AFX (Aphex Twin) - 4 Red Calx [slo]

[@rosscamonster1597]

His really ambient work is some of the most precious sound ever.

[@rosscamonster1597]

@d thank you!

[@cosmicmindwarp]

Can't argue with that - what a beautiful way of putting it...

[@0ContentDeleted0]

This sounds like a cross between Blue Calx and Stone in focus, beautiful track, and also my favorite Calx.

[@vico805]

good observation

[@iexremia]

exactly

[@benjaminfredrikson5852]

My homie Paul who passed away gave me shit about listening to this song around the camp fire at my cabin in Minnesota and I told him to fuck off. I miss that man so much and this reminds me of him every time. Thanks Richard James

[@leolong7021]

Over lockdown, when it was really hot out, I sat in my room with my window open every night and listened to this song with the breeze on my face

[@bustingdogarchive4240]

Tis a good song for introspective thinking I must say.

[@LouixIskander]

That gave me shivers.

[@randominternetguy8735]

crazy times man

[@chancesvision]

Thats exactly what I’m doing right now😂

[@raidersofthelostarp]

A 1000 pages-long story in three chords. This is the main reason I love Aphex Twin.

[@michaspis4549]

yeah, king of minimal =)

[@korymetalhead8269]

four*

[@rooted1234]

the entirety of being expressed in three cords *

[@marcusaurelius687]

Thought I was just hearing shit at first lmao

[@SymmetrySmileandTile]

Finally someone expressed my visions hello and thank you! stay weird my friend.

[@kewuo]

shoutout to the organism trilogy for getting me to know this song

[@WhoIsLOK]

Dr. Morro has great taste

[@muffnman980]

whats the organism trilogy ? is that a game series

[@diegomissaci8019]

I use to listen to this song as I'm watching the trees in a cold grey afternoon! Aphex is amazing!

[@mindegrade3403]

Few will see this But: the sound engineering is so well done on this he made it sound like the clock sound is ticking above your head (or on the wall in a small room in front of you - but always above you) when you listen to it with spatial audio enabled. I recommend the experience if your earphones have that feature. Really special and chilling feeling.

[@7t272]

Such a powerful piece of music here...it pulls at your heart strings that's for sure...it makes me think of a very special person who I have loved dearly since I was born but,is no longer with me...r.i.p mum xxxx

[@sweetwheatsy]

Take care, even after all these years.

[@7t272]

SweetWheatsy That means a lot! Love&Peace✌🏻

[@uhuju1]

@@7t272 I hope you've managed to bury the grief and rescue the love

[@Hopped777]

I listened to this every morning when I was melancholic on a bus in winter. On repeat.

[@cjchampion816]

I wouldn’t mind passing away to this song

[@vico805]

😞

[@jamessmith4358]

This is the best of all of the calx songs I know. I really think Richard is a genius, just look at his ambient music. Some of my favorite songs of the sort, Rhubarb. Cliffs or Xtal, have so much depth and i could listen to the music multiple times before it becomes stale.

[@WhirlwindDrums]

for me it goes Blue, yellow, red, then green. But honestly. All are amazing

[@tml-]

@@WhirlwindDrums ordering the calx tracks is hard for me- it just depends on my mood. if i really had to, i'd probably say yellow, red, blue, then green. but like you said, they're all amazing. ranking them is basically arbitrary.

[@SantanaThePM]

Well, in my case the Calx series goes likes this 1. Blue - I love the emptiness but chaotic atmosphere 2. Green - It's so fucking weird and cool at the same time 3. Red - Idk how to describe the feeling, but it gives me hope 4. Yellow - I sincerely don't like it, very generic from Richard

[@DriesduPreez]

If there is an after life and it's filled with Aphex Twin's ambient music, that wont be too bad. I'd choose floating in a sea of nothingness dreaming to his music, over oblivion or a repeat of things as they were.

[@christopherpederson1021]

Well, live that afterlife now then

[@chrysologusdmello204]

I hope the afterlife is exactly like this

[@cows3043]

@@christopherpederson1021 good point

[@catlvr-kg9ol]

just drop acid and blast his music in the dark, I guarantee you’ll have a religious experience

[@Howlthrug]

This song is so melancholic. Like accepting a lonely fate, after leaving an empty town while watching clouds move across the sky.

[@u9s0e9r]

I love this feeling of being underwater, half-floating, and slow-moving - it sort of disconnects me from everything and brings me peace. And that's what I think of when I listen to this track.

