Afx - Phonatacid

[@stripedhyenuh]

Analord 02 makes me think of an abandoned, haunted Chicago discotheque: the decaying old Rolands just sitting there, unplugged, somehow playing themselves.

[@delfeth]

Sleep thank you just make me imagine the hole scene

[@ddkdkdkdkdkdk1]

@@delfeth K hole scene?

[@nightcandle62]

@@ddkdkdkdkdkdk1 what would you know about a k hole scene?

[@AntwhaleNearfar]

DELL FETH Glory holes?

[@leourtubey1723]

this whole thread is vegay

[@lydiamacintyre3729]

one of my favourite AFX tunes, it's like kraftwerk haunting a sewer level in a ps1 game

[@on1-.]

Love this visualisation

[@zaprodex]

Best comment ever thank u

[@dylanpickup2958]

After listening to Aphex Twin for almost 30 years, there is still great material to discover. He is king.

[@jeralua]

This is so true, and it’s nice to see a comment so recent just knowing people are still listening to these hidden gems.

[@pieterv224]

wtf this is just a copy paste from the Lisbon Acid top comment from 4 years ago

[@dylanpickup2958]

@@pieterv224 hahaha finally some one caught on, only took a month.

[@gabrielcazals4140]

How the fuck I just discovered Lisbon acid yesterday and I see this just now

[@_keygen]

ive seen this exactly same comment in another aphex video lmao

[@ddkdkdkdkdkdk1]

The synths sound like machines in conversation.

[@inn5268]

Yeah, I love how all the synths are synchronized to a single unified melody, each doing it's part

[@davidvilla2157]

It's the Stockhausen influence

[@l.b6906]

Tell me about it

[@Demention94]

This song is deeper than the Pacific. Dirtier too. One of the best techno tracks I've ever heard. Nothing even compares.

[@zerojades]

i totally agree with you. dirty is the best way i’d describe this song but in the best way possible. it makes me feel like im in a room of flashing lights pretending i’m in a movie scene

[@imDezrt]

This track always makes me think of somebody in a hazmat suit exploring an abandoned nuclear silo with toxic sludge coming down the walls. One of the more visually evocative tracks from the twin imo

[@misterpink808]

Yes, I always imagined some dark dank industrial machine factory. But your imagination of it suits perfectly as well. Some thing remained me of a level in Sonic the Hedgehog too, with the fire and lava.

[@loveulez]

S/E London in winter, basically

[@seanpadraigobrien1260]

Should have used it in stranger things

[@WillHerndon]

funny you have such a visual response to this track to me because even tho this is one of my favorite tracks off analord, it doesnt really evoke any mental imagery for me really. maybe just some clouds of white and blueish smoke from the reverbs. a few purple and yellow things here and there too but nothing specific like what you described

[@julian.castro18]

Funnily enough, Aphex Twin always reminds me of Half Life 1. Even the logos are really similar lol

[@virus2003]

One of the best anythings ever.

[@lukevandillen4055]

when a song can explain to you the problems of modern times by feeling alone, using no words to explain that, you know you've found something special.

[@DocSpratley33]

+Luke vanDillen indubitably

[@horatiotrismegistus616]

We are all like neurons in the mind of the meta-organism, called humanity. Being alone is a matter of perspective. Music helps remind us that we're all unique and special, just like everyone else.

[@Gaxiolaomar]

+Horatio Trismegistus so deeply bro

[@vegadva5744]

the last minute screams redemption

[@Mooondoggy]

the incredibles were on acid

[@nicholasvanwyk5688]

every song of RDJ's is the new best song I've heard

[@pretophil7632]

Inderdaard!

[@glennyoung6700]

I was driving home from work, one snowy night, listening to this song. It brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful!

[@gregoryprusak8130]

This is the perfect song to trip to. This whole side too. walls and faces just melt away...ripple through time and hear colors. You can get lost on and in the beat and wonder if you're gonna come back out on the other side.

[@cladinator]

Few people understand the grace of analog. The whole Analord series honors the sound and process of analog music. Well done, Mr. James.

