How Aphex Twin Parodied Hip-Hop and Made His Best Video ‘Windowlicker’

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How Aphex Twin Parodied Hip-Hop and Made His Best Video ‘Windowlicker’

Aphex Twin. His music is so diverse and controversial that it’s sparked heated debate for decades. For me, this British musician has played a huge role.

When I first saw the Windowlicker video around 2000 or 2001, my life changed completely. Those images burned into my mind and for years afterward, I kept searching for something that could recreate that same feeling in other works of art.

So what’s so captivating about this track and video? Let’s try to figure it out. Watch till the end to see how Aphex Twin managed to diss the whole hip-hop culture and do it with love at the same time.
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Cunningham’s Windowlicker video became the ultimate standard of irony. His collaboration with Aphex Twin was one of those rare moments when two geniuses found each other at the perfect time.

At the start of his career, Chris Cunningham worked in film and magazine design: he even did creature design for Alien 3. Later, when he joined Warp Records, he began directing videos for experimental electronic artists like Autechre and Squarepusher. His first project with Richard D. James was Come to Daddy...
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In this video, I analyzed how Aphex Twin became a 90s electronic star, and my team also filmed the locations from the original video as they look today. Enjoy!

*Sorry for any mistakes in my pronunciation, I’ll be working on it

00:00 Intro
00:49 Electronic spirit
02:25 How it started
05:39 MTV era
07:59 Grotesque masterpiece
10:30 How it was made
13:22 Conclusion

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