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Windowlicker
"Windowlicker" is a track by the British electronic music artist and producer Aphex Twin. It was released on 22 March 1999 through 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. In 2010, ''Pitchfork'' included the song at number 12 on their list of the "Top 200 Tracks of the 90s" and in 2025, ''Billboard'' magazine ranked it among "The 100 Best Dance Songs of All Time". Music Characteristics "Windowlicker" has been described variously as "uncompromising cyborg R&B", "hip-hop written in the language of glitches", and "eerie lounge-porn music"; the track's "sleazy, erotic ambiance connote images and emotions alien to James's previous com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, composer and DJ active in electronic music since 1988. His idiosyncratic work has drawn on many styles, including techno, ambient music, ambient, acid (electronic music), acid, and jungle music, jungle, and he has been described as a pioneering figure in the intelligent dance music (IDM) genre. Journalists from publications including ''Mixmag'', ''The New York Times'', ''NME'', ''Fact (UK magazine), Fact,'' ''Clash (magazine), Clash'' and ''The Guardian'' have called James one of the most influential and important artists in contemporary electronic music. James was raised in Cornwall and began DJing at free party, free parties and clubs around the South West England, South West in the late 1980s. His debut EP ''Analogue Bubblebath,'' released in 1991 on Mighty Force Records, brought James an early following; he began to perform across the UK and continental Europe. James co-fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Cunningham
Chris Cunningham (born 15 October 1970) is an English video artist and music video director who directed music videos for electronic musicians such as Autechre, Squarepusher, and Aphex Twin and Björk. Early in his career he worked as a comic book artist. He has created art installations and directed short movies. In the mid 2000s, Cunningham began doing music production work, and has also designed album artwork for a variety of musicians. Cunningham worked on a never completed movie adaptation of William Gibson's cyberpunk novel '' Neuromancer.'' His style is noted for its use of robotics, body horror and Mickey mousing (syncing action with music). Biography Early work - comic books and film special effects Between circa 1990 and 1992, he worked as a comic book artist for 2000 AD working under the pseudonym "Chris Halls" (Halls is his stepfather's surname). He worked on comics including '' Aliens'' and '' Judge Dredd Megazine.'' His contributions included cover p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discovery (Daft Punk Album)
''Discovery'' is the second studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 12 March 2001 by Virgin Records. It marked a shift from the Chicago house of their first album, ''Homework (Daft Punk album), Homework'' (1997), to a house style more heavily inspired by disco, post-disco, garage house, and Contemporary R&B, R&B. Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk described ''Discovery'' as an exploration of song structures, musical forms and childhood nostalgia, compared to the "raw" electronic music of ''Homework.'' ''Discovery'' was recorded at Bangalter's home in Paris between 1998 and 2000. It features extensive Sampling (music), sampling; some samples are from older records, while others were created by Daft Punk. The electronic musicians Romanthony, Todd Edwards, and DJ Sneak collaborated on some tracks. For the music videos, Daft Punk developed a concept involving the merging of science fiction with the entertainment industry. Inspired by their childhood love for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minipops 67 (120
"minipops 67 20.2''" (also known unofficially as "the Manchester track") is a track by the British electronic musician Richard D. James, credited under the pseudonym Aphex Twin. It is the opening track and lead single from Aphex Twin's sixth studio album, ''Syro'' (2014). Released as a single on 4 September 2014 on Warp Records, James debuted "minipops 67 20.2 at a show in Manchester seven years prior to its release and the song was made available on several bootlegs. The track received positive reviews after its premiere broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and its official download release. Background and recording "minipops 67 20.2 is one of the older compositions on ''Syro'', which Richard D James estimated as being recorded in 2007 or 2008, according to ''the Fader''. The song's title is a reference to Korg Mini Pops, a 1967 drum machine used by James during ''Syro''s recording sessions. Release and reception "minipops 67 20.2 premiere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warp (record Label)
Warp Records is a British independent record label that specialises in Electronic music, electronic, indie rock and experimental music. It was founded in Sheffield in 1989 by Steve Beckett, Robert Mitchell and Robert Gordon. It has released records by acts including Aphex Twin, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, Brian Eno, Broadcast (band), Broadcast, Flying Lotus, Maxïmo Park, !!!, Battles (band), Battles and Grizzly Bear (band), Grizzly Bear. Warp began as a record shop in 1987, and released its first record, "Track With No Name" by Gordon's band Forgemasters (band), Forgemasters, in 1989. In the early 1990s, Warp became associated with the UK's bleep techno, bleep scene, releasing music by acts such as LFO (British band), LFO, Sweet Exorcist (band), Sweet Exorcist and Nightmares on Wax. Rather than releasing dance singles by short-lived acts, Warp prioritised releasing albums and building longevity. In 1992, it released ''Artificial Intelligence (compilation album), Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come To Daddy (song)