[@vertsk8er419]

Points to anyone who can hear the super high pitched whistles in the background 👽

[@vertsk8er419]

Ok little story, I made this exact comment about the high pitched whistles on the soundcloud page for this track and Richard responded with " well spotted". It was super casual and it felt cool to have this little interaction with a modern day great... edit: screenshot for posterity's sake: imgur.com/a/T1uqbnR

[@tirelipoinpom5561]

@@vertsk8er419 oh shut up and listen

[@Wd40RecklessEngineer]

@@tirelipoinpom5561 He was listening, evidently more than we were. Dont be afraid to enjoy the culture.

[@aleji0]

I have no problem with this comment. Really cool, actually.

[@Nyconbr]

woah thanks now i can't unhear it

[@DrawStuffWhatever]

This song feels like you're at the end of time.

[@themusicbuilding]

I can´t describe how much feelings I have with this song... Finally I feel at peace, at home...

[@theconfessor3177]

I always wondered how a such simple track can be such beautiful. This one is a masterpiece. When he released it on soundcloud, I saw the title and thought "dude, this one must be amazing", because of yellow calx and blue calx (i don't really like green calx). When I listened to it for the first time, I was like - wow... this is wonderful.

[@engladtur]

Yea all the calx tracks are fucking brilliant, it's just insane. Yellow Calx is probably my fav. Aphex track ever. Just something about it. ah

[@theconfessor3177]

engladtur Yeah, Yellow calx is really complex but the melody is insanely beautiful !

[@end-quote]

hope one day you will come to love green calx as i love it :)

[@wotmate1440]

yellow calx is fucking hard hitting. even without the percussion

[@Knifymoloko]

@@end-quote i love green calx too dude. Bits of it remind me of Sonic The hedgehog and well just love the industrial tinge to it. Anyways, Red Calx Slo is a gentle beauty.

[@The-warp]

this song is like remembering a sad memory of someone you used to be with or when you are going to make a hard decision... a lot of nostalgia and sadness...

[@Leonard0F41G]

Sounds kinda like "Stone In Focus"

[@D3TOSS]

+Leonard i think this is the preversion from stone in focus?

[@thedude4450]

Leonard I agree. They both have the simple repetition of chords with a ticking sound in the background that fades in and out.

[@marzipanduh]

yeah

[@Egorator]

Hi eye-wall from Antichamber! :) And yes, it does

[@matthumphries8608]

Thx Aphex. This track is a gift that keeps giving. Immense

[@adinocc2042]

A soundtrack for contemplating a never ending journey across the void of interstellar space.

[@EyeCatchDreams]

I imagine this could be heaven....

[@griZulu]

same ;)

[@Dannysom724]

I'm sure it is! ;)

[@rickc2102]

Your heaven sounds better than most.

[@blackstar2858]

Like arriving back to your home planet, only to find that nothing remains. Like arriving home after a long journey and finding that your home - your town - has been ransacked, burned and long ago abandoned. Like being the only surviving member of your species. This isn't heaven - this is like arriving at the afterlife, and having it dawn upon you, that something terrible has happened and no one is home. You walk through the gates, only to witness the ancient demise of a once flourishing civilisation. Like breaching the hull of a wandering space craft, only to find that everyone has mysteriously disappeared or turned to dust eons ago. This song is total loss and total isolation. Bleak, hopeless and alone. This song is looking forward to the warmth of human connection and community, only to find that you're the only one left. It is the sound of hope and yearning, turning into total hopelessness and an eternity of solitude

[@reinislodzins1509]

ok

[@genebrady]

+Black Star It just feels like returning to your home planet to me - but you've been gone a very long time, and although it looks much the same, you're not sure how the rest of your species has changed.

[@Violenlable]

The best on Richard is the Community around him. Love you all

[@GoldenGateNum9]

+Black Star *Been reading too much H.G Wells it seems =)*

[@elkmeatenjoyer3409]

Black Star I love you man. Where the fuck do you get the inspiration to write something like this?

[@agazimolag]

his music is so celestial

[@millyroberta7234]

I love how aphex twins work brings out the deep philosophical understanding side of us throughout the comments reading other people life experiences and how they feel, how his music relates to them on some deep level… it’s quite exquisite ❤

[@Zikatphra]

This music brings out the feels, that's for sure...

[@JukesMcGee]

I can just imagine what Richard's bed must be like. Probably a giant knot of cords connecting to various music machines.

[@Vnuckmusic]

Lol I'm imagining a cord cocoon- dangling from his ceiling like a hammock.

[@FadingFires]

He has one of the most expensive and rare ones.

[@choggerboom]

as well as into his bum, no doubt

[@sean..L]

This makes me uneasily calm.

[@davycsbritain1279]

thank rich you are so amazing

[@GoldenGateNum9]

*Eases your Anxiety.*

[@Senkawnaowisnebpher]

An expression beyond words, the silent song of a radio tower into sound.