[@InfernalPasquale]

Beautiful comment

[@barryjefferies3201]

I 2nd That Emotion BoYs 🎉😊😊 This Really is a Work of Analog Art 🎨 Jaffa jenkins Dawless jams ❤❤🎉😊

[@lucasmartin5479]

This song makes me feel like I am walking through a factory and I am stopping occasionally to watch the industrialization. This song just connects with my soul and opens my mind eye.

[@Goblin-ee4og]

Check out the song Stud by Autechre. Youl feel the same thing. Also check out the albums Amber and Tri Repeate by Autechre.

[@TheSuperCommentGuy]

Perfect description of this song.

[@maklir7361]

Ha absolutely. I picture exactly that when listening to hard industrial sounds.

[@squanchysquanch1840]

Lucas James Martin does it also open your brown eye?

[@deuxfecctiol197]

@@squanchysquanch1840 it did mine right now and it's lit fam

[@MrAphex117]

This track is the fucking best on the analord series

[@seantynan1]

I do agree, but stepfilter also blew my mind. I remember as a teenager in 1989? Listening to acid trax by phuture. Still have House Hallucinates on vinyl in my mam and dads place.

[@CoReCoNTAX]

One of the best tunes in the universe

[@lukzz2010]

you're right dude.

[@FluxFreeman]

this side of the milky way

[@dyF.6]

On acid atm, feeeling the Phonatacid! And you could'nt be more correct!

[@pequod4557]

Richard D James

[@ILCOSTI]

in the dazed and confused situation i'm in right now, aphex seems to be the only solution to keep away all my thoughts.

[@11ditto11]

ILCOSTI hows it going now? atm I'm so related to the past you who wrote this haha

[@AYYOFLOCKA]

It gets better m8 x

[@saturatedneowax]

dissociated a s fuck rn

[@saturatedneowax]

I entirely don't remember ever listening to this song, no longer feeling weird btw

[@adabase1737]

@@Demention94 Is it better yet? Is it not now, but was it better in the intervening time? How has the last three years been?

[@TheGVA94]

That bassy melody that comes in at 4:23 is just absolute delight.

[@klemet2]

It's good in my ears.

[@zachwilson768]

I always imagined cruising along an endless road in the Arizona desert at dusk. It’s so serene.

[@petervlcko4858]

Best of his work is his courage to make break in track and then continue like nothing happens. Most of people has problem to keep the line and do not start to fly within track not to even make a break.

[@blackstrobe69]

midi was out of sync

[@justinkrann7406]

trying to understand what your comment means, and I just cannot make any sense of it at all. I think your not native to English....

[@petervlcko4858]

Justin Krann I mean that he just you know is relaxed?

[@valeriexvegan]

amazing. maybe one of my top 10 tracks ever, love the farty synths

[@seantynan1]

I came here for this comment.

[@ichwashere]

This is my favorite comment on KZbin by far Laughed my ass off, thank you

[@gainrage]

Only Richard will ever know what he's singing here, but you can tell that it's sad. I and I can relate to it.

[@TheHatevessel]

One of the many RDJ tracks I'm glad aren't available on Spotify so I can read the great comments while listening

[@TheoKryno]

Amazing track, catches you between emotions so you just can't tell what it is you are feeling, the way good art should. RDJ is the the best.

[@sweetwheatsy]

Absolutely. Leaves my soma so confused it just resorts to chills. Exactly the same with his remix of "Time to Find Me" by Seefeel, which also manages to contain all moods at once

[@ahmadmalaki8364]

For me. It's the feelings robots go through to be destroyed broken dismantled yet somehow feel something is haunting like seeing living creatures die in front of you and all you can do is watch after thousands of years because you get infinitly fixed but not your creators and the humans who liked you

[@MrAphex117]

So dark and awesome, one of my favorite tracks. And BTW new album next month!!

[@agentoranges]

From 6:00 he is a beast with that drum machine fuuuuck

[@virus2003]

9:49 - listening to a FLAC vinyl rip on a way-too-expensive setup last night I noticed for the first time in a thousand listens... hidden behind the noise, what sounds like a kid singing.

