Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse

[@Shea7TDM]

I attempted to decipher the text at the beginning of the video and this is how far I got, there’s some mistakes here and there since I couldn’t figure out some stuff but point them out and let me know if you can. this track is called “collapse” by the way cos when the bass kicks in and the tempo starts slowing down It’s like a collapse of sorts :) I’m gathering visual references at the moment is there any other point cloud or any other references you’d like I should look nope dont think so.. I still love ascii visuals also. surprised it never got used more but maybe it has, I dont get out much. sure, I’ll look into doing 3d ascii point-cloud crossover maybe when you get up close to the point yeah I see your point with midi.. but you would just edit tight to the beat anyhow can’t you? yeah I could, but with your kinda music it would take forever with midi files it would be instant and tight as fuck what places to include would be relevant in London? deffo the silver box be relevant and the Lantle? that I’ll be one of the focal points in the video, a bit like the monolith in 2011 collaged with the Cornish stuff nah, all crap how about sun on cafe next to clissold park, ha collage stuff, top yeah.. and how quickly they add that woods stuff in that Star Wars thing… crazy realistic Maybe we should do something with political slant in this video, you know how media can manipulate things to make you think Oh been getting well into simulation theory of late.. didn’t realise a lot of prominent science are now saying the chance we are living in a base reality is about 1 billion to one! love it.. simulations in simulations in simulations for ever probably.. god is just an ai I don’t wanna accept it though, although I agree it’s feasible. I’d rather think that all these normal people who watch shit like "Britain's got talent" and such their proof of it's not a simulation (cos why would you bother simulating) or it's proof that we are living in a failed simulation lmao I can’t see why it would be a problem accepting, I quite like the idea.. ha I think thats what I hate the most about it,, is that it opens the gate for creationism interpretation… yeah well science is not much better, can't explain how life started, what was before big bang and loads of other stuff, just evolution and even that has gaping holes so was just chomping on a peanut butter toastie with swedish jam... thinking the idea that code i.e. us can imagine something is pretty wild code rewriting itself and investigating the future rewrites of itself This obviously applies to any act of imagination: imagining a future version of itself or imagining what effects the rewrite ing to have on you and then adjusting the imagination to give desired effects mhm, and what kind of jam was that? Sounds like it was fermented or something to give this inspirations and that tip, i've been well into into Almond butter and manuka honey lately anyway, was thinking if was all a sim,, the technology would be so advanced, it’s probably even beyond code, like many levels steps further analogue-d like some semi organic technology, like in Exitenz..

[@YourMJK]

Thanks for the write down. So it's basically just your average schizo rambling.

[@LittleDinkens]

@@YourMJK its a email chain back and forth aphex and weirdcore

[@kutter_ttl6786]

Damn. Respect for your dedication to deciphering it.

[@auroraborealis13579]

Thank you! You’re a real one. ❤

[@loleq2137]

So nice of you to do that 👍

[@KuntaKinteToby]

His ability to make the most manic and calm sounding music at the same time is simply incredible.

[@phatrick]

i think because it’s a calm pad sound with fast manic drums at the same time

[@pequod4557]

dum fatrick though he figured out the code

[@beefax]

probably has to do with the drums not being hit quite as hard, like the kicks barely making a sound but are constantly being hit

[@JazzyFunkaHolic]

@@beefax they are very present to me 😂

[@FozzyOverload]

Manic drums calm pads, that's p much it

[@jompa1554]

I can’t even imagine the creative process behind this.

[@techno.science]

Alot of acid mostly

[@zakur0hako]

@@techno.scienceintense creativity can be achieved totally sober if enough talent is present

[@techno.science]

@@zakur0hako yup tapping into the infinite super consciousness where all possibilities exist.

[@docto_Ji]

@@techno.science CORNISH acid

[@ricardojmestre]

Ditto. I have no clue.

[@itsenzo3000]

Everybody a gangsta till the mountains turn into aphex smile texture

[@melohavoc]

I'm going to quote this forever now

[@itsenzo3000]

@@melohavoc cheers!

[@revst4r]

Happens to the best of us

[@itsenzo3000]

@@revst4r always

[@FokoPoko991]

Yeah I think I saw that once

[@szalero555]

this is richard's brain when he's trying to buy a beer

[@_ventolin__]

great reference

[@shugafoo2847]

Hahahaha

[@randomhandle6]

lol

[@inhalefarts]

I bet he wears a mask of himself in public so he doesn't get recognized

[@strayker9911]

@@_ventolin__ to what? please tell me

[@plunderclat221]

This video seems trippy at first glance but this is just an insightful look at what its like for richard to go get a pint of milk from the corner shop.

[@CS-mo7xp]

haha

[@DanCastellon]

Pretty sure the milk man delivers his milk in the morning. The milk man delivers his milk when he's yawning.

[@xn4pl]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqLImJRslpeabKM

[@marshallemmet1366]

@@DanCastellon He doesn't because Aphex plays his music too loud and the milk man doesn't like it.

