This record is the soundtrack to APEX, the 2013 film by Arthur Jafa, pressed by The Vinyl Factory while it was on show in Paradigm Shift at 180 Studios in London. The music is Minus by Robert Hood, a Detroit techno track from 1994, and in Jafa's film it does the job that a plot would do elsewhere. Rhythm, not narrative, decides what the viewer feels, which makes the soundtrack more than an accompaniment to the images.

APEX is a montage of 841 still and moving images drawn from cinema, music, news and Jafa's own archive. Mickey Mouse, Tupac Shakur and Sojourner Truth pass alongside scenes of violence, religious iconography and science fiction. Jafa conceived it as a model for an unrealised science fiction epic. It is also an exercise in what he calls Black Visual Intonation, an attempt to give moving images the emotional pitch of Black music. Hood was a founding member of Underground Resistance with Jeff Mills and Mike Banks, and later founded M-Plant, where his stripped, meditative sound helped define minimal techno. Minus first appeared on Internal Empire, his 1994 album for Tresor.

The film lasts a little over eight minutes, with images arriving at roughly one every 0.6 seconds. The eye is held by a pace that the track sets and never relaxes. Minus is minimal techno at its most austere: a hard, driving pulse and repeating metallic figures, with the label noting the heart monitor sounds threaded into it. Cut on one side at 45 rpm, the record gives the track the room and loudness of a DJ pressing, away from the screen.

Rick Poynor wrote in Eye in 2018 that the track "binds the listener in a rippling metal chain of sound, in a state somewhere between compulsion, exhilaration and panic." Jafa himself has called the film "a kind of pre- or anti-cinema". Paradigm Shift, curated by Jefferson Hack and Mark Wadhwa, placed the work in a survey of moving image since the 1970s, from avant-garde film to music video.

Single-sided 12" at 45 rpm on 180-gram black vinyl, with artwork by Arthur Jafa, in an uncoated outer sleeve and coated inner sleeve. Limited edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies.