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Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2001-12-18 16:58 [#00062191] | |||||||||
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I think it's his best. So complicated... it's a more sinister RDJ album to me... long and RELENTLESS!!! Some weak tracks, yes, (Gwarek2), but I think tracks like Vordhosbn and Om Switch just take his style to new heights, it out-RDJs the RDJ album. With that said, MAYBE it was to fulfill contract obligations... cuz it ain't revolutionary... but I think it's his best, regardless. I feel so alone in thinking this, fuck! |
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Chrispy from UK on 2001-12-18 17:05 [#00062194] | |||||||||
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It's understandable. There are som attractive tunes in there |
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The_Funkmaster from Newfoundland, Canada on 2001-12-18 17:24 [#00062199] | |||||||||
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it's good, but right now I'm thinking the RDJ album is the best... the RDJ album is short and sweet, it doesn't waste any time, and it fills so much great music into the short time that it is... |
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Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2001-12-18 19:04 [#00062207] | |||||||||
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Review from yahoo's Launch site, saw it on another thread, it echoes my sentiments exactly! Rejecting rumors that he was giving up music for video games, Richard James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin, returns with the best work of his inventively mad career. Most know the British programmer from his grotesque soft porn video Windowlicker or such albums as I Care Because You Do or Selected Ambient Works Vol. whatever. But there have always been many sides to Aphex: The bonkers programmer making machines careen like heavy-metal insects having sex. The sly sentimentalist whose elegiac washes of strings and moody ambience equaled Britain's emotional 19th century classical composers. Or the partying nutter who influenced legion of lesser DJs with his acid drenched breakbeats and sampled chromosome whirrrrrs. Drukqs comprises all of that in one two-CD set, with greater clarity and direction than ever before. With more than 30 songs, Aphex shows why he remains the master of the programming world. "Prep Gwarlek" is a stumbling stew of pan lids and manhole covers clanging in a thudding percussion suite. "Father" is simple, just 25 seconds of atonal piano plinked and plonked as if being played by a sad marionette. "Taking Control" is pure '90s acid beats, overlaid by a groaning voice program, myopic synths, and hilarious 1970s Syndrums. Aphex indulges his ambient side often, as with the beautifully sparse "Petiatil Cx Htdui." Again, this is more pristine piano, played like a sonata for a lost love. Of course, it is entirely programmed, but you would never know it. The irreverent "Ziggomatic" is Aphex's drum-n-bass tour de force; a blurred ride amid shooting stars, slamming drums, liquid synth tones, sparkling music-box sounds, and an exhausted video game character. One day they may say that Richard James, like Shakespeare, could not have possibly made this quantity and quality of music, that Aphex Twin must actually be many people, a collective of nutty DJs and knob twiddlers. But we know this could only be the work of one man, but perhaps succored by many different Drukqs. |
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The_Funkmaster from Newfoundland, Canada on 2001-12-18 19:19 [#00062212] | |||||||||
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cool... I still say Drukqs is not his best, but it's good... |
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Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2001-12-18 22:34 [#00062264] | |||||||||
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Grrr... everyone's wrong except me! |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcxd on 2001-12-19 02:41 [#00062345] | |||||||||
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From Allmusic.com Despite threatening retirement several times, in 2001 Richard D. James finally released another Aphex Twin record. But for all this record tells listeners, he may still be in retirement. Spreading 30 tracks (most with unpronounceable titles) across two discs, Drukqs sounds less like a major new statement from electronica's best producer than the results of a Sunday afternoon's trawl through his hard drive for files he hasn't released before. Many songs here evoke the feel of recordings long since past, from the quiet ambient techno of his breakthrough, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, to the demonically extroverted programming of Richard D. James Album and the Come to Daddy EP. Stylistically, the record leans toward the later recordings, with many tracks here reprising the off-key melodies and overloaded drum programming of "Come to Daddy" or "Windowlicker." There's also little rhyme or reason to the program; James veers directly from a drill'n'bass firestorm ("Cock/Ver 10") to a delicate piano piece à la Erik Satie ("Avril 14th") to an acid-techno burner ("Mt. Saint Michel Mix") with barely a glance backward for transition. Of course, aside from all the criticism, the previously unreleased musings of Aphex Twin are still far more intriguing and solid than most producers' best releases. The opener, "Jynweythek Ylow," and "Ruglen Holon" are brilliant, inscrutable pieces reminiscent of a rusty, bygone music box or the gamelan music of Indonesia. And a few of the second-disc highlights, "Meltphace 6" and "Taking Control," chart a middle ground between the emotional ambience of early Aphex Twin and the wracked hysteria of his later work. Drukqs is a sprawling album that defies listeners to understand or enjoy it as a whole — it would've made a much better fan-only release than the long-awaited return of the techno vanguard's favorite producer. — John Bush should still be four star not three! |
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The_Funkmaster from Newfoundland, Canada on 2001-12-19 02:50 [#00062347] | |||||||||
