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offline polaroid on 2002-02-07 20:37 [#00082626]
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I haven't been on this board since last September, but I
used to be a daily face (under a different name or two). I
just wondered what everybody had thought of Drukqs.........
I was a bit let down meself, seemed like a load of
half-ideas to me. Which wouldn't be so bad, but the fucker
cost me £25......


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-02-07 20:38 [#00082628]
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no


 

offline ducksucker from A Fiery Hell (United States) on 2002-02-07 20:39 [#00082631]
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I like Drukqs................

piano kicks ass.......


 

offline Archrival on 2002-02-07 20:39 [#00082633]
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no no. Drukqs was my favourite album of 2001.


 

offline Clobe Smith from san francisco (United States) on 2002-02-07 20:40 [#00082634]
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give it time.

great album ...


 

offline polaroid on 2002-02-07 20:43 [#00082642]
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I tell you what I'll put it on now and give it another go..
Let me just get the big stupid box out...

Don't get me wrong, an average AFX Lp is still way above
most other releases, but I thought it could've been an ace
45 min LP rather than an okay 120 min LP. A bit like Wu-Tang
Forever. Sort of.


 

offline polaroid on 2002-02-07 20:44 [#00082645]
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In fact it is quite good. I've never played it this loud
before, maybe thats where I went wrong.


 

offline Jarworski from The Grove (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-07 20:45 [#00082646]
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S'good, but there's shit on there, like every Aphex album.


 

offline thanksomuch from planet claire on 2002-02-07 20:47 [#00082652]
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drukqs = jeanie-ous


 

offline polaroid on 2002-02-07 20:48 [#00082658]
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I'm going to put a picture in me box. Although 'No Photo
Available' makes me sound like I am some secret spy whose
gone 'underground'. Double-O-Eight-O-Eight.


 

offline ducksucker from A Fiery Hell (United States) on 2002-02-07 20:48 [#00082660]
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thanksomuch = cool

she's my friend!


 

offline aperson from Brentwood, TN (United States) on 2002-02-07 20:49 [#00082662]
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DrukQs = semi-ok. All filler IMO


 

offline aron from saskatoon (Canada) on 2002-02-07 20:49 [#00082663]
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it's ok.
there's some wicked tracks.
but alot of them, like jarworski said, are just shite.



 

offline Peter File from the future!!! Ooooh chase me! on 2002-02-07 20:50 [#00082665]
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Mostly filler. Except vordhosbn, meltphace6, and a couple
of others (i still can't remember the names.)


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-02-07 21:11 [#00082692]
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wu-tang forever is their best, what exactly is wrong with
that album? it was made in 1997, i don't understand why
people expected them to sound like it was 1993.


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-02-07 21:12 [#00082693]
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i should be more specific: WHITE people. cos most minorities
who bought it didn't come with any wack expectactions of it
sounding like 36 chambers.


 

offline 010101 from Vancouver (Canada) on 2002-02-07 21:14 [#00082696]
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I think it is his best so far mad meets sidate in equil
measure


 

offline hedtwin from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-07 21:16 [#00082697]
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At first i wasn't that impressed, then i bought it and
actually had a listen. Its brilliant :). track 2, disc one
voldhosbn or whatever, its fantastic



 

offline Laserbeak from Netherlands, The on 2002-02-07 21:45 [#00082732]
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I wasn't too impressed about some of the piano pieces but
the rest of the album was great. It's got lots of cool
musical layers and FX that you can't hear unless you listen
to it very closely.


 

offline Netlon Sentinel from eDe (Netherlands, The) on 2002-02-07 22:04 [#00082758]
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yeah like that guy said: there's a lot of filler. a lot of
the piano tracks aren't really that special and that song
after st michael is so disappointing... and out of context.


but some of my favourite aphex tracks are on drukqs. didn't
need to be a double album, tho.


 

offline polaroid on 2002-02-07 22:13 [#00082765]
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Titsworth - I didn't want Forever to sound like 36 Chambers,
I just wanted it to sound good...... Ghostface Killa's
Supreme Clientele is my favourite Wu album, and it doesn't
even sound that 'Wu'.


 

offline aron from saskatoon (Canada) on 2002-02-07 22:43 [#00082808]
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i love 36 chambers.
all other wu-tang is just so-so IMO.

i usually hate all that commercial rap shite, but for some
reason i like 'em.

ps: why are we talking about wu-tang?


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-02-07 22:48 [#00082813]
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because wu-tang are a group of brilliant individuals?

sonically and lyrically wu-tang forever is a superior album.
36 chambers is good in that departure, and it's a more "fun"
album, but forever is what makes them brilliant.

"supreme clientele" is a great, great album, too.



 

offline forck_02lynix from brooklyn on 2002-02-07 23:26 [#00082854]
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drukqs is a great album - the first time i heard avril 14th
i almost cried.


 

offline forck_02lynix from brooklyn on 2002-02-07 23:27 [#00082858]
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and then i tried to play it on my girlfriends piano... its
kinda hard to learn when you arent too experienced with the
keys


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-02-07 23:28 [#00082860]
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If anybody but Aphex did this album, it'd be praised
straight up it's ass.

If Autechre did it, you know everyone would LOVE it!


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-07 23:37 [#00082877]
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true. I love it, if I bothered buying it, it'd be on par
(maybe higher) than go plastic


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-02-07 23:39 [#00082881]
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Drukqs: biggest dissapointment from RDJ ever.


