Timber

Timber, by Coldcut with Hexstatic, uses audio samples of logging from a Greenpeace film about rainforest destruction, as shown in the original video. The duo conceived it as a protest against the excesses of the logging industry. The video built a collage from repeated clips synced to the music, using the same cut-up approach as the audio, and was put on heavy rotation on MTV. Stuart Warren Hill of Hexstatic summed up the idea as what you see is what you hear.

The 2001 Guinness Book of Records listed it under most music videos for one song, since there are five: the original, and the EBN, LPC, Clifford Gilberto and Gnomadic remix videos. The Timber EP holds seven versions. The song appears on Let Us Play! and on the remix album Let Us Replay!, and the video was shortlisted at the Edinburgh Television and Film Festival in 1998 among the top five music videos of the year.