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honestly, i see a lot of people complaining; maybe they've never listened to it in a nice set of headphones while fux0red...hmmm i don't know. i personally think it is one of thee greatest cds, (besides ICBYD of course) but there is just so much sick ass shit in here. most people im SURE just skip over the piano peices, but if you listen closely, there is a lot of damn soul in that sh1t!! do i have to remind you of "plenty harmonium"? |
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btw, the ending/breakdown on 54 cymru beats, ummmm, my mom has never gave me a weirder look than after me making her listen to it in the car one day, |
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It is a good album, in my opinion, I listen to it everyday, at school, at home, in the car. Everyone I have played it for has liked it, and they have never even heard of Aphex Twin or RDJ. Most of them found it a bit odd, but none of them disliked it. |
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Ctrl+ Alt+ Del are my favourite keys on my keyboard!! (yeah, Druqks is great and good and that.) |
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long live drukqs |
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Id have to say they are the most used keys on my keyboard. (stupid computer!!!) |
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i just think there's A LOT of filler on that album. imo there's like maybe 5 really wicked tracks, and a couple that are just good. the rest is basically just shite. i like the rdj album way more! btw, i'm not a fan of ICBYD either. heh. |
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Granted, there were hella boring tracks on the CD that probably were there to fill up disc space, but still it has its high points. |
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dood why dont you actually listen to those tracks instead of skiping over them you might find somethign there =] !!!!! |
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nah, the piano songs are there to give the listener some time to relax a bit before the next hardcore IDMIDMIDM beats kicks in. And it works well, in fact, i'm probably the only one here who enjoys (yes, enjoys) "Father". |
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I've asked myself this exact question many times... if anyone but RDJ made Drukqs, it would be praised as an amazing album. But people expect too much of him... this album is amazing. There is some real crap filler on there... I despise Gwarek so damn much... but there's actually not that much... only 1 or maybe 2 of the piano tracks strike me as boring filler. |
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It does help you relax, just listen too it while you go to sleep. It works! Until you hit one of those up beat songs. I fell asleep to the first disc, only to wake up a little later to blaring noises of 54 Cymru Beats. |
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agreed, people just want to slag rdj's work off now they can't label him as a teenage techno genius. they just want to make a ripple |
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what's a ripple? |
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They call it "noise". Well all sound is noise, all noise is sound, all music is noise, therefore it is sound, music is also sound therefore it is noise, therefore, RDJ =music=noise=sound, I could think of hundreds of equations but Ill save them for another time. |
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yeah, bullshit talk sorry. I meant like, be different from the rest to look better, problem is, everyone did it |
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I think gwarek is junk and I'd call none of the piano pieces filler. I do, however, dislike the answering machine message and father--I'd consider those and gwarek filler. Drukqs is great though! |
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I thought lornaderek was kind of interesting. |
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Lornaderek is interesting when you hear it for the first time.....not the 59th. |
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Hehe, pretty wierd, though very Aphex. |
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if yo uall think GWAREK is junk you oBVIUSOLY havnt listen to the bass textures on there oh wait none of your systems can handle anything less than 30Hz at 130-140-150+dB AHHAHAHAHAH man maybe if you actually heard the textures on there you might cahnge your mind about gwarek whATEVER BIOTCHES you havnt really HEARD that song yet |
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it's just not my style... I love some of the songs... and the piano pieces are all lovely... but overall, it's just not for me... |
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If you're put up on a pedestal, you're more open to criticism, and RDJ is on the fucking BIGGEST pedestal... Tom Jenkinson would kill to have crazy shit like Ziggomatic and Cockver10 and Vordhosbn, I think they out-Tom Tom himself. Gwarek still sucks dick, though. :-) |
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gwarek is one of my fav's, too bad you havn't heard the bass textures,,,,,,,,really, thruout the song they are soo incredbile (but listening to the song on my cmoputer you can't hear it at all, so i can understand where _you_ are coming from., but trust me if yo uactually heardteh bass textures i think you would freak!!! < 30 hz btw, |
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I have heard the bass textures. And my JVC amp and my Klipsch kg4's with 12" woofers and my KLH 9915's with 15" woofers can handle 30hz @ 130+ dB. |
