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andreas.de from paris, france on 2001-11-08 10:28 [#00049672] | |||||||||
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hello, i wonder how many people do actually listen to druqks. i think the album sells quite well, but the music isn't really mainstream : few airplays, etc. do people buy it just because it's cool to have it? will druqks become more accecible within time? nevertheless, i think it's a great album. ;) greetings from paris, (: andreas |
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Ironlung from Dark Side of the moon on 2001-11-08 10:29 [#00049673] | |||||||||
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Only us who know....know..... Know what I mean.... |
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Richard D. James on 2001-11-08 10:36 [#00049674] | |||||||||
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Not even me. |
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Richard D. James on 2001-11-08 10:36 [#00049676] | |||||||||
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It's the worst album I've ever heard. |
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Mutant Death Pengwin from Medicine Hat on 2001-11-08 10:41 [#00049677] | |||||||||
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i downloaded drukqs so i could say that i had the album 45 days early. i only listen to it while really high. i really don't think its that great. |
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Fernz from The Messageboard on 2001-11-08 10:42 [#00049678] | |||||||||
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It has its moments. |
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beetlebum on 2001-11-08 11:28 [#00049692] | |||||||||
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i think when its good, its fucking wicked. but when it sucks, well, it basically just sucks. its a little extreme |
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Wizard MaC from Amersfoort on 2001-11-08 12:02 [#00049694] | |||||||||
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DRUKQS is good, but not the best |
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wizards teeth on 2001-11-08 12:06 [#00049696] | |||||||||
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I just love the fast tacks Does nut mean the rest of the song are shite, even the birthday song would be good to play to yourslelf on your birthday, it only cost £15 to change your name by deed pole. special editions of the cd could be made with different names instead of richard, a bit like those things that turn around in card shops in england with key rings on with everyones name and the meaning of those names. examples - margaret - all margarets ride horses to the shops to buy eggs, bread and gravy. these are the only items they are allowed, if not they explode or implode depending on the time of day. all pm hours and they will implode all am hours and they will explode, it apparantly has someting to do wit the position of the moon in relation to the earth. which other artists should i check out if i love fast electonic music that my mother hates listening to. on chritsmas day i am forced to listen to cliff richard, i hate this customary practise. |
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PostModernVancouver from Downtown Vancouver on 2001-11-08 12:52 [#00049697] | |||||||||
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All this other stuff released this year IMO doesnt even come close to the genius that is consisted on RDJ"s DruKQS. Time will prove the naysayers wrong, trust me.. The album reeks of emotion and sheer beauty unlike anything else released this year. So what if itsn't all that innovative, its still leaps better then the rest IMO.. Reasons of dissapointment might be that the expectations and the waiting length for the release might have been too much and too long.. Whoopdie doo... A lot of the so-called innovative stuff released this year lack total soul IMO, and in terms of drawing blood from a machine RDJ is the bloody king... Drukqs is innovative enough to even be there with the rest of them...added to that this album has far more variations then anything else released as of late... If ya think ya got him figured out, he might be fooling you now, since he could quite easily come up with anything so advanced out of nowhere, who knows... This seems like a purging all the personalities of RDJ kind of an album, just to get ready to go on to the next phase, who knows. But nonetheless, I DO think this is an album that is unparalelled in terms of sheer enjoyability and emotion compared to anything else. Sorry, But I found Confield to be a pile of Crap and I like Autechre... A year from now...I guarantee you that DRukqs will already be considered a Classic albeit a little controversial because of its seemingly incohesive nature ( who cares?)... Nah, Album of the year by far.....IMO.... Peace |
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Archrival from NYC on 2001-11-08 13:01 [#00049698] | |||||||||
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I definitly listen to DrukQs. Its a classic already. |
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oki from grmny on 2001-11-08 13:42 [#00049708] | |||||||||
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must second that definitely :-) |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-08 14:44 [#00049713] | |||||||||
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yes, it is. |
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phool on 2001-11-08 17:29 [#00049763] | |||||||||
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bizarre! aand you run a fan site, don't you?! i don't understand the original argument..... it doesn't get much airplay, so who actually listens to it? well, i almost never ever listen to something that gets radio airplay that i know of ( i did like Ms jackson by Outkast thou). i have listened for years to Aphex BECAUSE i don't listen to the damn radio! i have never even heard any Aphex track being played on commercial radio here in the US. i've heard two tracks played on a public radio station years ago. |
