Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus

[Genesis817]

James somehow managed to find that formula for perfection on this track. I love many of his songs greatly, but something about this one truly epitomizes ambient music. The fluctuations in mood and emotion felt with every second of this song are surreal.

[fl260]

I could listen to this for centuries...

[fudgetone]

Listen to this song and make sure everyone you love knows that you love them. You might not get another chance ... To look back for the rest of your life and know that you didn't tell them is too cruel a burden. Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

[willzer808]

@fudgetone its not late! its only 17:58 dude

[4Brownie4]

@1111paradoxlost1111 I don't see the relation. And most of those abrasive tracks are very emotional too.

[ThePervertedWhore]

It's almost like an acceptance of death and the mystery of our material universe

[xylemxorro]

why do i feel like dying would be okay when i hear this track? not scared or afraid but at complete and total PEACE!!! Richard D. James coming correct...

[corwinph]

This song will always remind me of the scariest game I have played so far, Afraid of monsters is some scary shit.

[Peopleitsbad]

PS Second thoughts, forget the drink / spliff - this is quite some joint in itself.

[joostverwoerd]

@Peopleitsbad Still having it, not needed though.

[Peopleitsbad]

Can anyone else hear the manic, mad little tune running underneath this ?! Relax, have a drink or spliff (whatever) and listen, under the woeful voices. Sublime. Bloody sublime !

[13lovekiller]

this song is really trippy...wish i had some shrooms...

[Schachtwanderer]

for real, it seems to be a stone in focus, i hear him breathing, i see him thinking...

[nyanmiaw]

This song is like being on a graveyard, but no ones is really dead and they're having a brilliant time drinking tea and looking at the stars in the sky above

[Readysetowned1]

@nyanmiaw wow, you could've just gone with "this song is like flying" or something less impossible.

[nyanmiaw]

@Readysetowned1 ;)

[silentwolff23]

Nostalgic, Yet beautiful like the summer rain on a quiet & lonely day

[HardToBeAPoopGod]

This smooth sound Aphex used is so relaxing. It reminds of old times, like a black&white-movie shows you in your childhood. i always listen to this when i draw something

[sangolt88]

Beautiful

[ptwob]

@1111paradoxlost1111 i never said it was a loop

[PedroShark]

Perfection.

[flipkenx]

So relaxing, a natural high

[ptwob]

its 10 minutes of the same, but it doesn't get boring

[alicethetic]

Richard David James, one of the greatest musicians of your time! This is just one of the MANY examples.

[JustAbitOfCheese]

I swear this has been used in one of David Firth's animations. Excellent.

[sumey28]

@JustAbitOfCheese yes it has, and some others too (Rhubarb)

[xylemxorro]

Aphex Twin at his best... dark,haunting,ethereal,melanch­oly,etc....words can not even describe the way his music makes me feel...almost like dying but in a good way...true fucking emotion u cant run from...nothing but good!!!

[ycoby28]

@hopthefencetofreedom to me that's awesome. a moment to get away from lifes repetitive patterns and embrace the world around us. to breathe nature. question life. I'm jealous of you.

[shanewgreenwell]

why does apex twin remind me of the trailer park boys introduction

[Iemanonymous1]

I often wonder what it would be like to die.

If your point of view in the big story that is life suddenly vanishes, then what?

I can't imagine the feeling of absolute utter nothingness.

Maybe our reward for keeping our chins up through life is to see what the answer at the end really is.

[fudgetone]

@Iemanonymous1 The experience of life lies in the journey, not the destination.

[andylevsa80]

@Iemanonymous1

It will be like the days before you were born.

[BoobenHunt]

no longer on this planet

[andyAAWW]

@BoobenHunt No longer in this dimension...

[interactiveartsNI]

love the images, get the impression there is something further

[dma2012]

aphex taught me how to embrace isolation. there is nothing wrong with it.

[SkurBeats]

i fucking love this song.. always have, just feel there needs to be a longer gap between each chord, and also of each phase. Begins getting relentless and therefore machine like too early on. Should sound really natural. Too much mid range in the mix too, my speakers are ringing.

[garhat]

Magical..!

[awefilledcreep]

where are my headphones...

[hopthefencetofreedom]

I sat and listened to this at three in the morning in a foggy field, just sitting and letting my mind go blank, watching and feeling the strange things this song conjures up. Suffice to say my life hasn't been the same since. Beautiful.

[Gyglz4Lyff]

This song scares me with the amount of loneliness it produces, or rather draws out, in me. So very beautiful. Makes me want a warm body to curl up with...

[barfalomule3]

!!!AFRAID OF MONSTERS!!!

[sidchimaera]

great slideshow. you really captured the mood.

[andresfjacome]

one of my favorite tracks of all times... it's just so beautiful.

[davestechnique2]

Richard D.James AKA ~Aphex Twin~ Is an Intelligent Alien Being Shapeshifter Very

Extrodinare!. Exquisit 4 Shifting 2 Human Understanding with Honor & Upmost Deepest Respect I Must Say His Monumental Ambiental Movement Just open You're

Head & Listen to his Own Achievements are so Captivating & so Compelling that it's 2 Far Complexed I So Welcome This Beautiful Science Fiction Journey To The

Plate Aphex Twin Forever & Ever Thank You kinkinlarge D's tech2 Compliance!!

