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Ditch X from Trancentral on 2001-10-20 07:47 [#00043882] | |||||||||
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...so I manage a record store and James's "Drukqs" has been highly anticipated since Warp announced the impending release. I'm apparently not the only one in the States who has been drooling in anticipation for five years... In the store, we carry a few rock magazines monthly, including the highly vaunted, respected Rolling Stone magazine. The November 8, 2001 issue, featuring Alicia Keys on the cover, had this to say (transcribed in its entirety) about the latest effort by the Twin on page 130: *** Aphex Twin "Drukqs" One Star (out of five) Warp/Sire -Bad trip music that's just bad- Aphex Twin, also known as England's Richard James, was once a pioneer of techno and ambient electronic music, and he made records, particularly 1993's gorgeous "Selected Ambient Works 85-92," that changed the course of electronic music. But since then, he has bravely charted a course toward tech-noise and slowly veered into unlistenability. With "Drukqs," James delivers his most irrelevant album to date: a double CD, thirty-track compendium of indecipherable song titles, gratuitously weird sounds and occasional wisps of ersatz classical piano that are aimlessly pretty. The moody "Kladfvgbung Micshk" sounds like incidental music for a haunted-house movie by Damien Hirst, but tracks like this inevitably lead to tracks like "Cock/Ver 10," a hyperactive splutter of drum-machine beats and deflating video game drones. The confused and self-indulgent "Gwarek 2" is a seven-minute soundscape that resembles something like Trent Reznor might have recorded after listening to the Beatles' "Revolution 9," then erased the next day. Among fans of IDM, or Intelligent Dance Music, as this sort of stuff is unfortunately labeled, rumor has it that James merely loaded this record with out-takes that have been eating up space on his hard drive for years, then released the album as a deal-breaker with his label, Warp. Or perhaps the explanation for the incoherence of the album lies in its punny, unfunny title. Either way, he should have never done "Drukqs," because his new noise mostly just sounds fukqed up. -Pat Blashill *** ...and so was to be expected of the informed, unqualified, hyphen-abusing opinion of the American music press... Discuss amongst yourselves... -Ditch X |
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I dig Drukqs... This topic, eventhough old, upsets me... =( |
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It's amusing to me that the reviewer thinks so highly of SAW I, but hates Druqks with a passion. Either their tastes have changed, they haven't kept up with the progression of 'IDM' or they listened to it once and wrote the review... |
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I bet they did the old chestnut of "get someone who hates the genre" to do the review... |
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Drukqs did have some great moments... Vordhosbn, The song about St.Michael, 54 cmyru beats, Taking Control... it would be unfair to call it unformly bad. |
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correction : uniformly |
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i love drukqs!!! at the moment it's my fav release by rdj i cant remember any of the track names so i cant say which stands out imo but there are some tracks that could sound a bit repetitive, but just as i get to think what the fuck he's been doing a great sequence comes and totaly blows me away... |
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