[@davidw9736]

@@DanCastellon i reckon he's managed to get it from the milkman's wife's tits by now

[@sdfhhh3r]

"yo why didn't you say hi to me at the party?" what I saw at the party:

[@CS-sf1rz]

Ha

[@masterofchaos2]

Xaxaxaxa!!

[@maksrender5437]

So that was hella good party it seems 😂

[@hedysseus496]

Hahaha

[@thej3799]

@@maksrender5437 I was there when he first played it live. Richard such badass it began raining instead of stopping he had people cover himself and his gear with a tarp

[@Shnecko]

The last half of this song is what I absolutely adore about Aphex Twin

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

Now take it to a progressive album series project. 3 years long worth of evolving album trilogy.

[@jeanfrancoisnelson]

Imagine someone from the 19th century seeing this

[@koenmetekohy1296]

They’d probably die

[@fnm04]

Witchcraft! Drown him in a river!

[@przygas2926]

Imagine he wakes up with vr on and this is playing

[@profd65]

Imagine a millennial or a zoomer reading a book that was written during the 19th century--that's mind blowing. So trippy.

[@MiguelMorales85]

They would probably kill you.

[@shouly2283]

There should be a 360 version of this

[@salsaandbrwx1449]

n o

[@achromatopsic]

@@salsaandbrwx1449 y e s

[@ArchiveTAC]

Or maybe a game

[@_Killkor]

360 VR

[@GoogleUser-ms6hr]

Ah yes, epilepsy from all angles

[@PoisonInc]

I love how this still sounds like Aphex Twin, which also sounds like it was made 50 years from now.

[@przygas2926]

It was made 50 years ago

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

It has; 👑

[@evo2542]

This video isn't CG. It's actual footage from the planet Aphex Twin originates from.

[@sonicextremities9570]

CG rendering of actual locations

[@allgunsblazed9106]

@@sonicextremities9570 no shit

[@Sum67]

@@sonicextremities9570r/wooosh

[@RyanCelsiusMusic]

when you download an acid trip from your dealer and the .rar is corrupt

[@Luchoz46]

And your input is broken

[@virkots]

That's good acid.

[@mrtnpope]

Hope this is a feature in Cyberpunk 2077

[@5methoxy]

na this dmt

[@analogdistortion]

ahhahahaha

[@sefaemreilikli]

Send this to the aliens without context. 💯

[@thefxbip315]

Aliens:''Humans speak our language! nice''

[@JMikaelian95]

It may be seen as an act of war

[@calumfinlayson7382]

a beat war they will loose

[@Deathdrummer195]

Even we dont have context

[@kevintwin7777]

To the Aliens this is Plain pop

[@iconoclast137]

He didn’t need to make the ending that fucking good, but He did.

[@mayabartolabac]

i call that passion

[@demetrisgalides]

goddamn gives me chills everytime

[@moka8267]

That capitalised "He" tho

[@nathanb1886]

his brain won’t let him out of the creepy bank vault until it’s perfect tho...

[@engladtur]

It's just so good

[@JaredCaraway]

This man is a straight-up musical genius.

[@ricardojmestre]

Totally.

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

He IS. 🤭

[@joshinya66]

So genius in fact , that Avril 14th was ripped in part by yeezus.

[@morrisalanisette9067]

He's a jisical menius

[@Brendan-Black]

He's pretty damn good at that there musical stuff fo sho. He's up there with many other talented musicians, young and old, recent and ancient.

[@mrtnpope]

I know you're watching this over and over Thom Yorke

[@hijena1234]

hahah def

[@Alga-team]

Hey! Don't be so rude! Agree, this is funny as hell!

[@ALPHONSO_NANOOK]

ha ha ha ha

[@nielubieplackow184]

I don't understand

[@andrey4388]

@@nielubieplackow184 Kid A, one of their best albums, were ispirated a lot by Aphex Twin.

[@sausageskin]

I like how this track evolves through three stages: starts as dance music, then falls apart 1:53, and finally becomes stable 3:13.

[@DaleEarnhardt_]

Similar to our minds: Stability, then anomaly is introduced, then system-wide freakout, then integration, then stability again.

[@RyanSmith-wo2pi]

YES

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

Imagine his being paid $1,000,000 USD a year to keep a track list active. 24/7 & 365 🌉

[@EpicSelenium34]

fascinating... but what about cases of integrative failure in which we fail to regain stability!?

[@NibblahFrog]

@@DaleEarnhardt_ Be careful that's startup talk.

[@Jack-nd7gw]

this video is brilliant not just because of its technical detail, but how accurately it puts into visuals the concepts of the conversation transcribed at the start. ascii and midi, analog vs digital, simulation theory, the "collapse" and reorigination of the universe into the existence of microorganisms, eventually settling into a peaceful, abstract and brilliant enlightenment. it's all there, done in a very spectacular way. I am highly envious of their talent

[@lostmedia-e6p]

You just gave me a whole new perspective of this EP. Holy shit.

