Nadia Lee Cohen reimagines Aphex Twin 's Korg Funk 5

Nadia Lee Cohen just dropped a new music video for Aphex Twin’s “Korg Funk 5” – and naturally, it’s herself dancing through a 3-minute-50-second surrealist Hollywood hellscape.

Originally released in 2017, Korg Funk 5 was a collab between Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) and Japanese synth giant Korg, featuring vocals from James’ own son. The video, co-directed with Charlie Denis, opens with a little boy holding a dollar bill up in a dance studio – and by the time we blink, it’s Nadia, in nude heels and a blue bathing suit, line-dancing under strip lights like she’s auditioning for a cursed halftime show. It starts like an indie movie, but quickly feels like you’re in Call of Duty: The camerawork feels exactly like me trying to handle a PlayStation controller, desperately looking for whatever button lets you check behind you – dizzy, flailing, fully immersed and meanwhile falling off buildings, dodging enemies (or getting killed by them with ease). And every time you die in her POV, she respawns somewhere else.

At least there are also sexy randoms that emerge from smoke and wreckage. Or, I guess not so randoms, it’s actually a cameo by JT. Why not!!! 

Recurring themes include: clowns, cowboys, kids, cash, death, resurrection, and hating the police (a shared value system among nearly every character in this video universe). There’s a Severance-coded hallway chase scene. There’s a limo crash landing. There are nuns playing piano in the middle of the street. She herself gets shot, dragged, catapulted, then proceeds to pole dance on the sidewalk, and ends up smudged in clown makeup by the finale. It’s absurdist, it’s fashion-freaky, it’s possibly anti-capitalist? Or maybe just vibes.

Cohen’s world-building has always pulled from fashion, film, and satire – her style is polished chaos, retro-tinged and deeply unserious. Like Aphex Twin himself, she’s not here to explain.