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My opinion only, but how many people agree with me? I listen to Drukqs basically everyday. At first I didn't really listen to the piano tracks, just the main hardcore ones. Those grew on me, then slowly I started listening to the piano tracks. Now I like basiacally every fucking song on those 2 cds. Normally, no matter how much I like a song, I will get tired of it eventually. Even some astrobotnia (beleive it or not) but drukqs, never. Never have I turned myself down to any track on the cds, and now I am quite taken to all of the piano tracks. Especially Plentyharmonium, and the slow tracks on the 2nd cd. Anyone else agree with me here? |
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lots of us like drukqs best, but it's important to put that up front like you did cos it gets so much criticism. |
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Exactely, you can _truely_ say you think the cd is important and very good once you've had it for so long, listen to it so much, and still hang on every note. insane... |
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same here i used to skip 40% of the tracks.... now i love all of them... i just skipp the happy birthday one :) |
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it prolly depends on when you got drukqs, i went through a phase of intense drukqs_listening, everyday, loved every track....haven´t heard it for 3 weeks now, prolly next week i´ll be all over it again........it goes around |
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i've had it since b4 it came out... |
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I also skip the "Lornaderek (happy b-day)" track. But other than that I love all the tracks. Drukqs is my favorite album of all time. |
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I like rdj album/com2dady/windowlkr a lot more. Drukqs is about ICBYD level in my taste. |
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I really really love Drukqs... but im undecided if it's my fav album of all time... |
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Drukqs is amazing... |
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it doesn't have to be your fav album of all time, each album does something special for me,,,,it is impossible to have a favorite. |
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the biggest crap of all time,thats a sure bet |
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wahey! |
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"the biggest crap of all time" Damn dude, I'd hate to see your music collection. What you got in there? Backstreet Boys and Ja Rule ? |
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drukqs was always near the bottem of the list on my favourite aphex twins albulms but i listened to the whole 2 cds last night on headphones and its my favourite albulm by aphex now then richard d james albulm |
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I've had drukqs recorded on tape in my car for almost a year now and I've been listening to it ever since. I'm NEVER gonna grow tired of it. At first I was always listening to Avril 14th and Kesson Daslef, then Vordhosbn and Cock Ver10, then Mount St. Michael and Ziggomatic, then Meltphace and Taking Control, then I really got into the other piano tracks like Father, Nanou2 and now I really can't skip a track when I listen to it. My absolute favourites though, after listening to drukqs at least 100 times are: Meltphace 6 Avril 14th Taking Control Vordhosbn Bbydhyonchord 54 Cymru Beats |
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Thing is people don't want to admit it's a great album. I still skip throught the stupid tracks like Father. He's just taking the pis with that one. I heard that track 15 years ago when I played on my Grans Upright. Fucking great album though. |
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Chockfull of filler, tho... |
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yeah, it's got some fucking wicked tracks on it, but i still skip through 70%of it. not my fave aphex release, definetly. |
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Drukqs is so bizarre....I listen to it everyday but I cant get tired of it :) No album comes near the "airplay" that Drukqs gets in my stereo. Elusive: I AGREE!! |
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i havenot been listening to it ina long time now so...ill think i have to put it on...yeahhh!!!!!!!!!! |
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It is amazing, but not his best work. |
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I like this site!! :) theres a lot of Drukqs haters at watmm.com kinda make me pissed off :( Yeah Drukqs is probably my favourite album of all time. |
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Drukqs is a good album, but its still a mixed bag of the awesome and the mediocre. There are reasons for its being though: bbdhonchord, 54 Cymru Beats, Petiatil Cx Htdui and Mt. St Nichel are some of my favorite AFX songs. |
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father is probably my favourite of the piano-tracks! Definitly the darkest one... i agree it sounds kinda "off", like you're listening to someone who can't play piano, playing the piano at first. But it really grew on me. It's very eerie i think... i always feel like something terrible is about to happen. And i've also never skipped lornaderek... how could that track not make you smile? :-p It makes george smile for sure. I especially like how they burst out into laughter after they've finished singing. It's damn short anyway... it hardly seems worthwhile skipping it... in the time it takes to pick up the remote and push the 'next' button it's already over. Now Gwarek2 is a different story... i hate that one. I wish he hadn't included it (on an otherwise perfect (imo) album). I still haven't started skipping it, but i'm starting to seriously doubt if it'll grow on me. I still think it's his best album so far though! |
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drukqs is my fave aphex album i think, just the variety of it and the quality of songs is always high. yeah archrival it annoys me that they don't even say, well yeah its ok but not my fave, they just shout CRAP SHIT BOLLOCKS! IM NOT LISTENING LA LA LA but anyway, i have RDJ, ICBYD and drukqs on vinyl so i can listen to them all, ahhhh bliss is truly mine..... |
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I like drukqs but is not coherent enough. Is it a step to contemporary music or a step to Old acid-breakbeat. For me Come to Daddy EP is so much interesting. I like Aphex when its experimental |
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old beatbox sound of drukqs and C64 tune effect on it are quite surprising.. |
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And an extreamly frightening avatar Prog.... |
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ok, gwarek2 is one of my favs, simply because of the eerie silence and darkness in it. The bass dips into the 20Hz ranges constantly (...like the whole damn cd =] =] =] ) I don't understand how some people just hate that song. I continue to listen to it because it is so dark, just like father. To me father is like, well, those sounds are emotions towards his father. Pretty fucked up sounds at that! All the piano tracks have grown on me, especially nannou2. It is SO SLOW, and SO SIMPLE, but I hang on every fucking note. I play the song in my head when i'm listening to it, and the notes have such a large space in between each other that I always have it kick in in my head before it actually does in the song. I think it's a great opening to the cd (cd1/1) and a great closing with nannou2. Simply put, WOW. I've never had a cd grow on me so much. I don't understand how some ppl call the piano tracks "filler," when there is a lot of genius in those tracks, no matter how simple they sound. And #7 cd1, that song is a great "head-bobbin" song to cruise down the road to. |
