What Makes Aphex Twin's Music So Good? 

alternate title: man discovers music can evoke emotions without lyrics

Nothing relaxes me like the techno distorted screams of “I WILL EAT YOUR SOUL”

0:46 "Aphex Twin doesn't have words in his music" Just wait until he finds out about Milkman.

Him and squarepusher were on genius level in the 90s. They didn’t even care if anyone liked what they made but they knew well enough that their work was so good that it would be successful. I think they became human in the last few decades though. I not reacted to their music in the same way. Could be getting older myself maybe.

My Liege, making people cry & shiver, for almost 40 years. Absolute Legend!

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Incredibly well made video! I wish more people would have the pleasure to see this video! JUST GREATT!!

For me it's the clicks in "Stone in Focus". I never checked but the speed at which they interact with chords make me feel like nothing else. You hear them dissapear for some fragment of time and youalready miss them as you know they will go away eventually. I never want this track to end.

STONE IN FOCUS IS THE BEST TRACK OUT OF ALL TIME

Wait what were the tracks you named, i want to listen to them all! Stone in focus? The one with 4 chrods, i couldnt understand you

Great video. Just yesterday someone was asking me why I'm so obsessed with Aphex Twin (side note, I pre-ordered the new Blackbox EP a couple days ago, yeeeeee), as often happens, and I told him if I started to answer that question it would just end up as one big "tl;dr" thing. Now I think I'll just send him this video lol. He still won't get why I love the drill and bass type stuff from Richard, let alone his batshit crazy modular stuff like in the Mt. Fuji cassette/Syrobonkers interview (well worth searching on here, has some rad t00ns sprinkled in there too), but oh well, that's his problem. XD

4:53 gushing about Stone in focus / Plays Lichen. Great vid dude.

Great video!

I love the flow of your video, and I love Aphex Twin’s music

true music dont need words even brian wilson himself didn’t really care about lyrics but thought that composition was everything

i wanna gklue my eyeballs to that sound

3:00 This is very well said. Great video.

All this BS is dreamt up by the fans. RDJ said his music doesn't mean anything - he is just doing his own thing.

Aphex twin is up there

Great vid!

nice video, you did a great work!

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loved the video, made so well.

nice video

thanks for this exploration. great video

Stone in focus is my meditation jam of choice.

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When I listen to his music I very often feel an affinity to improvised jazz, which I used to think was the highest musical form of human expression. But after discovering Richard and the IDM genre in general, i realized that this very music is even more expressive than jazz. unlike IDM, it is performed by people with musical training and you can hear it, i think many of these vibrantly talented musicians are limited by this. i feel that Richard's music has no boundaries and that makes it very unique. I would even compare his person to James Joyce who abandoned the previous boundaries and was the father modernism in literature. I feel like his "Stream Of Consciousness" most of all literary forms reflects being a human being and when you read e.g. Ulysses, you feel an incredible bond with the literary character and therefore also with the author. I think something similar happens when you listen to the Richard music wich resembles stream of consciousness and, like Joyce, few have adapted his style and it will take time to realize what a great genius he is or was

oh ffs why film references ? its electromic music made by someone that chooses their styles, this is ridiculous

Carrying on about music like this should be illegal