i remember listening to this back in high school, 12 years ago. weird to come back to music, where it hasnt changed, but you have. like im on the other side of a chance meeting with my past self. i remember wondering who that person would be, and now im already them without trying, in the blink of an eye
I know exactly how you feel, it feels good and bittersweet at the same time when you visit songs you used to listen to and you think about who you used to be and you realize how fast time feels
*sigh* you were born the person you were, you don't magically change or become someone else through life. if anything, you are less of what you used to be if you think this way.
I love how this track is layered. It starts with a fun tune and then gradually adds more little tunes and tweaks like a snowball turning into an avalanche
The first time I heard this track, I didn’t understand it, but I knew it sounded like something really unique. The second time I listened, I was driving home after a crazy writing spree. It hit me out of nowhere - I suddenly understood the track completely. I cried the rest of the way home. This track is a special one.
Some much needed music to my ears. No words, just the perfect sounds. Confucius, if he were alive today, would be honored to know that people like Richard exist. People capable of speaking through their instruments as well as, if not better than, we are capable of speaking through our mouths, pens or text.
Mkei D A story I've found a lot of musicians have been told at some point or another in their lives, about the way Confucius taught his pupils to speak through their instruments. It has been conveyed to me by teachers, friends and people who I respected for their insight. The common thread each story had was that Confucius taught his students the importance of being able to communicate through their instruments. Whether it be to convey sorrow, to raise spirits or to boost morale; whatever the reason the instrument allows the musician to convey a message to an audience they may not otherwise have had the opportunity to do. To some people that can be a message to yourself. You can make the instrument speak to you and help you unlock thoughts and emotions you may not have been capable of having in any other way. In my early teens I read something similar about Confucius in a book but at the time I didn't understand what was meant by it. Now, as I've aged and been moved by thousands of pieces of music and seen the effect that it has on people besides myself, I have come to appreciate that message, despite the specific reason that Confucius may have had for teaching his pupils to play instruments. See, some people have a very difficult time expressing how they feel in any conventional way, but when it comes to making sounds or mixing them together in such a way that a unique experience can be had by the audience and the artist, well, that is something important. Not just for the artist but for the entire community with whom they share what they have created. For me that captures a very important part of not only what music is but the value of communication between organisms like us and how it can come in many forms. Now, with the internet, you can look into this story and see for yourself how true it was or what or where it started, but back when I heard abut it it was just books and word of mouth and that allowed people to add their own twists to it and I appreciate each of the people and their unique slants on the story, for what they were separately. But, again, the common thread was that it was Confucius who was the one responsible for teaching his students to speak through their instruments and Richard speaks in some of the most unique ways I have ever heard. I hope this answers some part of your question Mkei D I wish I had some list of books or some videos that I could recommend that might better emphasize how important Confucius was to music, not just in China but in the way that his attitude about music spread from there to the Middle East, Europe and the rest of the world, but, all the sources that I learned from (people, books, etc.) are either dead, I've lost touch with them, or they were a few of many books I poured over in libraries during my youth as I sought to learn more about aspects of the world that were at the time unknown to me in my youth. Perhaps you even know more of the truth behind this story than I? Maybe you can share your perspective on it, or, at least, what music means to you?
ABitOfTheUniverse I see. That's very beautiful man. Any sort of creative expression has some emotional meaning behind it in my opinion. Recently music has got me listening in that way, more than it has before. It takes some wisdom to recognize that i guess! Which is where Confucius comes in. I see. Thanks for the info by the way. You seem very knowledgeable!
I envy Aphex Twin so much. Tons of musical genius, and tons of gear in his house to make music with. I'm slowly building a collection of gear, so maybe I can one day be like him and support myself by making music in my basement. Although he does it in a former bank (in the vault I hear, what a cool place to put a studio! I wonder if he locks the giant vault doors every night with his gorgeous gear inside?). I'll never be like Aphex Twin, but the trying, the journey, it satisfies the soul.