[@samgalloway3012]

Jack and ya we all need to get a life.

[@survivaloftheidiots6239]

You sound like a pretentious prick ngl

[@TheBanjoShowOfficial]

@@survivaloftheidiots6239 I don't think hes trying to be, hes not exactly wrong.

[@icebergcxc]

even if this isnt the intended meaning, there is no true meaning to art and honestly thats an awesome fucking concept

[@jomartinkelly1]

All I can imagine is a constant back and forth between creative and client, do this, change that, not that, more that, before the final delivery to Richard and him replying "fuck yeah".

[@ThePainkiller9995]

I was born in the right generation

[@calumfinlayson7382]

thank you sir, all the cunts born now dont actually appreciate the amazing music coming out casue their too lazy to try and search into genres they just think its all pop shit, most of my freinds wish they were born in the 70s fuck them, fuck them to the moon pal, i couldnt miss out on this genius.

[@d4rq0n3aphextwin]

I was born in 1980 and after all the music I've listened to without sticking to a specific genre.. I can say with confidence that Franz Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Aphex Twin are the greatest composers of all time and that doesn't even take into account the hyper productivity. Even though the melodies (most of the time) are, of course, not on par with the classical composers.. his ingenious percussion inventions really tell a story and finishes the whole as a brilliant composition. Besides it is much harder in this time period to make anything sound original than it was 150ish years ago.. Aphex Twin is a living legend.

[@tylerstalinescu3468]

ThePainkiller9995 Best comment

[@666hobart]

You all do realize that this Guy Aphex twin is old enough to be most of yous guys' father? And he's been doing this for YEARS way before a DAW was invented... kids nowadays. Revel in his genius! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin

[@kevintwin7777]

That's the way to talk!

[@stunthumb]

As someone who loves AT, graphics, game development, tech demos and technical art - this is basically the coolest video I've ever seen in my life - its like my eyes are drinking it. YT should do that, let us set our very favorite video so the creator can see that and know how much we appreciate their efforts.

[@felipepalmacastro]

I like the video and I like the music, but I need to know how the graphics got so...organic. Like in 2:00 and onwards, how the whole pulses, is amazing.

[@stunthumb]

Yeah, it is fascinating stuff. These are all modern shader techniques coupled with better normal map and tesselation, and 3D scanning. My favorite and probably most relevant technique is tesselation... That's when they take a 3D model and high detail textures, and use the normal map and height map to tesselate the polygons... kinda like when a piece of glass shatters but stays intact... then all those extra vertices are extruded based on height - so you see those real smooth effects in real time with things pulsing and inflating and looking very organic. We see this used in games like Battlefield, to give the terrain that extra detail, but it's completely dynamic - it can be used to make some freaky shader effects. I develop in unreal engine as a hobby, probably spend most of the time just messing around with shader effects, it gets fascinating sometimes.

[@YesIKnowSillyName]

any tips on how to get started on these things as a programmer?

[@stunthumb]

Yeah, you can get stuck right into this stuff just by downloading Unreal Engine. The processes are all well documented, lots of videos and tutorials all over the place. I would suggest that you decide on something you want to try, and research it, watch videos etc. For example, the organic displacement effects would be done with tessellation, so if you do a YT search for 'unreal engine tessellation shader' you'll find step by step tutorials and all sorts. Remember, you can write a game in Unreal without touching a single line of code - it's all done with visual graphs called blueprints, like flowcharts really where the logic is organised as nodes and connections. It's probably the case that Unreal has a steeper learning curve than say, Unity - but it's free and documented and easily the top engine at the moment for the games people want to play right now (survival open world). You don't really need to be good with art either - tons of resources for textures and models - really the best trait for people using Unreal is neatness... blueprints and files can get untidy - if you have any sort of OCD then you might find it actually helps keep Unreal on track!

[@UksiHattu12]

Would you have any idea how was this video probably made? I don't know anything about that kind of stuff.

[@boombaby1769]

It's damn amazing how far we've come with computer aesthetics, no matter whether music or video production. In 2019, this is a pleasant thing to watch. I swear, if I had seen and heard something like this somewhere in the 80s, I would have died. I mean, really died. My brain just couldn't have been able to process this back then.

[@dwaynesbadchemicals]

Hallucinogenic experience helps.

[@thegrunch6448]

My brain still can't process it now

[@RustinChole]

Autechre’s Grantz Graf (2002) or even his 1999 Windowlicker video aren’t that far behind this🤷🏻‍♂️.

[@roy_for_real2674]

Is that why everything was in hazy 5 pixels back then?

[@kozhnik]

Hello from 2023 year !!!

[@WoKEWoRLdMAdNess]

Richard is the Willy Wonka of synthesizers. The guy is beyond genius. I remember when I was first introduced to him back in 1997 and here it is 25 years later and he still is making perplexing and beautiful songs. So many machines.

