The latest collab between Jungle's J Lloyd and Charlie Di Placido follows the grand tradition of the band's music videos - and then some. Back On 74 comes as an innovative interactive experience, powered by WeTransfer, as well as the normal video. And its also part of a full visual album of the new Jungle LP, Volcano. The one-take promo is everything you expect from a Jungle video - breathtaking choreography by Shay Latukolan and performances from the regular dancers in Jungle videos, with slick camerawork, and a distinctive aesthetic. It's beautifully lit by DoP Natasha Dursmaa, with sterling work from Steadicam operator Gary Kent.The interactive version was created in collaboration with WeTransfer's in-house creative team and Emmy Award-winning creative studio Nexus Studios. When playing the video on the official WeTransfer-Jungle site, a selection of six unique artworks appear on-screen, populated from a bank of ten thousand created by Josh Lloyd-Watson. The artwork is then made downloadable through WeTransfer, and a hundred lucky viewers also have the chance to find downloadable tickets for upcoming Jungle gigs.And WeTransfer are also benind the making of the entire visual album for Volcano - in which Di Placido and Lloyd explore the relationships of the dancers within the making of a big TV special.

Daleya Marohn explores movement and dance through a spatial relationship of lines and colour, in the absorbing short film Tarpaulin Blue. Featuring music by Louis Carnell and cinematography by Julian Hohndorf, the video uses colour as its central focus, with plenty of shades of blue in everything from the location to textures of the clothing. "I was inspired by London's scaffolding, covered by blue tarpaulin as a way of evoking emotions of feeling blue," Marohn says. The concept is a unique way of visualising an emotional state, and as the video progresses, the amalgam of colour, music and movement embodies a sense of melancholy and nostalgia, elevated by dancer Freja Jenkin's intimate performance.

Max McLachlan brings the vintage 80's vibe in this dance epic for Birdy. The otherworldly video for Paradise Calling sees Birdy dance through expansive landscapes as night turns to day, interwoven through deceptively simple transitions. It's a brand new vibe for the artist, and after being in the public eye for over a decade, it's safe to say she is undergoing a true reinvention - and it's an absolute delight to watch.

DOM&NIC have been directing music videos for The Chemical Brothers since the mid-Nineties and have now reached a landmark, with Live Again: it's their tenth video for the ageless pioneers of electronic dance music. And following a running theme of previous works, the directing duo are once again pushing the boundaries of state-of-the art technology, this time in the frontier of virtual production and real time VFX.The video for Live Again is superb visual entertainment of the kind that DOM&NIC have been creating for Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons of The Chemical Brothers ever since they started with Setting Sun over 25 years ago. It's a trippy Groundhog-Day-esque adventure story through multiple environments in a continuous dance performance by the captivating and seemingly elastic dancer, Josipa Kukor. In her crowded trailer Kukor wakes from a nap at the table and emerges into the setting that surrounds it - a desert - stretching and moving and returning to nap at the table of the trailer - and wakes again, emerging to a different environment, a forest. And so this goes on. Once the structure has been established, it becomes a realm of endless possibilities, in terms of both Kukor's performance and the backgrounds. It was achieved by shooting on a virtual stage, hosted and powered by ARRI Stage London, the creative and technical expertise of Untold Studios, together with virtual production specialists from ARRI Solutions, Creative Technology and Lux Machina. It was a new experience of filming for various members of DOM&NIC's highly experienced crew, including longtime collaborator, production designer Chris Oddy, and DoP Stephen Keith-Roach.But as the directors say here, the journey of making it pushed the technology beyond its known limits, breaking new ground, and adding weight to the proposition of embracing virtual production as a creative choice first and foremost.We created virtual CGI worlds and used long unbroken camera takes, without edits, moving between those different worlds seamlessly with our hero character."Working with The Chemical Brothers is a dream for any music video director and we’re really lucky to be still making films together after quite a few (ahem) years," say DOM&NIC. "The Chems just keep smashing it with great tracks that demand videos that live up to the music and hopefully add something extra to the whole experience."Live Again is our tenth collaboration and the track’s title inspired the idea of an another dance piece with a twist. The woozy, wonky analog sounds and the dream like lyric suggested a hallucinogenic visual journey following a character caught in a loop of death and rebirth. The hero woman in the film wakes or is reborn in a different environments ranging from deserts to nighttime neon city streets and cave raves to Martian worlds."The idea inspired us to use the new Arri XR virtual production stage and its cutting edge technology in a way that had never previously been done. This is an idea that could not really have been achieved with traditional filmmaking techniques. We created virtual CGI worlds and used long unbroken camera takes, without edits, moving between those different worlds seamlessly with our hero character."Tom and Ed encouraged us to really capture the feel of the track in the cinematic texture and look of the film. We were given the challenge to give it the visual equivalent of putting a clean sound through a broken guitar pedal to transform and degrade it into something unique. We love the way the film has an analog and messed up film look to it, it really adds to the visual trippy experience."We were showered with the generosity of such a strong and huge team of immensely talented companies and individuals that helped us to make this film happen because they love working with The Chemical Brothers. Many of them also worked with us on past Chemical Brother’s videos it’s become a creative family! Without their time, talents and generosity a film like this could never make it out of heads and onto a screen."Untold Studios Real-time Supervisor Simon Legrand confirms that the project pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in virtual production, breaking ground as they went. "This project was a perfect storm, with our team at Untold working with Outsider and the ARRI Stage London team to pull out all of the stops to bring DOM&NIC's bold and innovative concept to life," says Legrand. "After designing seven bespoke virtual worlds in pre-production, we were then able to tweak elements on set, on the fly, giving the directors the freedom to play and experiment. This is the first time that virtual environments have been switched live on set in this way and we're really proud to have been trusted to help make it a reality."Live Again features vocals from Halo Maud (Heavenly Recordings) and follows on the heels of the recently released single No Reason and is taken from the tenth Chemical Brothers album that’s due later this year.“Working with the production on this project represented many creative and technical challenges," says David Levy, Business Development Director at ARRI Solutions. "It was a unique opportunity for all of us involved to really see how hard we could push the boundaries. Technically, this required a huge collaborative effort between camera, lighting, VFX and virtual production supervision to ensure seamless integration. This promo brought the best of the best together across all these disciplines to bring the creative team’s vision to life and deliver an incredibly special end result.”

