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this always feels like you've stepped out from a rave to grab a smoke and you're just processing the vibes while you can still hear the music from outside
@memyself48522 жыл бұрын
@@ravenitz Yes, well said!
@timothyjholloway Жыл бұрын
I guess so sure Marlboro
@adammarquez5203 Жыл бұрын
Perfect description.
@theoriginaltommysteward Жыл бұрын
Yea good insight
@1MNUTZ Жыл бұрын
He stepped outside, as he walked away from the club...its music faded and started to blend with something new, he continued walking, found this mysterious door, he opened the door and walked inside, an empty building with music playing....he stayed, and then and there was the rest of this album.
@fortheloveofnoise929811 ай бұрын
This song feels like drinking a cold water at 3am
@boxed10842 жыл бұрын
this is so strangely accurate
@jmbaesso48462 жыл бұрын
or walking into an air conditioned room on blistering hot day
@asonofagunder Жыл бұрын
Well I’ll never get that image out of my head now, thanks for the perfect description
@lynchmaleideal Жыл бұрын
feels like when harry maguire scored that pen against italy in euros 2021
@Phambleton Жыл бұрын
@@Phambleton Maguire is the most expensive Centre Forward in the World at 80 Million... THINK ABOUT IT😀😀😀😀😀
@damienocallaghan2648 Жыл бұрын
the kind of music you want as background when you are having a nice moment and want to keep it as a memory.
@cualfuneri25102 жыл бұрын
Yup, I've got this associated with tropical rains in Guam. When I was there, California's drought was serious and I cried watching it to this song.
@derekperez1418 Жыл бұрын
dale el diego y afx
@rasvetx7 ай бұрын
aguante el diego y la droga@@rasvetx
@cualfuneri25107 ай бұрын
This was the first song my daughter ever heard.
@Nonexistanthuman5 ай бұрын
Always kept amazing memories for me so I couldn't agree more!
@DanielleOflynnАй бұрын
Aphex is timeless. Richard released that track 28 years ago and it sounds even fresher and more relevant today.
@IndustrialPhuck3 жыл бұрын
FACTSSSS
@juanflores-zy6kj3 жыл бұрын
it’s literally just noise
@goku97912 жыл бұрын
@@goku9791 If this is noise for you then go listen to some mainstream shit
@vmrrobotic70692 жыл бұрын
@@vmrrobotic7069 y’all will listen to anything just to be different istg
@goku97912 жыл бұрын
@@goku9791 Is being different wrong? Is having different music taste to other people wrong? 🤨
@bachnguyen92122 жыл бұрын
I first heard this track xtal when my friend handed me his headphones sitting on the bow of a ferry from Rottnest island to Perth Australia at dusk in 2001. With flat calm water, a warm breeze & the lights of Perth in the distance, this tune takes me back there everytime.
@grahammarshallmusic4 жыл бұрын
awesome really good vibes
@NOVAsteamed4 жыл бұрын
what a beautiful memory
@MoluskToeCheese4 жыл бұрын
wicked
@Burley_Bert3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! It takes me to the coast of Cornwall, UK, sun setting, stars brightening, sea crashing below...
@jimrussell74923 жыл бұрын
i was on acid when i found this track
@donsteppedinside67963 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the countryside as a child, and whenever there was a snow day and school was cancelled, me and my best friend would take the wheels off our skateboards and use them as snowboards on all the newly formed slopes. I would have Xtal & Pulsewidth playing on my mp3 player as the soundtrack to those snow days, I don't know why but something about those two tracks really suited the snowy landscape. Now whenever I hear these tracks as an adult, I get the strongest sense of nostalgia and those magical snowy childhood memories all come flooding back. I can't thank Aphex Twin enough for creating this music. If you ever happen to read this, Richard - thank you for making my childhood just that extra bit more special :)
@AldenDoble3 жыл бұрын
I would say it fits because the sound uses mainly plains-soundscapes (like smooth snow) and with a bit of fantasy you can hear the jingly christmas bells in the song which might remind you of generic christmas song bells.
@Marauder1981 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like a good dream. The pictures must be admirable for a lifetime
@kaecake9575 Жыл бұрын
How'd you get into Aphex Twin as a youngin? I didn't hear of know about him till college.
@birdlawyer6191 Жыл бұрын
Killed it mate.
@ThunderChunky101 Жыл бұрын
@@birdlawyer6191 in all honesty I can't remember. I'm sure it must have been through KZhead in the really early days when it first started, but what lead me to landing on an Aphex Twin video will forever be a mystery 😅
@AldenDoble Жыл бұрын
I will love this record until the day I die.
@hplovehandle7 жыл бұрын
Same here buddy.
@Doc13rain7 жыл бұрын
Same! And what a good life, to have enjoyed such a divine soundtrack throughout it:)
@rreeppeeaatteerr6 жыл бұрын
Yeah maan
@safesclart5 жыл бұрын
so your dead body wont wanna have a listen?
@sen-te8oq4 жыл бұрын
This track is timeless it's a combination of the past and the future
@Alejandro-xv3yf4 жыл бұрын
Every time I test a pair of headphones, it's tradition for this song to be the first song to listen to. If this song doesn't sound good, the headphones aren't good.
@DanKale29 күн бұрын
I wish I could listen to this song for the first time again so badly.
