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What do you think? Theres something blissful and cheerful about it...but at the end...there's this sort of depressed feeling. It has both feelings...I'm sure its different for everyone.

It's kind of sad to me, or should I better say reminiscent. Great tune whatsoever.

it's quite reflective...a bit like thinking about a girlfriend you had 7 years ago and feeling happy that you had her and sad that it didn't work out....

the phrygian scale often has that effect

it's not the phrygian scale dude

I usually skip over, it's quite a depressing sound.

possibly the best boc song ever

  Derelic7 said:

the phrygian scale often has that effect

i wish you'd stop mentioning the phrygian scale (or, to be more accurate, mode) in every aphex thread.

Sad but that may be because of personal experience at the time when I got into it.

Melancholy. I love that song to bits!

It's a wonderful driving-through-rain song. Not like traffic jams, but like scenic green woods.

But most of all it's the berries .

  BCM said:

it's quite reflective...a bit like thinking about a girlfriend you had 7 years ago and feeling happy that you had her and sad that it didn't work out....

hm... its funny you put it that way...i know what you mean

  Derelic7 said:

the phrygian scale often has that effect

ill phrygian your scale!

  rocky_pathwalker said:

possibly the best boc song ever

I'm kinda confused if it has a sad or happy mood. I guess it's a mix of both...

extremely sad

  kaini said:

  Derelic7 said:

the phrygian scale often has that effect

 

i wish you'd stop mentioning the phrygian scale (or, to be more accurate, mode) in every aphex thread.

i wish you'd have better things to do than complain about what other people write. fuck off.

  Ascdi said:

it's not the phrygian scale dude

f phrygian, though it's heavily out of tune. play the notes F or F#, G#, D# at the start (with a well tuned instrument or synth) and you'll get a cool chorusy effect with the main chord line. the chorus thing later on is practically the same except it changes the B key to C, making the scale F locrian

i'm fairly sure that aphex has no idea whether the mode that a track is in is phrygian or locrian or mixolydian.

love this song

was gonna make a thread on it

what instruments/ machines do you reckon he uses?

i always thought it was a nostalgic sort of song. early memories with your family and such. happy memories, but sad because it was long ago, perhaps.

  kaini said:

i'm fairly sure that aphex has no idea whether the mode that a track is in is phrygian or locrian or mixolydian.

  kaini said:

i'm fairly sure that aphex has no idea whether the mode that a track is in is phrygian or locrian or mixolydian.

i find that notion pretty silly considering he uses it over and over again in different keys, and uses pentatonic scales as well.

i use digital scales. but they've run out of batteries.

  Derelic7 said:

  kaini said:

i'm fairly sure that aphex has no idea whether the mode that a track is in is phrygian or locrian or mixolydian.

 

i find that notion pretty silly considering he uses it over and over again in different keys, and uses pentatonic scales as well.

you don't think it could be his personal preference or even musical intuition that makes him use it so much?

  Morgan Dunn said:

  Derelic7 said:

  kaini said:

i'm fairly sure that aphex has no idea whether the mode that a track is in is phrygian or locrian or mixolydian.

 

i find that notion pretty silly considering he uses it over and over again in different keys, and uses pentatonic scales as well.

 

you don't think it could be his personal preference or even musical intuition that makes him use it so much?

this is my interpretation of things too. people with an intuitive musical sense can be aware of the fact that a Dm7 - Fmaj substitution works without knowing any notes, chords, or theory, bar that picked up through experimentation, if i were to pick an example.

this is my understanding of richard's theory knowledge. it's arguable that having this sort of knowledge (or lack thereof) of theory frees you a bit, imo.