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jay solo on 2001-09-29 10:24 [#00037778]



I'm sort of worried.

Can the new Aphex album really be something that supercedes
everything he has ever done? I'm afraid it will be somewhat
of a letdown. Anybody have some opinions on that?


 

Berty Beatle on 2001-09-29 10:45 [#00037783]



It's obviously going to be terrible, we should all sit here
and complain about the album, that's a good idea. Those two
new NIN albums sound bad too.


 

Thom Yorke from England on 2001-09-29 15:36 [#00037818]



Now, ye dudes know why I was so depressed on the last two
Albums of mine... and my depression was true... not just a
pose, please, please believe me. And please buy my next
Album, too. I need the money.


 

Marilyn Manson on 2001-09-29 15:53 [#00037820]



This Thom Yorke character is so fake......


 

Tom Jenkinson on 2001-09-29 15:59 [#00037822]



It is, it really is...


 

derelict from u.s. on 2001-09-29 17:26 [#00037823]



DRUKQS is becoming a better album to me every
listen......all u people always fucking complain all the
album....wahwhahwahhwahwahwhahwahwhahwhahwahwhawhahwhawha..
time about the new .

shut the fuck up....

or go buy it....

oh wait its not out yet....well at least i have my copy...

derelik


 

Johnny Bravo on 2001-09-29 17:36 [#00037825]



"or go buy it....

oh wait its not out yet....well at least i have my copy..."

That ending is sooooo mysterious...... Ooooooooohoooooo,
aren't you just a severed squirrel penis in a glass of
saltwater.


 

Thom D. Manson on 2001-09-29 17:42 [#00037827]



You bloody bastards had better stop fakin' me!


 

derelict from u.s. on 2001-09-29 17:46 [#00037828]



johnny bravo .....that is fukin horrid...

well i just left it lik that bc all this stupid shit in this
fukin post


 

derelict from u.s. on 2001-09-29 17:47 [#00037829]



FELCHING WHORES OF BABYLON

CUM GUZZLING GUTTER SLUTS

HAIRY BLOODY AXE WOUNDS


 

Taxi on 2001-09-29 20:46 [#00037839]



Drukqs; the best comments I have heard break down to this.
Just a bunch of stuff he threw together to clear his
contract with warp. No real fun is present. So, it won't top
his earlier stuff


 

plasticraver on 2001-09-29 21:03 [#00037840]



has richard or warp said this is last release on warp? when
and where did they say it?


 

derelict from u.s. on 2001-09-29 21:25 [#00037841]





ALOT OF PEOPLE SAY THAT DRUKQS IS SHITTY AND JUST THROWN
TOGETHER FOR NO APPARENT REASON THAN TO RELEASE ANOTHER
ALBUM>>>>>WHY CANT APHEX RELEASE SHIT THAT IS DIFF THAN HIS
BORING<<>>>><<><><><><<><><><><><><><><><>><>><><><><>
PREVIOUS SHIT>>>IF HE DID NIT DO THAT THAN HE WOULD GET
<><>ABOUT<><><><><><><><><>CHANGE<<><><><><>AND
<<><><><><><>PROGRESSION<><><><><><><><><><>>

derelik


 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-30 00:07 [#00037849]



if all of the album is as beautiful and lyrical as those
excerpts on drukqs.net it's a great and beautiful album, in
which it will be obvious that richard d. james does not care
for any fashions... just for his music.

in general i don't believe in the already clichéd saying
'he was better then'. no great artist or composer has or had
a downfall. picasso was just in his first years of the
cubist period, balthus painted some his greatest works as a
thridy-year old, stravinsky wrote his le sacre du
printemps/the rite of spring when he was thirdy,
shostakovich wrote his second fantastic symphony when he was
thirdy (his no.4, and it's as weird as aphex early stuff
like isopropanol), or philip glass and steve reich... they
started their minimalist works with thirdy (and i could
continue this list... i guess it would be a nearly andless
list).

if rdj is a great artist, drukqs is only the beginning for a
lot more to come. if not, we all were wrong in considering
his music from the last ten years as great. but anyway, i
personally, am sure that he is a great... artist/composer.