[@piynubbunyip]

Nicely spotted. I just checked mine, the RepHlex WAV doesn't but the record rip I downloaded does - six syllables I hear. You can get the cutting stylus to record voice if you really yell at it but I doubt it is this. I guess the cartridge could have picked something up when ripping it.

[@virus2003]

@@piynubbunyip I believe the Rephlex WAVs are pre-mastered, so I'd guess it's simply a matter of Richard embellishing a bit for the final release. I don't have a copy of the WAVs, so can I ask you... Does the quiet clippet of Carnival Acid appear in the lull of Bwoon Dub?

[@piynubbunyip]

​@@virus2003 at 3:46 yes. I always thought it was Magnetic print through.

[@virus2003]

@@piynubbunyip since it's showing up in the pre-mastered WAVs, I agree! Great to know, thanks. Wish I could still buy the pre-masters. 😥

[@piynubbunyip]

file.io/35RGnS

[@cesarbravo822]

2:03 is one of my all time AFX favorite moments

[@drexciya2]

It's like Acid Meets Detroit Techno.

[@rdubb77]

+Richard Brice That's exactly what I thought when I first heard it. More like RDJ's take on Detroit Techno.

[@scarredk0]

know any detroit techno tunes that have a similar vibe to this? looking for that dark, grungy cyberpunk feel

[@rdubb77]

Well, I'm always partial to the originator, Juan Atkins (Cybotron, etc). Some of it gets a bit too "soulful" for me, but also check out certain Underground Resistance tracks, some Jeff Mills of course

[@staygold6623]

duh

[@TheZdoX]

Go check the arpanet (Gerald Donald) album from 2005 (rephlex record, the label of RDJ)

[@kingj282]

one of my all time favorites

[@enkamayo]

There is so much stuff included in that track, that one could make actually 3 or 4 separate tracks out of it.

[@BSKROnlineLS]

Syntax Error: I cant see Syntax Error: I cant feel Syntax Error: im afraid Syntax Error: i cant obey...

[@idiotisterecords]

what a track. no words

[@Zoahhh]

it's like the Chernobyl disaster in the form of a song

[@royaltm75]

best comment so far

[@seanpadraigobrien1260]

Hahaha it's radiating that nuclear waste energy

[@Owiko7]

It didn't help my state of mental health reading about the Tokaimura disaster while listening to this.

[@paulaprieto6697]

When I listen to this song, it makes me feels like I am a criminal person getting ready for the heist

[@MTheoOA]

I think you shouldn't feel like a person. You should feel like a wave floating in a spatial ocean

[@Taquilou]

He / she should feel whatever she wants

[@shockwaverc1369]

@@MTheoOA you cant think like that, this is unhuman

[@HelpfulTipsfromChris]

It makes me feel like a professional computer hacker cracking into the mainframe

[@dylanwyatt7264]

@@HelpfulTipsfromChris Elliot!

[@sellout87]

sounds like a disgruntled synapse, begging for an electrode

[@raeds8218]

damn, i've been/am there

[@KnutKniffte]

Richard, I love you.

[@Krilavicius]

can't get enough of this masterpiece.

[@samhein321]

There's few sad Analord songs like this that are defy my favorites from all of Richard's work, emotions in these songs are very strong and defined.

[@HSLrisk]

Aleks Tarkovskaya Perhaps you have been smoking too much ganja mate.

[@FrogmortonHotchkiss]

A utopia of only positivity is impossible: positive and negative are two names for the dualism that creates relativity. Sadness can be beautiful. We watch a sad film and deeply savour the sadness. We struggle to do this in our lives due to selfishness only. With no shade, there is no contrast and therefore no light is visible either. The shade is as beautiful as the light. Disentangle beauty and pleasure: they are not the same phenomenon at all. When you view beauty in terms of using it for your own pleasure, in that moment you are blind to beauty. When you can die gladly, you can live gladly. Much of his music, to me, recalls the feeling of being very ill and resting in bed. However, because it's not attached to any story, you can dive into this pure emotion without judging it as 'bad, ill emotions' and saying to yourself, "this is depressing; I'll listen to something cheerful instead".

