An extension of its satiric predecessor, "Windowlicker" focuses on eerie lounge-porn music (with a video to match) instead of the thrashcore of "Come to Daddy." Later Aphex trademarks like hyper-breakbeat drum programs and heavily tweaked voices are in full effect, though the cloying melody could make longtime fans run for the toilet (or fall off the couch laughing). Of the two unpronounceable B-sides, one includes more breakbeat thrash, while the other looks back to Selected Ambient Works territory with a toybox melody that's only potentially disturbing. The enhanced single also included the video of the title track, directed by Chris Cunningham, and possibly even more disturbing than "Come to Daddy."
The Aphex Twin, Richard D. James, builds his own instruments digitally by transforming sampled sound and by manipulating the guts of synthesizers as he discovers what his next composition is going to be. The man is very playful. When I hear a new Aphex track, I'm frequently disoriented and then laugh when I recognize the new place he's discovered to take us. It seems to be a matter of pride to ...
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Here's another from the category "I can't believe I like this song." I'm just weird like that. Love the video to. So what!Note: Feel free to skip the first 4 minutes. It's all dialog.
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Found this over on Digg today. Apparently images are sometimes hidden in the audio of a track, and can be viewed via some audio spectrograph software. Check out the video below of Aphex Twin's track '#2 (the long formula)' from his 'Windowlicker' album.For those who want to delve deeper and go do this for themselves, I found "this":http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php excellent article by the prod...
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It's reasonably well-known that Aphex Twinconcealed images in his music, viewable with aspectrograph. Inspired, this bloke grabs hisspectrograph and investigates, uncovering somemore hidden pictures, including an endearingcat.See the results here http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php
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On Wednesday morning, my roommate Mike and I debuted our radio show, now dubbed the "Insomniac Dance Party", on WCDB in Albany, and if I do say so myself, it was fairly successful. We were on for three hours (between 4 and 7 AM eastern), and by the end we were both exhausted. We recorded the whole thing to three CDs, but the second one got scratched in a pretty bad place, so only about two hou...
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Recently I have been listing to Windowlicker almost every 3 songs on my iPod. I don't have it stuck in my head but I am understanding it more. I just hope I don't start seeing Aphex's face on all the girls I like. that would be creepy -_-;;;
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I just received the Director's Label Box Set DVD in the mail from amazon ("Director's Label 1":http://www.amazon.com/Director-Label-Boxed-Set-Cunningham/dp/B00065AXTM/sr=8-2/qid=1158251422/ref=pd_bbs_2/102-1503316-7858528?ie=UTF8&s=dvd; "Director's Label 2":http://www.amazon.com/Director-Jonathan-Corbijn-St%e9phane-Sednaoui/dp/B0009XRZRY/sr=8-1/qid=1158251525/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-1503316-7858528?i...
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