[@teebee118]

Funny you should mention Willy Wonka - one of his tracks from SAW1, aptly named We Are The Music Makers, samples a line from Willy Wonka as played by Gene Wilder. Talk about a comment going full circle lol

[@DanMice1]

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of the dreams" Willy Wonka - Aphex and Caustic Window

[@WoKEWoRLdMAdNess]

@@DanMice1 I love that quote

[@diemmeti]

Rdj & Warp still pushing the boundaries of audiovisual art since 1990. Nothing compares

[@AgentMcQueen]

*L O N G L I V E A P H E X T W I N*

[@CooldownReduction]

Just think about the rendering time. Probably took longer than making this song. 😂

[@Bakiyochi84420]

10 years?

[@visagecomputers1969]

Notch from Fairlight

[@visagecomputers1969]

“Notch” is the software look it up

[@dimamatvienko6134]

that took at least half a year, amazing job

[@tula__]

But what’s the use if it’s unpleasant to watch anyways.

[@toomanysymbols]

this video is actually just perfect. weirdcore and rdj are both geniuses, stunning talent, like so much so that it motivates me to get out of bed every morning. knowing this is possible, that 2 human beings were able to muster up the willpower and raw creative genius to make something like this is enough to get me going. i found aphex at the ideal time during my life, and he's been like a guiding star ever since. i honestly don't wanna do anything else with my life other than trying to provide a fraction of the value and meaning this guy has brought into the world. it's so amazing it starts to become like a religious thing to me almost, this guy from an isolated part of britain becoming one of the greatest electronic musicians to ever live practically from his bedroom. it's the antidote to everything bad about modernity, everything he does is a celebration of human progress, empathy and creativity. i don't think i can think of anyone else who has really drastically changed my life in this way. not even in my nearest circle of friends and family. all through being an absolute god at music production and a profoundly caring and understanding human being, and expressing that directly through abstract sounds. pure emotion transferred between minds, if you don't believe in magic this is probably the closest it's gonna get.

[@flyingshrimpgd5791]

"What kind of effects do you want for the video?" "All of them. Every single one."

[@lagduck2209]

Designer: "what kind of vfx do you want?" Richard: "yes"

[@plytx4665]

@@lagduck2209 :-D

[@ifeelsane]

@@lagduck2209 Why this shit is always works XD

[@dclarkmusic]

Your brain when an attractive person asks you basic questions about yourself

[@alexhamilton3522]

@Drip Alex Hamilton.... Blue! No Black!!! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh......

[@redkingoldhero38]

@@Herbert2892 this killed me

[@dr.dandyphd4968]

@Drip tap t t tap boom t-tapa tap

[@Bati_]

LOL 😆

[@Megan-zp3bo]

@@Herbert2892 I would've automatically wanted to hang out

[@andcik9332]

Universe.exe has stopped working

[@TheMozzatron]

This has got to be one of the maddest music videos. It’s absolutely ace

[@andrewhuang]

WHAT A JOURNEY

[@mygguy6489]

Hi Andrew

[@robindreier9796]

Hey its andrew huang! (am I allowed to say that? :D)

[@tsu-music]

the solar system insfused with LSD

[@robindreier9796]

tsu what the fuck are you even talking about

[@user-bh8be7zh3b]

a solar system infused with LSD obviously, what are you even asking?

[@ElectronicGems]

Oh my lord this is incredible

[@free-zd1nh]

Electronic Gems more like... analord

[@MojoRisingTV]

i dare you to pick up the sword and take on The Merlin and upload this elusively rare gem.

[@Francisco-or3nb]

i just came here to say analord, but it was already posted

[@umblapag]

Oh my analord

[@user-xr666]

Nothing like the music you post. This is art.

[@richardm5916]

Musical Genius, In 100 years time this will be like classical music....

[@RustinChole]

Man, someday people will hear “Mt Saint Michel + St Micheals Mount” and realize it’s overwhelming genius. As a classically trained musician, huge classical/jazz fan, the complexity and melodic skills RDJ displays in Druqks and this EP are nothing short of prodigious.

[@melquiadesestrada586]

No

[@hamesjorner]

Hahaa

[@adrianabonifaciodelgado]

No pendejo.

[@presauced]

Check out Venetian snares. Some of his songs has that classical vibe to it, like Hajnal, and Szamar Madar.

[@Inressa]

Best IDM music video. This has influenced how I see songs in my head and how I see the world a bit. All warping, flowing, moving parts of natural objects all scatterplaced on top of each other. Absolutely awesome.

[@etz80808yy]

I can relate to this

[@z.verdadero]

you'll probably like the one for joga by bjork

[@leandromosso9773]

@@z.verdadero bjork is not edm bro xd

[@z.verdadero]

@@leandromosso9773 it was just a recommendation based on the description of the music video, not that much the type of music.

[@zerologic7912]

@@louper3002 they're meant to be a different, less experimental/glitchy style

[@auclairdelalyn]

Instructions unclear, I turned into a 5 dimensionnal being, help

[@OlderG0ds]

Just go into the wall it’s safe in there

[@presauced]

This opened my third eye.