[@krazent4859]

"Much of his music, to me, recalls the feeling of being very ill and resting in bed." I can definitely relate to that. Specifically songs on the Selected Ambient Works 2 Album like Blue Calx.

[@narimanmammadli7169]

at first shallow glance-ugly, at third deep glance- the ultimate beauty

[@shannonj.morgan7222]

For a prescottonian king by the name of chris...thank you my lord for the ganja

[@bengelder]

Richard D James is a fucking legend !!

[@Jez4prez]

jeez, I've been listening to analord / chosenlord songs on and off for years, but it's only been recently I suddenly realized how freaking genius this stuff is!!! haha. It only hit me the other night!!!! Think it's because now I make my own music and also study electronics so have a better understanding of it all. idk when I listen to this stuff I can just picture electrons flowing thru old grimey equipment and the crunch of the keys being press etc :-)

[@ahmadmalaki8364]

He managed to give electronic music feelings and life

[@justindawson5930]

The analog synths definitely have a certain something that you don’t get from a computer

[@robbaydj]

i like how long this song is.

[@joethelionjoethelion]

What is this decaying disco abandoned warehouse electronic late night doctors of madness vibe?

[@AlexanderKozmig]

So groovy, sad, nostalgic, fun and amazing.

[@GuilhermeTrojan]

2:00 sounds of a lamenting on something that coud have been avoided if one has listened to an advice.

[@roflmau5108]

the greatest techno song ever,

[@CatMan221]

The drums and synth are amazing....

[@SDsongwritersMeetUp]

just found this guy randomly. i really like it!

[@danielleparry4248]

Me too, I heard one song of his and I've been instantly drawn to it. The music is amazing

[@lomanoneill7299]

Keep going under 'the tuss' and orphaned deejay selek and polygon window,bradley strider.....unreal talent within that amazing nice man

[@nongmoblow5502]

The repetitive nature of the main melody just pounds into your head. It is visceral and raw; a perfect track

[@Duda60s]

this man... touches my soul

[@oniricoironico5180]

It sounds like an alien artist plays depeche mode and joy division stuff...just amazing.

[@delfeth]

Alessandro Pignataro hah buena descripcion

[@HeavensWanderer]

sorry i only uploaded a couple i havent had the chance to whack anymore up in like a year, i might do soon get some of the other better tracks up

[@malcolmbeckett9802]

Thanks, haven't heard this one, but no surprise hes made so many

[@electricfil]

weird little hints of the never-ending story theme song. very subtle at a few parts.

[@lardosian]

filthy fuk explain?

[@tortozza]

I reckon Analord 02 is the best.

[@ironrobin]

04 though.

[@user-js5wk]

all of them though

[@lexxandera]

2 and 9 for me.

[@yb7252]

7 imo

[@demonio351]

tortozza phonatacid para mí el mejor corte que he escuchado de R.D.J

[@abcdef.fedcba]

If you listen really closely, at 09:50 there is some woman singing.

[@shponglechunch]

Just pure love, it's the only thing I want

[@robertd9020]

This Song right here is basically the best thing this guy has ever done is his whole legendary career alongside Selected ambient Works I remember when I was a little kid being vividly scared of how dark Sounding this track sounded in the 2000’s decade in like 03-04-05-06-07 ish

[@theconfessor3177]

A m a z i n g .

[@theconfessor3177]

I'm actually not a fan of acid, but I love Analords (I love everything from Rich, except some noisy tracks). So I pretty like Cuckoo yeah.

[@youvebeenspooked]

this is my favorite vinyl record, thanks for helping me enjoy it while I'm away from my collection

[@flipjupiter1]

Love, love, love this track.

[@Bookspine5]

One of my top 10 AFX favorites from the almighty Analord series! :)

[@Bookspine5]

This tune could work as background-environmental theme if "House of Leaves" was adapted into a movie (or as a long drawn horror-drama on those countless streaming service programs).

[@nickjohnson710]

​@@Bookspine5 totally!

[@proce55or]

Thanx again for the trip.

[@unoesmasacido5485]

Oooohhhhh amigo Richard..... Esto es justamente lo que buscaba.... Somos alcantarillas...

