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offline Narkotic from United States on 2011-10-24 15:58 [#02422533]
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Cool article...

I remember hearing about the album on this forum 10 years
ago and getting it on SLSK! The days...


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2011-10-24 16:20 [#02422538]
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I can remember going hungry so I could afford the audiophile
version over the standard version. Then playing standard and
back to back with my mate who had the standard and neither
of us being able to tell the difference. Happy days.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2011-10-24 16:23 [#02422539]
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Did you know that the world "album" has the word "bum" in
it?


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2011-10-24 17:02 [#02422542]
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Nope. I do now though. Interesting article Narkotic, it is
surprising quite how much "Drukqs-like sounds" have
permeated other, more popular music in the past decade. Oh
and it's always bloody used on Topgear whenever they want to
denote a 'lunatic' car like a TVR (for calm cars like Mercs,
you need BoC).


 

offline goDel from ɐpʎǝx (Seychelles) on 2011-10-24 17:28 [#02422546]
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10 years since drukqs. wow. and what has he released since?
a couple of awesome tracks. about one a year. maybe two.
come on you cunt, just release more aphex acid!


 

offline Steinvordhosbn from London (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-24 17:46 [#02422550]
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I still don't like it.


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2011-10-24 18:26 [#02422555]
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It's so good I bought it twice. But then I also bought
rounds by fourtet twice. I should really learn to look after
my stuff


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2011-10-24 19:22 [#02422558]
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you've to much money..give it to me.

I like drukqs but it's not special imo..


 

offline Narkotic from United States on 2011-10-24 19:30 [#02422560]
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I remember the audiophile versions... Forgot about that!
180g Vinyl, right?


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2011-10-24 19:37 [#02422561]
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Just wanna say, it's my favorite album ever ever


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2011-10-24 20:09 [#02422563]
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Is it all about the 54 cymru beats?


 

offline Sano on 2011-10-24 20:21 [#02422568]
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It got old too fast for me, this happens a lot with AFX, I
can only listen to the first SAW repeated times without
getting tired of the tracks.


 

offline nobody on 2011-10-24 20:24 [#02422569]
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I have not heard of this album, is it good?


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2011-10-24 21:06 [#02422574]
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best album ever, blew my mind when I first heard it, have
never heard anything else approaching it


 

offline Sano on 2011-10-24 21:09 [#02422575]
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What about Big Loada or Go Plastic?


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2011-10-24 21:17 [#02422576]
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yeah they more than approach it to be fair. drukqs still
occupies a unique place in my mind tho


 

offline IJO on 2011-10-24 22:29 [#02422599]
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The very best album of any electronic music albums ever
released (Go Plastic second). And "54 Cymru Beats" probably
the best track anyone has ever made !


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2011-10-24 22:46 [#02422603]
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both the standard edition and the limited edition of Drukqs
are 180gram vinyl. the only difference between them is that
the limited edition is pressed on virgin vinyl


 

offline Geoffrey Mills on 2011-10-25 01:15 [#02422619]
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yr wrong it was 220 gram. but what a fucking v-sign it was
to warp. i equate it to talk talk's spirit of eden. which
makes me wonder if aphex is gonna do a laughing stock.


 

offline dave_g from United Kingdom on 2011-10-25 13:18 [#02422632]
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Ten years! TEN!
Where did the time go?

I tried so hard to make my own tunes sound like some of
those tracks... and failed miserably! It was good fun
though.

I love my Granddad's Glen Miller and Scott Joplin records.
I love my Dad's 70's Rock LPs.
I'd like to think in the future any little dave_g's will
give my Drukqs vinyls a good hammering at top volume too.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-25 13:48 [#02422634]
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It's not my favourite thing he's done but it's definitely
his legacy. Maybe that's why he's done nothing but fuck
about since.


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2011-10-25 14:52 [#02422645]
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no it wasn't.

i have owned both of them, and they are both 180 gram.


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2011-10-25 15:15 [#02422646]
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has anyone still got the afx chocolate?


 

offline Steinvordhosbn from London (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-25 15:25 [#02422647]
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You got stung.


 

offline sneakattack on 2011-10-25 15:55 [#02422648]
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I still love vordhosbn at reduced tempo, and especially
enjoyed hearing it this way in his recent shows.


 

offline sneakattack on 2011-10-25 15:57 [#02422649]
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The way I see it, whatever music we have from him, we should
be thankful for.. could very easily be another way..


 

offline hexane on 2011-10-25 17:05 [#02422653]
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I was a pimply-faced teenager yet to lose his virginity when
this came out. Still remember the tram ride home listening
to it on my discman, and the sheer disapointment after
having waited so long for it to come out. It just didn't
blow me away like the other classic RDJ albums. This was the
start of a waning relationship with Richard over the
following years. Ended up burning it to cd, exchanging it
for store credit and getting Chiastic Slide instead :D


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2011-10-25 17:25 [#02422655]
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nope you're wrong.


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2011-10-25 23:48 [#02422667]
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It sukqs.


