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PostModernVancouver from Urban PostModernVancouver< Canadaaaa on 2001-10-31 19:10 [#00047623] | |||||||||
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October 8, 2001 With his feet planted on the dance floor of early techno and his head swimming in the stratosphere of experimental idiosyncrasy, Richard D. James -- a.k.a. Aphex Twin -- has helped create a cottage industry of electronic musicians who take their rhythms and beats as far away from the mainstream DJ as they can. Unfortunately, over the years, he's let the "living legend" element of his celebrity go to his head, releasing a variable output of music in an attempt to see if his rabid fan base will buy it. Regardless of his ego, however, James has created some of the most beautiful electronic music ever made. And for once, Drukqs -- his first full LP of music since his major-label debut -- sounds as if he no longer takes this for granted. Jumping between James' trademark broken-beat instrumentation ("Taking Control") and spare, piano-based interludes ("Nanou 2"), Drukqs plays out like a sonic scrapbook of all the things James does best. At times, James dares his compositions to cohere into a form that most people would consider music, only to move into spaces almost heartbreaking in their simplicity and sadness. The overriding mood of the two-CD set is one of a barely suppressed vulnerability, which makes up in beauty what it lacks in hope. So while we do not possess the HAL of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Aphex Twin's drum machines and samplers express the exact same neuroses and fears for a world swallowed up by machines. The language we hear may be foreign and strange, but all too familiar to our weary and overstimulated senses. Justin Hampton CDNOW Contributing Writer |
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ted maul from mellons on 2001-11-01 14:22 [#00047744] | |||||||||
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PMV/ interestin review, personally i think the alienation /over-stimulated senses/ machines taking over/ sadness etc.... is more wholly summed up by SAW II , especially Rhubarb (Track 3 ), and the armageddon style orchestral 'Next Heap with" on ICBYD. Possibly they just remind me of some of Philip Glass' melodic pieces in th film Koyaanisqatsi, which is very much about the things discussed in the review you posted. Either way, thanks for taking the time..... |
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oysterclam from the briny deep on 2001-11-01 18:52 [#00047783] | |||||||||
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see guys? i told you the new cd was good. and i'm melting |
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Ophecks on 2001-11-01 18:53 [#00047785] | |||||||||
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Stop it, you're making a mess of the new carpet. |
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Naphex-Male from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-11-02 03:31 [#00047856] | |||||||||
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don't worry...I scotchguarded the carpet |
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Naphex-Male from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-11-02 03:31 [#00047857] | |||||||||
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and then I huffed some of it....wow man! *Puke* |
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Aktium from bat country on 2001-11-02 07:56 [#00047893] | |||||||||
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URB's review is better |
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