Aphex Twin - sams car

[@olivierslupik400]

I put this song when my students work on the Nasa internet site with the solar system interactiv interface. They had to watch stuff like the comet Oumouamua or transcribe distances etc.. I didnt knew they liked the music but once I had to stop it and they asked me to put it again, i just knew it would fit the activity!

[@juliettefrost8570]

cool teacher lol

[@yoyozavesky]

didn't knew

[@yoyozavesky]

students

[@samx2222]

based teacher. incredibly based.

[@Vingul]

Very nice. Incidentally there's an MLO compilation titled "Oumuamua". Music from that could fit as well.

[@3JJ3]

This song mad cozy

[@rotmgdabeatz]

All his soundcloud work

[@cynergy]

afx having fun with the gain knob on the hihats at 3:41

[@nokturnsoldier5619]

When I hear this song it’s almost like everything is fine again and there are infinite amount of possibilities and the music was always in the air and you were there playing me this pretty song.

[@CC-jy4gr]

yeh well its not

[@itscrumbelivable]

@@CC-jy4gr A man can dream, can't he?

[@theflowpowa42oshow]

@@itscrumbelivable Amen bruda

[@rotmgdabeatz]

@@CC-jy4gr it is 😡🤬

[@CC-jy4gr]

@@rotmgdabeatz you and your homie flowapowa42o are wrong they don't matter your just lil people on a lil planet in a big empty void of nothin m8 now sit down zip it and eat your cheerios

[@Yomamma00069]

Glad to be alive!

[@specterlord]

Great to hear brother. Me too.

[@p8.12]

November 13, 2025.

[@neochromatic6723]

This song somehow captures the feeling of drinking hot cocoa while cold

[@deanaustraw305]

i replay this track in my head way more than i should

[@javierzepeda8202]

This song is amazing, there's no word to discribe it. I repeat it over and over again. the feeling that make me feel is out of this world, calm, nostalgic, sadness, hype, and other ones. Richard is God. someone can make it a video loop?

[@YershJRSZ]

Those hi-hats!

[@geogaddi91]

They sound identical to Xtal's, which makes sense since this was pre-saw I

[@HimnoZapatista]

every goddamned day i meet new afx pearl. it never finish .

[@sleepyhead3445]

SAME

[@colinosborne6618]

Man I wish I was u

[@maufo]

Afx present, past, future... Always

[@rodriguespepper]

That's it, I'm going through all of his stuff and absorb as much of it as I can. It's gonna be a long journey... but man, am I glad I found him

[@loljoker127]

did you end up doing it?

[@mister_cjw]

Selected Ambient Works 1 would be the place to start : )

[@rodriguespepper]

@@loljoker127 Sure! I'm still in the process though, takes a lot. We're talking about decades of music, one record at a time. Here's how I started doing it: 1. I went to Discogs and wrote down on a list every record of each of his aliases plus variations. 2. I find it easier to listen to each record in chronological order rather than per alias. So the next step was to order every record per release date/year. 3. In most cases, every week was dedicated to a single record or a small chunk of a big record. The point was to leave some time to see if some songs were meant to grow on me after a little bit of listening, which means that I listened to every song 7 times on average before moving on (once a day for a week). 4. Listen to every song paying attention to details, it's worth it! I find it best to listen to his songs before bed, no interruptions. 5. Support Richard David James!

[@rodriguespepper]

@@mister_cjw The first ever song that I came across from Richard was "Afx v237" (the song from the Rubber Johnny video). Not present on the average Aphex Twin starter pack, but it was enough to change my life forever haha

[@mister_cjw]

@@rodriguespepper lol - that's a fairly heavy baptism. I first head SAW1 in 1994 on cassette. It definitely changed my life then.

[@devonmccollister4860]

unbelievably good

[@Abyssalmatter]

Soul soothing music!

[@Sirveaux]

Hey man, thank you for taking time out of your life to create something like this and share it with us.

[@onegative75]

RDJ enhances the mind..his music should be taught in school.

[@specterlord]

Agreed

[@possum_divinorum]

this song makes me feel colder

[@keichmuncher3999]

When I took half a tab of acid I listened to this song on the tv, all the black in this picture was rose coloured, I cried through the whole song. Aphex Twin has opened my mind.

[@neighbor472]

Bradley Strider not really... even if it is mostly 1p ive done both and theres hardly a diff

[@ianquinn348]

Awesome

[@ckeeley]

I think that was probably the acid to be fair

[@chuncite5719]

hows it going keichmuncher3999

[@chuncite5719]

on acid jammin to this at sunrise. Afx GOATED

[@Hasuo2001]

This is the song I want to listen to when I take a walk on the nearby river around 5am.