 

derelict from u.s. on 2001-09-30 00:57 [#00037863]



at long last

THANK YOU BALTHUS>>>THANKU THANKU THANK U

REICH AND RILEY AND GLASS are incredible.......minimalism is
some of the best....makes u ponder life when u think about
it...or it does to me...

derelik



 

plastic raver on 2001-09-30 03:10 [#00037884]



Bollox!
copying Reich and Glass doesn't make your life follow their
path. Drukqs sucks! Richard will disown this album when he
comes to his senses...listen and read richards
interviews...all this fair-weather media bullshit will soon
end....if anyone else did this elitist shit neither you or
aphex would mention it........


 

Fresch from Trondheim, Norway on 2001-09-30 03:49 [#00037889]



shut the fuck up. aphex is GOD, and drukqs will tear the
whole community down, i'm sure


 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-30 12:06 [#00037932]



aphex is not just only copying reich and glass (if that is
so, radiohead is copying aphex and everyone from warp). in
polynomial-c, flim and nannou are some elements from phil
glass' and steve reich's style, but you could never mistake
those tracks by rdj for a piece by glass or reich.

...and drukqs is a complete different matter - there are no
influences of glass and reich - at least in the excerpts on
drukqs.net - nanou2, avril 14th etc. (maybe there are
influences by cage, satie or someone suggested eno, but no
glass, riley, reich)

in the end drukqs is by richard d. james, completely. and a
lot of people will be influenced by this and will make
something different out of it (maybe radiohead, björk...)
whereas other, less talented people will only copy it.

art is collecting, and making something new out of
influences... like picasso did in guernica with influences
by goya. there is no art, music which can be created out of
nothing.


 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-30 12:16 [#00037933]



sorry, i guess there could be a misunderstanding about the
first sentence. i don't want that there's any
misunderstanding about my opinion, because of '...is not
only copying...' - it sounds as if i meant rdj does copy
other people, too, but in fact of course i meant that he
does not copy any music at all. he does more with the
influences - he makes something new out of it, he makes
aphex twin tracks. ok, i guess now it's absolutely clear
what i meant, thanks!

derelik - yeah that's exactly what i think about reich and
glass :-).


 

PostModernVancouver from gorgeous Vancouver, Canada on 2001-09-30 13:01 [#00037941]



Dont worry Balthus, this album is a masterpiece in its
entirity and by far the greatest, most soulfull
electronic/avant garde album to come along in the past 2
years.
Sure it's not perfect, but no album is, no piece of art is
perfect.
As a matter of fact, I find this album as a total Aphex Twin
album is most satisying to date, because it has every style
on here, let alone the never before done ( RDJ anways) piano
pieces a la Eno and Satie.
Sorry, but with DRuKQS RDJ shows again why he is the
greatest electronic composer of the last 11 years, nothing
that has been released in the past few years can touch this
album in its entirity, its that diverse and inspiring..



 

derelict from -0-04r-23492-3940-23 on 2001-09-30 13:42 [#00037942]



thank you balthus and postmodernvancouver



 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-30 13:48 [#00037943]



postmodernvancouver - yes, i guess, now i'm not worrying
anymore about drukuse (in fact i stopped worrying when i
heard the excerpts from drukqs.net). i guess i will love the
album, too. just listened to the excerpts again, meltphase,
nanou2, avril 14th... i really cant wait for drukqs. at
least it's only three weeks until the release, but well...

even the cover design looks great.



 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-30 13:55 [#00037944]



the rite of spring also was only stuff igor stravinsky threw
together to clear his contract with sergei diagilev and
ballet russes.


 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-30 13:56 [#00037945]



derelik - you're welcome.


 

PostModernVancouver from gorgeous Vancouver, Canada on 2001-09-30 14:05 [#00037946]



lol, Stravinsky was marvelous and so was "Rites of Spring".
Oh, Balthus what you've heard on Drukqs.Net is just the
beginning of what else you're going to love from the album.
I mean the piano tunes alone ( about 5 or 6 of them) are
tearjerkers and just simply beautiful, and wait until you
hear the opening tune , number 2 etc......
Gwely Mermans is (number 6 Disc 1) is haunting, SAW 2 like
track with a vague ,rumbling, ominous and haunting bizarre
beat and sound to it.
This tune gives me shivers and it simply makes you think of
the abyss and life beyond life....
Theres tonnes of gems on this album, and like Delerict (
sorry if I mispronounced you name) it grows more and more on
you even though I loved it from the start.
I've played it continously for about 5 weeks now and in my
ind its a brilliant classic already.
The problem is that some of the fans on this MB just want to
harder or dance kinda stuff by RDJ and those will be
dissapointed to a degree because it only has a bit of that
stuff on there.
Trust me, you'll love this album...


