An Amazing effort By Richard D. James, This track contains so many elements, all joined together, best described as a mashed-up cocktail of his early 90's Acid/Experimental works..&.. Ambient-Tech, with unusual programming and sound manipulation. Pure Genius.

[Listen to this track with it's video - you'll have a good laugh, very entertainig and smart visual effects

This crazy-wierd-break windowlicker ep came to us almost 10 years ago(when i was a little children)result: he changed my entire sense of listen!
Ten years later i can still ear this song like it was the first time! that almost doesn't happen with other songs, because u get really bored listening again and again as the years go by...
This guy is a genious!
He as a special manner to combine elements like no one else can.. the proof is that in the 90's he did songs that some people still say today that are ahead of our time.. are they stupids? or is it really true? i think both!

Windowlicker is a fun and beautiful track made of what are def. porn samples, haha. IMO one of his more heavily produced tracks, especially after listening to the original demo version. The chaotic-sounding glitch quackery of track 2 is really just there for the sake of hidden novelty (hint--open the track in a spectrum analyzer). The third track has a prepared piano sound, like a music-box, and is a pretty song.

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...

"Windowlicker" is pure audio porn with amazing production (check the video out, it's hillarious), and "Nannou" is just straight-up pretty (sounds like it was played on a toybox). I'm not wild about the second track, it sounds like glitch wankery... but overall it's a really solid release.

If you want a hit single that RDJ has put out that ACTUALLY sounds like him, this would be it. Of course Aphex Twin has quite a diverse line but this is closest to his sounds.

You got the more accessible (listening wise) track like 'Window Licker' which has the booty bass-sound to go along with the glitched out beats and samples, and not to mention an amazing vocalized melody (I wonder if that's RDJ). Then ya got his 'equation' track that is his more experimental, abstract approach which we've been hearing since after his ambient phase toned down. And you have 'Nannou' which i honestly believe the band 'múm' got their initial sound from. It has the good old clicks&clacks that all us Glitcheez like to hear, accompanied with his childish melodies created for a demonic baby or something, this is for sure the IDM_esque track on this release.

In my opinion I would use this cd as a real test listener for the sound of that time period that RDJ was interested in. A Superb marketing and artistic release.

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.

Note that this release contains only one cd audio track, the original demo for "Windowlicker." In and of itself, it's not particularly interesting, and is completely lacking in dynamics and variation. What is interesting is hearing the basic, raw material that Aphex then whipped into the final track "Windowlicker" with countless fx filigrees and details.

The video for "Windowlicker," included here as a quicktime movie, is excellent, but not well served by the low quality image. The rolling credits are totally illegible.

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!

Yes, yes, mr. Twin into the hit parade! Unbelievable! And it works too!
Off course experimental stuff can be dancable and have hitpotential. Why not?
And another reason why this 12" is brilliant is for the track "nannou": an electronic take on a childrens wind-up musicbox. Complete with an extra wind up in the middle.
Extremely creative!