Slowdive - thank you very much for this. Also, where is this photo/image from - it is amazing?

This is the background music that plays when you revisit your childhood in a dream.

If you showed this song to someone, there's three ways it could go. "Wtf is this" "Are you okay" "I like this"

My dog, Bon Bon, was hit by a car a few days ago. I remember sitting beside him, the vets told me there was nothing they could do to help him. I played this song on my phone as he passed away. Fly high, angel. 2015 - 2021

My dad passed away from covid back in March last year, at the age of 61. He loved all kinds of music, and every time I'd bought a new CD, we'd sit down together in the living room and listen to it together. I also liked to send him various songs I'd have found that I knew he would've enjoyed, and when I was cleaning up his laptop back in August, I was surprised to find he downloaded all of them onto it. Sadly, I only discovered Aphex Twin a few weeks ago, so I never got the chance to share it with my old man. But I know he would've loved this track as much as I do.

Sounds like the memory of a place you visited for the last time without knowing it

I am eternally grateful how music like this can bring a bunch of strangers just a touch closer to each other.

My mother took her own life a year and a half ago. Listening to this I can see myself playing with her when I was a toddler, how she'd spin me around and dance with me in the summer sun. Her warm embrace filling me with an eternal and unconditional love, in a place where time didn't exist, where even sadness can be a pleasant sensation in the context of that love. I still feel a profound sadness and great grief in my heart that may always be there, but now I also feel an inexpressible gratitude for having known her. Thank you Richard, for letting me see my mother again.

i remember the memes about how in every nostalgic/sad Aphex Twin track comment section you would always find a guy talking about his dead dog, well, thats me now, i miss him so much, i had him since i was 6 years old, good little schnauzer mini, he was our family dog, now im 20 and we had to put him down 3 days ago due to terminal stage cancer, he was such a good dog, always happy to meet new people, although he wasn't used to being around other dogs, 14 years of amazing experiences by your side, 14 years that i will remember until my last breath, he was with me even when i didn't have any friends and was heavily bullied in middle school, he traveled on multiple occasions with me and my family to the countryside, to my hometown, to the park, to school, he was always by my side, he was one of my best friends and one of my only friends, the last weeks were tough, he already had growing tumors since about a month and a half ago, vet said nothing could be done at that point and that we should just spend quality time with him while we can, and about two-three weeks ago i noticed he was losing weight fast, he lost his sight 5 days ago, he was bumping into walls and had a hard time finding his feeding bowl and water bowl, and 4 days ago i noticed he couldn't stand by his own anymore, he peed on himself because he couldn't get up, his paws were inflamed, even though he could walk whenever i helped him get up, and he was still in a good mood, his little body was deteriorating fast, so, after a long talk with my family, we decided it was best to let him rest rather than letting him suffer, so me and my dad gave him a bath, and 3 days ago i woke up, took a bath, ate breakfast, took a towel we used to pat him dry, and covered him with it and held him in my arms like a baby, i hopped in the car and my dad drove to the vet, i was already crying realising that was the last day i will se him, ever, we arrived and the vet started the process, it was all so peaceful and calm, i stopped crying after i saw that the little guy wasn't suffering or stressed out or anything, and felt just calm, as i was holding him, petting and reassuring him, i noticed his breathing got slower and slower, until he rested his little head on my hands and took his last breath, his heart stopped almost immediately, i felt a deep sense of calm, it was over, but he went out so peacefully, with his loved ones by his side reassuring him and loving him until the very end. i miss him already and i think ill remember him for as long as i live, rest in peace Colt, you will always be with me in my heart and in my memory.

No matter the number of years that pass, I find myself returning to this song.