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Dirtypriest from Denmark on 2001-11-08 18:00 [#00049789] | |||||||||
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FOR FUCKS SAKE CHECK OUT BOGDAN RACZYNSKI!!!! MR TEETH! you will love it! |
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andreas.de from paris, france on 2001-11-08 20:28 [#00049818] | |||||||||
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i just think theres a gap between the copies sold and the copies actually listened to. i am wrong probably. :) andreas |
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1010-1111-10 from St.John\\\\\\\'s Newfoundland, Canada on 2001-11-08 20:31 [#00049820] | |||||||||
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Its a good album. Wish bit4 was like 2 min tho, that would be interesting to hear. |
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Trevor on 2001-11-09 06:56 [#00049946] | |||||||||
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i like the prepared piano!!!! that's right--a piano full of screws, rubber stops, felt, and other shit....about time someone used this medium in popular music |
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wizards teeth on 2001-11-09 09:07 [#00049957] | |||||||||
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do pianos not look like that anyway close up incorporate meat / dead flesh with instruments |
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Barrett, Syd from T dot. on 2001-11-09 09:46 [#00049967] | |||||||||
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Set Fire To Flames is better. as is the new A Silver Mt. Zion. and the new Spiritualized. I'd say it's in the top 8 releases this year. |
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diastole from http://diastole1.homestead.com on 2001-11-09 09:52 [#00049973] | |||||||||
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i like mr jame's new album called drukqs because it has such a movie kina element to it (hope that is enough writing to reveal the symbol of aphex behind this) thanks... do you think the women are in real pain on the track, or did he just go to a maternity ward? |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-09 10:13 [#00049983] | |||||||||
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i'm sure that was a lot of fun for them to do this. i can imagine how aphex said to them 'come on girls, do some screaming, i need that for a track'. it's also fun to listen to that. i love gwarek2 - it's like a short film without visuals, it has a lot of atmosphere. someone said here that's like a prison etc. well, it gets darker while it progresses, but in my opinion it's not a scary piece. it's beautiful actually, very relaxed. i like the sounds. drukqs is the best album of this year, apart from the new steve reich 'triple quartet'... and it's the best cd since boc's in a beautiful place. |
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oki from grmny on 2001-11-09 11:24 [#00049993] | |||||||||
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i got a strong effect with gwely mernans - something like being in a womb and outside a far and dark landscape from where strange sounds here and there pop up the horizon (well i should write books ;-)) |
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trevor on 2001-11-09 16:52 [#00050046] | |||||||||
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prepared pianos are set with objects in the strings.... so the sound gets really wieird with screws, rubber, felt, and other things interveneing. it was devised by the American composer John Cage mainly to get more variety out of the piano tone. one does it by measure and placing objects in the strings at different positions--in a very ordered manner. in comparison to the John Cage music ive heard however, the DrukQs preparation sounds much more ordered. and 9 tracks from DrukQs are done in this manner. oh and i think two, or three tracks are completely improviational-- (that organ thing, and one or two piano pieces) and god, did you hear the 'father' track----atonal!!!...great, great, great that's very good- art music and thought (some call it classical) is begining to interact with more popular forms |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-09 18:30 [#00050065] | |||||||||
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yes, art music is a better term for classical music. the greatest last interaction was in the early 70s (before that it surely was the influence of debussy, stravinsky, bartók on jazz musicians like monk, coltrane, mingus etc, but in the end jazz is not really 'popular music'). the influence on popular music was minimalism, terry riley's, steve reich's, phil glass' ensemble works. brian eno and david bowie attended concerts (in bowie's case a glass concert, eno's case a reich concert), and as they admitted, were impressed and influenced. later tangerine dream, who were very influenced, too - (steve reich said he should have sued them) helped phil glass to get released some of his works on virgin records. (glass actually knew all the people like bowie, eno, oldfield, tangerine dream personally, whereas reich distanced himself from them). this goes on to the 90s, with the influence on electronic music. and the influence is not only in electronic music, it's everywhere. you have a great deal of rip-off's in film scores such as in matrix and AI. today you can listen to to more or less bad songs on radio and you can hear that even there are influences (extremely watered down influences of course, but still) of minimalism -madonna's american pie for example had a very glassian intro. so aphex only went deeper to people like satie and cage, who where actually very important for the work of riley, reich and glass. it's a long chain of influences, which is very interesting. listen to boc's zoetrope and aphex twin's nannou and you have really nice pieces with an essential feel of riley's, reich's and glass' music. but what makes boc and aphex so great, is that they are not really popularize minimalism, they do not water it down, they make something new and fresh with these influences. so aphex' turn to cage's (though he denies the influence, but so did a lot of artists!) or satie's was not so surprising at all. (ps. ok, i wouldn't be surprised if radiohead's next album would feature thom yorke playing on a prepared piano, doing a masterpiece album) |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-09 18:33 [#00050066] | |||||||||