 

balthus from europe on 2001-09-30 14:25 [#00037949]



thanks, postmodernvancouver - with describing the album you
made me even more impatient to hear it... i guess you're
right, that people who favor the early techno tracks over
the more tranquil and recent things by rdj are the same
people who will not like drukqs. well, i also like some of
the early pieces by aphex which are dark techno, but the
tranquil and lyrical pieces by aphex always were my
favourites (on sawii, come to daddy little lord faulteroy
mix, flim, iz-us, nannou, yellow calx...).

i mentioned stravinsky also because doing an album with
piano music now is shocking in the early 2000s like doing
such a loud and weird piece in the early 1910s. i love
stravinsky's music - he was just an original artist like rdj
nowadays. he also didn't gave a damn wether people would
like his music or not, and he never gave them what they
expected. after rite of spring he also composed beautiful
lyrical piano music, too.

there's nothing elitist in composing piano music. or, well
you can also say the elite in music consists of the best
musicians, and if richard d. james is one of the best, of
course he does elitist shit. (i love this shit.)


 

Gonzola from stockholm on 2001-09-30 14:41 [#00037951]



i fully agree on postmodernvancouver's description, i've
listened to it constantly for about 2 months and i really,
really like it, a mindblow imo


 

LeMoN on 2001-09-30 15:22 [#00037954]



Drukqs is a pretty good album, but IMO some of the piano
pieces are pretty weak, hell I can write better piano pieces
then the likes of Father...alot of the "heavier" tracks
sound almost indiscernable and seem too chaoticly
random...and some of the tracks are just garbage, orban and
some of the short instrumental sounding pieces off disk 2
come to mind immediately...just my two cents, for the most
part I enjoy the album, but it is no where near perfect, RDJ
displayed better song writing ability in both ICBYD and RDJ
albums...I believe he will release a new album within the
next two years that will be more akin to Windowlicker and
really blow everyone away...


 

plastic raver on 2001-09-30 20:54 [#00037986]



I think he'll do that too! less pressure this time. He just
needs to kick himself up the arse really.


 

Mm...MMmW...((mmMmm))...WmMM...mM on 2001-10-01 05:06 [#00038060]



It doesn't matter much what he does now, he's already an
extremely odd absolute genius in my opinion. The equation
song stands out as hilariously insanely creative and just
crazy. I mean everything about it is absolutely crazy, the
track title is impossible to refer to, he poses as a
grinning female on the cover, the cd is PINK, the crazy guy
made the song so complicated and perfect aurally, it sounds
like some extremely disturbed neurotic person spent every
night for a year tediously making it, I think he does it for
a laugh mostly, he seems very intelligent when he wants to
bother communicating intelligently in interviews. He likes
toying with people, if the album is mediocre, it probaly a
brief experiment for fun to see what his fans reactions
would be. He is insane. Absolutely insane.


 

Mm...MMmW...((mmMmm))...WmMM...mM on 2001-10-01 05:08 [#00038061]



(Well that's my impression from the interviews and the music
I hear, I obviously don't even know him really)... So he did
an excellent job creating a psychotic absurd genius
personality just for his fans even if not real.


 

Maytag on 2001-10-01 12:55 [#00038112]



I was aprehensive on the first listen or so but have been
really won over. The phrase that keeps coming to mind about
Aphex's playing style is that on this one he really does
"pull out all the stops". He's like some mad scientist
sitting at his machine hitting knobs that have previously
marked DON'T TOUCH! The sonic qualities, the amazing digital
highs and lows as well, the organic sounds and the plethora
of Atari sound effects seems like a culmination of some of
his other work into its final stage of evolution. He
creates an electronic whirling dirbish, a spinning piece of
energy that pulses with technology.


 

Magic Johnson on 2001-10-01 13:52 [#00038116]



Derelic, shut the fuck up, you're a fuckin' retard, your
stupid "thank god" and "finally" posts, fuck you cracker.


 

Axim Surann from quebec on 2001-10-01 13:57 [#00038122]



i like and i do drukqs


 

derelict from u.s. on 2001-10-01 15:47 [#00038135]



magic johnson u can suk my mutha fukin dick

you cant spell...

thank you magic blahblahblahblah

suk me pihole


 


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