Listened to practically nothing but these albums for about six years. Wish I could experience them all over again. They're almost too painfully sentimental to listen to anymore.
I know what you mean, some of my favorite songs were those I discovered while in a really bad time in my life. Now I can't listen to some of them without getting a little sad. Or angry, depends.
The twittering high-hats in the beginning seam almost off beat from the spacey synth pads, but it finally clears up when the beat comes on. I am still trying to figure out how that high-hat rhythm is laid out on a single measure.
I recently watched an interview with him and he said something that may or may not be true but I choose to believe it. He stated that after years of training he only sleeps 30 minutes a night and he creates his music subconsciously through lucid dreaming. That would explain why he's been my favorite music artist for the last 25 years and why he calls it Braindance, which happens to be my favorite genre of all time. Heliosphan is def my #1 fave track. It adds so much meaning to my life and it gives me great purpose to share this with all the planet Aphex children 🌏👽🦋💚
Verno V I watched a doco last night and they mentioned him lucid dreaming. Not only do I believe it, hearing that explains a lot to me. His stuff has always sounded kinda haunted and getting the music from the other side and bringing it here will do that.
@@odiwan74 Odin M- you're so right ✅ it makes so much sense... i have a few friends that live to discuss everything Aphex with me since i got all their brains wrapped around his masterfully created works many years ago. i had my own dream about windowlicker 2 and my mind created so much detail in the song, i could never re create it while being awake tho
I believe the part about the lucid dreaming, but there's no way any human can survive on 30 minutes of sleep per day. Power naps are good for breaking up intensely creative marathons though. Lots of weird and wonderful ideas can pop into your head if you starve yourself of sleep, but a nap can help recharge your batteries, as it were.
up there with a Mozart, as an E T E R N A L classic. First heard this when I was 15/ now I'm 45 and it still blows me away with equal velocity and all enrapturing magic and energy.
Try not to cry if you are feeling true deep sadness without shedding a tear since this is in aphex best tunes it's impossible to have a favourite of his but this is timeless
I slowed playback to .75 and it sounded phat as hell🤘 speed it up to 1.75 and sounds like an old school jungle track. Moral of story...you cannot ruin this song no matter what. It’s invincible!
Over the years, I've learned to appreciate the minute and a half of dead silence at the end of this upload of Heliosphan. It used to irritate me if it popped up in a playlist but now, the silence seems oddly appropriate.
flawless piece of music. i can say this about most of the songs from the album, but this one specifically. top tier. 30 years later it is still incredible.
This reminds me of college listening to tunes on this friends awesome soundsystem. It was mindblowing. I remember getting lost in the music and starting to dance. This also helps me with my extreme chronic pain now. It helps to distract me. Thank you thank you. ❤❤
Easily my favorite track from the album. Only one other high point in an album ever got to the same level: -Ethnicolor, from Zoolook by Jean-Michel Jarre
Ethnicolor is favourite song of all time, Heliosphan is my favourite Aphex Twin song. BTW, it's an interesting fact, that JMJ and Aphex Twin once met each other and Richard told him that his 1973 soundtrack album, "Les Granges Brulées" sounds like Aphex Twin music from the 70's. :)
Ive been going ape mode singing and doing random vocals over this album for like three hours and i think im gonna do an album of remixes from it, ill drop a link if i dont get too lazy lmao
Coldplay also ripped the chords from Kraftwerks's 'Computer Love' on their song 'Talk'. I guess it's their way of paying homage to some musical influences... :)
A poem...title I gotta poo... Poopie get back I'm alright jack But just to be sure Stay away from my crack Push a car from out my brownstar Ya know what mean when I say I got to make some ice cream... ...I gotta poo
