Aphex Twin - Lichen

[Tijdelijk13]

that's awesome

[sokkasgirl890]

musicgasm.

[Shmittyplaysflute]

50 POINTS IF YOU CAN DEFINE LICHEN OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD (like, in biological terms).

[Nedmund1]

@Shmittyplaysflute A lichen is a composite organism consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner, usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium, off the top of my head

[Shmittyplaysflute]

@Nedmund1 good job, smartypants, but that matches wikipedia's definition word for word! haha

[superkulmedkniv25]

A beautiful video for an even more beautiful song

[stocadg]

Skyrim

[thejuaneco]

O shit, im crying.

[stocadg]

@thejuaneco lie

[thejuaneco]

@stocadg no. dude, i cryed in that moment.

[iNuchalHead]

greatest recording

words can't begin to describe

those sounds from heaven

[ambientfairchild]

if you love this track which you do then i think you should check out brian enos - an ending(ascent) track. very much inspired aphex on this track. another amazing track along these lines is an artist called tom recchion and track called - a complex shape in the sky. enjoy and dont be afraid to keep your mind open and further explore the genius that has been made, like richard d james does.

[X31V]

Life Music... if u play oblivion elder scrolls game of the year edition set this and Rhubarb and cliffs together in that order on audacity export as WAV and convert to Mp3... its a nostalgic trip into another world expecially when a oblivion Gate opens.

[HeIiosphan]

Damn how can it be possible, i just read Bcasey11's comment. Aphex Twin is god. How can you transmit such feelings?!

[HeIiosphan]

My dog died 4 months ago, i remember him when listening to Lichen. The melody fits with the way he was looking at me, his eyes...

[sctaerprhearna]

@HeIiosphan this comment totally made me tear up..

[annacodaa]

NOOOOOO why did it have to end

[mortess]

So beautiful I can't stand it.

[94sleeptalker]

the absolute best



[triplights]

i'm sitting here crying my eyes out and i feel so alive. thank god for aphex twin

[Jvstic3]

LSD LSD LSD LSD LSD

[Letjii]

Dona tanta tranquillità

[james28ify]

Sooooo beautiful...

[majolv94]

Cuando era niña, mis padres solían llevarme a casa de mi abuela, para cuidarme o porque yo se los pedía. Al momento en que llegaba, sentía tanta paz, tanta tranquilidad, me sentía inmensamente feliz.

Y cuando escuché esto, me hizo recordar esos tiempos, la razón se la atribuyo a la paz que siento al escucharla. Me hace recordar a mi abuela. Me pregunto si ella se siente ahora así.

[No1Significant1]

....This is what a child sees after they're dumped in a field while they die from being brutally raped!

[greenma201]

I remember having my mp3 player on Aphex Twin and I fell asleep to I and woke up to Lichen and it made me extremely peaceful

[fraction360]

JAAAAMM !!!

[fraction360]

@lehviminder wow you can fuck off then aha, Chris is a very talented musical artist.

[Bcasey11]

that was an amazing experience, i love you for this video

[Bcasey11]

i heard this song is about his dog who died

[camphax]

nice, real nice

[gemgus87]

I want to give Richard D. a hug

[toGatherThinskin]

love the colours of the clouds!

[TheColorOfMind]

FANTASTIC EMOTION !!!!

[AfroTits]

@nyanmiaw LOL YOUR TRIPPIN

[devilllcz]

@nyanmiaw Nice trip dude ;]

[VometingKush]

Chill As Fuck <3

[GTapThat]

It gaps the difference between all and none.

[ElectrikBear]

this song gives me that feeling that i can never describe

[missperfect121995]

I swear just listening to this beautiful work of art along with the wonderful clouds, Thanks to this video I feel the pure beauty of just life and nature, this is truley the work of a genius.

[TRIARII117]

one of the things i admire the most about aphex twin is how he does not limit himself to just one style.

[CCCPSimbirsk]

@alitabattleangel2012 well i did use translate, and i get the message. beautiful my friend

[capsule001]

It's owned by Aphex Twin and always will be. Fuck WMG!! WTF!!

[KelvinsVids]

@alitabattleangel2012 ja zo kan ik het ook wel :P je ziet toch dat ik engels reageer ofnie?

haha, i'm dutch... what did you say?

[Laubotje]

too beautiful

[KelvinsVids]

aphex twin, what you make with that crazy mind of yours... is ART.

[FlooperMap]

One word tells more than a thoussand pictures

One song tells more than a thoussand words.

Aphextwin tells more than a thoussand songs.

[oyvwilmarbjo]

@FlooperMap think you got it a little wrong here but... its a picture says more then thousand words.. not the other way around:P

[Bronn92]

@FlooperMap Well, the saying says that an image is worth than one thousand words

[Tenchcnet]

@FlooperMap Oh, so true. I love your comment. It implicates my every single thought of how awesome he is. And Lichen in the background.

[BFHsucker]

@FlooperMap and thousand is a word with one s =.=

[Emmoseezee]

Clouds are a good medium for representing this song as it exudes a multitude of emotions.