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2011-10-26 01:12 [#02422674]
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wheres the deluxe re-issue.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2011-10-26 02:55 [#02422677]
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still my fave afx.


 

offline Raz0rBlade_uk on 2011-10-26 03:21 [#02422682]
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It fukqing doesn't!!!


 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2011-10-26 04:21 [#02422685]
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You're right, it rokqs.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2011-10-26 05:27 [#02422686]
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It was so good. It really is so good. unbelievable piece of
work. I dont even think it was the best he could do, it was
just when he had a very certain kind of energy. I'm such a
jaded character but.. i still keep holding out for some new
rich, id be so excited i really would.

i listened to taking control the other day for the first
time in a while.
too. good.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2011-10-26 05:28 [#02422687]
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oh yo hi hexane!


 

offline furoi from Udine (Eriko Sato's undies) (Italy) on 2011-10-26 10:01 [#02422704]
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Richard himself trolling in the comments

"Come on. Talk about over rated nonsense. Aphex Twins never
did anything that wasn't ripped off form the Prodigy,
Chemical Brothers or Fatboy Slim who did it first and best.
The true Godfathers of techno music."

cool :D


 

offline illfates from space (United States) on 2011-10-26 19:57 [#02422735]
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i religiously ( administered LSD to myself and my peers and,
one to four hours later, insisted we listen to an album
called "drugs with a q, k, instead of g" and proceeded to
listen ). At this point, I have no idea if his is my
favorite music (by worlds of measure) because of the
simultaneous listening with LSD or because its just awesome.
I loved it when I was 13, but then again, I had just taken
LSD then, as well, though rarely in conjunction with afx.

there is a song on 26 mixes for cash that fades into
sputtering "pftpftpft" sounds, that, on LSD, provided the
most salient and tactile listening experience I have ever
enjoyed.

The in the harmonious region prior to "thank you for your
attention, bye" -- i found myself crying, once.. also the
piano pieces make me quite emotional.

Druqks is great.



 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2011-10-27 17:57 [#02422777]
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Aye, as Oscillik says, both were 180g. The audiophile one is
on virgin vinyl. The standard pressing is one of the best
"standard" pressings I've ever heard though, so no
discernible difference to my ears.

What's he done since that is as good? I only really loved
Bwoon Dub off all the Analords and even that was a bit
disappointing when I heard how weak the bass was on a big
system.

One of those things where you look back a decade on and all
the new AFX, Autechre, BoC, Prodigy, etc. seems weak
compared to the old releases. You wonder is it because the
artists got old and lost their edge, or did you as a
listener get old and only still put the old music on a
pedestal because of how it made you feel back then?

I dunno. More recent stuff by other artists has moved me the
way the old AFX tracks did, so maybe it's not just
nostalgia.


 

offline morge from United Kingdom on 2011-10-27 18:33 [#02422782]
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the old stuff sounds better because of how it made you feel
when you first heard it.

so many artists just make shit now, that used to be awesome.


to contradict that though, the analords series is some of my
favourite afx stuff.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-28 21:04 [#02422843]
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I remember downloading it from Audio Galaxy and it took
about 7 hours


 

offline rad smiles on 2011-10-28 22:25 [#02422847]
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10 years later and it still sounds new. wtf.


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2011-10-28 23:21 [#02422848]
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Ceri : what ' stuff by other artists has moved YOU the way
the old AFX tracks did ' ???

tell me, please, i need something like that...


 

offline robbie_eleckt from time to time on 2011-10-29 10:34 [#02422858]
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[i]Prior to Drukqs he told the world any forthcoming
releases would be posthumous. [/i] lol how nice !!


 

offline KEN from BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-29 22:18 [#02422902]
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didnt a mega rare version of drukqs on lp have an extra
track (taking the total to 31 rather than 30)? ive got the 4
disc boxset and it aint on there if it exists.


 

offline KEN from BIRMINGHAM (United Kingdom) on 2011-10-29 22:19 [#02422903]
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like the additional 10:12 on saw2 lp btw?


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2011-10-29 22:36 [#02422904]
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i think theres no extra track on any druqk, ken...


 

offline oscillik from the fires of orc on 2011-10-30 15:00 [#02422926]
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i think you're getting confused with the misspress


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2011-10-31 18:49 [#02422965]
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Kode 9 - Nine Samurai (great when I first heard it, I still
like it a lot, but it became "played out" very quick)
Burial - Unite (great when I first heard it, I still like it
a lot, but it became "played out" very quick)
Lisa Gerrard - Aria from Faust
Metaform - Barbie Doll
The XX - VCR and Basic Space
A lot of the new stuff from V/vm AKA James Leyland Kirby AKA
The Caretaker
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Riccardo Villalobos' version of Shackleton's "Blood on my
Hands"
Luke Slater's version of two of the remixes of Nathan Fake's
"The Sky was Pink"


 

offline Narkotic from United States on 2011-11-05 18:10 [#02423249]
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Good stuff there...


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2011-11-05 19:16 [#02423251]
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Thanks, Ceri!
i will no doubt check everything i dont know!


 


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