[@catlvr-kg9ol]

Listening to this while tripping should be on everyone’s bucket list

[@eriklazar5623]

me right now , holy shit

[@eriklazar5623]

like holy shit really

[@catlvr-kg9ol]

@@eriklazar5623 nicee

[@vico805]

yup on that mushy ambient excellence

[@abedeaver7236]

this song literally helps relieve my anxiety.

[@cornishalps9870]

He really do it all, ambience to acid and anything in between

[@theconfessor3177]

still here and its still fucking amazing and sad

[@John-qk4mk]

these days have been a lot more sad..

[@theconfessor3177]

@@John-qk4mk indeed

[@EnjeSegue]

Perfect for meditation. Breathe in for 4, hold for 4, out for 8. ❤️

[@shanecoopershow]

this and mookid for whatever reason reach to the deepest level of my being, right to the core every time.. Richard delivers the goods

[@crispybits3765]

This is how this Calx was meant to be played. So beautiful.

[@jupiterstrawberry]

Wow.. all I can say I am grateful to experience this music, it causes good feelings even when I dont feel great. Thanks Richard

[@benglassford2028]

this man makes such beautiful sounding music

[@Paperbagman555]

One of his best, always chills me

[@xenithroth5313]

This is one of the highlights for me. Masterpiece. Thank you Richard

[@FadingFires]

This is beautiful.

[@wristextensors7233]

i want a fucking piano to just fall on my head already

[@AndreaMercurioMusic]

This man is a fuckin genius.

[@rosscamonster1597]

you do it.

[@AndreaMercurioMusic]

For some reason, I have a feeling that the user called 'null' is actually the Aphex Twin himself. Hi Rich !

[@AndreaMercurioMusic]

or better Hi Ceephax !

[@MegaCoolSuperman]

what a monumental track

[@tmanmatt213]

Makes me want to lay down and watch Cosmos: A Personal Voyage reruns.

[@osantiro]

Listening this and seeing the darkest Rothko´s paintings is sublime, absolutely compatible

[@rain_irl6460]

jeez

[@BrysonSpahn]

for this I would recommend paintings by Zdzislaw Beksinski

[@uhuju1]

this man manages to conjure up things i didnt even know i could feel

[@Ciopekwah]

i find it interesting how people find this track either very calm or really depressing and melancholic... i'm definitely in the first category tho. To me, for example, it conjures a hazy memory of christmas eve from early childhood, some kind of warm family moment of complete innocence and safety. I can't even bring myself to imagine hearing this track as depressing or desolate, unlike say with rhubarb, which is definitely ultra bittersweet :V

[@rag33ous]

When I'm in a more sensitive state, this track almost always makes me cry, like really cry. Indeed it's interesting how different people get affected differently by the same piece.

[@GregoryD-if5xg]

Love this track. Good to sleep to. I like the comment about floating underwater. brilliant

[@choggerboom]

I hold the open wound my chest, like a grail I've sworn its secret walking the barren road aimlessly though I'll be returning to whichever Kingdom presided there before. As if the blood does summon me and my loss of present hereness knows no sound-but trumpets pumping the reverberations the ether, where others gather plucking their muted harps with scathed nails in the wingless hole of lost peoples, their colorless chorus, singing with lids closed- I am, returning. I am coming Home. I'll miss the stars and their salutations from each their silent stations, they wave me goodbye now. Goodbye then. The cold and wintry nightly air I'll miss you too; Goodbye now. I breathe you in one last time through not the nose but mouth so that I may cry out the first And I cry as like my mother-the same shake, the same undulating cadence the breath, with the eyes of my Father, I am coming home for good. Like the babe I was and always am I will cry along and loudly without knowing entirely the reasons why.

[@user-cb1cb5sc1g]

Wow dude

[@BillyDawg101]

Something about this song just makes me want to stop doing anything and just melt. Just forget everything

[@gmegas]

Amazing piece of work!! Brings back memories!!

[@xylan9543]

i am free now, in my own comfort, under a warm blanket, with no worries in the world, everything is fine eventhough in actuality its not.

[@Deathfromabove5]

this is beautiful

[@InsomniAshh]

Anyone here from Organism? It's my favorite track on that map and I couldn't find it until now.

[@mishanyasound]

YEEEEAA

[@kewuo]

if u havent already, you gotta play the two epilogues

[@sycamoreknox9419]

Downtown Tulsa Sunday afternoon not a soul in sight, just me and this haunting song.

[@one_man_community]

Creation is the loneliest creation.

[@vrilmaxxed]

Alright

[@joshuakoppes3665]

Evil stone in focus

[@BlackAlbino2000]

Amazing sounds …

[@rikmannix]

Beautiful ❤ came here due to the Mike Paradinas quote stayed for the chords

[@shadiyoussef7226]

The worst thing about every Aphex Twin track is that they end

[@Brendan-Black]

*Every* Aphex Twin track? No. He's put out a lot of garbage and you're lying to yourself if you think otherwise. But this one? Yes.