[Jimster666]

great video, fits well.

[xxtiaan]

omgz its a nice peice of ambeint ppl, everyne writing about how it makes them cry, believe in god or shit rainbows needs a good dose of his 73 yips track at high volume...

[missperfect121995]

This is my most listened to song on my itunes.. there are 1600 songs..

[missperfect121995]

This is the MOST beautiful song. It just makes me wish i could lay out in the middle of a beautiful field with no worries about anything.. just watching the clouds pass by..

[mindmolester7]

@nyanmiaw :)

[GuppyPal]

This is the most beautiful music I've ever heard.

[triplights]

crying to this song makes me feel so human...so real

[gavloft]

This song reminds me of Jesus and the day when he will float down to earth in 2012

[00the00virus00]

@gavloft Are you serious?

[gavloft]

@00the00virus00 No

[00the00virus00]

@gavloft ahaha thank godXD

[mindmolester7]

@gavloft haha i was worried to

[oldsoolali]

pure bliss. makes total sense when walkin around Kernow which is where RDJ grew up.

i often think that childhood visions are reflected in his work

[verhosaatana]

and dream again :;)

[verhosaatana]

o -ou sounds like good absurd dream:)and then you wake up and realized "this world is beautiful" and then...its noooooooot...,.and then-....you want to go sleep again...

[TheNewermind]

oh my. this is exactly what i saw myself after taking some LSD...

[TheGockelgorski]

Klasse... :)

[theddrumdrummer6669]

<3

[triplights]

within a minute of playing this song, i shed blissful, quiet tears. it feels good to cry to this. thank god for aphex twin :)

[CaravanNothing]

Lovely. The visuals/colors really fit the vibe for me. Thanks.

[mame32127]

just like heaven

[ThexDarksider]

This track smells wonderful.

[AlbertX78]

Lichen is a city in Poland. Bogdan Raczynski, AFX's friend and also great composer is from poland.

[chemoman1]

Words can't describe...

[S2Cents]

really this is the sort of thing that momentarily checks the shittyness of life

[crushy3]

Hot damn that's weird! I'm reading through my biology textbook and how caribou feed on lichen in tundra, whilst looking for another aphex twin track and I see this on the sidebar.

Cool.

[blllick]

Lanterna - B minor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[OlazorTzmrp]

i love dis, saw dis like a year ago n the clouds blew me awey....!

[coconman1]

Oh that tingly feeling listening to this and rhubarb.

[hentaisexfreak4life1]

awesome tune here wow cool indeed

[kpeacesmith]

replay, replay, replay ad infinitum

[sniperquasi]

Read metro 2033 to this. I found it rather fitting, but i always remember to appreciate the song by itself.

[gabboagonistes]

everybody take drugs

[theoogabear]

@TheZODSQUAD go away

[krystcompany]

This could play for the whole time of my life and it would never get annoying to me. Thanks for this "thing" .

[OxyZero]

Fucking earsex this is so relaxing.

[Jangaboo]

first seconds sound like star trek theme then takes off into another place, a calm understanding slow moving place

[williamfsullivan]

One of my all-time favorite tunes... Real good job with the video!!!

[MrCbirtwis]

my funeral song

[TheAPC91]

...

[NovaFingers]

I dont even..I cant express this..its not even a feeling..Damn it. I must meet this man..

[Jessiquaa]

@NovaFingers This & Rhubarb give me chills.... there is no word that exists to explain what it is, it is beyond feeling, reaching you on a deeper level.... I get the same thing from a few Sigur Ros songs and their music videos are so beautiful and meaningful.

[PixelSushi3]

I love listening to this while looking up at puffy clouds~

[staphinfection]

When Kurt Cobain was getting fucked up on heroin and shooting himself(RIP!), Richard D. James was making music like this....

Such a difference. Same time period.

[Laarrshh]

@staphinfection Nirvana is my favorite rock band, Aphex Twin is my favorite artist

[MrSalvaur]

@staphinfection

dont bring a figure like that to this.

[EPIK562]

@staphinfection kurts got nothing on richard. absolutely NOTHING

[andwhatfire]

@staphinfection There's also a similarity. They compare in their range from grit to the sublimity.

[FlooperMap]

Yellow clouds, that is cool, great job.

[Laarrshh]

Thank you. I love you

[Fonec87]

Mother...



[essie073]

This song has such a strange effect on me. I feel... ethereal. As though my body is rising up above the earth, away from all harm.

The video is perfect.

[poliut2001]

in arrivo abbondante precipitazione di birra !!

[phiellaep]

@bpdubstep Exactly.

[fleshofdanny]

Oh my!

This video is gorgeous!

And for such an equally gorgeous song......

[Gyglz4Lyff]

This is the most peacefully heartbreaking song that I know of. I can't help but tear up at 2:20. If Aphex Twin had only made this one song, I would still hold him up as one of my favorite artists.

