The video mashups of The Kleptones, aka Eric Kleptone, are the sonic and visual equivalent of the Burroughs/Gysin cut-up technique: re-arranging images and music to create new meanings, subvert old modes of thinking, and refract propaganda through the lens of the artist’s eye.

The Kleptones is not so much a band, but an exercise in marketing.

 
From Radio Clash:

‘Tell me now how does it feel’ - Music has become branding and branding has become music; marketers want to know what the audience is doing so as TV morphs into CCTV, the hanging garden of reality shows has become king. And the irony is more choice actually means less as there’s ‘57 channels and there’s nothing on’ as the news becomes another reality show and propaganda and lies become reality…

Brightness and Contrast mashing up New Order’s Blue Monday, Nirvana’s On a Plain, Cure’s Hanging Garden and Bruce Springstein’s 57 Channels is added to such footage as Tommy, a rare Godfrey Reggio short, EdTV, bits of Steal This Film, MC Hammer, Slacker, the Good Consumer and Adbusters shorts, The End of Violence and many more.