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SERIOUSLY: BEST SONG EVER?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 05:53 (eighteen years ago)

MAYBE!

(especially if someone finds out that the vocals are sung by RDJ himself)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

better than Float On? which i heard on the radio on the way home from dinner.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 06:17 (eighteen years ago)

I've moved on.... to Badi Assad's Chameleon.

I want to snuggle with Haikunym someday and have him tell me all his Brazilian secrets.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:14 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah, i have to hear badi.

i think i've only ever heard that ambient works cd once in my life. just DLed XTAL. pretty good. goes along well w/all the other early house/techno stuff i'm listening to. grassy ass.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

i concur with the thread's premise

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

not even the best song on the album.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

love the bass in this

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

CHRISTTAL with two t's?

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

wow, i can't believe i didn't own this album yet. it's pretty fucking amazing. i think the one time i listened to it i ended up taking a nap so i assumed it was boring sleepy time music. it's really just like a nice, mellow electro album. didn't realize there were so many beats on it. Ageispolis is kicking my ass right now.

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

yeah this album is the shit, best thing dude ever did

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Schottkey 7th Path" is phenom.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtal

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

'ptolmey' is like some newcleus shit

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

xtal=best song to listen to while tripping
the track after it almost has me convinced that airports are comfortable places.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

hardly ever listen to this but its great. i'll play this loud as fuck later as i'm in a bit of a bass war w/ prick downstairs

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

great tune...

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago)

i like "tha"

(but not bassy enuff. marvellous cain "hitman" otoh.. muahahah >:D)

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 9 November 2006 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

tha is too floaty to play w/ other tracks but great sleep music

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 9 November 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

I flashback just listening to it

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

even i will agree with this thread.

― calvin johnson has ruined rock for an entire generation (orion), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I love this song.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

(and album)

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it's awesome. "Xtal" and "Tha" are the best track on the album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder how many weeks it will take me to find out what this is.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

APHEX TWIN - SELECTED AMBIENT WORKS, 85-92

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

SONG #1

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

ROCKIST HERE

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

you've probably heard it, morbs, unless the poppers were too fierce at the club that night.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

I only have SAW vol II.

HOOKUPS???

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

i have it on vinyl at home, sorry gbx.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

xtal is song #3 on mine

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

time for slsk

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

oops, i meant

SLSK: ACTIVATE

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

I just thot it was cute you guys rank this as universally familiar as "Black Hole Sun" or "The Night They Invented Champagne."

(but I really can't figure how these genres caught on with teh str8 ppl, unless stenc's poppers joek means he was at the Ninth Circle doin 'research')

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

don't get all blount on me, morbs.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

xtal is song #3 on mine

o.Ò

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Aphex Twin is kind of a ROCKIST electronic music, tho. Indie rockers who wouldn't be caught dead listening to Luomo or whatever still jerk off to the Chris Cunningham Directors Series DVD.

WTF is "The Night They Invented Champagne"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

i much prefer "green calx", "ptolemy" and "heliosphan" (my three favorites, in order)

"we are the music makers" - always thought this would sound awesome w/ sade singing over it.

"delphium" = honorable mention for heavy detroit techno vibes

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

and yeah, SAW85-92 is great, but where's the love for polygon window?!? THAT was the best aphex shit ever, believe.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

sinker's awesome breakdown of techno as the secret bastard lovechild of "novelty music" (christmas singing cats, songs w/ cuckoo clocks, sound effects in pop songs, baby elephant dance, etc) to thread.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, WRONG THREAD

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

i love polygon window too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

if only jaymc knew as much about music as he did ILX0rs.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

i might have the ATwin at home from my 'dutiful' phase.

Gigi, jaymc.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ah. Never seen it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

And the venerable Steve Shasta is right -- I really don't know that much about music at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

no it's just silly revisionist statements like the your choice quote above typical of autoscripted ILX conjecture-wank.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

I can't tell what you're taking issue with. At first I thought it was my ignorance of Gigi, and I was like, fair enough, there's really a whole lot of music I've never heard, that's something I'll totally own up to, etc. ... But now I'm wondering whether it's the first part of my post about Aphex Twin vs. Luomo. I'm certainly not damning Aphex Twin -- I joined in the chorus saying that "Xtal" is great -- but I do think that RDJ, like most practitioners of "IDM," makes the kind of electronic music that rock fans often gravitate toward. I mean, you go to Reckless Records in Chicago, and their electronic section is mostly AFX, Squarepusher, Mouse on Mars, etc. That's all I'm saying. Morbius's comment that he found it odd for straight people to be listening to "these genres" was just really weird to me, since my stereotype of an Aphex Twin fan is, like, TOMBOT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

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fantastic tits sounds awesome

― max, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

still ruling the universe...

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

an exception would be 'from here we go sublime', which, i think, owes a lot to xtal

-- ☪, Saturday, May 19, 2007 4:33 AM (4 months ago)

if you mean its a lazier, suckier xtal then yes

― am0n, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago)

or "a lazy, sucky xtal" rather haha...

― am0n, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

SAWII doing great things to my mind right now.

― caek, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

xtal = best song ever

― cutty, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago)

yes

― imperial management trainee (latebloomer), Wednesday, 29 October 2008 03:25 (sixteen years ago)

could never get into it

― Lingbert, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 03:26 (sixteen years ago)

When I was playing Spore a couple weeks ago I discovered that, in the building items, they have among other things a Polygon Window.

Awesome!

― Trayce, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 03:42 (sixteen years ago)

there's nothing to go into. it just is.

― cutty, Wednesday, 29 October 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago)

Truth bomb that.

― Trayce, Thursday, 30 October 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago)

xtal is beautiful

― ℵℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜℜ℘! (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 30 October 2008 01:42 (sixteen years ago)

gbx never YSI'd me SAWII. ;_;

(So I'm going to go download it now.)