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Amazon.com essential recording If techno ever does become the sound of young America, don't expect Richard James to be its poster boy, deserving though he may be. A native of Cornwall, England, James is obsessed with the mechanics of music making: As a kid, he took apart and reassembled the living room piano. Under the names Aphex Twin, Polygon Window, AFX, and other aliases too numerous to mention, he showed that he could make entire tracks with the sounds produced by tapping on a Coke can. Like the indie rockers of yore, he revels in his marginality because of the creative freedom it gives him. His full-length U.S. debut, Selected Ambient Works Volume II (1994), includes some of the most serene sounds this side of the Orb, but his favorite hobby is the not-at-all-blissful pastime of driving a Daimler Ferret Mark 3 tank through his parents' backyard. None of his recordings have captured the competing impulses to lull you to sleep and blast out your eardrums as well as Richard D. James, his third and best album. As the title indicates, James has turned inward for inspiration, painting aural pictures of real and imagined scenes from his west country childhood. "Goongumpas" is a fanciful, playful tune that wouldn't sound out of place on the soundtrack to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. As his adventures with the family upright indicate, James was a bit of a devil even as a child. "Beetles" is the sound of a boy frying bugs on the sidewalk with a magnifying glass, and "To Cure a Weakling Child" shows flashes of the sort of sadism found only on preschool playgrounds. If you still doubt that young Richard developed early on, the romantic Nino Rota-style strings on "Girl/Boy Song" are just made for passionate seductions, and the tune appears in three mixes, each one hot and hornier than the one before. The raucous undercurrents of even his calmest tunes and the sources of many of his most common sounds are what link James to the rock tradition. With Richard D. James, the artist solidifies his position as an electronic music mastermind who has earned a spot beside such well-respected innovators--whether or not he's destined for stardom. --Jim Derogatis there, take that... Drukqs has nothing on The RDJ album... which is my new favorite Aphex Twin album... |
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Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2001-12-19 04:11 [#00062358] | |||||||||
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I'm going to kill you. |
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an astute observer on 2001-12-19 04:49 [#00062371] | |||||||||
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Opchecks=[REFLEX] or not a hell of a lot of difference |
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Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2001-12-19 05:28 [#00062392] | |||||||||
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Elaborate on that. And reveal your real identity, coward. |
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m on 2001-12-19 05:39 [#00062397] | |||||||||
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I didn't really get into it. If I got the album before I heard (IMO) more interesting things like RDJ album, windowlicker, com2daddy, lp5, ep7, otto von schirach, crunch etc then I would have appreciated it a lot more. These fantastic albums also killed my liking for squarepusher quite a bit. It's a lot easier to follow the loony fast copy and pasting for me mentally than it used to be. It's lost a lot of its magic. The fast songs on drukqs don't ever breath, there's a sound on every time unit progression, there's not enough silence, then a lot of the songs, most of the slow ones, are slightly weak sounding to me. But I havn't heard it enough to have any concrete opinions. |
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JOB from St.JohnNewfoundland, Canada on 2001-12-19 05:57 [#00062412] | |||||||||
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i dont know man i cant stop listening to drukqs. who cares why rich released this album, i dont think that should matter! Its damn good. |
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Korben Dallas from www.mp3.com/polcXd on 2001-12-19 10:36 [#00062461] | |||||||||
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agree with m - not that it really matters. I am quite looking forward to the MEN releases - for the more "experimental" stuff - hopefully some more fresh sounds ? or something. |
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Archrival on 2001-12-19 11:22 [#00062472] | |||||||||
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Im on Ophecks side. |
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jand from Chelmsford,Essex,Uk on 2001-12-19 11:28 [#00062475] | |||||||||
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Yep, I'm with Opchecks.. it's rapidly become one of fave Aphex albums...Have had the Mp3s for forever & the CD since the release but I still feel I haven't listened it fully... Theres so much in there that every time thru I find something else I like...to begin with I was a bit, "hmmm..not sure about this"..but now I LOVE IT!! |
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XMoB from Chicago on 2001-12-19 11:47 [#00062478] | |||||||||
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Im with ophecks too, drukqs has some of my new favorite tracks on it like 54 cymru beats. and some of the piano pieces are great, I love kesson and petiatil cx. I just hope that if and when his next album comes out it will be even better! |
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REPHLEX~ology from UK on 2001-12-19 12:39 [#00062485] | |||||||||
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Every release he releases, everyone says, thats his peak. But the next one just obliterates the last one. Im with Ophecks, but the next one will be amazing. Thats if he releases another one...... |
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Ophecks from Nova Scotia on 2001-12-19 15:02 [#00062521] | |||||||||
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It's the electronic equivalent of the Beatles' White Album, maybe it's a little long. But I'd rather it be long than too short, like the short (but VERY sweet) RDJ album. More Aphex is GOOD Aphex! |
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OPHECKS! YOU ARE MY SAVIOUR! I seriously reckon Drukqs is his best, by a milestone. I hated it for a year, though! |
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Hahahahaha... now THIS was a long time ago. Yeesh... like stepping back into a time machine. I refuse to read any of my old posts. |
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Do you still believe this about Drukqs? "It's the electronic equivalent of the Beatles' White Album," ;) Thats a pretty big call! |
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Do you still agree with yourself? Or have you found new value in his older stuff. I don't know if I agree fully. You said some things that I think are exactly right, but I don't know if it is best yet, because there are so many songs on the other albums I'd rather listen to. |
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Haha, I DID read some of it, and somebody thought I was Reflex. I remember that... awww, Version 4, how I miss thee sometimes. ;-) I still somewhat agree with myself... I want to marry Drukqs. |
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