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It would seem that Richard D. James has undergone a radical cystectomy. For those of you not in first-year med school, that means his bladder has been removed. While URB staffers are hardly qualified to make such diagnoses, there's no other way for us to explain why James' latest Aphex Twin release, Drukqs, sounds the way it does: He's not taking the piss! All recent Q&As aside - absurd non sequiturs about 70-percent royalties from Radiohead, inventing Napster and mixing records by "smelling the grooves" - Drukqs is the most sincere album the thirtysomething godfather of IDM has released since 1995's I Care Because You Do. In many ways, these old-school electro melodies and rakishly basic 303/606/909 drum machine-constructed rhythms eclipse his last two singles (the horror-extraordinaire drum & bass "Come to Daddy" and its sparkling glitch-hop doppelganger "Windowlicker"), for on Drukqs' 30 tracks, there's barely a hint of James' self-reflexive idolatry. Where much of his recent material has been all pretense and character, gross creative liberties built around his own captivating Chestershire grin, Drukqs is, once again, Aphex Twin as musical substance. Explanations for such a change seem fairly consistent: This is old music. James has long claimed to record in bulk and release the bare minimum of material to meet contractual obligations, and pre-release Internet newsgroup bitching was very much (and continues to be) about how dated the album sounds. URB suggests this has not one thing to do with the price of tea in China, for regardless of when these gobbledygook-titled tracks were made, Drukqs is right-fine material. First, that James would make good on the Erik Satie suggestions of his earlier work by including mellow, contemplative piano-, harpsichord- and glockenspiel-toned tracks is novel and alone worthy of further investigation. No, they are not mind-altering concertos, but then who in their right mind would expect James - who reportedly possesses only nominal education in el |
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thats new to me... ;) |
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very well said, the only thing i disagree with is that "drukqs is once again aphex twin as musical substance" I think that the insane stuff on windowlicker/come 2 daddy are a higher apex of music, not something to be disregarded as music entirely, they're a higher realization in music theory, while drukqs is lesser, and "basic" as u said (or copied from somewhere) Looking at it from his history absurdly ludicrous hilarious actions, I guess releasing a basic album after such a complex imaginative brilliant work as windowlicker would be just the thing to keep his fans rather confused as usual. |
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Why the fuck do they keep referring to them as glockenspiels? They don't sound like glockenspiels at all. |
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haha,,, they don't, do they? |
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and i copied it. its a review of Drukqs in URB magazine. |
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If he made an album that was just completely obviously sucky, then it would have been too obvious that his only intentions in doing so were to confuse his fans. But he made it kind of good, just ... basic, which IS confusing. He must have a different type of brain than everybody else, he's just the weirdest person in earth's history of human beings, besides maybe that tesla guy, I take it back, there's plenty of crazy ass freaks throughout history, this one just happened to express his insanity openly through published music that can be played over and over and over and over, until the cd decomposes or something. |
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there is a bit missing at the end |
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yeah, my thoughts exactly w M w... I hope he didnt have his bladder removed tho... that would really suck =*( |
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