(PS I was a douche on this thread.)

― jaymc, Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:10 (sixteen years ago)

(So I'm going to go download it now.)

I can just call you on your phone and go WOOOO WOOO SKRK WOOOOOOO NANOO NANOO PSSSSSSHH ECHO NANOO, that would take a lot less time

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:11 (sixteen years ago)

or you could just record yourself reading the all-caps part of my last post and loop it on your computer with some reverb

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:12 (sixteen years ago)

i think i prefer Papua New Guinea to Xtal afa hippy dippy yaya-thedral reverb ambient techno goes. Pulsewidth, though, that is the sound of shopping on the internet, no question. the kid had vision.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:16 (sixteen years ago)

I only just realised recently that PNG has a sample in it from a Dead Can Dance song.

― Trayce, Friday, 31 October 2008 03:40 (sixteen years ago)

<3 xtal

― what i got is HOOS for the capitalism (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 31 October 2008 03:42 (sixteen years ago)

― sleep, Monday, 3 November 2008 00:41 (sixteen years ago)

i love this thread

― s1ocki, Monday, 3 November 2008 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

three months pass...

i would like to live inside this song

― cutty, Monday, 2 March 2009 13:51 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

just saw a Lexicon Super Prime Time digital delay for the first time when visiting Mills this morning

http://www.flickr.com/photos/adeneko/2835706884/in/photostream/

you can't quite see it, but the third blue button, the one directly under 'bank select'

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 22:32 (fifteen years ago)

this song is helpful to life right now! thx

― mind crystals over matter (rrrobyn), Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:49 (fifteen years ago)

i would like to live inside this song

― cutty, Monday, March 2, 2009 8:51 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm times a billion

― max, Thursday, 11 March 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)

xtal makes me feel like a goddamn angel 0:D

― ramses 'gyptian nightmares (m bison), Thursday, 11 March 2010 01:06 (fifteen years ago)

tha!

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 11 March 2010 09:15 (fifteen years ago)

hippy dippy yaya-thedral reverb ambient techno

awesome
(both the words and the sound)

that is an A+ display name for someone but i don't think i can do it justice, so, just noting it here

― falling while carrying an owl (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:02 (fifteen years ago)

gnegneri yaya thedral toure

― nakhchivan, Thursday, 11 March 2010 11:19 (fifteen years ago)

divine secrets of the yaya-thedral sisterhood

― ILX's Dopiest Poster (latebloomer), Friday, 12 March 2010 15:35 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

co-worker listening to XTAL

― cutty, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago)

we all should listen to XTAL always

― cutty, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago)

http://3m79.com/mars/Projects/outboard/LEXICON/M97/Side_view0036.jpg

― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago)

two months pass...

omg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alOusC5_3Fo

― cutty, Saturday, 18 September 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago)

It's a real shame that ppl like Tombot turned me off Aphex Twin for a good 10 years.

Fuck you for that, dudes.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Saturday, 18 September 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago)

says the guy with the aphex username

― cutty, Saturday, 18 September 2010 17:54 (fourteen years ago)

This is not an Aphex related username. He has nothing to do with the Tregaskins! Jeez, do you just believe that Richard writes all electronic music, everywhere? Listen to the music, man, not the hype, or who you think wrote it, no matter whose name is on the publishing rights etc. etc. and so forth amen shit I gotta get a leg on if I'm going to this Rephlex party thing tonight.

― Karen D. Tregaskin, Saturday, 18 September 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago)

XTAL is like...dimly lit warehouse just outside the M25, 4am, one security guard, one Ford Fiesta parked outside.

― Hymie in Galveston (admrl), Saturday, 18 September 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

I suppose that means nothing to some of you. Your loss!

― Hymie in Galveston (admrl), Saturday, 18 September 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago)

Why's everybody harshin' mellows all of a sudden

― Z S, Saturday, 18 September 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago)

Ban Karen Bigasscan

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 18 September 2010 23:12 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

https://youtu.be/FB_ClJ9nikY
am0n posted this on a SAW thread but it belongs here.

Also, every year I spend on earth I become more convinced that

xtal = best song ever
― cutty, Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:29 PM (eight years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 05:56 (eight years ago)

four years pass...

Got myself a new subwoofer for Christmas. XTAL ideal sub test test (big booty bass, fkn gorgeous.)

― lukas, Sunday, 26 December 2021 21:27 (three years ago)

two years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu9utvfumwM

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 February 2024 06:22 (one year ago)

listening to "Evil at Play" and uh what am I missing here? yeah he sampled it, it's library music so it's supposed to be sampled, clearly there's way more to the track than the sample, this is nowhere near what say Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem do regularly

― frogbs, Friday, 16 February 2024 15:16 (one year ago)

Yeah seems like a clickbait title do get people to check out his "how was it made" process which is frankly far more interesting (also the bulk of the video) and the reason I posted it here!

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 February 2024 15:31 (one year ago)

totally stupid, oh no he used a sample. I mean, no shit.

The video where they remake it in ableton or whatever is pretty cool, though!

Agree that this is probably the greatest song of all time

― brimstead, Friday, 16 February 2024 16:18 (one year ago)

XTAL is like...dimly lit warehouse just outside the M25, 4am, one security guard, one Ford Fiesta parked outside.

― brimstead, Friday, 16 February 2024 16:37 (one year ago)

video thumbnail makes it look like rdj placed an evil frequency in the track

― ivy., Friday, 16 February 2024 16:46 (one year ago)

good excuse to put this on today, thanks thread

― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 16 February 2024 16:57 (one year ago)

can't believe it exists

― Swen, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:53 (one year ago)

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