Windowlicker

Windowlicker was released as a single on Warp on 22 March 1999, with artwork by Chris Cunningham and extra work by the Designers Republic. It peaked at number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and had sold over 300,000 copies by 2001. NME named it Single of the Year for 1999. The track moves from a drum and bass intro to an abrasive noise ending, and Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter cited it as an influence on their album Discovery.

Cunningham's ten-minute video parodies American gangsta hip-hop videos. Two young men window shopping in Los Angeles are interrupted when a white limousine 38 windows long crashes into their car and James steps out, and the women who join him wear masks and make-up in his likeness. The video was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Video.

The second track on the single carries a title that is a mathematical formula, usually called Formula or Equation. Near its end a spectrogram reveals a portrait of James, made with the program MetaSynth. Wired reported in 2002 that a 19-year-old, Jarmo Niinisalo, found the image. The third track, Nannou, is built from wind-up music box samples. Pitchfork ranked the song 12th on its 2010 list of the top 200 tracks of the 1990s, and Billboard placed it 81st on its 2025 list of the best dance songs.