heard it in a club in Luxembourg like 2 weeks ago, recognized it from the first second, couldn’t be more hyped, gave me a huge energy boost, I wasn’t ready at all to hear this in a random small club, pure heat
I just passed my first decade with afx. I was greased in with window licker, I will never get tired of these tracks. Especially since people are slowing them now its like a whole new track sometimes
I remember playing a track from Aphex Twin "Richard D James" for our "show and tell" class back when I was like 14 in the mid 90's. I thibk it was the track called "4". Not everyone liked it but surprisingly my teacher (music teacher) was glad I brought in something like that.
Aphex Twin/AFX/RDJ/etc. is the type of dude who, if someone says they like his music, then you can be friends on that sole similarity alone, regardless of any other detail about them. You either get him or you don't.
aphex twin was my intro into electronic music. Future Sounds of London is another great band that has some amazing albums in the "ambient techno" genre
What this guy manages to squeeze out of musical circuit boards, sequencers, drum machines and synths is unbelievable.Pure undiluted data byte tron juice.
fuck once when i was at a rave the DJ dropped this track and i lost my shit cause i knew it was aphex and i was sure it was on analord, but couldnt find the right track. now after a year i randomly bumped into it and im havin a blast
Probably is closer to the truth than we realize. I've heard that he is incredibly hard on his music and his worst critic where he constantly tries to throw away his music until people talk him out of it. He nearly threw away "Melodies From Mars" until his friends talked him out of it. He then gave it to his friends in the early 90's and then they eventually uploaded it to RU-vid.
No doubt! Got introduced to this amazing track by a friend of mine, and want to go listen to him live this summer, and I want to listen to more songs like this, but he says that their news ones are not that good as this one. Can you reccomend me any others?;P
In this particular style, the analords are his best. My personal faves atm are Halibut acid(original mix), Phonatacid, Love 7, Where's your girlfriend, AFX Acid 4, Stabbij, Pissed up in SE1. Outside of the analords, there's "humanoid must not escape" (from about 10 years earlier), his flow coma remix, his "you can't hide your love" remix, You shouldn't dismiss his newer stuff though, there's some really lush stuff, it's more complicated than the analords. His stuff as The Tuss is some of my favorite (though it took me a long time to 'get' it). Alspacka and Rushup I Bank 12 are good tracks. Orphaned Deejay Selek is often overlooked (the first track never did it for me, but when I finally sat down to give the rest of it a listen I did not regret it) I particularly like oberheim blacetb1, umil, and neotekt72. The Marchromt EP is short and sweet, especially the xmas edit track. Syro is like the Tuss but squigglier, made with synthetic percussion (as well as some MIDI acoustic percussion in a couple of tracks) and more complicated. I'm still trying to digest it actually, but the full length XMAS track you definitely don't want to miss. The breaks on s950tx earth portal mix are super fun to listen to. produk 29 is also very nice. If you like analord, I'd also recommend Rolando Simmons. I don't know much about this guy actually, but I recently discovered his track "marriage acid" which reminds me a lot of analord.
As others have pointed out, it is incredibly easy to get lost in the apparent simplicity of the track, yet the more one pulls away its layers the more one finds. Truly a masterpiece
I can confirm this. The first time I listened to it I thought it was a simple irregular musical idea. Later on it got stucked on my head (what some people call 'infectious') and had to transcribe it just to realize is full of nuances. It's simple in some specific aspects but it has depth when you try to grasp the rythmic parameter, engaging, yet irregular. That's one of the many reasons I love RDJ's music.
So much shit is happening in this track, yet its so tonally coherent, your focus is perfectly drawn across the different elements. I dont know how he does it.
Decades of tireless experimentation with all aspects of sound. Going by his interviews, Rich is obsessed with aural world like few others are. From the horse's mouth: "Almost everything I do , there has to be an angle of making tunage to it, bit tiring, like oh if i go and see so and so I can try out my new klobberbox on't train and be forced with that bit of kit only etc otherwise id never leave me ouse."
Urine Denial tens of thousands of hours of practice. It’s like how did Kobe Bryant get so good at basketball? He said he practiced 12 hours per day for decades. How did the best surgeon become the best? Spend 100 hours per week operating. Isaac Newton is another one...he invented calculus and discovered first laws of gravity because he stayed in his room (literally never left his room) for 10 years straight doing maths 18 hours per day.
The barcode is missing the 0 from the front, 066 is a country code used for products made in the USA. Then 690801 would be the manufacturer number (rephlex i guess) and 696 is the product number (analord 07). The more you know.. :)
I remember my mate had the 11 vinyls and recorded me the lot but with no breaks, just one long track. I used to fast forward to this on the bus to work with DJ headphones on. I just kept thinking...' this must be the sound when you meet God'
AFX can make these instruments sing like no other. Like they start singing back to us their beautiful melancholic tunes, having been gifted sentience by RDJ.
