Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47390 in VHS
• Released on: 1999-02-23
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1

Customer Reviews

Another World
Richard is in my opinion one of the greatest artists alive. The same can be said about Chris Cunningham. When two such people meet, the results are not always what you would expect, but in this case, I have to admit the results are superb. This video and it music are so beautifully weird that it is almost as if they are alien. Chris and Richard, and others like the Boards of Canada and Autechre, are finding and exploring strange and fascinating new worlds for us, which we can briefly glimpse through their art. I feel privileged to live in a time when such art is being produced.

THE MOST INCREDIBLE MOST BI-ZARRE VIDEO EVER!
THIS VIDEO FREAKED ME OUT! A MASTERPIECE BEAUTIFULLY DIRECTED BY CHRIS CUNNINGHAM WHO DID VIDEOS FOR MADONNA AND LEFTFIELD. ALL THE LADIES' BODIES ARE SEXY BUT THOSE FACES---YOWCH! ALL DIGITALIZED FACES OF RICHARD JAMES A.K.A. APHEX TWIN. THIS IS MY FAVORITE VIDEO OF THE DECADE-VERY FUNNY AND VERY ORIGINAL (...)I'M GLAD I DON'T HAVE MTV ANYMORE. THEY DON'T PLAY TECHNO VIDEOS AND DEFINITELY NOT THIS CLASSIC DUE TO SCENES OF SEXUALITY AND THE 1ST 4 MINUTES OF VERY DIRTY LANGUAGE (...). YOU MAY THINK IT'S A RAP VIDEO BUT AFTER 4 MINS, THE VIDEO GOES 360 DEGREES AND ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!

Bizarre... Trippy... ... ...Bizarre...
I had only a vague idea of what to expect from the Windowlicker video when I saw the calendar for it a few weeks ago. It's even stranger in motion.

Richard D James is everywhere (except for a couple of homies) -- the Aphex Pimp, the Aphex "Hoes", the Aphex Limo, the Aphex Umbrella, et cetera. Richard and his beautiful cleavage grace the cover, enough to either make someone laugh really hard, blush, or even question their own sexuality in some weird twist of events within their mind (I shall say no more) -- I don't know whether to be disappointed that there is no nudity or if I should be thankful there isn't any.

It's impossible to make any logical sense out of this video. The music is just as abstract and multidimensional as the accompanying video. It has a little hint of porn-music style, along with a subtle clue of avant-garde swirled with a topping of improvisation; a side order of light funk and calm hip-hop is also included in various segments of the music video.

Don't attempt one of those "analyzation of artistic/symbolic/sociological" bits, either. While Richard's music is definately artsy, most of his videos--this especially--serve as a medium of having fun for ten minutes without moving. And, in my opinion, this video is more fun than a barrell full of monkeys... or a barrel full of monkeys wearing Richard D James plaster-cast masks on their faces.