+Fucc_Boi am i the only who find a sort of contrast -hapiness-melancholy in this song i can't say it's just hapiness at all ? reminds me the childhood , the innocence in a nostalgic way personnaly awesome track
Aphex Twin videos are the only ones that work with the autoplay feature on YT, I mean conceptually. If you let it autoplay with Aphex Twin, you end up just listening, just let it keep playing random AT stuff while you work. With other videos it just gets annoying, but with AT I think it's pretty cool to just let it go random. Maybe ambient music is best when we don't even control which tracks are being played, just relinquish control and see where you end up.
for years, a part of the melody in this song reminded me of another tune i know and i just figured it out. the damn brady bunch! :08 through :14 sounds like "here's a story... of a lovely lady... who was bringing up three very lovely girls" just hum the melody in the same key as self employed and it's more or less there!
That’s it. I’m listening to this insanely long set today. (320 minutes - WAV files from RDJ’s rephlex website (when they were still active). Lots of unreleased and alternate tracks. It’s all so good.
Flim is a marvelous song :P Always cheers me up when I listen to it, no matter what mood I'm in. Gives me that "Everything is going to be ok" feeling. Love it!!
Same, this song makes me feel an emotion I have never felt before, same with Halibut Acid, Reunion 2, Libson Acid, VBS.Redlof.D, PWSteal.Ldpinch.D, god the list is endless.
he has different releasses under variuos names gak, q chastic, polygon window, dice man-1 song, caustic window, afx, aphex twin and more limited vinyl 12's and alot of traks on the shelf ooh, remixes too! thanx richard...
Also known as AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, DJ Smojphace, GAK, Martin Tressider, Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Prichard D. Jams, Q-Chastic, Tahnaiya Russell, The Dice Man, Soit P.P., The Tuss
if you guys want this analord stuff without having to shell out for the vinyls, just search google for a free 'youtube to mp3 converter' and you can paste any youtube video URL into it and get the audio file in mp3. just copy it to an mp3 player, or burn it do a disc (after using another mp3 to audio cd converter) and there you have it. you can drag the mp3 files straight from your desktop into itunes as well, so it'll work with your ipod.
That would be nostalgia; for the lack of a physical manifestation of the music you like as it has been in the pastoooo. Music is great at tying memories to them. Read a book while listening to the same album over and over, wait a month or two, listen to even one song on the CD you'll remember everything. It feels like a 6th sense... memory through the interpretation of music by your brain.
This is one of those tracks that is so good you don't want to listen to it in case you desensitize yourself to it
wow. yes
he has so many of those
@@devonmccollister4860 yeah basically his whole discography, though it takes me 1 year brake for his music to sound fresh again.
I'm just back from a hiatus
Very well put.. but you’re more likely to hear it from a different angle or different light and get yet more out of it.
It's like two happy computers trying to sing
@TECHPUNK2055 me too
dododododoodododood
The most accurate comment on the afx track i've ever seen
aw yeh this is the perfect soundtrack to BMO from adventure time :)
Cesar Bravo :::D
richard's spitting absolute facts on this track
No bap
subliminally ? ;)
what is your occupation sir?
*doo do do dooo do do doo do do doo do*
I'm self employed
wow, you *do* a lot
@@julian.castro18 you mean, doo do do dooo a lot
boowap bodeeno deboowap boodeent boowap
@@midinerd bro wtf
i remember listening to this back in high school, 12 years ago. weird to come back to music, where it hasnt changed, but you have. like im on the other side of a chance meeting with my past self. i remember wondering who that person would be, and now im already them without trying, in the blink of an eye
Wow
I know exactly how you feel, it feels good and bittersweet at the same time when you visit songs you used to listen to and you think about who you used to be and you realize how fast time feels
*sigh* you were born the person you were, you don't magically change or become someone else through life. if anything, you are less of what you used to be if you think this way.
Éternelle
This person surely had an amazing sensitivity to music and still has to this day
I love how RIchard can just sit and make a fucking legendary tune and not let anything get in the way. The talent and ears he has are unbelievable.
Hope Richard gets compensated by the UK government, given his self-employed status and possible loss of income in this current pandemic.
I heard he lives in Russia now, so he's probably fucked
I thought he was in Scotland
Hes hiding from aliens in camboja
thoguht he had moved to Encelada ?