@kraftpunkT2 жыл бұрын
This song for the first time is like taking Morning Glory seeds for the first time. Legal ecstasy
@fortheloveofnoise929811 ай бұрын
This music is an alarm clock for the soul
@radeejarrar6521 Жыл бұрын
nice
@vico805 Жыл бұрын
idk what this means but i feel that its correct
@hangingnutsjimmy88 Жыл бұрын
@@hangingnutsjimmy88 hell yeah dude
@dpclerks098 ай бұрын
yes
@sephyownsАй бұрын
God that is a beautiful sentiment
@Kieran.Net_29 күн бұрын
I used to play this on loop whilst sinking off into a K-hole, always felt like I was in a elevator going up to a different dimension lol. This is definitely the music they would play in the elevator up to heaven!
@shermansadventure11514 жыл бұрын
Something about this comment seems so very comfortable and warming to me. I've never done K yet, (yet) but I had a sorta similar experience with MDMA. I crushed a yellow strawberry pill into dust, split it into two lines and snorted one up each nostril. I'm shitting you not mate I kept playing "Will Smiths - Getting Jiggy With It" on loop not remembering I had just played it a couple of times already. You know the bit where the "choir/group" is chanting that "Na-na-na-na-na-na-na" bit? I felt like I was in heaven listening to those voices, I felt like nothing else existed and I was just in a pure euphoric state that I don't think I've ever experienced since. Thank you for reminding me about that wonderful time.
@anon67063 жыл бұрын
Xtal is the Electronic version of Stairway to Heaven.
@DMacLean153 жыл бұрын
Aphex Twin has made such beautiful music that has actually helped me through some tough times and that is super impressive for a sound that rarely EVER has lyrics. When you hear this stuff, you can ACTUALLY FEEL SOMETHING. Richard is a very talented and creative person, I want to meet him one day.
@manipulated80154 жыл бұрын
I wish to meet him one day as well. at least got to see him live once :) and I know exactly what u mean about the emotive nature and how its healing music in a weird way at the right times. hope ur doing well
@musicsmymedicine3 жыл бұрын
I love the airy feel this song has
@CaJoel Жыл бұрын
Yes by the ocean breeze or after it just rained
@vico805 Жыл бұрын
This song is like standing outside in the snow late at night with yellowed lights that only slightly illuminate the area around you but just enough to make you feel safe and cozy
@meowmyr Жыл бұрын
great description!
@vico805 Жыл бұрын
Miss those days, now my area has terrible LEDs that are uncomfortable
@lblb2410 ай бұрын
Warmth and comfort with a cold, beautiful dark vastness around you
@PeepingUkulele5 ай бұрын
twenty six years later is still fresher than most of modern music
@hazed_235 жыл бұрын
*all
@mamamia56687 ай бұрын
Facts
@slopeboix25897 ай бұрын
Coming up on 32 years now......Jesus where has the time gone??
@cmc60403 ай бұрын
Every time i jam this album..it inspires me to write and record..
@spacealienjesus7093 жыл бұрын
same for me mate! when i listen to Aphex i immediately pick up my guitar and start recording
@d00mboy132 жыл бұрын
If I ever come across Richard one day, I won't bother him too much, I'll just thank him for Xtal and tell him that I love him. That's it.
@vrilmaxxed3 жыл бұрын
Same
@Yeoldelole Жыл бұрын
yep
@jcrisp90 Жыл бұрын
This is my go to song for coping with depression
@thatgothcat8 ай бұрын
the sample LALALA brings some joy huh
@vico8057 ай бұрын
@@vico805 yep
@thatgothcat7 ай бұрын
This feels like when you play Aphex Twin's "Xtal"
@CommunityTwooАй бұрын
Relatable
@snork-is-snorkАй бұрын
I remember the first time when I heard of Aphex, it was through his grammy win in 2014. At the time, I only listened to electronic music in the form of house and synthpop, and when I heard Syro and the RDJ album, I was turned off on how cold and calculated it sounded. But then I found out about his 2 Selected Ambient Works albums, and that was when I was struck by the wonderment of it all. And it all started with this song.
@Neel-ff4mn7 жыл бұрын
His newer sounds are just either calculated or ear grating hyper shiny glitched synths. Way back when, he was a magician of this transcending sound.
@necromax135 жыл бұрын
it's like Heroin for your ears and soul and i keep coming back year after year for that sweet sensation
@maskedmerker15 жыл бұрын
@@necromax13 I think his new stuff is great. No doubt it's different. That's your opinion just as this is mine.
@NoodlePastie5 жыл бұрын
2014?? Bit late to the party dude.
@groverkirkland5185 жыл бұрын
@@groverkirkland518 earlier than me lol. First time listening to this one ❤
@BP140Dubz4 жыл бұрын
This song is timeless. ridiculously good
@lomanoneill72999 ай бұрын
yup
@vico8059 ай бұрын
yes! 💖💖🥰🥰
@FurryAnimator2 ай бұрын
this song is so damn beautiful, I just wan't to cry
@pigeon_8 ай бұрын
so fresh especially for 92
@vico8058 ай бұрын
Absolutely tranquility with a little bit of madness flung in. 😊
@Huflungdung1690Ай бұрын
Listening now I can recall the smells, the places, the friends of 28 years ago when I first heard it. Still vibrant, still brilliant.