[@point-xn4tu]

Nope, you've followed the directions step by step. Mission accomplished. All is as it is supposed to be. Everything is in its right place. Welcome to Fifth Density. :-)

[@渡辺次朗]

Don't think! Feel.

[@jackwattsitoyu9274]

Lsd dream emulator remaster??

[@CoryMck]

We get it, you own a subscription to Adobe suite. Stop bragging already.

[@kp5716]

I’ve been going through various phases of which Aphex songs I love the most ever since I discovered him. This might be my new favourite right now. The video along with it is an incredible visual trip.

[@hansdado]

you can really do that forever with him

[@ChrisKogos]

Incredible.

[@bushelofcorn]

Chris Kogos fancy seeing you here, meme god

[@Sternertime]

It might be the best video on youtube

[@nihonium]

why am I here?

[@liamaspinall6906]

[@ChrisKogos]

@@nihonium ayy :)

[@chumbuswumbusblumpis]

This happened to my buddy Eric

[@hiphyro]

this happened to my buddy holly

[@Orzeczenie.]

weezer​@@hiphyro

[@JakeShelvey]

Remind me never to watch this under the influence of ANYTHING. Not even aspirin. I'll fall into RDJ's pulsating digital anus and never find my way out again

[@mariusd7803]

Albutthole Ballsbutt

[@aldenburt5402]

i just did

[@timmbrockmann959]

You mean like that scene at 2:52?

[@RichHoy]

Hahahahaha!! This comment has made my day

[@annualblood3032]

Did you happen to measure the pulsewidth?

[@Cyliem]

my spotify autoplayed one of aphex twin's song named qkthr and i found it beautiful, checked his other works, now I've gone deep into the rabbit hole.

[@iamsixsyllables9679]

you've found the entrance, now you'll slowly go farther and farther into the rabbit hole.

[@DæmonV86]

I found it genuinely disconcerting when Richard's face began appearing in the amorphous landscape, but isn't that always the case when that happens?

[@warprecords]

* HOOF IT *

[@moonsofix]

Warp Records no u

[@leFuky]

Warp Records oof

[@IL4NR]

what did he mean by this

[@yeahrosie]

is there any other way

[@wayneschroederGONG]

Hoof or huff? : ) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpypgpaNn9GNhqs

[@Killer33467]

One of the best music videos I've ever seen!

[@ryxarkhalyx]

i feel so lucky to discover aphex twin since few years ago

[@neniv]

Happy Birthday Richard. Thank you for your artistic contributions to the world, I love you.

[@vmbo]

This video is an exact visual representation of what's happening inside my brain when solving problems: 0:00 question everything 1:04 absorb all possible data 1:55 ideas start to form 2:38 all original ideas go down the drain 3:15 a new more elegant and streamlined solution is found

[@mvtro]

welcome to programming

[@vmbo]

@@mvtro I'm a programmer :)

[@mvtro]

ok now this totally makes sense my friend

[@thedevilisIN]

The definitive Aphex Twin music video.

[@Sternertime]

Wilhelm Skrjabin u could still the same about Windowlicker tho

[@thedevilisIN]

Chris Cunningham made two great videos with Windowlicker and Rubber Johnny. Still surprising and original today. But this, in my opinion, is more pure.

[@Sternertime]

I totally get what you mean. I had a mini-transcendental experience listening to this, for sure.

[@PictureProductStudio]

That would be Windowlicker, but this one is also great and it's nice to see that trademark of inserting his face where it does not belong is firmly in place.

[@S3rrgiio]

You need to watch or re-watch "Rubber Johnny".

[@point-xn4tu]

Still waiting for a massive Aphex logo crop circle to show up. If Greys drop acid, you know this is their jam.

[@HashMagician]

I have Epilepsy and i enjoyed this challenge

[@paulsolis3683]

HashMagician jajajaja no mames

[@derekperez1418]

Sound like a fucked up gameshow from a social nihilist country.

[@kujo1978lol]

Me too Haha Still hasn't affected me.

[@ВладимирМоисеев-о4г]

Richard David James, ты уникальный чувак, благодарю тебя за неповторимый музыкальный почерк, за кучу офигенных треков, они были моими спутниками на протяжении всей молодости и сейчас. Ты реально крут ваще! Молодец, что не останавливаешься, что продолжаешь творить. Здоровья тебе и творческих успехов. From Russia with love)))

[@lambdashiftakadavidheikkil2657]

I usually don't relisten to a track over and over agian but this an expection to the rule, I listen to this every day and want to hear it more, this is one of my favorites tracks of 2018 for sure.

[@geoscherlock1]

the last 2 minutes of this song are absolutely magical

[@teapot1237]

It's whole is a masterpiece

[@etz80808yy]

those alien sounds at the end sound so cool

[@jorgek92]

3:51 when you get altitude sickness in Machu Picchu

[@sevenn]

thats gywneth pit

[@Ren-vy6uv]

Yes

[@zaaxi7424]

Amazing

[@jonny9365]

lando Gwennap Pit.