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maybe if they were digital designes 9515s =] |
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personally, i adore the album. I think the entire thing should be listened to as is as a whole experience. Every track has a different mood or setting to offer. It's an ingenious album. |
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I've heard with good speakers... and I just don't find it amazing... gwarek sucks ass... |
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I started to appreciate drukqs a lot more when I sat down w/ it with my new [good] headphones. |
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I listen to all my music with headphones first... sometimes with Drukqs I get a desire to listen to the album, but when I put it on, a few minutes in I just want to turn it off... I do like some, but it just doesn't strike my fancy... |
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hmm well can't expect everyone to like the same music,that's for sure,. gwarek fucking owns that's all i know maybe it's something i'm hearing that yall aren't |
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maybe it's just a difference of opinion... |
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maybe it's just that i've got a case of the mundayz |
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cause its so fuckin borin! |
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drukqs is my favourite AFX album so far...which is pretty good going for me as I'm a fickle little bastard at times... but theres seldom a day go past when I don't hear a track or 2.... and as for this filler lark...rememebr, one mans meat is another mans etc.... |
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I Agree With U elusive , And they whom say that the piano trax are just for relaxing between the other trax, thats bullshit! nuff said |
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i think drukQs is as good as the other albums... it's a different style... and i think it should be considered as a whole, most of the tracks are not as "separated" as they are in other albums (a bit like the first 3 tracks off ICBYD)... it's the album which has its own feeling, not the tracks. except gwely mernans, gwarek2, meltphace6 and some others. |
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Funny shit: as someone said ten days ago, it's amazing that this album still manages to have at least 4-5 topics a week, so many months after coming out. This is AFX MB after all, but no other album has divided opinions this hard... BTW it does have some filler in it... But as I said the previous week on a similar topic, a good part of it is technically stunning but otherwise rather shallow and empty. But ophecks is right, was this a new artist everybody would be praising this album in unison. Which, again wouldn't mean that shallow parts are not shallow anymore... |
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theres 3 parts to drukqs, piano, drillnbass and other....i personally love the other (like tracks 6 7 and 11 on cd 1 and lornaderek)..i find most drill great, but after a while they get all samey (can anyone sit through ziggomatic?) and while i think some of the piano pieces are well made and interesting (the very first track, the last on cd 1) i cant listen to any al the way through and cant find any emotion in them no matter how good the speakers are...and avril sucks |
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I think you'll find that some of those "filler" tracks make excellent DJ mixing trax..... And hasn't AFX said himself that he likes to mix classical piano stuff with hard beats when he's djing....I know ArchRival has done a bit of mixing with em and he'll tell you how pukka they are for that... Also...I've got friends I've done special versions of Drukqs for....some just are into the piano trax, a few like those shorter pieces (especially when mixed in) and others want a full DrillNBass experience... So Drukqs works in a different way for different people...that's one of it's charms.... |
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I won't argue with what you say, jand, as it's basically all true... My complaints are, I think quite clear... |
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It certainly sounds a lot more digital than previous AFX stuff...you can hear he's so much more computer based nowadays compared to the analogue earlier days... It's subtle but it is there.... Also, I think he's releasing into a world that has taken his "sound" and created a whole scene around it....the sheer amount of IDM out there has kinda dulled our ears to the real originator; AFX...sonically we've heard most things before... I think that may have something to do with the controvosy really... p..s Meho...didn't mean you re: "filler" - just quite a few people call those shorter trax that.... |
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lornaderek is quite interesting because it's very personal, but i don't really see why people love this track... |
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Elsusive: Im feel what u sayin, Drukqs is definitly one of my alltime favourite albums (by any artists, not just AFX albums). Its easily the best of 2001. |
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i dont think the fact that a song has nice bass can change my view on the whole song. sure bass is important but its not the whole song. i wasnt particularly into drukQs, but i LOVE go plastic....go figure. |
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