@andregurov2 жыл бұрын
Yesssss!!!
@DanielleOflynnАй бұрын
Nice profile pic
@whammersbach6 күн бұрын
I feel like I’m walking down an elongated hallway in a hospital while listening to this. I feel like I’m in an empty train station while listening to this. I feel like I’m in heaven while listening to this.
@DMacLean153 жыл бұрын
i feel like im in the mountains on a perfect blue sky day to this
@jcrisp902 жыл бұрын
This song feels like going on a bike joyride with your friends on a chilly summer night
@-levroom- Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t have said it better myself
@Tryler_11 ай бұрын
That was the summer of 2021 for me
@snug-fibbage74418 ай бұрын
This song feels warm and cold at the same time
@CarrickWebb4 ай бұрын
the best aphex twin song..
@fuckcomments72353 жыл бұрын
Best song in general, of all time
@vrilmaxxed3 жыл бұрын
Alberto Balsam would like a word, but this track definitely holds its own
@jasoncoates183526 күн бұрын
I guess I have a new favorite song. i never heard it before and it's just beautiful 😊
@christopher9196Ай бұрын
weird that this is 30 years old. feels so much newer
@usm1le8 ай бұрын
thats all of afx music haha
@vico8057 ай бұрын
prob the best song ever made
@ryan676610 ай бұрын
up there on the greatest electronic tracks off all time!
@vico8059 ай бұрын
The disbelief when i found out xtal was made in the 90s is unexplainable
@shanexx8508 Жыл бұрын
yeah Richard was way ahead of his time with his music!
@vico805 Жыл бұрын
It's possible it's even older than that. There is a tape from 1989 with XTAL on the notes. So possibly written when Richard was 18.
@Iofflight789 ай бұрын
@@Iofflight78 incredible
@shanexx85089 ай бұрын
this is exactly what i'm experiencing right now
@xgskrillax7 ай бұрын
Why? It was the definitive decade for great music. The last, in fact. It was the beginning of the end in reality, but it all felt magical, never ending and enriched the soul. The creativity was everywhere and we can largely thank electronic music for that, and sampling... Sampling played a massive part as it ensured everyone was perpetually looking back, whether they knew it or not. What an era.
@Soulrollsdeep2 ай бұрын
Hauntingly Beautiful.
@Shawnredfield987 жыл бұрын
I used to listen to this alot while skateboarding around deserted Portland Oregon during the pandemic. The track made me forget everything and just enjoy the blue sky and cruising down the street.
@caseystu1233 ай бұрын
this song never gets old
@juniorsandoval96243 жыл бұрын
I had myself a wee journey a couple of weeks ago out in a local national park, just me, the milky way, a bunch of pademelons and this track. That memory is going to be with me for a very long time. Thanks RDJ
@inkblot1018 ай бұрын
music to exist to.
@jcrisp902 жыл бұрын
I think it’s the only song i’ve ever heard that makes you wanna both dance and chill, it’s both cool, dancy music but also relaxing ambient
@Ximmximma8 ай бұрын
Richard really managed to capture the inherent beauty of natural electromagnetism tbh . everything in this track feels like its sparkling, like a crystal
@archangel45972 жыл бұрын
happy birthday, legendary man
@hare97029 ай бұрын
I first heard this when a buddy visited me at my new place ,when I first moved out of home, rolled my first spliff to christen the new pad... I lit it, and he pressed play on the CD player... MAGIC
@manlypedro754 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this song, I can listen to it on repeat for days and never get bored. For me this song is my soundtrack for life. As today is my birthday and I'm here listening to this masterpiece to calm me through this rollecoaster of life
@HarrisonMessias2 жыл бұрын
You said it perfectly
@Yeoldelole Жыл бұрын
track still feels new its amazing fr
@ClamsCEDH7 ай бұрын
only 31 years old jesus
@ClamsCEDH7 ай бұрын
he has crazier tracks also from this era
@vico8053 ай бұрын
I'm gay
@silovitipanj49587 жыл бұрын
Ahead of our time
@vladyslavselin93253 жыл бұрын
he will always be ahead of his time, we will never create someting like this again
@merdefilms38372 жыл бұрын
being gay is definitely so far ahead of one’s time
@meowmyr Жыл бұрын
Ahead of their time
@7rritorialpisschrist Жыл бұрын
Ok Tingle.
@GencoilАй бұрын
Aphex Twin always makes me feel like im playing a valve game
@user-bn5yx2bf3m9 ай бұрын
Probably my favourite track of his. Compared to so much of his later stuff - more simple, more soul.
@stalkek4 жыл бұрын
This song sounds like when you're swimming underwater and paddling your feet on the surface, and it reminds me of this strange place or dream I had when I was younger. Almost felt like the place you are before you're born, just floating in bright blue sky along the clouds.
@klmx6 Жыл бұрын
This is the only song I have listened to for 3 days with no other songs playing. Even though I could swear I’ve never heard it before it transports me back to days when I was happy. I’m not saying I’m not happy now, I’m just saying this song made me happier.
@stancemonkey11 ай бұрын
This is the first song I ever heard from Richard.
