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here I am ... listening to this on headphones man, this album started it all for me... btw, this is such a winter album... nice and warm |
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didn't it come out in an October? i remember getting it for xmas and having the winter to absorb it all in. So I also connote that album with winter. |
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started it all for me too, I remember that christmas holiday (2001) absolutely playing it to death. Never got tired of it though. |
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Here is another Drukqs story by a junkie. I remember that it didn't start my electronic music revolution because I already was into a lot of electronic artists. I do remember that somewhere at this point I got connected to the internet. I already had a PC but my girlfriend kept on whining about it. I did not want it because I was afraid of addiction. In the end I admit having internet is extremely practical. Once I hooked up to cyberspace I dled this Thinktoy Drukqs minimix. I can still see those stupid WMP visualizations in front of me, which, at the time were amazing tbh. It amazed me of how much stuff there was on the internet and I soon ended up using WinMX (not sure if the name is correct) and download stuff at 7kbps. I also discovered the power of a PC in reference to games. Never before was I aware that PCs can generate such graphics.. so I also got addicted to gaming again. :) |
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...started??!? this album almost finished my interest in afx music, it's great that he is back on track nowadays... |
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it was just by chance. I had an interest in Aphex Twin and Drukqs was just the first album I came across. It isn't the most representative of his music nor the most accessible but it blew my little mind at the time. To be fair it still does. |
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yes, everyone of us has a diferent story |
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i remember not buying it when it came out because it was too expensive and i wasn't sure if it would be worth it. |
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it was wicked... my mate had a big sticker of drukqs on his wall, and i was listening to drukqs, I think, on 9/11 when I heard about the 'accident'. hehe. love the album. |
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it's a spring album for me nostalgic memories of going to cornwall and enjoying the musical beauty |
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but then in 2002 i was working in the isle of wight at the savoy holiday village and living in their staff quarters. one day i was pumping the rdj album and this guy living above me heard it and he was like "woah, this shit is genius!" so he went out and bought drukqs. i borrowed it from him and subsequently ripped it onto my xbox. i then filled my bucket with this really sweet moroccan pollen, inhaled, exhaled, and pressed play. i then proceeded to have a religious experience. |
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this combination of moroccan and the isle of wight is like the most exotic thing I've ever heard, i'm getting envious |
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i remember i snatched the drukqs poster of the wall in the record store at platekompniet in trondheim, where i aslo saw this guy with the classic aphex (SAW) tattoo on the forearm. later i would get to this guy was the phresch. |
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get to know = few |
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drukqs reminds me of 9/11. I think drukqs is responsible, in some way, for 9/11 |
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hehe. my first aphex album. i was looking one of the SAW albums, couldnt find and settled with drukqs because of the cheap price. listening to for the first time was no doubt the greatest thing ever : D |
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Isn't that what Jerry Falwell blamed, "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians... and the drukqs"? |
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im quite surprised it wasn't windowlicker that would have started it for you i must say.. |
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I remember waiting for it like a kid waits for Christmas present. Than when I got my copy running home and listening to it and skipping every non drill/break sounding track. Well I thought 7/10 is fine because of drill tracks. The time was passing and then I started discovering this album again and finally buying a vinyl version. Well me and sadist, we think that this the one of most underrated albums from RDJ or maybe in electronic music. Everything has sense and it`s very well thought. Mastering is also a strong point of this album. Bass drum from 54 Cymru Beats is just a moster (How the hell it was created?)! 9/10. I still have uncompressed version on my ipod. |
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the piano tracks go over real well at the sports bar i frequent, downtown detroit(er). fav album of all time. more memories from this album in this album than all other records i own, combined. thanks, again! |
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the horns at the end of vordhosbn, 5:10--> sequence of ziggy. the entire meltphace, |
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I wonder if they will ever rerelease the ltd heavy vinyl box edition |
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today I am ill at bed... i didnt go to work, but people from work are calling all day so its kind of shit in the meanwhile I listen to drukqs... it is the only album I feeled like listening today its so beautiful |
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i very rarely listen to it as it won't play on my computer : ) |
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i recorded the tracks (slowed down a bit) again, on my friends quality tables/needles/gear from my 180g slabs. i have the aif's, i'll have to cut them up and convert to flac and upload. i've found the aif/lossless recordings from the vinyl vs the cd are much better to my ears... |
