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Aphex Twin IDM Electro Ambient 1999 UK

Performer: Aphex Twin
Title: Windowlicker
Genre: Electronic
Country: UK
Formats: AU DMF AIFF WMA DXD TTA AHX
Released: 1999
Style: IDM, Electro, Ambient
MP3 album: 1349 mb
FLAC album: 1321 mb
Rating: 4.1/5
Votes: 180

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker download album

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Windowlicker ‎(CD, Maxi). Virgin, Source, Warp Records. 724389568929, 7243 8 95689 2 9, WAP105CD. Windowlicker ‎(CD, Maxi). Warner Music Australia.

Windowlicker" is a song by English electronic musician Aphex Twin, released on 22 March 1999 as a single by Warp Records. The artwork for the single was created by Chris Cunningham, with additional work by The Designers Republic. Cunningham also directed the song's music video, which was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Video. The song peaked at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart, and was later voted by fans as Warp Records' most popular song for its 2009 Warp20 compilation.

Aphex Twin is known for his quick, breakbeat filled songs. It hasn't always been this way, though. After stinting as a DJ and producing acid techno, his first album was a landmark album in "intelligent dance music," and his second full-length was a venture into the minimalist world of ambient. For his next release, the Come to Daddy EP, he returned to his speedy techno and strange effects with songs that were just as creepy as they were dance-able. The title track, Windowlicker opens with a slow pulsing type of voice, and leads into a drum beat that Richard is so good at. In the following few seconds, there's a lot going on. Things jut about, and enter and leave just as fast.

Watch the video for Windowlicker from Aphex Twin's Windowlicker for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Windowlicker" is a 1999 single by electronic music artist Richard D. James, released under the Aphex Twin name on Warp Records. The single reached in the UK Singles Chart. The song was later voted, by fans, as Warp Records' most popular song, for its Warp20 compilation. The name of the single comes from the derogatory British term "windowlicker", meaning a mentally handicapped person.

Aphex Twin Album: Windowlicker. Album Information : Title: Windowlicker. This really lulls you to the realization that a single - a 15 minute single - indeed CAN have the impact of an album. I'd say this is very close to upstaging the title track, had Windowlicker not been so bizarre. A very pleasing closer to a single with a sultry headliner and a rotten core.

Windowlicker Q&A. Producers Aphex Twin. Music Video Directed by Chris Cunningham. More Aphex Twin albums. Show all albums by Aphex Twin.

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.

Aphex Twin – Windowlicker. ya, windowlicker also does mean a retard but in the sense of a time-waster, idiot ie. that kid in class who has bcome mentally stumped( excess in vgmes, mall trips, weed, comics, tv) and laughs at stupid things for hrs that ever1 else shakes off. i think that.

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker. J'aime faire des croquettes au chien.

Tracklist

1	Windowlicker	6:07
2	∆Mᵢ⁻¹=−α ∑ Dᵢ[η][ ∑ Fjᵢ[η−1]+Fextᵢ [η⁻¹]]	5:47
3	Nannou	4:13

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Warp Records Limited
Copyright (c) – Warp Records Limited
Published By – Chrysalis Music Ltd.
Glass Mastered At – DOCdata

Credits

Design – The Designers Republic
Photography By [Cover Photography] – Chris Cunningham
Written-By, Producer [Produced], Engineer [Engineered By] – Richard D James*

Notes

Printed notes:
All tracks... Chrysalis Music.
Warp Records Ltd.
℗ 1999 Warp Records Ltd. © 1999 Warp Records Ltd.
Warp Records logo. Compact Disc logo.
Made in England.

Other note:
Viewing a spectrogram of the second track reveals hidden images of James' face that were apparently synthesized as sound by Aphex Twin for the express purpose of being discovered in this manner.

Running Time: 16:09

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text): 5021603105027
Matrix / Runout (Mirrored): WAP105CD • MASTERED BY DOCDATA π
Mastering SID Code (Variant 1-5): IFPI LA31
Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 7307
Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 4B08
Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 4B03
Mould SID Code (Variant 4): ifpi4B02
Mould SID Code (Variant 5): none
Label Code: LC02070

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
WAP105	Aphex Twin	Windowlicker ‎(12", Single, RE)	Warp Records	WAP105	UK	2016
WAP105	Aphex Twin	Windowlicker ‎(12", Single, RP)	Warp Records	WAP105	UK	1999
none	Aphex Twin	Windowlicker ‎(VHS, SECAM, Promo)	Warp Records, Source	none	France	1999
WAP105V	Aphex Twin	Windowlicker ‎(VHS)	Warp Records	WAP105V	UK	1999
CD 35007	Aphex Twin	Windowlicker ‎(CD, Maxi, Enh)	Sire	CD 35007	Canada	1999

Reviews about Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (10):

Brakora

Rated 4 stars, would have been 5 if promo video version was on it

Lavivan

The music video should be re-released in DVD/Blu-ray. Please Warp make it happen!P.S.: I know there's a HQ version from the DVD compilation of Warp music videos, but could they "remaster" it to HD and upload on their Youtube channel?

