Aphex Twin - Blue Calx

Taken from the album "Selected Ambient Works Volume 2" by Aphex Twin
The paintings by Marta Baricsa.. :)
(Blue calx 1, 2 & 3. Triptych. Acrylic on canvas. 16 x 20" each section. 2004)

[luminousflame]

I believe our perception of reality is filtered through the music we listen to. For me, music doesn't help me escape reality (though it helps drown out anxious thoughts), but it can make reality feel more comforting and beautiful. this lovely piece of music can imbue the most mundane and tiresome of experiences with meaning and magic.

[hygotron]

Sad thing is I don't think I've ever met someone who shares the same love for Aphex Twin that I do :(

[aimlessparasite]

After putting in 16 hours a day 6- 7 days a week for 4 years, I quit my job. That first day home I didn't know what to do with myself so I got out my camping hammock, hung it up in my yard, got lit and listened to a loop of this song for hours just staring at the blue sky watching around 15 vultures ride a thermal for half of the day. I still get that sense of relief hearing this nearly 3 years later...

[Hasuo]

Stone in Focus
Rhubarb
Lichen
Blue Calx
Curtains
Cliffs
Tree
Matchsticks
Hexagon
Tassels
Z Twig

Masterpiece!

[unhelpful-harry]

It makes me think of how the world felt during childhood. Just a big dream, everything was there to be observed, and you never had to deal with being caught up in it all. This track makes me want to just walk around and pay attention to everything I’d usually filter out.

[hijpot]

I heard this for the first time I think in 2000. I was 19. I remember how it made me feel. I’m still chasing those feelings today. In my opinion one of the greatest musical pieces ever recorded in history

[inkeys]

"Recorded in Linmiri [Lannerlog bedroom studio], probably the last track I ever recorded in that house, quite fitting really, end of that era. I made it when coming back to visit my parents in Cornwall after moving away to go to college to do a degree in microelectronic engineering, which I thankfully never finished, was so boring, always preferred teaching myself, so much more satisfying, letting your mind wander where it needs to go. I heard Derrick May pressed this up onto vinyl so he could DJ it, I wonder if that was true?"

[fredfairley]

you lose everything when you listen to this. utterly laid bare. total catharsis.

[nylanm]

It sounds like it's 5 am, the rave is over, you go home, and you just remember everything that happened that night with such a pleasant feeling of warmth and nostalgia

[rich.t.]

One of my best friends introduced me to this stuff in the early 90's, when I was growing up.
I never gave myself the opportunity to thank him.

...Thank you Stuart..

[paulhurst]

This is the best comments section I’ve ever read on any track on YouTube ever.

[Pike]

I listened to this many times, when I'd had psychosees in the past. Nothing else was as soothing as this one, and it helped me pull through it all.

Later, it always helped me calm down in difficult times. Also, it helps me get sleep, if I'm disturbed or anxious for whatever reason.

It's really something magical. I'll always remember it!

Thank you Richard! You've made a big service to the world =).

[sunnyreal]

A calm mind is the biggest weapon against challenges.

[RadiantMantra]

10 Aphex Twin songs in a row changes a man.

[bretthosmer]

I remember discovering this kind of music entirely by accident. In tbe mid-90s, I was huge into the alternative rock/industrial metal and bands like Ministry, Filter, Stabbing Westward, and of course, Nine Inch Nails. I had bought NIN's Further Down the Spiral EP, and one of my favorite tracks on the disc was "At the Heart of it All" which upon reading the inside jacket, said it was done by NIN and Aphex Twin. I had never heard of Aphex Twin before and naturally assumed they were another alternative/industrial band. So I went to my local Sam Goody (remember those?) and came across Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Ii 2-CD set. Being 17 at the time, I had no clue what "ambient" meant. I put in the CD (for some reason I chose Disc 2 first) and this song came on. It was not AT ALL what I was expecting. But i did not hate it at all. In fact, I fell in love with it. I was introduced to a whole new kind of soothing, relaxing music and now, mostly I listen to the Soundscapes channel on Music Choice. The funny thing is, I likely never would have knew this kind of music existed had I not bought that Aphex Twin CD thinking it would be harder--edged metal.

[dmtdreamz]

You are loved and cherished. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong. If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run this way: You are loved. And if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be, simply: Love.

[berkkarsi]

This song makes me think of the depths of the ocean, and the life that lives there. The ocean can be a beautiful place and also a scary place at the same time, and this song perfectly captures that feeling.

[MinkyBoodle]

This track somehow feels ancient to me. It conjures images in my mind of exploring caves filled with early human paintings.

[jcrass]

This song feels like a single moment paused in time. I can imagine a soldier, checking his watch, waiting to go over the top, but the time never comes.

[gfbitter]

Creates a space inside your head, the size of a cathedral.