[paranapoleon]

@Gyglz4Lyff

yes, this is how soul cleaning works ;)

[ambientfairchild]

@Gyglz4Lyff 

[xGAARAxGIRLx]

the start of the song almost sounds like the star trek theme.

[electracullen11]

Shhhhhhhhh...

[MuzikJunkyAES]

The very last moment spent with people whom you know you'll never, ever see again for the rest of your life. You can't help but tear up every time you hear this song. Peace.

[phiellaep]

If I was ever to make a religion, it would just be this song, and no words would ever have to be said about it.

[MrIlusoholmes]

mística en todo su esplendor ... exelente video  :)

[Kapo465]

Very cool vid! Reminds me of a "marshmallow" for some off reason.

[CatMan221]

dreamlike...nice job :)

[nycdieselwhore]

i love the name

[flametard]

ZzZzZzZzZz 

[biosphere1980]

heaven !!!

[iloveshetlandponies]

This is gorgeous.

[rufflazy]

"All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself"

[jaretthale78]

@rufflazy :)

[iriddell1]

@rufflazy whats that from man? that sounds so familiar

[rufflazy]

@iriddell1 It's from Iain M. Banks's book 'Surface Detail'

[iriddell1]

@rufflazy thank you so much for giving me the source. going to buy it today.

[AwesomeCoasters]

Rhubarb, part 2 :)

[biashead]

brilliant picture and shivering song. goosebumps!

[kladjaa]

Lichen ? prawie jak Licheń. do tego ta sakralna nuta. : >

[merkfools13]

i turned this on high and yelled "WELL DAMN I'M LICHEN THIS A LOT"

[agustusgaloof]

@merkfools13 you sound like my dad. hah. 

[merkfools13]

@agustusgaloof o well, so long as it's in the name of richard haha

[a8inoulova]

amazing video..... really psychedelic and relaxing. congrats!

[marclebarbare]

Fuck WMG

[kristiankp]

At some point I thought I was listening to the starteck opening song (the older one)

[Laarrshh]

If you ever wanna let somebody loose, just play this song

[RiahPinguin]

This is exactly how I imagined the Song ! Thank you !

[agustusgaloof]

1 dislike is 1 too many.

[MelancholyJabs]

Calming track, it somehow sends me into a Trance when I stare into the Sky.

Cloudy, Clear, Rainy, any weather..it sends me into a Radiant Trance...

All this Anger and Depression drains out of me and, it feels like I'm as Light as a Feather.

[SweeTipiez]

@MelancholyJabs im right there with you man.just let all the anger, anxiety, an depression go even if it is for 3:44 secs.

[MelancholyJabs]

@SweeTipiez Yep..also, I noticed that this somehow sounds a bit similar to Rhubarb..

Both are good songs, anyways...this song is gorgeous...Aphex Twin deserves to be known world-wide.

I ask people if they know about Aphex Twin and they say No. :\

It's really disappointing, Aphex Twin deserves lots of fame than today's famous people, who practically have no talent.

I love Aphex Twin so much..I wish I could meet him in the flesh. <3

[vedivice]

@MelancholyJabs I don't think aphex twin wants fame.

[MelancholyJabs]

@vedivice Same.

[froggz19]

@vedivice You want or not you become famous!

[nubfaceforthelose]

@MelancholyJabs Unfortunately, such is the curse of making avant-garde music. People just want to watch their favourite TV shows and listen to the music that is thrown at them by the mainstream. Aphex Twin pays the price by creating music that would not fit in amongst the general population. He may not see worldwide success, but in our eyes he is a genius

[MelancholyJabs]

@nubfaceforthelose Yeah.

[laswap1]

@nubfaceforthelose Same story all the time on these unorthodox videos, people just slam the masses as inferiors. Hope you enjoy thinking you're superior on some level to the rest of the world. Oh and it's the other way round, mainstream supplies what the majority demand.

[amerthil]

this is NOT the first electronic music to have soul. i won't categorize it any further. you will eventually stumble across the flow on your own i am sure. do not label JUST FLOW let it be let it be let it be

[shankra1]

Hey ... could you allow this great track for external Devices (Iphone) in settings please? :)

[eyewoodsay]

clouds are made up of souls......

[lilcast911]

can some one give me a list of the best ambient music, like this track so we can share our love for such a emotional genre

these are my favorite tracks

aphex twins-xtal,ruhubarb

james zabiela- perseverance

tycho- cascade

its not all ambient some is down tempo but still a master piece

[itarethetroll]

@lilcast911 You should get full albums. If you can't buy them then download them. For Aphex, get the two Selected Ambient Works albums. Get World of Sleepers by Carbon Based Lifeforms. Phaedra by Tangerine Dream. And, of course, Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Brian Eno, the album that really started it all. Ambient 2 is also very excellent. Geogaddi by Boards of Canada. There's a lot, but those are good albums to start with.

[barehotmash]

@lilcast911 Hammock - North

[noayhozay]

such a beautiful pastoral ambient landscape, at times achingly melancholic, but sublime nonetheless

[SirTensis]

This song is fucking sacred.