I thought he'd disappeared up his own arsehole?
I'm unemployed
No, you are self unemployed
You should definitely produce a squelchy masterpiece to encapsulate the experience. Then you'd be rich.
@@santiagohache2302 yes
I love how this track is layered. It starts with a fun tune and then gradually adds more little tunes and tweaks like a snowball turning into an avalanche
Happiest damn avalanche I ever heard
Richard D. James is truly self-employed. His heart and soul are in this song.
I like how richard d james just makes good music.
I don’t know why this gives me some kind of melancholy as if I knew this song as a child
One time when I was very, very depressed ( :P ) I cried listening to this song... Just pulled the tears out of me. Was a very strange feeling :D
retnuHDJ
Lol, were so weird arent we?
@Coby Williams Broooo thas crazy :=D
oh shit yeah. analord when in a deep depression is verrrrry interesting. soo heavily painful but ya know in the back of your mind it's gonna be ok
If we kept ourselves in the company of great Souls all the time, we would never get depressed.
This track feels so personal, like it's a private memory for me.
The first time I heard this track, I didn’t understand it, but I knew it sounded like something really unique.
The second time I listened, I was driving home after a crazy writing spree. It hit me out of nowhere - I suddenly understood the track completely. I cried the rest of the way home.
This track is a special one.
Gotta be one of his most underrated golden oldies
Some much needed music to my ears.
No words, just the perfect sounds.
Confucius, if he were alive today, would be honored to know that people like Richard exist. People capable of speaking through their instruments as well as, if not better than, we are capable of speaking through our mouths, pens or text.
ABitOfTheUniverse he's not dead man
Tom Feilner 551-479 BC pretty sure he is
Why do you care about what Confucius thinks?
Mkei D A story I've found a lot of musicians have been told at some point or another in their lives, about the way Confucius taught his pupils to speak through their instruments. It has been conveyed to me by teachers, friends and people who I respected for their insight.
The common thread each story had was that Confucius taught his students the importance of being able to communicate through their instruments. Whether it be to convey sorrow, to raise spirits or to boost morale; whatever the reason the instrument allows the musician to convey a message to an audience they may not otherwise have had the opportunity to do.
To some people that can be a message to yourself. You can make the instrument speak to you and help you unlock thoughts and emotions you may not have been capable of having in any other way.
In my early teens I read something similar about Confucius in a book but at the time I didn't understand what was meant by it. Now, as I've aged and been moved by thousands of pieces of music and seen the effect that it has on people besides myself, I have come to appreciate that message, despite the specific reason that Confucius may have had for teaching his pupils to play instruments.
See, some people have a very difficult time expressing how they feel in any conventional way, but when it comes to making sounds or mixing them together in such a way that a unique experience can be had by the audience and the artist, well, that is something important. Not just for the artist but for the entire community with whom they share what they have created.
For me that captures a very important part of not only what music is but the value of communication between organisms like us and how it can come in many forms.
Now, with the internet, you can look into this story and see for yourself how true it was or what or where it started, but back when I heard abut it it was just books and word of mouth and that allowed people to add their own twists to it and I appreciate each of the people and their unique slants on the story, for what they were separately.
But, again, the common thread was that it was Confucius who was the one responsible for teaching his students to speak through their instruments and Richard speaks in some of the most unique ways I have ever heard.
I hope this answers some part of your question Mkei D
I wish I had some list of books or some videos that I could recommend that might better emphasize how important Confucius was to music, not just in China but in the way that his attitude about music spread from there to the Middle East, Europe and the rest of the world, but, all the sources that I learned from (people, books, etc.) are either dead, I've lost touch with them, or they were a few of many books I poured over in libraries during my youth as I sought to learn more about aspects of the world that were at the time unknown to me in my youth.
Perhaps you even know more of the truth behind this story than I? Maybe you can share your perspective on it, or, at least, what music means to you?
ABitOfTheUniverse I see. That's very beautiful man. Any sort of creative expression has some emotional meaning behind it in my opinion. Recently music has got me listening in that way, more than it has before. It takes some wisdom to recognize that i guess! Which is where Confucius comes in. I see.