@Iofflight789 ай бұрын
it’s a good one to start off with
@vico8058 ай бұрын
i remember showing this song to a really close friend of mine while we were walking around an empty festival season downtown chicago. the shimmers in the river almost seemed to match up with the twinkly synths and i fell in love with life again
@charmustdieeАй бұрын
Everyday for over a year I've listened to this before I go to work and it's never not relaxed me.
@Mishkabelly3 жыл бұрын
Don’t ask who’s here in 2021, because we never left ))
@n.abramishvili53413 жыл бұрын
@Are you a Hutu or a Tutsi? You have been blessed with good taste. May that blessing be your guide. Godspeed
@weatherkop3 жыл бұрын
🖤🕉️
@gokuvegeta1612 жыл бұрын
2024 still bumping in the morning
@n.abramishvili534124 күн бұрын
Man this song brings me so much joy :D
@UsernameDell Жыл бұрын
such an odd feeling. As if all the difficulties of life are left somewhere behind when listening, you just lie in your bed and talk about life. Nothing worries you.
@mylifesogood217 Жыл бұрын
I love how this whole record feels. Some of the tracks sound half asleep yet half awake. None of the tracks are the same yet they incorporate so well together. I see the whole record as one incredible recording. Xtal is sublime, deeply trippy yet focused. It's wonderful listening to it.
@michaelconnolly76812 жыл бұрын
imagina produzir um dos melhores álbuns da história da música tendo apenas 14 anos, instrumentos feitos à mão por ele mesmo, e fitas danificadas. um gênio.
@liviabaudson18613 жыл бұрын
sou adepto a musica eletronica desde os 7 anos. hoje tenho 29 e quando ouvi essa track um mes atras fiquei sem acreditar como eu perdi tanto tempo da minha vida. desde então sou fã desse gênio oculto.
@fernandochaves38543 жыл бұрын
Esse é um dos melhores instrumentais que já escutei! Essa música é de 1992 e eu sou de 2002 mas parece que eu vivi aquela época pq me deu uma nostalgia enorme! Sou muito ligado a música e amei as melodia desse som, tipo um mix de sensações!
@Tiagofostim2 жыл бұрын
Me deixa feliz saber que existem outros brasileiros que partilham do mesmo gosto que o meu. O Aphex Twin é um gênio, sinto que o Richard criava suas músicas com o intuito de gerar emoções, porque cada música que ouço dele me traz uma sensação diferente. E essa, sem sombra de dúvidas, é uma das mais incríveis que ele já produziu, porque pode estar associada a vários sentimentos para quem ouve. De longe um dos melhores artistas eletrônicos que já existiu.
@magnalux0 Жыл бұрын
Thx Andy for introducing me to this album!!
@Cheezwizzz3 жыл бұрын
I literally said "hey Google, play a song I can smoke weed to" and this came up :D nice I wouldnt mind listening to while I'm having psychedelics
@isaac4thewin4 жыл бұрын
Isaac4thewin well thank google fro bringing you here
@user-hhp84 жыл бұрын
dmt
@NOVAsteamed4 жыл бұрын
Cap
@Iris-su2wx2 жыл бұрын
I get a good mood from the song somehow
@dertntboyzockthd_yt98095 жыл бұрын
Listening to this shit on a night hike with clear skies and good company was one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had. The morphine probably helped too.
@Errcyco Жыл бұрын
Ok..in 1993 was in Montreal canada..and just was discharged from the army..I went a club called metropolis on st Catherine st..and said to my father this is my new hobby..now it is my new song to my woman that resides in Switzerland..maybe...it has always calmed me down and made me feel alive in my travels and creativity in somexway..thankyou gentleman .It was my final song..after I left the new rave scene in San Francisco 1993..that was the end
@gabrieltamburri56922 жыл бұрын
This was way ahead of its time
@oraxge3 жыл бұрын
That synthline so simple yet so optimistic its unreal
@lomanoneill7299Ай бұрын
Listened to this on Many a come down in the early 90,s, still so divine 🌄
@drjonze Жыл бұрын
My first time hearing this track was in also the first time smoking weed with my older bro... 3 years later i still find peace in this piece. My dad even slept to this album once :D
@gallevitikusgenderlordmigo63243 жыл бұрын
When you hear some really old tracks it shows how loudness wars and the like are a bit silly, depending on the context and how you listen to music. No-one listens to magic like this and picks it apart, it just sounds great.
@Hologhoul3 жыл бұрын
This song never gets old
@radicallarry7773 жыл бұрын
I ascend everytime I listen to this track
@elliotchristie24765 ай бұрын
especially after a toke of that green
@vico8053 ай бұрын
The fact that this song was produced in the late 80s/early 90s is incredible, it sounds very fresh.
@Ev3rmovingАй бұрын
This song feels like when u randomly wake up at 3am in the morning and u can't get back to sleep
@sclitchmusic Жыл бұрын
The amatuer feel of the mixing only adds to this songs charm. 10/10.
@finngeometry75702 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece
@matthewgregory21066 жыл бұрын
I loved it when it first came out and even more now. AT is so unique and wonderful!!!
@familtons10982 жыл бұрын
got to be a top 10 AFX song! / it never gets old makes me feel so fresh/good/focused really nice tune!!
