The Samples: APHEX TWIN Edition
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- This episode explores a few examples of songs by from Aphex Twin, and the songs & sources that were sampled to help make them.
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Xtal is one of the most beautiful songs of all time
God, it's amazing.
"Evil at play"
I agree
It's a time stamp for me.....
+ Heliosphan, Alberto Balsalm
dis feels a bit like magic tricks explained
Lololol or when they admitted wrestling was fake and showed how they do the moves. If you want to switch it up, lower the speed to 0.75x or by half. It's basically a brand new RDJ album 👽
@@nonamegonzalez5711 you really don't know anything noname. The sampling was 1% of the tracks.
If you want your mind completely blown, watch how Jim Pavloff recreated The Prodigy tracks.
To me, it’s like understanding hidden meanings in movies.
@Jessica Walrus That's what my point was... exactly.
I love the way he samples himself.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Pro gamer move
That’s the way
It's interesting really, infusing one song with another creating something new but familiar.
me too 🤯🤣
Xtal was so ahead of he's time and still sounds awesome
Very intensely moving piece
I played it in the middle of a breakbeat set at a party last summer (added a punchier kick and sped it up a little) and everyone lost their minds, such a stunning piece
No it's timeless
I've been listening to Aphex Twin for over a decade and I honestly didn't realize he sampled other artist this much. Pretty interesting.
That's because half of this is nonsense bullshit.
@Jessica Walrus omg first of all, I think you're awesome Jessica, you're like the world's biggest Aphex Twin fan, I recognize you from Richard's soundcloud comments. Part of it is that I didn't know a lot of those drums were sampled because they weren't famous ones like the Amen break or the Think break. But I was REALLY surprised at the pinball machine sample in Bucephalus Bouncing Ball, and also REALLY surprised that the end of Come to Daddy sampled another of Richard's tracks, because I love both songs and just never put it together. I know Squarepusher has done somethings like with sampling his own tracks, but I assumed a lot of this stuff was just clever use of synths and drum machines.
I hear you..People want to make it seem like some artists make all their own music,and as someone with multiple samplers,it's easy to just rip and make tracks.Now if you make an LP only from found sounds like Herbert,that's being a bit more creative...
@Jessica Walrus haha you were acting like you escaped from a mental institution a few years before, looks like you're better now though
pioneer of the digital age!
He’s getting cleaner samples out of movies in 92 than I can get now 😂
try EQing
@@avidodd26 thanks
Stop watching whack movies
Richard David James baby
A porno movie even!
vordhosbn and xtal are two of the best songs ever made imo
vordhosbn I can agree on, though I never quite understand why people praise xtal so much. Perhaps it is simply because I have never known a world pre-aphex twin and so therefore can only compare it to his later works.
To me much of his early stuff has the hallmarks of someone with just a little bit of musical talent in his blood "feeling out the room". I believe that early on, the reason that the sound was so abstract was that richard himself did not understand quite what he was creating.
For me his real genius is evident later on in the tracks that all-but conjure visuals before your eyes with the insane but still completely coherent rhythms and stutters of albums like Come to Daddy and then later drukqs.
All Aphex Twin music is the best
@@j-b-l8147 Honestly to me it's like that in a sense I can relate to his songs. It's the feeling that you get from each one that are genuine which doesn't make me pick a favorite.
@@j-b-l8147 100% agree with this
@@j-b-l8147 holy reddit
Xtal doesn't leave my head.
Been listening to Aphex Twin’s music for over 15 years now and still getting surprised by his immaculate abilities as a producer . Never knew he sampled so much from early 70’s funk music and even Joni Mitchell… thanks for making this video
Sampling is art ❤️
Wow... Never thought all these beats were made of samples! I thought they were somehow programmed with Richards' magic machine...
The way he uses them are original tho
In a way that feels completely different from the original
So that's why I think he is better at taking samples
They're both. U should research how sampling and sequencing are done
Aphex is probably one of the best music artists out there
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is probably his best album, as well as Drukqs and Syro
I’ll be honest, I can’t sit and listen to AT, apart from a couple of tunes. But I appreciate the complexity and skill involved in creating the music he does, he’s amazing. Perhaps in time his style of music will grow on me.