[@Aldhissla82]

3 seconds in and I know that I'll buy that record.

[@waspishbobfish]

Good luck, every website that has it has been crahed

[@youknowtheflavahbaby3374]

waspishbobfish Fuuuuuuu

[@Aldhissla82]

Yeah, failed me as well at first. But all worked out now; that limited first pressing is mine! :-)

[@sanderintzandt2779]

This how our parents describe their way to school

[@weirddriew1511]

The ending quite literally helps me with extreme depressive thoughts, hopelessness, lack of will to carry on, disconnectedness from myself.... this absolutely TRIUMPHANT synthesis of sound and vision, this exploding, unapologetic assault of light and beauty.... fuck. Thank you everyone involved in this is all I can say.

[@OperatorMax1993]

Damn... Thought I was the only one I really love how IDM can give those types of feels (like Stone In Focus, or I Will Get It Tattooed and such)

[@Craig332]

Found Selected Ambient Works while going through some stuff last month, which my cousin gave to me years ago. Crazy to see him still living up to such a standard. It's nearly spanned my whole life. Truly awesome, and makes me happy to have been a part of it in a small way

[@JuliusCaesar888]

This tune reminds of why I started loving AFX like 15 years ago as a kid. Top notch track.

[@vuuvovuuv]

this track is called collapse by the way coz when the bass bit kicks in and the tempo starts slowing down its like a collapse of sorts :) im gathering visual references at the mo but is there any other point cloud or other references you like i should look into? nope dont think so.. I still love ascii visuals also.. surprised it never got used more but maybe it has, I dont get out much. sure,, i'll look into doing 3d ascii point-cloud crossover maybe when you get up close to the point cloud it's look more like ascii... yeah i see your point with midi.. but you could just edit tight to the beat manually anyhow can''t you ? yeah i could ,, but with your kinda music,, it would take for ever with midi files would be instant and tight as f**k what places to include would be relevant in London? deffo the silver box in elegant and castle yeah that will be one of the focal points in the video,, a bit like the monolith in 2001 collaged within the cornish stuff anything else in London? nah, all crap how about sun on cafe next to clissold park, ha collage stuff, top yeah and how quickly they add woods stuff in that star wars thing...crazy realistic Maybe we should do something with political slant in this video, like how media can manipulate things to make you think oh been getting well into simulation theory of late... didnt realize a lot of prominent science are now saying the chance we are living in base reality is about 1 billion to one! love it.. simulations in simulations in simulations.. for ever probably.. god is just an ai i kinda don't want accept it,,, altho i agree it's feasible.. i'd rather think it's not [text cut off] that all these normal people that watch shit like "Britain's got talent" and such it's either proof it's not a simulation, (cos why would you rather bother simulating that) or it's proof that we're living in a failed simulation i can't see why it would be a problem accepting, i quite like the idea.. ha i think that's what i hate the most about it.. is that it opens the gates for creationism interpretation yeah well science is not much better, can't explain how life started or what was before big bang and loads of other stuff just evolution and even that has gaping holes. so was just chomping on a peanut butter toastie with swedish jam.. thinking the idea the code i.e. us can imagine something is pretty wild code re-writing itself and envisaging the future re-write of itself This obviously applies to any act of imagination. [text cut off] imagination>making something>then observing it>observing it the re-writes the [code?] as you watch/experience what you made and then repeats if you do it again. imagining at future version of itself by imagining what effects the re-write [is going] to have on you and then adjusting the imagination to give desired effects mmh what kind of jam was that ? sounds like it was fermented or something, to give this inspirations : ) and that tip, i've been well into almond butter and manuka honey lately anyway, was thinking if was all a sim,, the technology would be so advanced, it's probably even beyond code ,,,, like many levels steps further analogue-digital [text cut off] like some semi organic technology like in Existenz ..

[@redkingoldhero38]

you are a god for this

[@vuuvovuuv]

@@redkingoldhero38 eh any goober could do this, it's just skipping thru frame by frame with the , and . keys.... I just happened to be the goober

[@redkingoldhero38]

well i tried and couldnt deciper it all. youre at the least the god of goobers

[@jasonhodgin1792]

The fact that you took the time to do it though. Props to you.

[@analogdistortion]

Nice one :D

[@mareoio4141]

this is actually how james sees the world

[@JasonTopo]

RDJ just dropped one of his best tracks and we’re around to see it.

[@FOTHER_MUCKER]

Today is a good day

[@avterry1111]

What the hell are you on about? RDJ was making underground electronic music LONG before the term "underground electronic music" was a term bandied about out by EDM kids desperately seeking cred.

[@alicesmith8134]

that's... normal? In fact that's a pretty high percentage of comments to views.

[@avterry1111]

@LA Sculpt - hahaha. I kid you not my dad sold carpet.