@vico805 Жыл бұрын
this is an absolutely insane song
@tsunamipapi13432 жыл бұрын
this sounds fresh and new.. holy shit RDJ was ahead of his time. i've been making electronic music for 20+ years and to think he made this before I even started is blowing my mind right now. i've heard his music before and I'm a fan but this is the first time I'm hearing this one, and my mind is blown that this is from before I ever touched a midi controller or piece of hardware. sounds like a new joint by Odesza, so I guess Odesza got a ton of inspiration from RDJ and specifically this song.
@xgskrillax7 ай бұрын
@@vico805 uhhh yeah i know. I didnt say RDJ sounds like Odezsa, but that you can tell Odezsa was influenced by this song. Does it offend you to hear that or something? Maybe don't get your panties in a twist over what is clearly true.
@xgskrillax7 ай бұрын
This one's cold fresh like an igloo love it!
@TakeMeBackPirateRadio Жыл бұрын
if hope, dreams, expectations, in a positive way were translated into music, so soothing and ethereal, something you can't grasp your head around, yet, it feels so familiar, as it was a feeling, a sound you've always knew. this is xtal for me
@MaatStile2 ай бұрын
Трудно поверить, что этот трек вышел в 1992 году
@CarryThatWeight3 жыл бұрын
в этом вся прелесть тогдашних музыкантов, которые писали IDM.. настолько футуристические работы. столько скилла..
@nonentity77093 жыл бұрын
И не говори
@zerla60183 жыл бұрын
Согласен
@mms_ua3 жыл бұрын
liar .
@tsunamipapi13432 жыл бұрын
This music reminds me of forests and it always has since I was 10 and I love it
@hollystarxxx9 ай бұрын
The most irresistible song I have ever heard. If I start playing it, I have to finish.
@NicholasOsella2 жыл бұрын
Refreshingly sublime.
@calamityjayne5026 Жыл бұрын
In love with this tune
@tomfrost1997 Жыл бұрын
it’s a good one!
@vico805 Жыл бұрын
My favourite Aphex Twin track.
@malccy723 жыл бұрын
Sublime. Transcendent. Thank you Aphex Twin. A Limerick man GWAN!! 💪❤️❤️❤️😎 Restores faith in humanity this kind of music 🙏
@TheCCBloom2 жыл бұрын
Hmm really nice music. Peace and calm. I wonder if those "Aphex Twins" made some more music. I bet they make very "chilled out" music. Yeah I would love to hear more of their music, must be very undergroud.
@menzosoft23 жыл бұрын
@Menzo Berranzan you're joking aren't you? If not glad you discovered him :)
@intergalacticdial49673 жыл бұрын
haha if this is your first introduction to aphex twin, then it certainly is a good one
@televisionandcheese3 жыл бұрын
I do wonder who the other Aphex Twin is ;- ) but FYI, Aphex Twin is one dude.
@Vingul3 жыл бұрын
Ha! Just watched that Coachella reviewer clip - hilarious. And she had the whole experience, too, without knowing it.
@laurabrenton75372 жыл бұрын
@@Vingul Google Aphex Aural Exciter to see what the “other” Aphex is. It’s a piece of studio gear originally released in 1975 :)
@filmjazz Жыл бұрын
So many images comme to my mind with this music
@lucasguillet85373 жыл бұрын
Simply outstanding.
@tqft2 жыл бұрын
This track gives me power
@JS-tp3lbАй бұрын
Sound from beyond this world
@MaxKapBF21422 ай бұрын
When I'm at the most awakened state that I can, I feel like this song.
@WarWarriorx Жыл бұрын
I prefer the original with the low notes to the clear sound of the remastered version, the fantasy that the boy fumbled with the tape and created is wonderful!
@flashpapa4 жыл бұрын
Las sensaciones con esta obra maestra superan la mejor de las descripciones. Tan atemporal que parece traído de lo desconocido.
@AlexanderK24A32 жыл бұрын
Londoner here for me personally this evokes following, canary wharf's glimmering lights from the distance as I'm passing early morning or somewhere along the Jubillee line.
@artiz91Ай бұрын
"So let me go over this again."
@jumby1522 ай бұрын
we need back to this
@zenxu0108 Жыл бұрын
I love her!
@HipHopmusic7594 жыл бұрын
Surreal, curti muito esse som! Melodia linda demais.
this always feels like you've stepped out from a rave to grab a smoke and you're just processing the vibes while you can still hear the music from outside
@@ravenitz Yes, well said!
I guess so sure Marlboro
Perfect description.
Yea good insight
He stepped outside, as he walked away from the club...its music faded and started to blend with something new, he continued walking, found this mysterious door, he opened the door and walked inside, an empty building with music playing....he stayed, and then and there was the rest of this album.
This song feels like drinking a cold water at 3am
this is so strangely accurate
or walking into an air conditioned room on blistering hot day
Well I’ll never get that image out of my head now, thanks for the perfect description
feels like when harry maguire scored that pen against italy in euros 2021
@@Phambleton Maguire is the most expensive Centre Forward in the World at 80 Million... THINK ABOUT IT😀😀😀😀😀
the kind of music you want as background when you are having a nice moment and want to keep it as a memory.
Yup, I've got this associated with tropical rains in Guam. When I was there, California's drought was serious and I cried watching it to this song.
dale el diego y afx
aguante el diego y la droga@@rasvetx
This was the first song my daughter ever heard.