My son was born 06/01/20 this was the first song l played for him. He loves it, chills him out nicely :)

Those clouds are just epic. Why does it always feel like there’s so much more to life? Is it just me? It’s like we live on this magical planet yet we all seem so dis-satisfied, always seeking for something else or something new. What’s wrong with us? I know there are obviously some that are happy (seemingly) who really knows. Maybe we just have to wait to go to heaven. This photo looks heavenly, and with this music. I think contentment, that’s what I’m looking for, how one finds it is a mystery to me but maybe one day. If you’ve read this, I sincerely wish you a moment of contentment in a world full of moments which are far from. 🍃

I have been a school teacher for a year. With kids from 7 to 8. One day, the class was agitated. I started playing this song. In a couple of minutes all the children became calm and peaceful, some of them even put their head on their arms to rest. This was magic I promise

I generally never write comments like these but wtv... My grandma died yesterday. I was with her when she drew her last breath. She was like my second mother. I spent half my childhood in my grandparents home. Helping them in their little grocery store, serving the neighbourhood customers, studying in the dining room, with the wooden framed window open to the front garden, full of lush plants. The kind that my grandad planted everywhere, and which somehow always blossomed into enormous Chlorophyll producing monstrosities. My grandma was always there in the kitchen or the store, waiting to greet me when i got back from school. Always asking me if i wasnt hungry, if I needed something, that I should rest a bit before doing my homework... This may sound very silly, or extremely pretentious, but she was like the Jungian Archetype of the Mother. Its that kind of classic maternal figure. And now both my grandad and grandma are gone. Like they cared for me when I was a kid, I tried to help them, and my mom as an extension, the best I could as an adult, at least. I had to go to their old house yesterday, and seeing that place now abandoned, with the winter rain now seeping through the old roof, the smell of decay. Its like my childhood is gone for good there. It had been long gone, but I felt this intense feeling of calm nostalgia and sadness. At least the memories remain, strong.

This song always reminds me how beautiful it is to be human.

This is what i feel like my grandparents house sounds like

I'm an insufferable music nerd across most genres, and I've always decried electronica as something I could never get into. Then I heard this track after being in and out of psych hospitals, and out of nowhere I had the biggest cry I've ever had since I was just a hurt little kid. Felt like pain being brought out on an unconscious level. It was something not even therapy had accomplished. Richard D. James is now one of my favorite music artists across all of music, and it has given me an undying respect for the genre. Words don't do it justice.

I love that these comments are a mix of memories. Parting farewells and last words to loved ones, the first song played to an infant. This song encompasses something ethereal and warming to all of us. It ushers in life and death alike, all in a peaceful pall of serenity.

reading all these old comments make feel much better. I’m suffering from depression and Aphex Twin music is the only thing I truly enjoy. I hope someone will read this comment in years and it’ll help someone too

This is what unconditional love sounds like.

i used to cry every time i heard this and just think about life, now it’s the only piece of music that truly calms me and makes me feel as if everything will be okay

Nostalgia is such a bittersweet emotion. It's something that fills you with joy remembering easier times, while also reminding you that time is forever ticking, and those memories you reminisce about get pushed further into the past. My father passed away in 2020 due to prior illness he had, and ever since he passed away I've been doing a lot of reflection about my life, and thinking about my childhood memories that I hold very close to my heart. This song perfectly encapsulates this feeling, and it sounds like how my childhood home felt. It's beautiful.

Everytime I here this, I think of my grandfather. Bomber pilot in WWII. Shot down in the Pacific. Saved 4 Army Air Corps lives as the plane was sinking. Spent 13 hours in a raft until the Navy picked them up. Best man I've ever known. Everytime I here this song I think of him. I miss you grandpa. Gone, but never forgotten.

sometimes you feel loved. sometimes you feel unloved. sometimes it's a mix you don't know what to do with. but in the end there is always rhubarb to salve your soul.

This makes me remember memories that are buried in the back of my mind and how I’ll never return to those moments. They’re gone forever and I don’t know how to fuckin handle that emotion.

I keep thinking of my Mom, smiling in the sun and how much I miss her...usually I cry. lock my phone and go give her a hug because she isn’t gone yet. It’s like this song reminds me not to take our time together, as humans, for granted. So powerful 🙏

This has to be the best ambient track of all time.