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

the sequel: sams van

[@McNuggs-]

Oh man, thank you so much for that link set. Real life saver.

[@Aphexm1ke]

Rich really enjoyed making this track, for some reason I just know it.

[@Snavaneeth78]

Because it was in his girlfriend's car!

[@guitaoist]

Another banger from Dick aka Richard. Jammin him since my ex gf introduced me in 2004, so glad hes still creating in my generation

[@awesomeandamazinggirl]

Wow. I love this sm dude aphex twin is so talented

[@Mmmaannnu]

I remember listening to this on acid with my friend moments before he tells me he thinks he's about to die. Good times

[@vertsk8er419]

lol

[@vico805]

fucking L man that shit takes forever to go away 😂

[@SamantherPanther]

Hop in y’all

[@SullenMorbius]

love this one

[@linuspersson8715]

King Aphex

[@joefarnell5672]

Yes more, thanx. Was great listening to on the big screen. However! I wish to amplify the success of plastering this on a wall via projector. The idiosyncrasies of multiple-media transfer made it almost like enjoying a visual vinyl. Foggy, yet Smooth.

[@possum_divinorum]

needs a cool visualizer for sure

[@vico805]

the water below flows a little

[@appabaysse]

This kinda sounds like if Kraftwerk & Aphex Twin collaborated and made a demo track during the production of Tour de France soundtracks that never made it to the final cut of the album

[@rocklouder7022]

i want this on vinyl ...

[@TangoDelta70]

Amazing 7\

[@notgonnaknowtillthen3192]

It's so poetic that a profoundly touching song is titled after something as menial as someone's car.

[@possum_divinorum]

much was about it's hi hat

[@Sirveaux]

Who in the fuck thumbs downed this?

[@zbyniew]

What dislikes, where? I can't see any xD

[@bumpf1337]

No one. There's zero dislikes atm.

[@Sirveaux]

I fucking hate how no one's feelings can be hurt anymore. Honest criticism that could lead to growth is gone because it "hurts people's verginas".

[@bumpf1337]

@@Sirveaux true

[@Theaphextwin972]

I'm pretty sure the sam in the title is supposed to be the one of Richards ex-girfriends called Sam

[@cynergy]

Samantha was her name. "Tha" from SAW85-92 also names it after her.

[@HSA654]

Heliosphan's predecessor

[@jellytos]

anybody know the chord progression from the beginning?

[@solarean]

A# minor, C# major, then repeat. At third repeat you put F# major right after C# major. That’s basically it

[@solarean]

After the first apparition of the F# major, it’s four times Abmin-C#maj before seeing the F#maj again though instead of only 3.

[@solarean]

Another thing is the chords are slightly detuned: they’re on a slightly lower pitch than they would normally be, probably around 435hz instead of 440hz. That makes them sound calmer and more muted.

[@jellytos]

@@solarean i didnt think anybody would reply, i cannot thank you enough

[@qweqwqweqwe1592]

pre gud

[@Aphexm1ke]

3:53

[@lllololhehe4032]

Sounds like he recorded over another song no?

[@passengerify]

I hate that one dislike

[@stu3131]

It really does sour the mood, doesn't it?

[@onegative75]

doesnt understand

[@passengerify]

Not longer an issue, dislikes dissappeared

[@DJcrossPT]

where this background footage from?

[@FairlyEducational]

Looks a bit like Japan

[@samschf9806]

I rem.

[@wee5h]

Serene

[@kerokitty]

:)

[@solid_01]

🎼 (( (( 🖤 )) ))

[@mattludlam2194]

This chord sequence and the bass line sound quite poppy compared to his other stuff

[@valfitzpatrick666]

Hey afx! Y u no spotify dis?

[@Etherwa]

Sprish what is your top 3 aphex twin songs

[@sprish00]

iv been thinking for 3 weeks for the right answer to this! every time I think I have it narrowed down to 3, 3 others are just as good! Flow Coma, Meltphase 6, Flim, most likely. honestly there are too many!

[@Etherwa]

@@sprish00 interesting choices

[@enneff]

@@sprish00 love that you chose meltphace 6. I really feel it’s underrated, and actually one of his best tunes ever. I think rich personally likes it a lot because I saw him play live maybe a year after drukqs came out and it was the only tune off the album he played. I was elated.

[@melohavoc]

i NEED to know where you got the background from

[@sprish00]

ORBO

[@katiemckenzie4972]

does anyone have a playlist of aphex tracks like this

[@DuffmanBE]

You should definitely check out Stone in Focus

[@Vingul]

@@DuffmanBE Not really reminiscent of this, but yes

[@EyesWideShutgr]

can someone upload it please on spotify?

[@vico805]

7\