[chickenyogurt]

This song calls for meditation and contemplation.  God, what a beautiful track.

[PantherFox]

This song reminds me of the place before life. The nothingness that we come from, the same void that we will return to when we finally die. it lets me find comfort in death, as if I'm returning to the womb of peaceful nothingness where all life infinitely belongs.

[TheGrinninMan]

I could be in the midst of a festival with a dozen friends and people all around and if I heard this song I would feel alone.

[Doc447]

This song makes me wanna get high so much an chill out on an empty beach.

[opti95]

i love the pure, empty and lonely feeling i get when i hear this song, its like a clean hole in my stomach has opened up and i revert back to my childhood.

[analogtherapy]

just such a beautiful track.

[soberson08]

Where did you get the picture at 0:50 from? Unless you took it yourself.

[Beefpoweredcars]

i've never felt more at peace than when i hear this song. bare, stripped down, complete and overwhelming peace.

[JEWSDlDWTC]

I haven't listened to this in years. Thanks for uploading it!

[Daturaization]

Transcends description. The imagery in conjuction with the audio is just, there simply aren't words in the human language that can describe such precious beauty.

[Newcomingmusic]

This is by far my favorite Aphex Twin song...

I don't know why I love it so much it is just so beautiful, yet creepy, familiar, yet unfamiliar.

This song reminds me of death, not some one else dying but myself dying, what it truly means to vanish. I can't use many words to describe the way I feel when I hear this song.

[narimanmog]

@Newcomingmusic

This is odd. I also think of my own death when listening to this song.

I not only think of death, I think of life.

WHen the song fades in I think of birth. Slowly emerging into living. Life with beatiful and harsh moment. The randomness of life (the clicks). And when the song comes to the end, the tempo begins to slow. The end of this song is so beautiful. The last three chords are so distant and full of emotion.This is where I truly die.Hope my death will be as soft as the song

[Garcian]

@Newcomingmusic catharsis, a purging of the soul in a positive way

[docbeetle]

@Garcian Nothing better then absolute isolation.

[noirtriptyline]

@Newcomingmusic Drifting and floating and fading away to nothing and everything...

[zdsrtgnzetmyet]

best three note song ever?

[xinjinbei]

@zdsrtgnzetmyet

that's right.

C F A# C over and over again. awesome stuff.

[zdsrtgnzetmyet]

@xinjinbei awwwww yeeeeeaaa

[HomieGeeSkittle]

@xinjinbei lol you dont call it A# its Bb

[xinjinbei]

@HomieGeeSkittle

They both mean the same thing.

[88hallo88]

was this tune used in david firths toast boy?

[Carabinic]

@88hallo88 yup

[smikeDe]

i want these pictures please!

[zarakisk8]

could you send me this pictures? please?

[narimanmog]

Great post!

This is what I see when I hear this song. I have a special place not so far from my house where I use to sit during the summer months during the midnight sun here in Scandinavia. Open fields and this track is an awsome combo. Fun to see that others also share the same vision when listening to this song.

You're pictures are truly wonderful. Do you have them in Hi-Res somewhere? Would really like to print some of them and hang them on my wall.

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[aky363]

@narimanmog

Man me and some friends have a beach near our house we walk to, watching the sun rise over the noth east coast of England to this and so many other Aphex Twin tracks is the most mind blowing thing.

[narimanmog]

Great post!

This is what I see when I hear this song. I have a special place not so far from my house where I use to sit during the summer months during the midnight sun here in Scandinavia. Open fields and this track is an awsome combo. Fun to see that others also share the same vision when listening to this song.

You're pictures are truly wonderful. Do you have them in Hi-Res somewhere? Would really like to print some of them and hang them on my wall.

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[DIGItalColourMedia]

Beautiful - there comes a time when you just need to relax and contemplate the world and it's beauty - and that time duly arrives when I listen to this track. Pure ambient bliss... and the images go along very nice too! Exactly what I think of when I listen to this masterpiece...

[1czelaya]

Sometimes I forget why listen to electronic/dance music altogether. Electronic music has so many paths and directions you can follow, and for many of us we become passionate about 1 or 2 particular genre(s).

One genre that I've neglected over the years is downtempo/ambient when mixing and DJing. I've just been so narrow headed with what I like that I haven't ventured into other genres. Tracks like make me realize the potential that is possible with electronic music in general.

Great post.

[UploadedMusic]

thanks for the up :)

[sunnoisamazing]

this makes me want to cry, but in a good way. you captured a very special vision. id like to see more of your art.

[K9CrewPK]

@sunnoisamazing your post is very fine and all but... i think he's not owning this song... ;) so u can't tell u want to see more of HIS ART, right?

[Alexeylo]

Супер!

[TNTJahv1er]

simply amazing* love the images, go very well with the classic sounds.