A few years ago, my grandfather was moved to hospice care. I happened to show him this song a few weeks before he passed. It was the last thing he listened to before he died…such a beautiful track. Miss you pops.

I feel cold, alone, senseless and empty but somehow also happy and free

any relationship or romantic interest i have has failed. whether they lost interest or never had any it’s always ended with me being sad. I know it’s something with me but i can’t figure it out. Whenever i get overwhelmed I come here. I’m on a path to self improvement and I hope to better myself you all have a wonderful day.

Heaven: We need a theme? Richard D. James: Say no more.

When I have a kid, I want to take them to where I grew up in the forested farmlands of Canada and go to the field with that maple tree in the middle, play this track, and sit with them to enjoy a peaceful moment together. When they hear this track many years down the road, they'll be hit with that bittersweet nostalgia that once was simply a calming soundscape complementing rolling fields hugged by lush trees.

Am I happy or sad? I can’t tell. Aphex Twin has a way with noise that changes your emotions according to the type of day you’re having, it’s like an emotional rollercoaster all jammed into one single song, and I just can’t tell what emotion I’m going to feel while listening to this. It puts you in a trance, it makes you feel like you’re one with the universe. Like you’re at peace. It makes you forget about all the worries in life. It makes you feel so mesmerized, and you just can’t get out of the trance, well, you can, but you don’t want to. And scrolling through the comments only makes you go deeper into the trance. I can’t explain with words how much I love the surreal experience of listening to an Aphex Twin song, I love the feeling of my anxiety flow out of my body and into the atmosphere, and how I just feel at peace. Thanks for reading, and keep listening, have fun.

this kills my anxiety, praise the god of aphex twin.

I see myself flying by myself in this picture. I cant put a name on the feeling I am having but its a mixture of angst, nostalgia, melancholy and freedom. I dont know longer if Im the same person I am typing this right now. I think Im dead, but Im not sure. This song, and this picture combined make me feel something in my stomach I cant explain. Im alone but at the same time I am one with everything. I fell transcended sorta. I might be dead and on my journey to whatever awaits after we die. I feel disconnected from friends and family, they dont matter anymore in a way. I dont know if I like the feeling but its so mesmerising. Such simple tune, its almost primordial in a way.

I miss being a kid..

I wanna marry someone who understands this music.

Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada are the true masters of this kind of music

this reminds me of the music that used to play at the hospital my mom was being treated in, it was depressing but also calming. i think of her whenever i hear this song, and i miss her a lot, but at least she’s at peace now.

Brothers and sisters of Humanity, strive towards greatness. Be the best version of yourself you can possibly be. I don't know you but since we are connected through this beautifully composed ethereal sound i wish nothing but happiness and prosperity. Love from Scotland.

I’ve recently found this song accidentally by auto play when I’m trying to sleep, i haven’t regretted it. I’ve always suffered with severe anxiety and depression but just recently it’s gotten worse. As soon as I wanna get my emotions out or wanna lull myself to sleep I listen to this. Thank you so much for looping/introducing this to me, It’s practically saved my life so many times. Cheers mate.

there are very few songs that make me cry; this is one. i love aphex twin's music. these comments are making me emotional too

I will always remember being surrounded by the most important people in my life, standing there, waiting for my soon to be wife to walk down the aisle and say “I do” to living out the rest of our time on earth together. This song was playing.

I’m hosting a funeral for someone I love very very much. This song will be playing as we remember Fernie :( this song is exactly how I feel about losing that person. I haven’t been able to put my feelings into words but this song describes it all too well. Rest In Peace Fernie

At the winter is die my mom. By coronavirus,im be so sad,but when hear that music,i get relax..... Actually i cry again and again,but by music Aphex Twin,i be not so sad Thank you Aphex Twin ❤️😣 (Sorry for mistakes i from Russia and im 12 years old)