With no sign of his subway train arriving, Gus Dapperton decides its better to take a long walk home, breaking into spontaneous choreography along the way, in Kevin Lombardo's infectious dance promo for Homebody. The artist takes on a form of character acting, infusing the dance with comedic moments and an almost narrative structure to the movement.The candid-style camerawork lends a sense of realism to the concept, as do the unbothered passers-by. For them, it's just another night in NYC...

Clemente Lohr directs - and stars in - a completely unexpected and refreshing promo for Maddie Ashman. The video for I'd Rather Fall opens in a boxing changing room, just moments before a fighter is set to go out and fight. His trainer is trying to rile him up, talking about it being his 'last fight', and making it count. It quickly switches gears from Rocky to Sia's Chandelier, as Lohr performs one of the best pre-match rituals ever committed to screen, lipsyncing to Ashman's I'd Rather Fall. Blending performance, choreography and comedy, it's a delightful four minutes that explores masculinity and traditional expectations in sport, but mostly just has a whole lot of fun with a joyous dance concept.

Joe Wood directs a raw, empowering promo for new artist Chinchilla, as she takes her revenge on toxic masculinity. The video sees Chinchilla and friends enter a pub, immediately being harrassed and catcalled by a group of drunken men. When the teasing and intimidation starts, the artist sarcastically laughs back, before she delivers a devastatingly effective response. Full of rage and an unapologetic attitude, the captivating blend of fight scenes, performance and choreography creates a riotous atmosphere which perfectly complements the lyrics - and it's an immediate hit, having gained over two million views and being used as a sound all over TikTok and Instagram, paired with powerful stories of women overcoming gaslighting, abuse and degradation at the hands of men. A total tour de force of a concept which demands that viewers listen and pay attention.

Irina Alexiu directs a dreamlike, impromptu musical for Moldova-born indie-pop artist Valeria Stoica.Shot in Romania - on an empty studio backlot in Bucharest - we see Stoica and a group of dancers perform an interwoven montage of choreographed setups, with a sense of whimsical wonder throughout.Eye-catching styling, inspired props and breezy cutaway scenes - the video for All We Wanna Do captures a transitory sense of pure, youthful delight, and is a perfect project to get the early summer vibes in full swing, and a lovely showcase for Stoica.