Its certainly up there. One of his most chaotic tracks yet strangely coherent, like 4 different songs played at once but it meshes together in such an interesting way.
This track fluctuates through every human emotion for me even some I don’t understand total master piece of electronic music he’s a genius. Very few tracks you don’t get sick of listening to I always come back to his work. Bravo sir
While a lot of tracks on analord have this almost mellow but scarily melancholic feel to them, this one fucking gasses me up. Like it makes me feel even if just briefly that I wanna get my shit together and get on the grind
so weird, saw this live the other day and had literally exactly the same revelation whilst it was playing... shocked me a little to see the same thought again when reminiscing - how can you express shared thought through ambient sound ? frequencies ! !
This track for me is a "go wild" sort of tune. I think if I had to choose a Phex jam that best resonates with my "it gets better / get my shit together" mindset it would have to be Ptolemy
1. Why do so many “Best Of” Richard D. James lists ignore Analord? It’s his greatest work IMO. 2. When will the Analord Series ever end up on Spotify or Apple Music? WTF is going on !!!!!!?
Richard intended for this to be a truly analogue work (on vinyl) rather than digital. Chosen Lords was released on CD for those who can't justify a turntable. If you hear it on a record player going through a nice vintage amp and speakers you'll discover why he made that choice. It sounds fucking delicious
The track names are actually meaning nothing and should be interpreted that way. That's why SAWII has no titles. He said he would only do some, because the label wants him too. So comes that many tracks are just working titles, so he could tell which track he is on.
@@TheIcebomber And yet the names came from his mind. His mind came up with words to call them, it might have been meaningless, but there is still posibility that it means *something* to mind of creator. Btw. I would be proud too.
Years ago some dude at my college said to listen to this song next acid trip and it's been my favorite electronic song ever since. Absolutely blew my mind, fills me with joy to this day, and the "happiest" song I can think of not made by the Beatles
The Beatles? Did they make happy songs? I find them really depressing. And what a bunch of silly men too, especially Lennon. He had zero grasp on reality.. Such ego.. A definitely very overrated band. Very.
I've listened to most of RDJ's music (what's been released, anyway) more times than I can count, and the subtleties of melody never cease to shed light on how versatile music can be.
This is like an audio representation of an Acid trip, holy shit ! Starts really mellow, creeping. The first part is like when you start experiencing the slight movement and breathing. Then the drums kick in and it's like yes here we go it's taking hold and then it just keeps ramping up the intensity. Get's interesting and train of thought is rolling, drum breaks rhythm like your mind tripping up over a thought. Then it gets more intense, the track starts to overlapped and less coherent, total cerebral overload and gets more and more higher. Just like when the Acid starts getting to that peak where everything is intense as hell and you are barely still in existence. Though pattern is all over the place and you are just giggling and enjoying the intense bliss of surrender. Then the peak gets higher and higher and you don't even have a clue what existence is, then the track breaks back down and dip back down to that less trippy coherent way, everything is just more and more geometric but you can think clear again. Then it's building back up again until you hit the higher peak again and it's blast off into the abyss again. Man this track is amazing. Triggering some awesome memories. Man I miss Acid at times, some of the times.
If I had a commercial chem lab or high tech factory of some kind, this would be on a repeating playlist that would eventually fray the sanity of some employees.
I listen to a lot of aphex back in the day, bunch of burned cds pass along with friends, most of these tracks I never had the names to relate to, it was pure aphex! Now finding this one that used and still gives me chills its awesome! Thanks internet 🎉❤
The track express the feeling of : multiple machines speaking to you and trying to tell you how good they sound and how much trickery is going on and always have an evil grin on them while doing so. It also expresses the life of a very busy business man who has a runs a big company at several locations across the world and meets many people in his path. It also expresses the formation of patterns in nature and that everything is just a bunch of layered fr4ctals warped in a torus.
this is inspiration... Im fond of the depth and length of this song (and by the way all AFX'S pieces) the more I hear the more I realize how vanguardist this men is, a real genius, he soothes my hears and so do my mind ...
Always been a huge RDJ fan, always knew about this song but never gave it a listen for some reason...gave it a listen for the first time while driving into lisbon recently...insane
+alexing86 Nope, not everywhere. Mostly dialers are tourist crowded areas and Bairro Alto, there were few in Almada. But they just openly say "good stuff' or drug names near you, cops are tolerant and can't do anything if they have drugs for personal use.
a gargantuan tuneeeeeeeeeeee of amazingNESS...sooo many layers of hypnotic beats...nobody does it better...all hail Mein twin...even at the end around 7.29 that could easily go off into a new tunee...WOWZEEEERS GENIUS and then he has "The Tuss" productions too,aaaaaaaah,Ireland🍀p.s thanks puhzz 😉
The last couple of minutes of it remind me of some of the stuff the Mothers of Invention did on their Uncle Meat album. I say that as a compliment to Aphex Twin.