@@8mu- Ik, and his older tracks sound like music from another planet, supposedly where xbox would be manufactured by aliens lol
Drukqs is a masterpiece, the variety of sounds are incredible
@Ski-DooSafari Yeh I am of a similar opinion. I think Drukqs is getting greater recognition as time goes by and we get to look at the full scope of his projects. While I disagree about the album having 'no flow', I do think of drukqs as the exemplar of his music and its the album that I tell people to listen to when they want to listen to aphex beyond selected ambient works (also RUSHUP EDGE by THE TUSS. I think if newcomers listen to those two albums, they will pretty much get what makes aphex interesting. Then they can go find the gems like yellow calx
@@rondobrondo They probably meant no "ordinary flow". It flows in a very bizarre way and when you listen front to back enough times, yes, there is a special flow. So good
Awesome video and cool to see where the vocals for Xtal came from. Such a beautiful an emotional rollercoaster Xtal, probably one of my favourite Aphex tracks. Used to be my go to song when I was suffering from anxiety and depression years ago, the airy and big spacious sound just felt like the choas and negativity of my life at the time was flowing out into the air and I was left in a moment of solace, away from torment of the mind. Powerful stuff, it was like a spirtual awakening or being deep meditation, but instantly, crazy compisition, will always be one of the tracks that saved my life and helped me overcome a dark period.
Классик современности.Композитор с большой буквы.
Aphex twin lives in the same county as me and word on the street is he sampled the humming of the massive wind turbines here. nutty shit
Cornwall massive
Has he really never left Cornwall? I can still see the 90’s landscape when John Peel visited him there.
@@Post-Yap_Clarity Pretty certain he does ye he shows up to events pretty much at random round here.
@ Sorry does that not impress you at all? How many times have you sampled a wind turbine?
@@Post-Yap_Clarity He lives in Scotland, so yeah he's left Cornwall. Was living in France at one point I think (his 1st wife was French).
6:39 This sample is dope! I happen to be the person that originally submitted it to WhoSampled. Like other people say the track is misnamed here but it's not your fault since it's listed twice (one of them incorrectly) at WhoSampled. I'll try submitting some corrections to avoid this problem in the future. Anyways, great video!
Lots of the stuff on whosampled is wrong. Specifically when it says artist a sampled artist b and the truth is both sampled the same famous 60s/70s album.
Besides ED-209, Green Calx also features samples of two other moments in Robocop: The T-Rex's popping eyeballs in the 6000SUX advert, and the sound of Robocop scanning through the criminal database. Richard's obviously a fan of this classic film, as he also sampled Dick Jones' incriminating admission to the murder of Bob Morton (along with the aforementioned sound fx) in the Soundcloud track "Bob Morgan" (sic).
Pretty sure I heard samples from Herbie Hancock's "Rocket" in there too.
So he samples stuff he loves
Honestly cool
thx bud love u. glad somebody out there keeps this tucked away
Cool vid though at 5:05 AFX (Not apx as written in the video) IS Aphex Twin. Still a sample, I suppose.
yeah, was already wondering how he ever got hold of that sample hahaha
Yeah he really had to dig in the crates for that one
@@TijsHam I know a couple more people who have managed to find that elusive kick drum ;)
Meta sample: when you sample your own works
I think its just the kits from the R8.Squarepusher used the jazz kit in that a lot too
I was hoping to see that tampon commercial on here that he sampled lol, or the multiple interpolations of the Little Lord Faulteroy movie
Maybe this helps: www.whosampled.com/Tampax/Why-Stop-When-Your-Period-Starts%3F/
@@JanvanDale THANK YOU, KIND SIR
@@JanvanDale finally! Thank you
Hope you enjoy going through puberty. Saddo.
This is masterful use of samples. The samples themselves don't make the magic, it's what he does with them that is.
he is so cool he samples himself lol
came back to this vid, though the same thing, then saw my comment here lol
@@lucianodsbahaha
Definatelly I must dig more into Aphex Twin
(EDIT!)
8 months later and I bought every single album from Aphex Twin Alias and Collapse, Cheetah, Computer Controlled..., Come to Daddy and Windowlicker EP's ;)
The guy became another of my musical obsessions
check out his alias 'the tuss', probably his best work
same ive been sleepin on him
Same.
8 months later and I bought every single album from Aphex Twin Alias and Collapse, Cheetah, Computer Controlled..., Come to Daddy and Windowlicker EP's ;)
The guy became another of my musical obsessions
It never crossed my mind that he used samples, i just thought he used synths and drum machines. Whats more mind blowing to me is that he sampled himself for come to daddy. 😂
This video is mind-blowing. I would love to know how you researched this - the Medeski Martin & Wood sample... I had that album for years, used that SAME SAMPLE myself and I still never heard it in Drukqs before you pointed it out here. Unbelievable work.
I don't think he did any research at all considering how many of these are wrong. He's just copying info from the WhoSampled website.
My favorite artist ever. Thank you so much for producing this amazing Sample video! For real this is amazing.
the break in "20 pink floyd" isn't technically the funky drummer, it's a 2nd generation sample meaning an artist sampled funky drummer, layered it with some other drums, then *that* was in turn sampled by others. that particular 2nd gen funky drummer break was widely used in oldschool hardcore music, i think it's sampled from a late '80s hip hop track
True. That sample was from Run DMC - Run's House from album Tougher Than Leather. And they used James Brown - Funky Drummer. That Run DMC album is worth checking out.