[@delfeth]

unoesmas acido camara vato

[@shannonj.morgan7222]

Loved your old West shooting gallery hit...on 89a north of Sedona...while i was h Strung....wished there was more to it....butit was still romantic....heart...but nobody to share that crazy ormy.crazy shit wit..... thatslife

[@obscuredoblivion444]

I see your light and love your dark

[@GuilhermeTrojan]

that chime at the begging that ends abruptly at 14 seconds. sounds like a train; dude that sound is something

[@tupolev16r]

良いですね

[@MadAnarchist]

Masterpiece

[@MrGroenland1]

Le début des années 2000, coïncide avec la "fin" de l'apogée de la techno. Presque un testament. Aphex Twin, Autechre,Future Sound of London et Laurent Garnier ont sortis leurs meilleurs albums dans les 90's. La série "Analord" nous à juste permis de pas oublier le grand Richard James (Aphex Twin/AFX)

[@Ghostrider46286]

Only one of the many favourite Tracks from the livin´ Legend

[@DieMenschMaschine85]

For me I get images of an industrial line producing stuff in a factory. The machinery moving, screwing things, putting then together. Definitely industrial rhythms.

[@HeIiosphan]

This is AFX's masterpiece.

[@HeavyProfessor]

The best ever...just so far past anything anyone else has ever created. Insane really...

[@Beos_Valrah]

Not for me though - I love Autechre, Kraftwerk, Rei Harakami, Bola, Speedy J, Anodyne, Plant43, E.R.P./Convextion, Mick Chillage, LFO etc.

[@HeavyProfessor]

​@@Beos_ValrahAutechre is great. Still have never gotten over this, though: AFX and The Tuss.

[@seantynan1]

Oddly enough, it's like the best music ever.

[@simonemontelaghi362]

this one hit you like a train.

[@zion_id]

Essa música é incrível! Lembro que eu ia pra escola escutando todo dia

[@yasemingokbilen8828]

hope will remain

[@tanky8962]

relistening to all of those afx tracks and I just gotta say, they sound just as fresh as the first time I listened to them, if not better.

[@coisefran3365]

Then I could succeed every day of my life if this song suddenly appears in the journey, what a time to be alive (HB mister D, by the way)

[@crush3095]

maybe my favorite aphex ever and that's saying something among Polynomial Cs and Radiators and other masterpieces

[@RuzeGM]

Fell in love with the synths

[@kavika121]

Definitely one of my favorites & I’ve got a long list of them. 😍✨

[@rain_irl6460]

i shit myself when i hear this

[@lexxandera]

Man, I missed out some great tracks because I only got the Chosen Lords. He should have done a double Album like drukqs and it would probably have been one of his best albums.

[@lardosian]

Lexx Andera The Tuss triple pack is amazing as well

[@Chris_yes]

Has an evil Kraftwerk vibe

[@MagnitudePerson]

Beautiful... Such emotion...

[@nunodias8927]

2024: Enjoying this beautiful sample

[@klemet2]

How can anyone call this anything short of masterful?

[@gwerntudur929]

This is a pure acid house song-from Cornwall via. Chicago Acid. Superb :)

[@lostinspace_yt]

That acid bassline is so damn delicious! :)

[@ninjamoves3642]

I am a human being living in a silicon world

[@jussihaverinen313]

There was a rephlex gig in Helsinki, arabia factory, in the late nineties. I was there with my fellow weirdos but I was the only one of us that went dancing, and I did it wrong. Later I was told I looked like a bum on meth, as others were the cool idm house well off kid type. I didn't try to go to fancy parties that much after, since my behavior more for punk.😂 Good parties undoubtedly, if you had the cash.

[@clarencep90]

The oldies are so good.

[@risethroughtimespace7530]

One of the many analord masterpieces. Top tier RDJ 👌🏽👌🏽

[@heather9857]

Wow, thanks for uploading. I love this and had never heard this one before.

[@arsaeterna4285]

analord has such a wonderfully relaxed sense of time

[@lukzz2010]

I think this is the best track of RDJ

[@icanseethroughwindow]

no

[@lukzz2010]

sé

[@Tehmemette]

When i listen to songs like this, my head just automatically nods o.o