What Makes Aphex Twin's Music So Good?

[@thrwwccnt5845]

alternate title: man discovers music can evoke emotions without lyrics

[@ahmadmalaki8364]

Exactly his music are saying something without saying anything if that makes sense His songs have emotions that I can feel

[@thrwwccnt5845]

@@ahmadmalaki8364 like music should

[@dragon7279]

@@thrwwccnt5845 you truly got it man

[@danielmarsden4573]

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

[@adamralph113]

Probably not that one lol

[@vaporwavepepsiman]

COME TO DADDY

[@compechdev]

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

[@thrwwccnt5845]

just wait until he finds out about Funny Little Man

[@nohaybanda6090]

Just wait until he finds out about Beetles.

[@gnasheroffthewall]

just wait until he finds out about Come To Daddy

[@ItsDevinOk]

just wait until he finds out about minipops 67

[@ritchski1]

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.

[@ksuvana]

I think T69 Collapse is probably his most incredible work myself

[@bogdangoatley297]

@@ksuvanayes Collapse is incredible and Squarepusher’s latest album Be Up A Hello is fantastic too

[@ZeRoUnload]

I think it’s just harder to come up with new material with sounds people haven’t heard before.

[@Confuzius]

@@ksuvana agreed! although it's hard to beat vordhosbn!

[@solowofthe99-lp4ql]

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

[@adamralph113]

Only real ones notice ;)

[@Aphexm1ke]

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

[@pelipappaa318]

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

[@banlvar28]

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

[@adamralph113]

I appreciate it, new stuff on the way soon!

[@WillHerndon]

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

[@RaduGiurgiu]

Good question and in the same time in electronic music I didn't find someone that can play: -- with so complexity and simplicity in the same time. -- or so tuff and slow in sounds like this guy etc... For me in this music category is TOP!

[@Confuzius]

thanks for this exploration. great video

[@adamralph113]

Glad u enjoyed it ;)

[@mahmoudyasser4736]

loved the video, made so well.

[@vinzaux]

nice video, you did a great work!

[@francolaguzzi9128]

Great video!

[@zimmeh3026]

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.

[@tarsicio2426]

👌👌

[@Aphexm1ke]

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

[@sumubi3133]

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

[@_keygen]

STONE IN FOCUS IS THE BEST TRACK OUT OF ALL TIME

[@anuragpranav]

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[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

Great vid!

[@matthewgonano636]

Aphex twin is up there

[@bolenarrow9286]

Stone in focus is my meditation jam of choice.

[@adamralph113]

W take

[@XxXShokWaveXxX]

i wanna gklue my eyeballs to that sound

[@goobergoon6177]

nice video

[@willgd5950]

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

[@adamralph113]

Yeah, stone in focus is the track with four chords.

[@willgd5950]

@@adamralph113 but how can i see its name in spotify, because every song on the album is just a #number. I looked it up and its #19 right?

[@haydenpk7165]

@@willgd5950stone in focus isn’t on music services, well not on Apple Music at least

[@matthewgonano636]

It's only on KZbin

[@Wave41Times]

Cool

[@maciej9156]

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

[@adamralph113]

Good points. I agree that jazz is incredibly expressive and that is also one of the main reasons I enjoy it so much.

[@Joshonthenet]

Richard has repeatedly stated over the years that he has no musical theory or training, and doesn't read music

[@flameyoshi07]

Ight

[@adamralph113]

fingerbib ))

[@ORO_LOBO]

7\

[@------YeahOK------]

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

[@adamralph113]

I didn't say it had any specific meaning. But it holds meaning to the individual listener.

[@polska4968]

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

[@adamralph113]

What film did I reference?

[@polska4968]

@@adamralph113 well the video its self !

[@deadhookerproductions1068]

It's called b-roll, dip shit, would you rather it have just been a black screen with his voice in the background?