[@ermajko]

robert downey junior ?

[@stilltoomanyhats]

I didn't expect the singularity would come about through the Windows 98 labyrinth screensaver spontaneously achieving self-awareness and undergoing an intelligence explosion, but who am I to argue with the evidence

[@CarlosRomero-qi5ok]

en mexico a eso que dices se le llama ser un puñetas

[@clearveneer4161]

@@CarlosRomero-qi5ok hi

[@jimithjameth]

The world breathes a sigh of relief as Aphex Twin is back when we need him the most :D salutes to you sir and all that are part to this digital statement :D

[@StarlingASMR]

I'M HERE TO SIMP

[@ekanitsuj3223]

I heard the sound of Drukqs，Richard，are you coming back to Drill n Bass？？？？

[@austin1377]

at 0:11 "maybe we should do something with political slant in this video" lol

[@midilyfestyle]

Sp00gette is that your interpretation? Is that a translation from another language? Or are you just taking the piss? Just curious...

[@austin1377]

slow the video all the way down at that point in the video, then pause and unpause it untill you see that. If you look in speed youll see "speed: normal" . Change it to as slow as it can go.

[@rayfer.]

​@@austin1377what are you talking about

[@realPeperos]

4:01 Basicaly this is a 2b2t spawn

[@juankgonzalez6230]

THE OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER ON MINECRAFT

[@nothingisreal6816]

Lacking the edgy swastikas and obsidian dicks but the point still stands!

[@7WESEL]

lol

[@skywalker14]

maybe it's slowly evolving into aphex twin logo

[@milapulvirenti3857]

hahaha

[@KH0LRA]

The track, the visuals, the raw skill and talent in this video! i'm at a collapse for words.

[@etz80808yy]

Aphex twin

[@AlchemistTongueDrums]

The sacred geometry appearing a 4:47 is a merkabah or merkavah. It's described in the book of Ezekiel as a chariot made of spinning wheel creatures. A vehicle made of light used to meet god.

[@khan-xr6jz]

Alchemist Tongue Drums that's fucking awesome

[@StrongOneX]

Aphex Twin genius never stops impressing me.

[@goodsirknight]

@barnoftheyard did YHWH not originally mean sprit, wind, and in that sense the breath of life in all of us and in everything, so in a way The God

[@goodsirknight]

Absolutely astonishing fact, and great name too. I read a few books on alchemy last, fascinating

[@AlchemistTongueDrums]

@d R I'll pray for you lol

[@xXAjaxXx]

Man oh man, the world needed some more Richard D. James weirdness. Glad he's back to releasing stuff more regularly

[@MichaelKingJunior]

Alien: You have 5 minutes and 19 seconds to convince me that humans are an intelligent species Me:

[@jasonlitherland4270]

Michael King exactly

[@RichHoy]

Brilliant

[@uncleshiv8619]

Word

[@oliwierkowalczyk2539]

Michael King Alien: Wow, i misunderstood you humans. You really are capable of achieving great things. We will spare your planet and your species. And one more thing. What is the person who made this called? Me: Aphex Twin. Alien: BROTHER?! Let's be honest. Aphex Twin is the alien brother.

[@MrBeerlove]

Alien: I want my mummy

[@fredbirdcinema]

it's like he's showing us every possible sound for use in electronic music. i like how beats are used in place of snare, it's interesting stuff. 2 mins in we get a taster of all the hardcore beats and tempos that exist, and then, that final act is the track he decides to make and it's fucking beautiful, everything he knows laid out, if tracks tend to be 2 minutes these days, then there's his modern smasher, sitting at the end of a masterclass in how to make a beat

[@lvl99paint]

I love how he keeps his stuff always so identifiably RDJ, you can always tell its him. But he always finds some new ways to surprise you.

[@Rasarack0200]

Damn props to the artists. This video is extremely effective at elucidating the visual vibe that AFX's works gives. Franctic, precise, scary at times, beautiful at others.

[@depto125]

Hangable Auto Bulb + Syro = This Awesome Shiieeet

[@nikolaiostrander2214]

This is basically what I've always seen in my head when I listen to aphex twin

[@IanMcCausland]

this video reminds of my Warp Artificial Intelligence VHS from the 90's which is a good thing.

[@PeterDeslandes]

Ian McCausland Yeah, and perhaps Stakker’s (FSOL, etc) Eurotechno, all the way back in ‘89? One of the few VHS tapes I ever purchased, still in my attic I think.

[@electrinoc]

How does he keep doing this? Remaining on the bleeding edge of IDM and never feeling stale. He has more ideas crammed into one track than most artists can muster on a whole album!! Must Buy!

[@NickHchaos]

The GeekSpotlight lots of practice, millions of dollars in gear and studios don't hurt.