[@shadiyoussef7226]

@@Brendan-Black What do you mean, Ventolin is my lullaby 😂

[@lettuce2798]

this made me feel like anxiety didn't exist, only for a brief moment...

[@Paine137]

This will last a million years.

[@gastonboi444]

bkeeding out slowly, on a grassy hill, on a summer evening.

[@sweetwheatsy]

Ohh. What a mental picture. Intense.

[@tun1to]

Sounds like a deep and dark gaming sound full of adventures where you can't get the end

[@MasDouc]

Sounds like an early version of what Stone in Focus would become

[@spaced1700]

I recognize this song through the same feelings I get during dreams that have no clear goals or threats, just nonsensical imagery. Grey and bizarre; without meaning.

[@Channel-ev8yb]

its like im eating meatloaf and mashed potatoes on a cool friday afternoon

[@TheCaucazoid]

If he came out with a Greatest Calx album, make it vinyl only, even add a couple of new unreleased Calx’s, that would be amazing! Blue Calx and this version of Red Calx are just a thing of beauty.

[@vinzaux]

i find this track so sour, like sitting alone in my bedroom at night after crying thinking about how everything only feels worse and worse

[@chopatron-fb3ww]

I had this thought, why are we scared to die if when we die we won't be able to feel any emotions or remorse for ourselves..

[@cjchampion816]

I think it’s more the fear of actually dying, being aware as your physical body shuts down and the instinctual feelings of panic and fear that may come along with it

[@jasonmorris3045]

Beautiful

[@JesseGarza01]

This makes everything OK for me....I just can drift away...

[@sebastianstudios7609]

I wish this was in the expanded edition of SAW II that coming out in October. Along with On (28 Mix).

[@vico805]

you right! can believe the saw2 repress is happening!!!

[@benjaminplt]

Sadness, Despair darkness That's all this has.

[@tuffleft]

This track reminds me of the sound of fog horns by the Golden Gate.

[@yeeoo5772]

This track sounds like a bad ending. Or mostly as if (you were doomed and there was nothing you could have done) kind of feel.

[@dead_again9839]

Aphx is the only reason i listen to ambient music

[@rickc2102]

He's my first, but there's also good shit out there by Brian Eno, Marconi Union, The Sight Below, and others.

[@WhoIsLOK]

Need this on Spotify 💔

[@OfficialDjn0size]

slowly floating in space

[@caf144]

Resons why Music is Inspecial for our owning ears alike birds sounding in forest. (Reason to Crying). ✨

[@awnaur0no919]

watchin erything fall apart

[@awnaur0no919]

tryna accept dat this is tha only way it couldve happened

[@sandwich675]

You are not alone.

[@awnaur0no919]

thanks b :((

[@circumferential4441]

this is so inspiring..

[@helloufoundmychannel6055]

I feel like walking down a really long train track that leads into a very dark tunnel.

[@cogitoergobooom]

Pure love for decay.

[@oscartravis5740]

We've had Blue Green and Yellow Calx, there had to be a Red :-)

[@xylan9543]

fuck this is so goooooooddd i love aphex twin

[@thewalterandryanshow]

chills...

[@gsuushsujshs]

Я засыпаю под неё

[@browerdapjim7484]

un punto di falsa speranza,incombente il lato oscuro di questa nostra esistenza,ci sentiamo saggi e al contempo completamente ignari del giorno che verrà

[@eelponna3145]

Why wasn’t this put out on the SAWII boxset yesterday? It’s criminal! Instead we got Rhubarb Orc.19.53 Rev which sounds completely out of place compared to the other SAWII tracks!

[@sebastianstudios7609]

I guess Rhubarb Orc is meant to be a sort of triumphant conclusion to the expanded album, which I kinda like. Though I do agree that Red Calx should have been added, but then again beggars can’t be choosers.

[@sebastianstudios7609]

I also guess cuz there is already a blue calx too

[@eelponna3145]

@@sebastianstudios7609 but we got Stone in Focus when there’s already a Weathered Stone!

[@sebastianstudios7609]

@@eelponna3145 I suppose that’s true

[@_just_a_random_artist_]

This song makes you feel like your walking on a bridge through a rainy canyon of buildings at night…

[@vrilmaxxed]

I love all the calxs

[@connorboolen3086]

Richard, please put this on a vinyl already!!!

[@nsputnik]

Similar chords to Blackbox Life Recorder.

[@vico805]

omg your right love that he goes back sometimes to give new life to an old tune