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Mat from Birmingham, UK on 2001-10-14 22:07 [#00041095] | |||||||||
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hya, just found a good review of druqks... Drukqs is the 2001 release from Cornish Techno wizard Richard D James aka the Aphex Twin. Deified in the sphere of experimental dance--partly for his indisputable sporadic genius, but partly, it must be said, for his bullish refusal to play the whole "releasing records" game, and the subsequent mythology that such contrariness invariably prompts--every new release is greeted like it's the future of music on plastic. Drukqs is not that album, at least not quite: a 30-track double CD set that runs to over 100 minutes in length, it reads like a hastily-compiled joy-ride through the old Aphex countryside, full-on acid junglist scorchers like "Vord Hosbn" barrelling madly past serene, oddly beautiful ambient piano curiosities like "Avril 14th" and sometimes the two disparate disciplines blending, as in the truly surreal wreckage of "Mt Saint Michel + St Michaels Mount". It's a minor disappointment when you realise there's nothing here as epochal as "Come To Daddy" or "Windowlicker", two late-period Aphex singles so startlingly revolutionary that, on their release, they sounded like nothing else on God's good earth. But once that's out the way, and you're free to immerse yourself in the tangled depths of Drukqs, it's simply a relief to know that Aphex is still making music: fiendishly complex, lovably dumb, and still aeons ahead of the legion of imitators. |
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Slob B. Names on 2001-10-14 22:26 [#00041101] | |||||||||
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Hmmm, did this happen to be below the album cover with the price by side along with "click to buy" or "click to pre-order"? |
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Jeremy kwhy on 2001-10-14 22:33 [#00041108] | |||||||||
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Exactly... Drukqs is crap. Where is the Aphex Acid? This is definately his weakest release so far------------- |
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rez from davis,CA on 2001-10-14 22:41 [#00041115] | |||||||||
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dammit! this is the second board where a lot of people have been disappointed with drukqs.... i think people are expecting too much right now, and aren't getting it. but then when they get over themselves and give it a good listen, they'll figure it's not as bad as they thought, and like it more. at least that's what i hope. me, i know i'll dig it. |
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Anus Head on 2001-10-14 22:49 [#00041120] | |||||||||
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I'm not dissapointed, but for some reason I'm expecting this to be some sort of trick here where it'll be revealed that those aren't the tracks on the album. |
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Jeremy kwhy on 2001-10-14 22:59 [#00041124] | |||||||||
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me too...but I doubt it ~8( |
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