For more stuff you can check Smashing Sebastian TV & Ysper 1 MC TV.
07:55 It’s more likely that Richard sampled the startup sound from William’s Defender (which is identical) than sampling the pinball machine.
I'm glad you included an instance of him sampling himself!
my favorite time that he's done this is when he samples "#7 (Mold)" from SAWii in "Meltphace6" from Drukqs
Mold is track 6. Did you mean Curtains (track 7)?
Needs a The Samples: Venetian Snares Edition
Absolutely!
Shit yes!
I wanna see what he sampled for Who Wants Cake
„The Amen Break“ end of video. 🌝
@@stevenpochejr Strangers With Candy
I love YT! I know a few Aphex tracks, and have a mixtape from '92 that had 'Polynomial-C' (the track at 5:45) on it. I always loved the track, but never knew the name until just now.....after having given up hope of ever finding out the track's name (I still have the mixtape, but nothing to play it on and haven't listened to it for YEARS!) Really fucking happy to finally learn the track name and artist! Fitting that it should be Aphex Twin, who I've got 'nuff respect for! Big up!
Btw if you're looking for a physical copy it and the EP before it are reprinted on Classics. Much easier to find than the original printings of the 2 EPs, although later reprints of Classics have the cover changed to just an inverted version of Selected Ambient Works 85-92's cover.
8:35 That is Joi's start-up sound, from Bladerunner 2049.
Thank you so much for finding all these samples
Bro imagine how much shit i could sample from diss
Love me some Aphex. It's awesome to see where all the samples came from.
Great work. Damn, I wish I was in time for the full version :)
I had no idea that was the When the Levee Breaks break, and I love both those tunes.
Aphex sampling Bonham, I think I need to sit down
5:58 The actual sample he used is from "Run's House" which of course does sample "Funky Drummer."
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Until reading this I’ve never clocked that was a slowed down and processed funky drummer 🤦🏻♂️
i think run dmc sampled that though lol thats the beauty of sampling its an endless rabbit hole
@Jessica Walrus Slave to the grind. Leaves little time for mixing....
Been checking out "SoundMask" and I see you're still producing gems!
The Runs House Funky Drummer Variation has been produced by Davy DMX. I think you know at least one track by Davy DMX :)
Amazing variation of the Funky Drummer , one of my favourites.
6:53 that track is not titled orphans. That track is called Sci-Fi Staircase (Remix)
Spiral Staircase (don't mean to picky)
Yeah, but it was released on an AFX/Luke Vibert split entitled Orphans
@@squareeyedgit No. It was released on an AFX ep called Orphans. The only thing Luke had to do with it, was providing the original stems for that one track really.
@@squareeyedgit The reason some people have it listed as a split EP is because Discogs insists that the artist name for any remix is the original artist not the remixer. So they list the first 2 tracks as Luke Vibert when all the tracks claim to be AFX and the artist name of who he's remixing is part of the song title. "AFX - Luke Vibert Spiral Staircase (AFX remix)" Considering almost all of his remixes are him completely deconstructing the song and making a new one out of fragments it's usually fair to list him as the artist.
@@robindreier9796 erm have you heard the orignal track by luke / wagon christ?
Great work my friend, discovered some new samples today :) that break on afx237 v7 is very lush!
Is it posibble to put a.list of "banned" samples and originals?
Thank you in advance!
0:52 wtf i just watch this episode for the first time 5 minute ago
1:41 whaaaaaat ?
Honestly great choice of sampling makes me think that I'm in a lab that tests robots
The green calx sample is absolutely insane. Who hears a sound like that and thinks “I’m going to put this in a song”
I love it when aphex samples HIMSELF!!!
Was gonna comment that 😂
I'm convinced he's sampled other orchestral pieces but just very quietly. Listen to Tha in really high quality with no background noise and there seems to be an orchestral piece in a totally clashing key stuttering in and out, gated by the percussion really quietly in amongst the reverb. You can hear it most clearly in the first minute or so and a few times later on.
@dee stranger No, it's a sample of a classical piece. "Just some ambient sound" lol, and where do you think he got that ambient sound? Idiot.
That's some ear you've got OP
@@zonesquestiloveunderworld It might just be what's on the other side of the tape bleeding through.
Also I don't think a version of Tha exists without background noise, the master tape is one of his mum's cassettes that he wiped over. Almost all of his pre-1993 stuff was recorded that way.
I love your channel bro,thanks for the video,Aphex Twin is one of my favorite artists
Im seeing the matrix of the saussage factory.
Amazing thanks for making this been listening to him for years
Great pick! Aphex Twin is soooo good
2:56 RUBBER JOHNNY
Thank you so much for this .. the whole thing was so interesting and answered a lot of questions we've all had for years! So cool!