I tried hallucinogenics to this song once and the out of body experience I had was nothing short of heartbreaking yet healing. I was making my way through his snow covered forest, taking in the beautiful sights and sounds on my way through until I stopped in a clearing with a single tree stump in the area, a large female arctic wolf sat on the tree stump. This arctic wolf happens to be my spirit animal, Nikita. When I approached her, everyone I had ever loved and lost had suddenly appeared in a circle in front of me, giving me the chance to meet with them once more. My dogs, cats, my girlfriend, my best friend, my uncle, and my mother. To my surprise, Nikita disappeared. Each of my loved ones spoke to me besides the animals, who spoke with those beautiful eyes of theirs as they pressed against me in a group, wanting to be held close. Everyone else spoke in a single collective voice aftwr embracing me one by one. "We are not gone forever, Marshall. We may not be on your world but we are up above looking at you and watching you, protecting you. We love you, do not mourn our losses. Appreciate what time you did have with us. Love what you had, and do not hate what you hadn't had." After that, they slowly disappeared like smoke before Nikita appeared back on that stump, her eyes containing all the faces of my loved ones in those gorgeous blue irises. "They reached their time, my child. They had a mission on that world you still inhabit, and were brought home to safety. They never left, they did not abandon you, they did not intend to hurt you. They had to return to where they came from and their spirits had to come home where they belong. Your memories created by the time you had with them keep them alive, they will mever be forgotten. They love you and are looking down on you, wishing you your best life and to be happy with what you have. Do not hate the world for what you didn't have, love the world for the time you had with them, dear. We're always protecting you, and we are always with you." She said before my loved ones waved goodbye in her irises, and I awoke again back on this world. Loved ones may not stay on this world as long as you wish them to, but do know that death is but a transcendence back to where you were created. Your energy is transferred to it's true home, and that energy from your memories you made with your loved ones is a way of keeping them alive within you forever. They are not truly gone or dead, only their physical body is gone. Their spirit lives on within your memories and within you. Remember that.

I feel like nothing matters at all but also like everything is way more important than I will ever know.

How a few simple notes put together can perfectly express a certain amazing, other worldly, emotion and mood

This song takes me to many places, to my early childhood old house, to my old backyard, to my elementary school, to my dog who died years ago, to my hometown along the Mississippi river, to times that have long since passed, but are definitely the good times.

I remember i used to listen to this with you When you cried i tried to comfort you and talk to you as long as i could, i remember how you would tell me you loved me, but i can no longer remember the colour of your eyes

To the time I fell asleep with my girlfriend and slept the best I had ever slept. I could’ve died happy. It’s all over now, and I’m thankful for what I’ve learned. This will hold a place in my heart forever. Sleep well

Yesterday my dog that was my closest friend as well - passed away. This music represents exactly how I feel right now. I must accept that cause that's how life works. It was the best 19 years with my buddy. Cheers mate! We'll see on the other side of rainbow bridge soon!

I come here to listen and fill the pain. My best friend of thirty years die at the very end of 2018, his name was Rico Pena. He die at 46 to drugs and alcohol. I miss him so much , he had so many people that loved him. I miss him so much, please come come find me when I die😢😥😭

Unconditional love. Makes me break inside so deeply. Fills me with so much emotion and sorrow. But the feeling of warmth and love is still present. It just hurts

resting your face against the car window, the warmth of the summer sun radiates on your skin like the hand of god caressing your cheek. the trees pass silently, giving way to oceans of wheat dancing softly in the wind. you can almost see it in the distance. home. maybe it's not the place you live, but it's certainly where you belong. the faces of loved ones all patiently expecting you. we've been waiting. and we're so happy just to be able see you again. we all love you so much. ... John McIntyre adjusted his head on the hospital pillow. His face was aged, yet the creases on his face seemed to suit him well. Maybe he knew it was the night. Maybe not. His fingers curled gently around the pendant in his palm, feeling it's edges. His thumb absentmindedly stroked the distinctive nick in the brass on the back, its meaning tugging at some loose thread at the far fringes of his weary mind. The hospital ceiling was all too familiar a sight, yet still completely alien to him. It's funny, he could hardly recall his nurse's name, even though she had been his lone human contact for the better part of his stay. Maybe she was an angel. Maybe he was already dead. Maybe he had been for a while. He grinned to himself, chuckled, and let his body relax. At 12:03 am, he closed his eyes for the last time. ... "death is but a transience, a passage from one stage to the next."