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I prefer it to everything else he's done by miles. I especially like listening to 'Prep Gwarlek 38' then 'Taking Control' straight afterwards... "decent bits"... *goes mental* |
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gwarek2 can be a REALLY fun listen if you're in the mood. the sounds are "trippy" with great headphones and yea the bass reaches those nice low levels. |
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it's not a bad album. like someone said, i probably like the same fraction of it as i do with I Care Because You Do. contrary to what nekta said, i don't think there's much variety at all. there's either piano/traditional pieces, acid or drum'n'bass madness. but it's all quality. i particularly like 54 cymru beats cock/ver10 afx237 v7 meltphace 6 and taking control. |
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I never listen to Drukqs. I just think its subpar~! |
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I sort of reviewed it somewhere, just to get it in words. I'm treading a very thin line here. I have two options, I can listen to it a few times and call it the best electronic album of 2001 a few days after it has been released. However, I could listen to it for 5 months straight, study every nuance and break down each track and get inside and see whats there. I have picked the latter option. 5 months down the line, aphex twin's work hasn't lost anything. In fact, Drukqs gets better the more attention you pay. A few listens may leave anyone who doubts aphex's ability with thier pessimisms proven. However, drukqs is a fine wine. It takes time and understanding for it to realise it's flavour. Drukqs is far from a pick up and play CD; its the anti-pop. It requires time and understanding to like the tracks, rather than sticking it in and loving it for 4 listens, and then growing tired. Drukqs is like Aphex's career. There are many styles, the old acid (Taking control), mental drill n bass (cock/ver 10), the gentle piano tracks (kesson daslef) and the concept tracks (gwarek 2). Due to this, its hard to listen to in one go. I would recommend putting each style onto its own minidisc. The album oftenfeels like it was just put together in a rush. Its almost like he just randomly threw a few tracks from his vast stack of unreleased music (trust me, thats a lot of tracks), which gives it a disjointed feel. The tracks themselves are completely different. The piano tracks are as basic as the moving, taking influence from contempery composer, Erik Satie. Kesson Daslef is a great example of this, its almost pure emotion, which, at first, seems out of place with the towering monoloths of Mt. Saint Michel+St Michaels mount, but after a while, they both seem to feed off each other. Mental bit followed by calm bit does work sometimes. But then again, it still can feel disjointed. The drill and bass tracks take an almost direct influence from squarepusher, but then have thier own sort of melodic background. The tr |
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The tracks almost seem to have the drum making the main melody, and background synths acting as a stable repeating part. The concept tracks, namely Gwarek 2 and Gwely mermans at first seem like pure filler. Once again, after time, the beauty and depth of these songs comes out. Gwarek 2 being one of the best tracks on the album. It probably isn't music in the sense, but whatever it is, its amazing. The sounds come from nowhere, leap around your head and leave like nothing happened. Its scary, but the best representation of whats going on in his twisted mind. The main issue with drukqs is that, unlike previous aphex releases, drukqs doesn't break any boundaries. The drill n bass tracks aren't much different to those off RDJ album and the piano tracks aren't really new. However, this still sounds lightyears ahead of its competitors. If you've brought drukqs, or had it copied off a mate (ahem) and hate it, go back and listen to it. Go on, I dare you. 9/10 |
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had to get that out of my system there. Hey, i gave it a go. |
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yep I agree..it progressively grew on me..to the point that I probably play it the most of all RDJ currently..Windowlicker doesnt really count..it doesnt quite require the commitment of an album |
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i prefer his earlier music not that i have anything against drukqs tho |
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I find the earlier stuff a little hit and miss. Some stuff is great (analog bubblebath, on the romance trip, track 11 off AB3, ventolin etc) while it can be truely shite. Which is a shame. |
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It's his best album, I love it love it love it love it. I can't say enough about it. A couple of crap tracks that I never listen to, but I love the majority of it, and I keep coming back to it all the time. |
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I still listen to cock-ver10 mt saint michel mix+st michaels mount 54 cymru beats meltphace 6 taking control ziggomatic v17 The piano tracks don't do anything for me. That's probably because over the last 2 years I've been listening to more and more classical music. If I'm going to listen to piano, I much prefer Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt ... there's just so much other good piano music. The worst problem of the album is the sequencing, thank goodness for cd burners. |
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thank you Darth for agreeing with me that Gwarek2 is fucking incredlible. You just have to listen closely :) |
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"it doesnt quite require the commitment of an album" yes, one finds that, doesn't one? |
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I'm still anticipating the "more complex" piano tunes that Rich said he'd release (in the groove.de interview). Any new RDJ material would be great but I'm especially interested to hear just HOW complex these pieces are. |
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I love those piano pieces. I listened to the hole Drukqs last night and i must say its a great album. It has some bad songs, but the most great albums has one or two bad songs anyway. |
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i thing druqks may have put richard into retirement. he will not make anymore cds EVER!!!. druqks is a recap on all his work, the very top of the mountain, in other words the end of the road. |
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I wonder if a mad guy like richard is secretly one of the schematic crew now. Maybe he's dino felipe or something. Schematic is where all the seriously insane people go. |
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time to give meltphace 6 another mention this song is truly magical [interesting point ppaauull] |
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piatil cx htdui. thats a great little number. and let me plug bbdhonchord one more time too. |
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