Avalanches + Aphex Twin Videos

Avalanches- "Frontier Psychiatrist"
The Avalanches are a group of Australian dudes who make electronic hip hop in a similar vein to DJ Shadow- lots of obscure samples from random places and obscure vinyl over hip hop drum beats. This video is the case of a basic premise done extremely well. The concept for the video is to animate the samples with live action actors on a simulated live stage. That's it. Oh and there's a lot of old people. Forgot to mention that.


MP3- Frontier Psychiatrist


Aphex Twin- "Windowlicker"
Aphex Twin is a guy named Richard D. James who has been one of the foremost creators of electronic music in the past 20 years. Though he has released songs in the genres of ambient and acid techno, "Windowlicker" has more of a universal appeal as just something entirely without genre. It's electronic but the beats knock like hip hop, it's dancable, but not a floor-filler. It's a unique piece of work and its become more well known since it's inclusion in the movie Grandma's Boy. Director Chris Cunningham- who has his own little DVD music video box set next to those of Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry- does an incredible job at satarizing the hip hop videos of the late nineties who basically adhered to the premise "if you oil up your hos they jiggle better" and then throw a loose plot or just follow dudes around an imaginary club. This video is terrifying when you think it's going to be sexy. Yes there's jiggling hoes, but look closer and recoil in horror.


MP3- Windowlicker