5:30 - that one has been driving me nuts! There were a few WATMM threads about it trying to figure out the source.
The "Children Talking" album was used in on AFX's Hangable Auto Bulb
release for tracks "Children Talking" and "Everyday"
That robocop sample caught me off guard, that is so cool!
Anything released by Warp is guaranteed to get zucc'd
Please do Venetian Snares edition.
LOOOOOL
SAW 85-92 is like the Galileo helicopter blueprints of our time, what a masterpiece
6:05 is a drum sample from Run DMC - Run’s House.
peter & the wolf was also sampled when ever Joi would appear as a hologram in Blade Runner 2049
Make a Baby is one of the strangely most emotional and beautiful songs for me, goes so hard
1:02 PINK GUY - BIG MAMA
He didn't sample James Brown, he sampled RUN DMC. (who sampled James Brown).
I don't think that makes it any better
@@akasickform Potentially more accurate though.
@@akasickform the run dmc sample has additional drum machine samples
this drum loop at 5:30 was also sampled in the end of We Are the Music Makers
First time i heard come on you slags i was high asf ripping down the 5 freeway. Fucking great
This is so interesting! I never thought they would be made of samples like this !
whoa, thanks for making and sharing this! I never know about all this stuff!
You’re welcome mate.
Really UNDERGROUND
*Analogue Bubblebath was been released september 1991
My hero. My inspiration.
Can you please make William Basinski edition?
Thank you
You’re welcome 🙂
fun fact - the charlie and the chocolate sample actually came from a poem called "ode" by Arthur O'Shaugnessy - the first two lines are the same haha! Great vid btw - although i am a bit late to the party
this is a stellar collection - great work!!
I'm not convinced all of these are actual samples... Then again, these videos / channel do appear to be very thorough in which case hats off for managing to trace them all!!! (Did the video get banned so RDJ / warp wouldn't be sued for bucket loads of royalties?!)
Nah, probably one of the samples had a strong copyright and it took the video down, and even if it wasn't that I doubt that the use that Richard gives to the samples is enough to demand royalties
this is really excellent, several i'd not heard before! thanks. the orphans track is the afx remix of luke vibert 'spiral staircase' incidentally.
3:43 Thank you, always wondered what the dialog was from.
Aphex Twin sampling Medeski, Martin, and Wood?!?!?! My worlds just collided in such a crazy way. Thanks for sharing this. How did you figure that one out?
Here and there , the twin has been, from a porno to a kids movie this man has been everywhere...
Underrated master of breaks
Firepower II surely ? -- I like the little blue flash moving across the screen
7:31 might have also used a 'mashed potatoes' sample in his 'Children Talking' track from the same show
And probably in “Every Day” too.. 🤔
@@MoebiusSound he indeed did that. all 3 tracks are from the same LP
XTAL was actually a sample from one of his friends at school.
no it wasnt lmao
Amazing work man. Some blew my mind . 👏🏽
Awesome video!!! I wish I could see the missing minutes, even if just in list form
the robocop one blew my mind
green calx one is awesome
Mashed potatoes. M-a-s-h-e-d p-o-t-a-t-o-e-s-s-s
Why do you hate mashed potatoes..? 🤢
I’m assuming this sample also comes from this Harold Williamson record? As the voices sound exactly the same. Was always curious about that...
I saw in another thread you kept having to edit this for it to stay up, is it possible for you to make a post here listing all the samples and originals that had to be cut? This list is pretty extensive but it just feels like there are plenty missing, I’m just too tired and possibly too intoxicated to think of more right now...
Awesome upload, as always dude 👍🏽
It's from the same record yes :) get a baby from hangable auto bulb too
Crumpton Oaks Collective thanks, friend! I had also forgot all about the AFX / HAB track, too.
Also "Get me a nother tie get me another shirt. Eeevery day"
I belive there is a slight error at 5:14, The artist says APX but it should say AFX (both are richard d james btw)
greengamer 007 I think that was a typo, my bad.
Samples himself. Love it.
Cool vid!
6:06: Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky from the album Darkside of the Moon (1973)
Right sample city here I come. If Afx can do it... So shall I
dang thank you for sharing this insight.
Just can't understand why they try to remove this video. Richard James himself would be proud of your efforts.
Taking control is his best song
awesome work
The “boing” noise at the end of the Green Calx bit is from the dinos eyes popping out in the 6000SUX commercial from Robocop
My favourite movie of all time!
@@8mu- - Yes, definitely in my top 3.
He's like an electronic magician on heavy drugs
drukqs
This is so fantastic, thank you!
20 Pink Floyd also has the Great Gig in the Sky vocals in it
Wonderful job. Thank you.
So brilliantly done!!
he's so good that he sampled himself
😭