Shomeshet

Oddly enough, I didn't really like this single too much, and the video's shock value has worn off as the years have gone by.

Dagdarad

To me Windowlicker is the BEST electronic single of all time and maybe the best peice of Electronica period. The only thing as good would maybe be his own Girl/Boy single. I can never really describe what this track sounds like to people. And the melodic voices are among the most vibrant, juicy, and original sounding instrumentation i have ever heard. The real reason i love this song so much is the video though, the video is so good and it's been my greatest inspiration from my film-making point of view. This song and the video go so well together it hurts... It's just beyond my words how the voices mix so well with the bodies squirming around in the Limo. I've never really seen a video like that one and heard a song like this ever. I guess it's just a major touchstone in the world of media for me. Take the single, the video, the marketing of using his face on all the demo and promo covers, and it's just the most ingenious thing I've ever seen. Chris Cunningham and The Aphex Twin seemed to have made one of the greatest collaboration of all time and now that the video and the song are 8 years old, you can see they will stand the test of time. It just enthralls me in ways I can't describe , it means alot to me in a lot of ways, from inspiration, to the grooveyness, to the comedy, to the intense Wall of bass at the end of the track. it's all like counterfit money though... like candy. The track, the video, the posters it's such a commercial stretch at making Aphex twin a popular figure, it almost seems like it's trying too hard... but then you throw the twisted content into the equation of placing his head on womens bodies and it just blosoms into post-modern madness. the Song has so many different stages to it. From the deep barotone of Aphex Twins voice splashed with prickling acid in the first 25 seconds to the Surreal porno Medly at the core of the song, to the break beats in the last 3rd topped with all the experimentaion and glitch tastic randomness mixed in. And finally to the Climax(which is so well timed in the video with a burst of a champagne bottle). It encomposses so many different feels and flows and the Video capitalizes on everyone in all of it's 10 minutes and 34 seconds. It's beyond huge it's just epic! Aphex Twin and Chris Cunningham have changed my life and if I ever go anywhere in the film business, they are the only ones that truley deserve accolade, for they have changed my life. I know this all sounds crazy and obsesive but sometimes there are things in your life that just touch you in certain ways you can't describe. Mine just happens to be Womens bodies with Aphex Twins face on top...

Talrajas

I'm at a loss to find the explicit content which the parental advisory sticker on the cover warns. perhaps aphex twin's devilishy grinning face super imposed on a buxom beauty's bod is what the warning is about or maybe the link to chris cunningham's video which would have been naughty if it wasn't so downright disturbingly funny. windowlicker is by far aphex twin's best and most commercial release without compromising any of his skills that makes him such a talented musical genius. sounding like a warped soundtrack to a porno movie, windowlicker writhes and contorts its way to the fuzzy electric guitar climax. the only track worth the cost of the EP! (formula) or (equation) or a bunch of unpronounceable scribble starts of strong but falls short at the end and we hear more nannou style musicbox twinkling to last us a lifetime on drukqs.

Bloodray

6 years late but watch the video, the over 100 uses of profanity probably caused that parental advisory sticker to be put on it.

Dagdardana

Here's a riddle for the non-french speaking listeners. On time 2'42" of the track "Windowlicker" a woman's voice distinctly says in the right speaker the following sentence: "J'aime faire des craquettes au chien", which is quite puzzling, believe me! For if that sentence was intentionnal, it should mean "I like to do it with dogs", but in very childish words. Another explanation is that the girl who recorded that part spoke with an accent, and that she doesn't say "craquettes" but "croquettes" (which means "biscuits") - it would seem to make more sense: "I like to make biscuits for the dog". Yet, nobody makes biscuits for his dog! The last solution would be that the woman likes to do dog-biscuits (dog flavoured biscuits), which seems to be the most pervert explanation, but all the more plausible! A kinky song, definitely!

skyjettttt

J'aime faire des croquettes au Chien I like to make dog biscuits

Nikojas

I think Nannou is an amazing composition. It sounds like a composed piece of music, as opposed to "letting the machines run". I've read about Richard's music composition software that he wrote, and some things on R.D.James album is obviously using that. This is a whole other level of some craftsmanship. Could someone please email me a scan of the [equation]. It reminds me of a digital filter algorithm, but, I don't think it is one.

RED

Really dirty, window licker is one of those tracks that makes me blush whenever I listen to it. It starts off slick but becomes unashamedly trashy half way through. Without vocals or images, it's laced with seedy conotations. Only a very sick mind could come up with this. Filthy - I love it. The middle track went over my head completely but Nannou is an amazingly pretty piece - medieval tones strangely created with Aphex twists, ticks and cracks. It works.

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