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I remember when people discussed about which cd was better if 1 or 2 or even the vinyl listeners about what 12" was better out of the 4 also when people said the tracks should have been compiled in two groups, piano tracks and ambient tracks all together and the drill tracks all together people even thought that there was way too much filler in the album and that the best would have been a one cd only album with no more than 15 tracks I always thought the album worked quite well as it is anyway... or I think so now |
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SEE. random tracks is dull, coherent album is good. you always come around in the end! |
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what do you mean? btw, I am enjoying meltphace 6 more than ever |
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didn't you say in that other thread we got tons of aphex music in the pst years and we shouldn't be asking for a new album? it seems from what you said in your post above that you get the concept of album as well, that is all and get well soon! |
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hahaha yeah I give you your point but I was just defending the fact that the tuss album is a proper album too... |
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and I feel bette rnow... probably tomorrow i CAN GO TO WORK AGAIN |
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i knew aphex since on in 93/94, but it wasn't until r.d.j. album and the snare rushes i really knew what the tuss was going on |
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did you write that in caps because you're excited to go to work in a positive or negative way? |
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my finger did it not me |
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if the tuss is an indication of what drukqs v2 would sound like that would be excellent. but i'm afraid richie'll stick to releasing scattered eps/tracks in the future. and perhaps some compilations like analord, but 'proper' albums like drukqs (only double albums count as proper)...i hope he would though |
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richard is 36 now I think we will still see a few more albums by him |
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richard is 36 years older than a baby born today |
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I've got drukqs on cd, and twice on vinyl. One of the vinyl packs I got for about 3quid from a closing down record shop which had about 50 records left! The other one I use for playing and have the sleeves next to the analords and the big cardboard thing has been waiting for years to go on my wall because I think it looks cool. (Didn't they have on on Shaun of the dead??) I like the vinyl because the tracks seem to be re-organised in a more DJ friendly format. I can't believe I've just added something to the millionth drukqs topic on here, but there you go. |
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but the tracks go on same order right? |
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heh, i remember back when drukqs leaked and EVERYONE was on about how shit it was. aphex lost it, etc. years later and it's (deservingly) regarded as one of IDMs greatest masterpieces. |
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The vinyl has the tracks in a different order. It may be for mastering reasons, i.e. distributing evenly so each record is same length = same sized grooves = same volume. Also, some are 45 and some are 33, so I guess the tracks could be grouped by BPM (usually higher BPM are at 45 because a DJ will more likely want to play them slower at 33 wrong speed rather than much faster). The discogs page has the vinyl tracks listed on it. Musically, it's all the same, just in a different sequence. The big box is great though - it's even printed on the inside too! |
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"heh, i remember back when drukqs leaked and EVERYONE was on about how shit it was. aphex lost it, etc. years later and it's (deservingly) regarded as one of IDMs greatest masterpieces. " I still basically feel that way. I don't hate it or anything, but I think it is full of filler, has only a few standout tracks, and I rarely listen to it. I don't think it's inaccessible, or a grower, it's just sort of mediocre and forgettable. Plus it still gives me the impression he just reheated some old song fragments he had knocking around on his hard drive. It doesn't have a fraction of the energy or novelty of RDJ album, Come to Daddy EP, or Windowlicker. |
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run it on 33 and retract your statements. it's wicked mental but completely controlled. after listening to vsnares (no harm meant), or other fast types, they sound "thrown together" drukqs is so controlled. i don't give a fuck - fanboi or not, i have more memories tied to this album than any combined. |
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I bought the 'On' Ep when it was released. Just to give you an idea of how old I am. |
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I remember when i first heard drukqs it was wild it was back in the fall of 01 and I was walking home from my dance class and I had my sweatband on REALLY tight and I go on the bus on my way downtown to pick up some spuds from a homeless guy but I started to feel kind of faint and this kid on the bus was listening to this music and I asked him what it was because it was REALLY loud and he told me it was the new shit by Mannilow so I rushed to a record store to buy Mannilow's new shit but the store had already closed so I broke in and stole a bunch of shit and one of them was the new aphex twins album. it was awesome. |
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i got this album in nov 2001 and its one of the few albums that i remember where i was, what i was doing, and who i was with when i played it. really blew me away. |
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we must give this american a wide berth, |
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beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!! |
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first two tracks got me all wtf/lol faced at first listen and kept me interested for the whole 2cd nacmat: for you it's nice and warm, for me it's mad and energetic. the piano/experimental tracks are just little breathers put in between digital high-speed madness |
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the drill tracks are also nice and warm |
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