i don't know whether he wrote it for the ad, but it was released in the UK
under the name "tyre trax" after the ad was aired over hear. if I remember
right, he got paid around £50k. it did rock, both the ad and the track. MJ
ran across NY bay, and up the statue of liberty - it was pretty cool FX, and
in away kind reminiscent of the chris cunningham style (although it was
several years before they started working together...)

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From: "Max Duley (ARCart)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "313" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: RE: [313] Interesting Insight


> > Aphex Twin doing a Pirelli ad?
>
> Does anyone remember that? It was really good. It had Michael Johnson (I
> think) sprinting across a large flat surface with a thin layer of water on
> it, with one of the most mental tracks from the early Caustic Windows
> release slamming to the rhythm of his strides. I heard Richard got paid a
> vast amount of money for that, and he didn't even write it for the ad.
>
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