I love how this song is true therapy for so many. Love reading all these emotive insightful comments.

This song makes me so sad. It makes me think of how ephemeral those happy experiences are. When you've got a good thing going, you make sure you savour every moment, because one day it's all gone and you're just wondering where it all went.

ads on this are a sin

I took a sleeping pill 42 minutes ago and pressed play. Now 42 minutes later and I'm falling asleep playing random scenes in my head. I love rhis track and i love this feeling and i love Aphen Twin. RDJ is the goat.

Someone else is laying in the bed watching the stars and listen to this beautiful song ? ✨🌙

This song will always take me back into a room I had in Hawaii working on a coffee farm. I had just met my girlfriend and was starting a relationship while being under the most stress I've ever been in. She was amazing. But I remember listening to this song imagining my room floating up into space and how the moment would forever exist in time. Hopefully this makes sense.

your body just being a vessel for turbulence, hyperventilating. Heavy, almost melting into the environment, like youre a bottomless water well of these twinkling pieces of memory that have this misty, cold identity in common. walking around at night in a secluded part of a very busy city. yet its nurturing, caressing you with the fabric that makes up a blanket of untouched experiences, sedating

I can't even describe what this track makes me feel. Breathtaking tune!

I play this nearly every night, it helps my newborn son sleep. Thanks for looping it!

This song. This is what music represents. Organized sound that evokes deep indescribable emotions. This song brings peace and comfort to my heart. Like isolation from everything and feeling complete satisfaction in your own company. Truly blissful. Thank you Richard.

When richard said. "IM GONNA SELECT MY AMBIENT WORKS INTO A 2ND VOLUME!" I cried. Truly the album ever. It was selected. It was ambient. It worked. It was a 2nd volume.

I am only 15 but I grew and am growing up in Spring Hill, Tennessee. This place is rapidly growing and in the span of 10 years it has turned from a small town to a large industrial and residential area. The two lane road in between the neighborhoods that my parents took me to school on has been widened with sidewalks about 3 years ago. With this, many small, beautiful homes were demolished in the construction. Many giant trees looming over duplex where chopped too. I miss when I could go from one side of town to the other in 3 minutes. Now it takes half an hour with all the traffic. The drive to school used to be between fields and pasture with some original fences. Now everywhere you look it is all new houses and more traffic. I know this sounds funny coming from a 15 year old but I really got a glimpse of what nostalgia is like. The parks my brother and I used to throw frisbee in on days like the one in the video are now houses. The giant fields I used to have soccer practice in are all houses. The cattle fields I saw on the way to school are now huge industrial lots. Within a few years too. I recommend seeing it on Google earth, look for spots where you can go back and forth between times. Wild how things change man.

I was so blown away by this image that I found the original and ordered a custom canvas print wall art version of it to hang in my house.

My dad was orphaned along with 3 of his siblings, they were taken by a kind woman and raised by her, my dad made it along with my uncle and aunt and they all got married, my dad made sure to give me the best life I could have with him around, even with chronic leukemia, I still can't believe that day in August 2018 when he was on the deathbed at the hospital, and I was with him in his very last moments, R.I.P dad, lost, but not forgotten.

Many documentaries about the natural treasures of Macedonia filmed back in the 90's by the national tv, had this as a soundtrack. It remainds me how I used to be amazed by the sights and the sound. Not to long ago, I even found out that this masterpiece was made on the exact day of my birth...

thanks. listening to Rhubarb once is just not enough, and that photo is soul cleansing.

This is one of the most beautiful pictures I've ever seen. The music is perfect.

Wednesday afternoon. No school. Me and the lads cruising trough the fields on our bikes. Can life ever be as blissful again as when you were 10 years old?

This song makes me wanna live and die at the same time

To everyone fighting right now, our common outcome is love.