Thanks for the info by the way. You seem very knowledgeable!
the sound of the analord(s) is incredibly vivid, like its playing in your home. super!
pigo & pogo malescy Tactile! :)
is like a friend gave you his mixtape that was made just for fun, its so fresh
I sent it to my father...he hasn’t responded:(
I envy Aphex Twin so much. Tons of musical genius, and tons of gear in his house to make music with. I'm slowly building a collection of gear, so maybe I can one day be like him and support myself by making music in my basement. Although he does it in a former bank (in the vault I hear, what a cool place to put a studio! I wonder if he locks the giant vault doors every night with his gorgeous gear inside?). I'll never be like Aphex Twin, but the trying, the journey, it satisfies the soul.
This is what happiness sound like.
You are the reason why I am a happy person, the people who truly get it...
I wanna eat mushrooms with you guys
tisdrummer YUP, i'm self employed and I loooove it
+Fucc_Boi am i the only who find a sort of contrast -hapiness-melancholy in this song i can't say it's just hapiness at all ? reminds me the childhood , the innocence in a nostalgic way personnaly awesome track
this entire mini thread is glowing
David Firth's melodic aphex twin playlist is the real important videos playlist :D
one of the saddest songs on the afx alias, bring a sense of nostalgia
its happy too
@@shocked8026 its the two notes
Aphex Twin videos are the only ones that work with the autoplay feature on YT, I mean conceptually. If you let it autoplay with Aphex Twin, you end up just listening, just let it keep playing random AT stuff while you work. With other videos it just gets annoying, but with AT I think it's pretty cool to just let it go random. Maybe ambient music is best when we don't even control which tracks are being played, just relinquish control and see where you end up.
scope and diversity of his art
true
didn't work for me, went from aphex twin to jazz then to latino stuff
guess you were lucky
totally true.
totally agree
Listened to this the first time i did shrooms. It was an amazing experience to say the least. AFX ACID!!!!!!
such an amazing song, definitely one of his best, the Analord series is the greatest series of records ever
I am absolutely criminal and I deserve prison.
me too :)
me too!!!
(-_-) me too
#metoo
D R U G D E A L
for years, a part of the melody in this song reminded me of another tune i know and i just figured it out. the damn brady bunch! :08 through :14 sounds like "here's a story... of a lovely lady... who was bringing up three very lovely girls" just hum the melody in the same key as self employed and it's more or less there!
Haha cool catch
Ah shit now I hear it too! Hahahaa
Melody sounds a lot like Johnny Preston - Running Bear too. Good sounds get around
"I've been working on the railroad.." This is so badass!!
how'd you pick that out? I can see it now but that took some work
God I love the Analord series
This track says it all. The relentlesness of life... the universal struggle...
where are u richard
Living life to the fullest, instead of wasting it to fame! And I love him for it! You go Richard, do what you want!
He lives in a bank..
new album next month called Syro... I'm really hyped
...and coming after ya in a tank.
My middle name is James, will that do?
it's so joyful
you mean nostalgic
Cant wait to get this one on vinyl, up to analord 4 at the moment! Brilliant series so far! =]
I'd fookin love to shake RDJ's hand!
Legend!
9 years later.. did you ever get to?
i wish i could listen to this for the first time again
2008... thumbs up if you were bumping this then to now
and yes I know this track is obviously older than 08
I get nostalgia from this tune.
That’s it. I’m listening to this insanely long set today. (320 minutes - WAV files from RDJ’s rephlex website (when they were still active). Lots of unreleased and alternate tracks.
It’s all so good.
Flim is a marvelous song :P Always cheers me up when I listen to it, no matter what mood I'm in. Gives me that "Everything is going to be ok" feeling. Love it!!
This is so gorgeous. So many memories.
this song is so beautiful. the first time I heard it I didn't get it. but man it's totally got the wabi-sabi.
I'm trying not to cry at work.
How’s life?
i wish i could write a genuine song like this with the same title.
man i love the analords.
i was here when there was only 244,505 views
More like.. 463,438 views wut wut
aflex tim
alex kim
yeah , his electribe cover is really smooth
5+ score man!