Always kept amazing memories for me so I couldn't agree more!
Aphex is timeless. Richard released that track 28 years ago and it sounds even fresher and more relevant today.
FACTSSSS
it’s literally just noise
@@goku9791 If this is noise for you then go listen to some mainstream shit
@@vmrrobotic7069 y’all will listen to anything just to be different istg
@@goku9791 Is being different wrong? Is having different music taste to other people wrong? 🤨
I first heard this track xtal when my friend handed me his headphones sitting on the bow of a ferry from Rottnest island to Perth Australia at dusk in 2001. With flat calm water, a warm breeze & the lights of Perth in the distance, this tune takes me back there everytime.
awesome really good vibes
what a beautiful memory
wicked
Beautiful! It takes me to the coast of Cornwall, UK, sun setting, stars brightening, sea crashing below...
i was on acid when i found this track
I grew up in the countryside as a child, and whenever there was a snow day and school was cancelled, me and my best friend would take the wheels off our skateboards and use them as snowboards on all the newly formed slopes. I would have Xtal & Pulsewidth playing on my mp3 player as the soundtrack to those snow days, I don't know why but something about those two tracks really suited the snowy landscape. Now whenever I hear these tracks as an adult, I get the strongest sense of nostalgia and those magical snowy childhood memories all come flooding back. I can't thank Aphex Twin enough for creating this music. If you ever happen to read this, Richard - thank you for making my childhood just that extra bit more special :)
I would say it fits because the sound uses mainly plains-soundscapes (like smooth snow) and with a bit of fantasy you can hear the jingly christmas bells in the song which might remind you of generic christmas song bells.
Sounds like a good dream. The pictures must be admirable for a lifetime
How'd you get into Aphex Twin as a youngin? I didn't hear of know about him till college.
Killed it mate.
@@birdlawyer6191 in all honesty I can't remember. I'm sure it must have been through KZhead in the really early days when it first started, but what lead me to landing on an Aphex Twin video will forever be a mystery 😅
I will love this record until the day I die.
Same here buddy.
Same! And what a good life, to have enjoyed such a divine soundtrack throughout it:)
Yeah maan
so your dead body wont wanna have a listen?
This track is timeless it's a combination of the past and the future
Every time I test a pair of headphones, it's tradition for this song to be the first song to listen to. If this song doesn't sound good, the headphones aren't good.
I wish I could listen to this song for the first time again so badly.
This song for the first time is like taking Morning Glory seeds for the first time. Legal ecstasy
This music is an alarm clock for the soul
nice
idk what this means but i feel that its correct
@@hangingnutsjimmy88 hell yeah dude
yes
God that is a beautiful sentiment
I used to play this on loop whilst sinking off into a K-hole, always felt like I was in a elevator going up to a different dimension lol. This is definitely the music they would play in the elevator up to heaven!
Something about this comment seems so very comfortable and warming to me. I've never done K yet, (yet) but I had a sorta similar experience with MDMA. I crushed a yellow strawberry pill into dust, split it into two lines and snorted one up each nostril. I'm shitting you not mate I kept playing "Will Smiths - Getting Jiggy With It" on loop not remembering I had just played it a couple of times already. You know the bit where the "choir/group" is chanting that "Na-na-na-na-na-na-na" bit? I felt like I was in heaven listening to those voices, I felt like nothing else existed and I was just in a pure euphoric state that I don't think I've ever experienced since. Thank you for reminding me about that wonderful time.
Xtal is the Electronic version of Stairway to Heaven.
Aphex Twin has made such beautiful music that has actually helped me through some tough times and that is super impressive for a sound that rarely EVER has lyrics. When you hear this stuff, you can ACTUALLY FEEL SOMETHING. Richard is a very talented and creative person, I want to meet him one day.
I wish to meet him one day as well. at least got to see him live once :) and I know exactly what u mean about the emotive nature and how its healing music in a weird way at the right times. hope ur doing well
I love the airy feel this song has
Yes by the ocean breeze or after it just rained
This song is like standing outside in the snow late at night with yellowed lights that only slightly illuminate the area around you but just enough to make you feel safe and cozy
great description!
Miss those days, now my area has terrible LEDs that are uncomfortable
Warmth and comfort with a cold, beautiful dark vastness around you
twenty six years later is still fresher than most of modern music
*all
Facts
Coming up on 32 years now......Jesus where has the time gone??
Every time i jam this album..it inspires me to write and record..
same for me mate! when i listen to Aphex i immediately pick up my guitar and start recording
If I ever come across Richard one day, I won't bother him too much, I'll just thank him for Xtal and tell him that I love him. That's it.
Same
yep
This is my go to song for coping with depression
the sample LALALA brings some joy huh
@@vico805 yep
This feels like when you play Aphex Twin's "Xtal"
Relatable
I remember the first time when I heard of Aphex, it was through his grammy win in 2014. At the time, I only listened to electronic music in the form of house and synthpop, and when I heard Syro and the RDJ album, I was turned off on how cold and calculated it sounded. But then I found out about his 2 Selected Ambient Works albums, and that was when I was struck by the wonderment of it all. And it all started with this song.
