Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

What this video is

Released in July–August 2023, this video marks Aphex Twin's (Richard D. James) first music video in five years, following the Weirdcore-directed 'T69 Collapse' in 2018. The accompanying EP was his first new material under the Aphex Twin alias since the 2018 Collapse EP, arriving amid significant anticipation from the IDM and experimental electronic community. The video deploys AI-assisted generative imagery,…

Why it matters

A landmark work in the IDM/experimental electronic music video canon, this video demonstrates how the genre's visual language evolved from early-digital glitch aesthetics (1990s–2000s) into AI-assisted generative art by the 2020s, while maintaining the core Aphex Twin / Weirdcore identity of…

The director

Weirdcore is a London-based, half-English, half-French visual artist and designer known for surreal, glitch-heavy visuals accompanying experimental electronic music. Active since the late 1980s and 1990s UK rave and squat party scene, he rose to prominence…