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yes, art music is a better term for classical music. the greatest last interaction was in the early 70s (before that it surely was the influence of debussy, stravinsky, bartók on jazz musicians like monk, coltrane, mingus etc, but in the end jazz is not really 'popular music'). the influence on popular music was minimalism, terry riley's, steve reich's, phil glass' ensemble works. brian eno and david bowie attended concerts (in bowie's case a glass concert, eno's case a reich concert), and as they admitted, were impressed and influenced. later tangerine dream, who were very influenced, too - (steve reich said he should have sued them) helped phil glass to get released some of his works on virgin records. (glass actually knew all the people like bowie, eno, oldfield, tangerine dream personally, whereas reich distanced himself from them). this goes on to the 90s, with the influence on electronic music. and the influence is not only in electronic music, it's everywhere. you have a great deal of rip-off's in film scores such as in matrix and AI. today you can listen to to more or less bad songs on radio and you can hear that even there are influences (extremely watered down influences of course, but still) of minimalism -madonna's american pie for example had a very glassian intro. so aphex only went deeper to people like satie and cage, who where actually very important for the work of riley, reich and glass. it's a long chain of influences, which is very interesting. listen to boc's zoetrope and aphex twin's nannou and you have really nice pieces with an essential feel of riley's, reich's and glass' music. but what makes boc and aphex so great, is that they are not really popularize minimalism, they do not water it down, they make something new and fresh with these influences. so aphex' turn to cage's (though he denies the influence, but so did a lot of artists!) or satie's was not so surprising at all. (ps. ok, i wouldn't be surprised if radiohead's next album would feature thom yorke playing on a prepared piano, doing a masterpiece album) |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-09 18:34 [#00050067] | |||||||||
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sorry for the twin post...i guess these were some tchnical errors... |
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zetre on 2001-11-09 21:57 [#00050083] | |||||||||
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I think very few people are buying drukqs to be cool, because -most people buy records ´cause they like the music, be they aphex, britney or t.o.k fans -drill´n´bass isn´t the height of cool in 2001 |
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Gav from cleethorpes on 2001-11-11 14:59 [#00050457] | |||||||||
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I love Drukqs. I think it's definitely the best put together so far and really interesting. The only problem is you have to have just the right conditions for it to appeal, you need to be alone, concentrating, with lots of time to kill, preferably in a dark room, stick that baby on and play all 100 minutes of it. When you ge tto the end you feel like a changed person. Whatever you do, don't switch it off mid record or you're fucked. |
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Quadrapelegicrobotikev from mp3.com/quadrapelegicrobotik on 2001-11-11 15:39 [#00050468] | |||||||||
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its a good album but if i was a newer fan, this album would draw me away from AFX... if only AFX would go apeshite and produce an album every two months to give my thirst its splendor |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-11-11 15:58 [#00050493] | |||||||||
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I had to force myself to listen to it and nothing else. And since then it did grow on me alot. At first I liked 2 tracks, then 3, now I really like about 7 of them. I will probably burn those 7 onto some kind of seperate mix because I find the album as a whole extremely annoying. Some of the tracks make me physically ill. Its actually really crazy, I think I'll make a post about that. |
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.mk. from barcelona on 2001-11-11 17:09 [#00050537] | |||||||||
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drukqs has the best afx songs, but its fucking irregular... vordhosbn is my favourite one maybe best afx song ever... well, with girl-boy and alberto balsalm |
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SpaZpheX from PAlAcIlsuRRounDSouND on 2001-11-11 18:45 [#00050574] | |||||||||
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Balthus, you are a scoundrel sir who would surely implode under the crushing weight of his own smug self-importance were it not for the fact that you speak the truth, and have a neat turn of phrase, so i guess you may continue... |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-11 20:03 [#00050616] | |||||||||
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ah, yes... |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-11 20:08 [#00050621] | |||||||||
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... of course. well done, my apprentice. |
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SpaZpheX from PAlAcIlsuRRounDSouND on 2001-11-11 20:10 [#00050625] | |||||||||
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... Needless to say, i await your next utterance with baited breath... |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-11 20:14 [#00050628] | |||||||||
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... so, i suppose i need to continue in beginning the next chapter of my treaty 'the roots and ambigious but thoroughly satisfying ways of aphex twin and other artists of the electronic scene'. |
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balthus from europe on 2001-11-11 20:14 [#00050630] | |||||||||
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uhumm... :°) |
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SpaZpheX from PAlAcIlsuRRounDSouND on 2001-11-11 20:23 [#00050635] | |||||||||
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Indeed sir, you do... |
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f.l.e.a from dogsear on 2001-11-11 20:40 [#00050648] | |||||||||
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I finally got me dirty mits on the album..while I was rather dubious when I heard the samples placed here by kind Phobiazero, when I heard the whole thing, I fell in love with it..I agree it's not his best ever, but's pretty damn good, I think it leaves room for doubt because of the sheer length of it, but to me that's just room to grow on to you..while I was initially a bit unsure of cagian piano extrapolations..simply because they were far too melodic and far less percussive than cage..but now I see that that just makes them something entirely new..cant imagine the album without them..but I do confess that they do work best when you think of them as intros, outros and interludes between the harder, faster, more abrassive stuff..which brings me to the faster stuff..MAN!..I personally think that "Taking Control" has the potential to be the next "Come to Daddy" or "Ventolin" or "Windowlicker" you know..one of the big signature Aphex choons..and the rest are quite brilliant as well, each of them unfolding and revealing more with each listen..and the damn discs havent left me player in the week I have had it..so I guess the answer is YES..I do listen to it! PS. I feel that his INTERVIEW with THE FACE is the most insightful of what I 've read so far...less malarky, more straight responses, even sheds some light on his creative process, it's worth a read if you haven't read it already.. |
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SpaZpheX from PAlAcIlsuRRounDSouND on 2001-11-11 20:56 [#00050661] | |||||||||
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It's a long hard slog to start with but the more you listen to it the shorter and sweeter it gets, in a time stretching kind of way... |
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Avila on 2001-12-25 17:11 [#00064019] | |||||||||
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The problem with you people that don't like the album is that you're not listening to it . All you do is hear it, but you don't make the effort to pay attention. I bet no even one of you owns a pair of headphones. I bet bet none of you even knows what stereo means. Also, the jerk that using Barretts' name you should be ashamed of yourself. |
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Little Lord Faulteroy on 2001-12-25 17:53 [#00064021] | |||||||||
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I heard the main reason the album came out was because he lost his MP3 player with like 200 never B4 released songs on it! Doesn't that make u feel that this album was kinda rushed? Believe me i like Drukq's but i've deffintly heard Better Aphex twin songs |
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Nazi Pokemon from UK on 2001-12-25 20:34 [#00064035] | |||||||||
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'drukqs' is an anagram of 'aphex' |
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awt from sweden on 2001-12-25 20:58 [#00064042] | |||||||||
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i think the record is a MD record. Its so fucking soft listening to druqks while walkin in the town smoking a cirgarett and just ignore all the problems. I already love it thou i just got it. Its realy an album worth listening to just like many ohjters. you know what i mean. |
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Ross on 2001-12-25 21:14 [#00064047] | |||||||||
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i just got it for xmas, though i had heard some on the internet prior..i'll need to get into it more, but i love the way the 2nd disc ends, it seems really gentle (starting from ziggomatics ending part, which is gorgeous) it seems a little frustrating right now, and i think taking control is pretty terrible, but im sure in time i'll like it more |
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nazipokemon : explain yourself, 'drukqs is an anagram of aphex'??? |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-12-26 06:23 [#00064109] | |||||||||
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I actually listen to it... Vordhosbn Bbyon Chord Cock/Ver 10 54 Cymru Beats Meltphace AFX Ver 237 nuff said.. |
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sgorhud from your rectum hole on 2001-12-26 08:53 [#00064128] | |||||||||
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i've listened to it the least out of all my aphex records.. i don't know, i like it and it's a decent album but its not as much fun to listen to as a whole like rdj album or ICBYD |
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thanksomuch from planet claire on 2001-12-26 09:27 [#00064129] | |||||||||
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i listen to it quite often. i alternate every week, the first disc for a week, (in my car) and then the second. i LOVE mount st michelle!!! |
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