His newer sounds are just either calculated or ear grating hyper shiny glitched synths. Way back when, he was a magician of this transcending sound.
it's like Heroin for your ears and soul and i keep coming back year after year for that sweet sensation
@@necromax13 I think his new stuff is great. No doubt it's different. That's your opinion just as this is mine.
2014?? Bit late to the party dude.
@@groverkirkland518 earlier than me lol. First time listening to this one ❤
This song is timeless. ridiculously good
yup
yes! 💖💖🥰🥰
this song is so damn beautiful, I just wan't to cry
so fresh especially for 92
Absolutely tranquility with a little bit of madness flung in. 😊
Listening now I can recall the smells, the places, the friends of 28 years ago when I first heard it. Still vibrant, still brilliant.
Yesssss!!!
Nice profile pic
I feel like I’m walking down an elongated hallway in a hospital while listening to this. I feel like I’m in an empty train station while listening to this. I feel like I’m in heaven while listening to this.
i feel like im in the mountains on a perfect blue sky day to this
This song feels like going on a bike joyride with your friends on a chilly summer night
Couldn’t have said it better myself
That was the summer of 2021 for me
This song feels warm and cold at the same time
the best aphex twin song..
Best song in general, of all time
Alberto Balsam would like a word, but this track definitely holds its own
I guess I have a new favorite song. i never heard it before and it's just beautiful 😊
weird that this is 30 years old. feels so much newer
thats all of afx music haha
prob the best song ever made
up there on the greatest electronic tracks off all time!
The disbelief when i found out xtal was made in the 90s is unexplainable
yeah Richard was way ahead of his time with his music!
It's possible it's even older than that. There is a tape from 1989 with XTAL on the notes. So possibly written when Richard was 18.
@@Iofflight78 incredible
this is exactly what i'm experiencing right now
Why? It was the definitive decade for great music. The last, in fact. It was the beginning of the end in reality, but it all felt magical, never ending and enriched the soul. The creativity was everywhere and we can largely thank electronic music for that, and sampling... Sampling played a massive part as it ensured everyone was perpetually looking back, whether they knew it or not. What an era.
Hauntingly Beautiful.
I used to listen to this alot while skateboarding around deserted Portland Oregon during the pandemic. The track made me forget everything and just enjoy the blue sky and cruising down the street.
this song never gets old
I had myself a wee journey a couple of weeks ago out in a local national park, just me, the milky way, a bunch of pademelons and this track. That memory is going to be with me for a very long time. Thanks RDJ
music to exist to.
I think it’s the only song i’ve ever heard that makes you wanna both dance and chill, it’s both cool, dancy music but also relaxing ambient
Richard really managed to capture the inherent beauty of natural electromagnetism tbh . everything in this track feels like its sparkling, like a crystal
happy birthday, legendary man
I first heard this when a buddy visited me at my new place ,when I first moved out of home, rolled my first spliff to christen the new pad... I lit it, and he pressed play on the CD player... MAGIC
I absolutely love this song, I can listen to it on repeat for days and never get bored. For me this song is my soundtrack for life. As today is my birthday and I'm here listening to this masterpiece to calm me through this rollecoaster of life
You said it perfectly
track still feels new its amazing fr
only 31 years old jesus
he has crazier tracks also from this era
I'm gay
Ahead of our time
he will always be ahead of his time, we will never create someting like this again
being gay is definitely so far ahead of one’s time
Ahead of their time
Ok Tingle.
Aphex Twin always makes me feel like im playing a valve game
Probably my favourite track of his. Compared to so much of his later stuff - more simple, more soul.
This song sounds like when you're swimming underwater and paddling your feet on the surface, and it reminds me of this strange place or dream I had when I was younger. Almost felt like the place you are before you're born, just floating in bright blue sky along the clouds.
This is the only song I have listened to for 3 days with no other songs playing. Even though I could swear I’ve never heard it before it transports me back to days when I was happy. I’m not saying I’m not happy now, I’m just saying this song made me happier.
This is the first song I ever heard from Richard.
it’s a good one to start off with
i remember showing this song to a really close friend of mine while we were walking around an empty festival season downtown chicago. the shimmers in the river almost seemed to match up with the twinkly synths and i fell in love with life again
Everyday for over a year I've listened to this before I go to work and it's never not relaxed me.
Don’t ask who’s here in 2021, because we never left ))
@Are you a Hutu or a Tutsi? You have been blessed with good taste. May that blessing be your guide. Godspeed
🖤🕉️
2024 still bumping in the morning
Man this song brings me so much joy :D
such an odd feeling. As if all the difficulties of life are left somewhere behind when listening, you just lie in your bed and talk about life. Nothing worries you.
I love how this whole record feels. Some of the tracks sound half asleep yet half awake. None of the tracks are the same yet they incorporate so well together. I see the whole record as one incredible recording. Xtal is sublime, deeply trippy yet focused. It's wonderful listening to it.
imagina produzir um dos melhores álbuns da história da música tendo apenas 14 anos, instrumentos feitos à mão por ele mesmo, e fitas danificadas. um gênio.
sou adepto a musica eletronica desde os 7 anos. hoje tenho 29 e quando ouvi essa track um mes atras fiquei sem acreditar como eu perdi tanto tempo da minha vida. desde então sou fã desse gênio oculto.