[@christryst]

Nick Herman he produced his last ep with a famously antiquated syth - so while he is a gearhead he restricts himself purposefully

[@NickHchaos]

Chris Daniels I wouldn't say a multi timbral wavefolding synth is antiquated--I use similar techniques in my own studio and it's an extremely forward thinking design--it's more that the UI for the Cheetah seems to have been designed by crack monkeys.

[@NickHchaos]

Chris Daniels also..he used a lot of other stuff, even though it was a fairly Minimal EP, I'm positive.

[@pearz420]

@@NickHchaos How would "millions of dollars in gear and studios" help a guy whose music is produced mostly by a computer or electronic device? He's not a pop star that needs auto-tuning, hours of takes, and lovely analog gear to smooth over the rough edges. Deadmau5 has all that, but no one other than kids wearing Monster Energy t-shirts will remember him for making electronic music what it is.

[@tuffbeat365]

I liked the bit when it went beep

[@joelavalo]

👽

[@squeebl]

even after watching this 27 times my body still noticeably relaxes after That Point in the tune

[@TheRyanMackfall]

Big up Redruth and anyone who knows these streets like the back of their hand.

[@alphalima7458]

Rip to anyone watching this high

[@blast144]

Alpha Lima I just watched this high AF and it's the best thing I've ever seen.

[@blast144]

... and i'm still alive :v

[@felipepalmacastro]

You got me there fam.

[@thewolfin]

Next try BICEP's _RAIN_

[@Spanishdog17]

I love it! It's stoner porn!

[@kingchongy1712]

Im fully convinced that he can make any great track with just about any sound thinkable. Just pure genius

[@fractallifeform8691]

"What are you thinking about?" "Yes."

[@Demention94]

How do you feel? Yes.

[@Anikthias]

Aesthetically and technologically speaking, this is one of the most impressive music videos ever made

[@kanasisthoogias4014]

That windows screensaver thing on LSD

[@CaskStrength777]

This is a Sonic as well as aesthetic digital masterpiece I have no idea how the human mind comes up with something like this it's beyond my understanding

[@andrewmajors9742]

I liked when all the buildings started dancing and turned into meat.

[@theBuLLetproofVIP]

Aphex Twin's music is always great, but this video is chilling. I have a lot of complex, incredibly surreal and pretty much indescribable dreams; this is the closest I've come to finding anything that creates a facsimile of those. Can anyone relate?

[@KaiTakApproach]

Neurotic Relapse Yes, I know what you mean. Someone also mentioned the nuclear episode of David Lynch's recent Twin Peaks revival and that gave me a similar experience. I have abstract dreams like this too.

[@FrozenSparky]

This is what I see when I do magic mushrooms

[@Scottish995]

Magic mushrooms, dmt or lsd can give you experiences like this

[@floydparsons2009]

As I was watching this I thought about the similar dreams I have where I would never be able to even begin describing a single part

[@mikeisapro]

I am extremely interested in dreams, and have studied not only my own dreams in depth, but dreaming in general. Most dreams are comprised of scenes taken from real life experiences, both from what we've seen in art forms like this, but more commonly from the more "real" experiences in our lives. I've had incredible dreams that taught me about my subconscious via images, locations, and encounters that I later recognize to have been merely symbols for something else in my life and in my psyche. Sometimes I will fly through space, or fly through a house I've seen before in real life, those are perhaps the closest thing I can think of that have any semblance of something in common with this video (flying through some landscape like cities or something that change, but they never change this rapidly, that's absurd) While that's only a fraction of what I've experienced in dreams, that's the closest I've found to anything resembling this video, though again, it's never changing at this rapid a pace. I have a dream journal of hundreds of dreams and countless dream scenes I've been able to recall upon waking, but no, I've never had dreams that were _this_ abstract, and I've had OBE's, sleep paralysis, false awakenings, have achieved lucidity, and virtually every kind of dream phenomenon known to man, but never experienced anything precisely like this video in a dream. You're either using your conscious imagination and projecting it onto your dreams, are simply an extremely rare and strange case, or you're exaggerating. The only other thing I can think of is that you're flat out lying, but it's probably some case of the former, perhaps a combination of these explanations.

[@toweringsequoias1590]

All I can do is smile. I have no words for how talented this man is. & to see it keep coming in 2018 when music is so garbage and over saturated, he's still killing it.

[@formyself2964]

Ciravem my thoughts exactly. He truly is the Master

[@douglasfairmeadow]

Precisely. It's just so goddamn fucking good.

[@Sonicsmith]

This must be what debugging in VR looks like.

[@_petchi]

STOP MAKING THAT BIG FACE

[@dirtydsrc]

Come on you funny little man.

[@Hexspa]

I would like some milk

[@christryst]

I would like milk from the milkman's wife's tits

[@Ktulhu82]

))))))

[@mulder4754]

looking at the swans and hearing the birds singing

[@reid2558]

Reminds me of listening to your music with ITunes visualization full screen and playing with the keyboard to change styles of visuals. Cool song too

[@DDbenkoDD]

Imagine this video in VR ...

[@UniqueMappingSequence]

my brain during math exam: