That's when I feel like I'm the luckiest man alive to be able to do this, that's what I find most inspiring. It's almost as if I make the tracks so I can be there". So you may want to have a closer look at this Boiler Room appearance in London, featured right here, on the right.