Esse é um dos melhores instrumentais que já escutei! Essa música é de 1992 e eu sou de 2002 mas parece que eu vivi aquela época pq me deu uma nostalgia enorme! Sou muito ligado a música e amei as melodia desse som, tipo um mix de sensações!
Me deixa feliz saber que existem outros brasileiros que partilham do mesmo gosto que o meu. O Aphex Twin é um gênio, sinto que o Richard criava suas músicas com o intuito de gerar emoções, porque cada música que ouço dele me traz uma sensação diferente. E essa, sem sombra de dúvidas, é uma das mais incríveis que ele já produziu, porque pode estar associada a vários sentimentos para quem ouve. De longe um dos melhores artistas eletrônicos que já existiu.
Thx Andy for introducing me to this album!!
I literally said "hey Google, play a song I can smoke weed to" and this came up :D nice I wouldnt mind listening to while I'm having psychedelics
Isaac4thewin well thank google fro bringing you here
dmt
Cap
I get a good mood from the song somehow
Listening to this shit on a night hike with clear skies and good company was one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had. The morphine probably helped too.
Ok..in 1993 was in Montreal canada..and just was discharged from the army..I went a club called metropolis on st Catherine st..and said to my father this is my new hobby..now it is my new song to my woman that resides in Switzerland..maybe...it has always calmed me down and made me feel alive in my travels and creativity in somexway..thankyou gentleman .It was my final song..after I left the new rave scene in San Francisco 1993..that was the end
This was way ahead of its time
That synthline so simple yet so optimistic its unreal
Listened to this on Many a come down in the early 90,s, still so divine 🌄
My first time hearing this track was in also the first time smoking weed with my older bro... 3 years later i still find peace in this piece. My dad even slept to this album once :D
When you hear some really old tracks it shows how loudness wars and the like are a bit silly, depending on the context and how you listen to music. No-one listens to magic like this and picks it apart, it just sounds great.
This song never gets old
I ascend everytime I listen to this track
especially after a toke of that green
The fact that this song was produced in the late 80s/early 90s is incredible, it sounds very fresh.
This song feels like when u randomly wake up at 3am in the morning and u can't get back to sleep
The amatuer feel of the mixing only adds to this songs charm. 10/10.
Masterpiece
I loved it when it first came out and even more now. AT is so unique and wonderful!!!
got to be a top 10 AFX song! / it never gets old makes me feel so fresh/good/focused really nice tune!!
this is an absolutely insane song
this sounds fresh and new.. holy shit RDJ was ahead of his time. i've been making electronic music for 20+ years and to think he made this before I even started is blowing my mind right now. i've heard his music before and I'm a fan but this is the first time I'm hearing this one, and my mind is blown that this is from before I ever touched a midi controller or piece of hardware. sounds like a new joint by Odesza, so I guess Odesza got a ton of inspiration from RDJ and specifically this song.
@@vico805 uhhh yeah i know. I didnt say RDJ sounds like Odezsa, but that you can tell Odezsa was influenced by this song. Does it offend you to hear that or something? Maybe don't get your panties in a twist over what is clearly true.
This one's cold fresh like an igloo love it!
if hope, dreams, expectations, in a positive way were translated into music, so soothing and ethereal, something you can't grasp your head around, yet, it feels so familiar, as it was a feeling, a sound you've always knew. this is xtal for me
Трудно поверить, что этот трек вышел в 1992 году
в этом вся прелесть тогдашних музыкантов, которые писали IDM.. настолько футуристические работы. столько скилла..
И не говори
Согласен
liar .
This music reminds me of forests and it always has since I was 10 and I love it
The most irresistible song I have ever heard. If I start playing it, I have to finish.
Refreshingly sublime.
In love with this tune
it’s a good one!
My favourite Aphex Twin track.
Sublime. Transcendent. Thank you Aphex Twin. A Limerick man GWAN!! 💪❤️❤️❤️😎 Restores faith in humanity this kind of music 🙏
Hmm really nice music. Peace and calm. I wonder if those "Aphex Twins" made some more music. I bet they make very "chilled out" music. Yeah I would love to hear more of their music, must be very undergroud.
@Menzo Berranzan you're joking aren't you? If not glad you discovered him :)
haha if this is your first introduction to aphex twin, then it certainly is a good one
I do wonder who the other Aphex Twin is ;- ) but FYI, Aphex Twin is one dude.
Ha! Just watched that Coachella reviewer clip - hilarious. And she had the whole experience, too, without knowing it.
@@Vingul Google Aphex Aural Exciter to see what the “other” Aphex is. It’s a piece of studio gear originally released in 1975 :)
So many images comme to my mind with this music
Simply outstanding.
This track gives me power
Sound from beyond this world
When I'm at the most awakened state that I can, I feel like this song.
I prefer the original with the low notes to the clear sound of the remastered version, the fantasy that the boy fumbled with the tape and created is wonderful!
Las sensaciones con esta obra maestra superan la mejor de las descripciones. Tan atemporal que parece traído de lo desconocido.
Londoner here for me personally this evokes following, canary wharf's glimmering lights from the distance as I'm passing early morning or somewhere along the Jubillee line.
"So let me go over this again."
we need back to this
I love her!
Surreal, curti muito esse som! Melodia linda demais.
Pure genius
this feels like an old 2000s ski game