When the world ends I really hope this will be played in the credits.

If you heard this in 94 like me,this is the Stairway to Heaven of Ambient.

Today I had a flight to Ireland. When the plane was reaching above the clouds space the sun started to rise. It made me think of this track so i played rhubarb. What a great feeling it was. Thank u for sharing this photo combined with Aphex music, Slowdive.

I am listening to this song for years and it is still the most calming eye opening music i have ever heared

5 Days ago , I lost my Grandpa, my best friend ever, the sunny , really kind Man with big Heart which stopped at 85 , at his birhtday! Listening to this sounds with sweet memories about my Grandpa! Thank for this music! Good work!

Ads should be illegal on vids like this. Especially the 5 minute long ones cuz you can't even sit em out but you have to get up and skip the ad. Really gets in the way of my relaxiation

Beautiful being remember, I see you. I feel you, always. We are not alone, really we never have been and we never will be. Look close and see, we are One. In thought, emotion, in sound we send out our vibration we connect, we receive we heal This is no coincidence Slowly, we shed our separateness and we resonate together We sing in harmony We love And love forever guides us Indeed, Love is our true nature It is the thread that binds us It heals all wounds Invites all joy It is every path It is at every root You already do know it And there's nothing to do yet smile and remember For our time here together It is very special It truly is marvelous Close your eyes and feel this truth To remember love and learn to let the heart speak and listen to the words that come Love is alive You are it not this, not that, You Call forward your dreaming Let the light in Stay Open Beautiful soul I am with you, you are with me. Rest here in the heart I will never leave you, nor forsake you Where could we ever go? I love you. - God

I love Richard's ambient tacks sooo much. He's a genius.

Aphex Twin is my second most listened artist on my Spotify wrap up 2023. Selected Ambient Works Vol II is THE album for study sessions. It helps me to concentrate. Whenever I listen to Rhubarb, it calms me down. While having a panic attack, I remember that I was laying on the floor and I put Rhubarb on at full volume. It calmed me down because I could feel the vibrations through my phone as I put it on my chest. It helped me back then and still does! Thank you Aphex Twin for your music!!

Wow. Hypnotic and so beautiful! It wraps me in a warm blanket of peaceful and comforting melancholia.

This reminds me of a time that doesn't exist.

i hope you two are living happily together

I love about this track that it's repetitive but still evolves in a very subtle manner. You not being able to find a loop of this is the perfect proof of that. Thanks for the loop man, great music for studying.

This healed my heart and allowed me to cope with the end of a good thing lost.

I've had tears of joy, tears of sadness, tears of regret and rejoice, never again will I have a tear like any of the tears i've had before, I feel solace knowing every tear after the others will come from some place new, washed and cleansed with relief that if you needed a tear I would still shed one for you. Take every moment one second at a time. - Colin J

My god what a absolutely beautiful picture

We are made of the universe, we are the universe in consciousness perceiving itself. The universe got tired of its state of self awareness that this way of existence is much more fun. Forgetting isn't too bad after all.

It is rare to find something that is this pure, somber, and beautiful all at the same time.

This is what I feel like an theme for the season summer would be, it's so peaceful, calming, sweet sounding but it's also sad, lonely, and a bit depressing. this is actually really helping me get through with my grandmothers death which was, about 6 years ago now, but this brings me to the good times during the summer. Rhubarb is by far one of my favourites, besides Stone in Focus, Lichen, and Blue Calx they all give me the feelings of lost, but also the feeling of being belonged. I'm glad that I have discovered Aphex Twin's ambient tracks

We'll be okay

I played this song on my phone when I got hit by a car in america. I didn't have health insurance, but I could pay $7 for roaming data. xoxo. god bless

11/9/19, 10:07PM. New England. 19 years old. This song defines 2019 for me. Speechless.

I dedicate this to the most young beautiful woman i have met in my life. she will always need to hear something like this.. just to remember the importance of her presence in this world.

It's almost insane how often i listen to this.

Thank you Salad Fingers for bringing me here.