I think of this song as just death. its just simple and easy. obviously there's the physical death, but this song comes to my mind when you're "thinking about nothing" and your body just sort of stops receiving commands. it's like a kind of felt response of solipsism, or just having any kind of human will extracted from you. This song to me represents the highest bad, which death isn't, but the living death is. that feeling where you can no longer move but are still conscious, I guess like being buried alive. To me it represents what's left in the wake of a hedonistic existence, which is a void of meaning. and I think the feeling of that void of meaning which this song represents is so widely applicable and shows up all over the place, that I always find myself back here. it's not dying or being dead, it's just a spiritual death, a lack of humanity where it should be. In layman's terms, this song has "thousand yard stare" energy. where its not that you are dead, but in your mind its like someone pulled the plug, and there's no power going to the system with which you can move around and do human things. I think I just said the same thing 8 times. Anyway, this song resonates on a crazy level, just has a transcendent feeling of dread to it.
Early 2011, when it was still cold out, I had an afternoon in NYC to wander around and I was obsessed with this track. I jammed my noise canceling in-ear headphones in, put this on repeat and walked around Midtown and Times Square with this blasting over and over. Seriously I doubt my feet touched the ground for a good hour or more.
I’ve listened to this track every night to help me sleep for the last 5 years. Literally every night for the last five years. This track broke the game. I get heavy visions of blue mist, water, and ice with this track… If heaven has a song… ❤ 🔥 🛌 goodnight everyone
it evokes those images through which other dimensions can be seen, the feeling that stands behind it, stands on the periphery of vision, noticed, draws in, into the wonderful beauty of re-remembering everything and recognizing that which has never been forgotten...melting, merging
I wish Oneohtrix would go back to his new age ambient and drone. I don't know if he thought it was a dead end or his interests moved on from Replica onward, but there is much more to be explored.
my favorite song ever made and one of the best songs ever recorded, unreal on new levels and broke the rules for what i considered music could be - shaped me...
I smoked dmt while listening to this song and it was one of the most overwhelming experiences of my life. It felt like I was dissolved and expanded across a huge distance and time, then very slowly reintegrated back into my consciousness. It was like a wave spreading across a flat beach and then being pulled back to the ocean. It scared the shit out of me tbh, but this song is still incredible
I heard this on some shitty magazine free CD compilation and I've been haunted by it ever since. I've listened to some of his other stuff and none of it has struck me as half as interesting or beautiful or elegant.
I honestly think this is one of the greatest pieces of music recorded this century. So much is done with so little - it's like one beautiful chord change stretched out by time dilation.
@@thesprawl2361 its irrational to come to the conclusion that this is the best simply because you found it therefore it must be. it may be the best feeling youve found which is great we all have different opinions i remember when i first heard "boring angel" its surreal but i found other tracks from aphex twin and recently rediscovered right where it belongs by nin theres a lot of great music and feelings but be aware how complex life is