"Come to Daddy" is a track by the British electronic music producer Richard D. James, released under his main pseudonym Aphex Twin. It was released as a single through Warp Records on 6 October 1997, coinciding with the lengthier extended play release of the same name. A music video for the song was released, which ranked at number one on ''Pitchfork''s Top 50 Music Videos of 1990s list. In October 2011, ''NME'' placed the song at number 42 on its "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years" list. The song peaked at number 10 on the Danish Singles Chart and number 36 on the UK Singles Chart. Background James noted his thoughts on the song in a 2001 interview with ''Index Magazine'', notably being uninterested in its popularity. "'Come to Daddy' came about while I was just hanging around my house, getting pissed and doing this crappy death metal jingle. Then it got marketed and a video was made, and this little idea that I had, which was a joke, turned into something huge. It wasn't r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compilation (Caustic Window Album)
''Compilation'' (also known as ''Caustic Window Compilation'') is an album released by Richard D. James under the pseudonym Caustic Window. The album consists of most of the tracks from the EPs '' Joyrex J4 EP'', '' Joyrex J5 EP'', '' Joyrex J9i'' and '' Joyrex J9ii''. Notes * "AFX 114" has the same drum rhythm as "Phlange Phace", which can be found on Aphex Twin's early '' Xylem Tube EP'' and the ''Classics'' compilation. * "Fantasia" allegedly contains samples from ''Seka's Fantasies'', the same pornographic film that was sampled for "Come on You Slags!" from James' '' ...I Care Because You Do'' album. * "Italic Eyeball" samples Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp in ''The Sound of Music'' as she sings "Perhaps I had a wicked childhood" (forwards and in reverse) * "Humanoid Must Not Escape" features distorted samples from the David Bowie film ''The Man Who Fell to Earth'' (the "Let's fuck!" and "Yeah yeah!") and the arcade game '' Berzerk''. * "We Are the Music Makers (Hardc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daft Punk
Daft Punk were a French electronic music duo formed in 1993 in Paris by Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. They achieved popularity in the late 1990s as part of the French house movement, combining house music, funk, disco, techno, Rock music, rock and synth-pop. They are regarded as one of the most influential acts in electronic dance music. Daft Punk formed after their previous group, the indie rock band Darlin', disbanded. They were managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter, the head of Ed Banger Records. Their debut album, ''Homework (Daft Punk album), Homework'', was released by Virgin Records in 1997 to positive reviews, backed by the singles "Around the World (Daft Punk song), Around the World" and "Da Funk". From 1999, Daft Punk assumed robot personas for public appearances, with helmets, outfits and gloves to disguise their identities. They made few media appearances. Daft Punk's second album, ''Discovery (Daft Punk album), Discovery'' (2001), earned acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spectrogram
A spectrogram is a visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time. When applied to an audio signal, spectrograms are sometimes called sonographs, voiceprints, or voicegrams. When the data are represented in a 3D plot they may be called '' waterfall displays''. Spectrograms are used extensively in the fields of music, linguistics, sonar, radar, speech processing, seismology, ornithology, and others. Spectrograms of audio can be used to identify spoken words phonetically, and to analyse the various calls of animals. A spectrogram can be generated by an optical spectrometer, a bank of band-pass filters, by Fourier transform or by a wavelet transform (in which case it is also known as a scaleogram or scalogram). A spectrogram is usually depicted as a heat map, i.e., as an image with the intensity shown by varying the colour or brightness. Format A common format is a graph with two geometric dimensions: one axis represents time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakbeat
Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that uses drum breaks, often sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as Florida breaks, hip-hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK garage styles (including 2-step, breakstep and dubstep). Etymology The origin of the word "breakbeat" is the fact that the drum loops that were sampled occurred during a " break" in the music – for example, the Amen break (a drum solo from " Amen, Brother" by the Winstons) or the Think break (from "Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins). History 1970s–1980s: Classic breaks and hip-hop production Beginning in 1973 and continuing through the late 1970s and early 1980s, hip-hop turntablists such as DJ Kool Herc began using several funk breaks in a row, using drum breaks from jazz-funk tracks such as James Brown's "Funky Drummer" and the Winstons' " Amen, Brother", to form the rhythmic base for hip-hop songs. DJ Koo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dub Reggae
Dub is a musical style that grew out of reggae in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is commonly considered a subgenre of reggae, though it has developed to extend beyond that style.Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p. 2. Generally, dub consists of remixes of existing recordings created by significantly manipulating the original, usually through the removal of vocal parts, emphasis of the rhythm section (the stripped-down drum-and-bass track is sometimes referred to as a riddim), the application of studio effects such as echo and reverb, and the occasional dubbing of vocal or instrumental snippets from the original version or other works.Michael Veal (2013)''Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae'', pages 26–44, "Electronic Music in Jamaica" Wesleyan University Press. Dub was pioneered by recording engineers and producers such as Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Hopeton "Scientist" Brown, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Errol Thompson and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