 

offline nacmat on 2002-02-07 23:44 [#00082897]
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drukqs is a great album... best of the year... and in many
ways different to any previous material by afx... dont think
there is any filler there.... you can find calm after the
storm... and thats just great for me


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-02-07 23:45 [#00082901]
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I think some of the tracks could have been chopped off...
cram into a single disc, 78 minutes or however many you can
fit on there, and it would be perfect, IMO.


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-07 23:45 [#00082902]
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Exactly, its like the album has music for every mood, this
sounds cheesy, but it is like a journey to me


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-02-07 23:47 [#00082905]
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But it doesnt. It doesnt have his old stuff on there... none
of it is like his old stuff, so for me its like a journey
through pure garbage! Although I give it more credit than I
did before I Still think its one of his worst albums and I
was very dissapointed with it.


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-07 23:49 [#00082906]
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:/


 

offline Canerfold from Minneappleseed (United States) on 2002-02-07 23:49 [#00082907]
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i get the journey thing... and i don't think any of it could
be chopped off. it is exactly how it should be. when i
first heard it i really liked a lot of it but thought it was
too long i wasn't feeling every track. after hearing so
many times i'm still getting tons out of it that i never
picked up on and more and more tracks seem to glow. i was
very much a nonbeliever that this album would be a 'grower'
as everyone has been saying, but it keeps getting better.


 

offline nacmat on 2002-02-07 23:49 [#00082909]
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if you want just one cd then do it so... but I cant agree
with you, not this time ophecks, why is it necessary to
eliminate any tracks, try to see it like a whole one music
element, with no partitions... its a trip throgh every
different mood and feeling... from violence to love, from
desire to dreams... its a universal music masterpiece... it
is not a pop album so dont judge as if it was


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-07 23:54 [#00082915]
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its not pop!? Damn, I better get back to my Alice Deejay and
Ian Van Dahl =)


 

offline Ophecks from Nova Scotia (Canada) on 2002-02-07 23:57 [#00082924]
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Well, it's just a personal preference... I hate a few
tracks, but there's about exactly ONE full CD worth of
BRILLIANT stuff, which is almost impossible for other
artists to do. A whole 80 minutes of great stuff, no filler,
that's an achievement.

Lornaderek, Gwarek2, a few others, I think he could have
left off. But it's fine the way it is, noone's perfect. I
think I, personally, would rather a single disc.



 

offline mylittlesister from ...wherever (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-08 00:03 [#00082934]
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you cant beat percussive sounding piano.... it's great! that
spooky voice song AFX V12 or something... that's pretty
fucked up at the start, in a good way :-)


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2002-02-08 02:09 [#00083025]
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y'all on crack, drukqs is a masterpiece - fuck what joyrex
thinks.


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-02-08 02:32 [#00083067]
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...seems to be the only music I've listened to for the past
months....esp the fast tracks. I was MORE of those......&
more piano tracks....


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2002-02-08 02:45 [#00083077]
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I think that because Drukqs covers so many styles, you're
gonna get more people dissing it... like die-hard APhex Twin
fans, who like all his styles are gonna love it, but the
fans who only like say ICBYD, or SAWII or something probably
won't like it all... it's so diverse... and I personally
like that, but I guess that's what throws other people
off...

another thing, personally I think Drukqs was the next
logical thing for him to do... people say it's not totally
unique and groundbreaking, but it's definately a step up in
complexity and stuff from RDJ album and Come to Daddy... and
so, according to the logic of say Autechre, Drukqs was
definately the next logical thing... but Aphex Twin
constantly jumps from style to style, and so I guess him
simply getting deeper into one style probably wasn't
expected, hence the bad reviews and such...


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-02-08 02:53 [#00083080]
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yes true funkmaster

i was planning to burn compress it onto one CD to burn
it.... u know, get rid of the "filler"
but then it kept growing on me... so now im torn..
there are definitly a few tracks i wouldn't listen to much..
or just skip past.. but would cutting them out ruin the
album?
i dunno...


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-02-08 02:57 [#00083081]
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sorry, that didn't make much sense:

i was planning to compress it onto one CD to burn it


 

offline forck_02lynix from brooklyn on 2002-02-08 03:04 [#00083084]
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i think this album is great...i already said something like
this before, but it is so diverse, and it is like a journey,
with so many different elements to it that make it a whole.
i dont think you should cut any of it out. my music is quite
similar...no two tracks are the same, and the varying styles
i use make some of my discs hard to listen to at once. its
easy for me cuz i wrote them, but i dont know about
others...


 

offline LeCoeur from the outer edge of the universe (United States) on 2002-02-08 05:48 [#00083154]
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Drukqs is brilliant.....(=


 

offline OK on 2002-02-08 06:12 [#00083160]
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it has few tracks worth it


 

offline Resident Evil from heat some coffee, mmm, mmm (Australia) on 2002-02-08 06:20 [#00083163]
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I think it is amazing, easily my favourite album of 2001.


 

offline OK on 2002-02-09 19:11 [#00084019]
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actually i think that in drukqs are the best tracks he has
ever released...

i mean mt. st michaels or vhordosn (whatever the names are)
when has rdj released something like this?

let alone ziggomatic, cock, taking control, etc...

yeah definately drukqs holds the best tracks he has ever
released


 

offline Binaural Tea from Christmas City (Christmas Island) on 2002-02-09 19:15 [#00084023]
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i think the therm filler is crap really cause it up to
evryone to make their own intrperprtertation. theres nothing
like a filler trk.


 

offline Zombiekev from Ardmore (United States) on 2002-02-09 22:44 [#00084132]
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i highly enjoy druqks... i cant even skip tracks, it flows
perfectly to me

i believe that afx is trying to tell us a story


 


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