Decoding Aphex Twin’s ‘Collapse’ video

  • Sam Davies
After a week of internet users arguing over possible explanations for the cryptic billboards springing up around the world, Aphex Twin fans now have some new music to digest, along with a wild new video.
“T69 Collapse” is accompanied by a hectic, collage-like visual featuring codified dialogue, interpolations of Richard D. James’s lovely ginger face, and loads of vibrant flashing colours  – the latter is so prominent that the video had to be dropped from its original slot on Adult Swim TV, after failing the Harding test for photosensitive epilepsy. After temporarily causing Warp’s official Aphex Twin website to crash, the video has sent fans into a frenzied debate over its deeper meanings, if there’s any at all.
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