IMO, this is best song of the whole analord series, it should have been on the chosen lords album
Heard this on a Nathan Fake mix. It's sheer delight.
Youre sheer delight!
This is simply awesome.
love this with all my heart. it just says be happy & chill (with spliff if poss)
A nice light bowl of BOC for starters, a manly slice of Autechre for dinner and a sweet portion of this shit for desert.
as you can see, i love listening to his stuff on youtube just for people like you bro.
Good track. Done with a lot of digital and real love.
What a fun song! Celebrating his success! :)
I was born in 96, and Aphex Twin made me a fan in one day. I love his songs. It's something familiar and i can't put on my hands on what.
This track is amazing, not simple at all. And the melody is just beautiful
one of my favourite AFX songs
a very warm and nostalgic sound. less dark than a lot of his stuff that I've heard. but the dark stuff is good sometimes too.
he has such an amazing voice 😍
I can't help but feel that this song could have been so much more. It's like it's stuck in its primitive stages, but it's still so damn good.
Awesome magic sound!
such a beautiful song
Aphex makes my day
everyday =)
thanks for upload this
Hope your day is going well
Same, this song makes me feel an emotion I have never felt before, same with Halibut Acid, Reunion 2, Libson Acid, VBS.Redlof.D, PWSteal.Ldpinch.D, god the list is endless.
Thank you. Makes me believe in music again. :)
I have gladly contributed at least two thousand of views to this video.
that's whats so great about it it doesn't try to be amazing, it just is
i just stumbled upon this right now. awesome.
One of his best
he has different releasses under variuos names
gak, q chastic, polygon window, dice man-1 song, caustic window, afx, aphex twin and more
limited vinyl 12's and alot of traks on the shelf ooh, remixes too! thanx richard...
how it feels to be self employed
HE NEVER MISS?!
This pleases me.
Sounds like a chill song you would hear in a Sega Genesis game.
Heyyy
Fantastic!
the broccoli has spoken.
After selling 26 mixes for cash and not declaring it the tax man has stung Richard. Forcing him to produce this thus declaring his employment status.
you can tell this is a song of celebration in the unique style of afx...and from the song title.
dude i love aphex twin! totally one talented dude
Also known as AFX, Blue Calx, Bradley Strider, Caustic Window, DJ Smojphace, GAK, Martin Tressider, Polygon Window, Power-Pill, Prichard D. Jams, Q-Chastic, Tahnaiya Russell, The Dice Man, Soit P.P., The Tuss
can't wait till im self employed
Makes me cry so relaxed
havent heard this song in years, oh the memories!!!!
What a gem
if you guys want this analord stuff without having to shell out for the vinyls, just search google for a free 'youtube to mp3 converter' and you can paste any youtube video URL into it and get the audio file in mp3. just copy it to an mp3 player, or burn it do a disc (after using another mp3 to audio cd converter) and there you have it. you can drag the mp3 files straight from your desktop into itunes as well, so it'll work with your ipod.
This wasn't on chosen Lords??!?!?! Why!!!!!
such good stuff
That would be nostalgia; for the lack of a physical manifestation of the music you like as it has been in the pastoooo.
Music is great at tying memories to them. Read a book while listening to the same album over and over, wait a month or two, listen to even one song on the CD you'll remember everything.
It feels like a 6th sense... memory through the interpretation of music by your brain.
incredible
Might be the best song ever made.
Lovely!
Reminds me of some Black moth super rainbow songs.. 256 colors too especially
you are human too, so kick back, relax, and enjoy the tune.
no need to worry, it's just a ride.
He can make the most distorted sounds sound smooth like butter!
P.L.U.R.
healing tune
One of my favourite songs evar
I feel that all the time, i mean i get surprised by the songs, no matter how many times i heard them. I must be listening to much AFX.
gorgeous
Thanks for this momento now i feel like im friend of electrónics
gotta love that 303
this is one of my favorite Analord tracks...
cuando uno se descubre, en el instante que quiere y no podria amar mas. reconocer esta brillantes.
i,m self employed creating my world