YouTube cruising: Aphex Twin - Donkey Rhubarb
Posted 03 April 2008 00:48 by Kristof Michiels
I'm actually posting this video to keep it close to hand. Brings back memories (the video dates from 1995) from the time I sat through all the rubbish on MTV just to discover, from time to time, a golden nugget like this one. Since we have YouTube, obviously, MTV has lost all relevance, sitting there orphaned and deserted at the very long end of our television channel numbers. May it rot in hell with its infamous 5 minute commercial breaks, every 5 minutes.
Not directed by the fabulous Chris Cunningham, this video, but still highly original. I was (still am) fascinated by the Carebear-style creatures and their strange contrast of frolic and aggressive/obscene behaviour. If you don't know Aphex Twin: first be very ashamed ;-) then start in this place. Here and here you see both masters (Cunningham and Richard David James aka Aphex Twin) at work.
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