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hey that probably explains it :-) I think these experiences really shape the mental imagery that stay with you every time you listen to the album. Especially the experiences you have when discovering an album for the first time. |
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ha! Beat you to it :-p |
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DAMN YOU!!!!! ;) |
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meh. listened to it again after reading these posts. still blows. druqks is far better. the saw's are both classics that have a timeless quality this album lacks. i care because you do has two songs i like, the rest bores me. blah |
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well this is how rdj album ended in a recent championship I made here with all your votes: out of 45 releases it ended in 2nd place here only the first 10 places Aphex Twin-Drukqs ...........................209 Richard D James Album .....................166 I Care Because You Do .....................133 Selected Ambient Works Volume II ...119 Selected Ambient Works 85-92..........104 HangCome To Daddy ........................62 hangable Auto Bulb 2 .................59 Hangable Auto Bulb EP ...............36 Surfing On Sine Waves ....................34 Analogue Bubblebath 3 ....................33 these results were voted by all of you... so dont tell me now you hate this album.... please these were the releases included in the competition: Analogue Bubblebath Analogue Bubblebath 2 Q-Chastic - Q-Chastic Peel Session 1992 Power-Pill - PAC-MAN The Aphex Twin - Digeridoo The Aphex Twin - Xylem Tube Caustic Window - Joyrex J5 EP Caustic Window - Joyrex J4 EP Polygon Window - Quoth Caustic Window - Joyrex J9i Aphex Twin - On Remixes Aphex Twin - On EP Caustic Window - Joyrex J9ii Aphex Twin - Words & Music GAK - GAK Analogue Bubblebath 4 Hangable Auto Bulb 2 Peel Session 1995 Bradley Strider - Bradley's Beat Ventolin Ventolin (the remixes) Donkey Rhubarb Hangable Auto Bulb EP Bradley Strider - Bradley's Robot Girl/Boy EP Analogue Bubblebath 3.1 Come To Daddy Windowlicker 2 Remixes by AFX Drukqs Promo Melodies From Mars Universal Indicator - Red Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Analogue Bubblebath 3 Surfing On Sine Waves Selected Ambient Works Volume II Classics Analogue Bubblebath 5 I Care Because You Do Richard D James Album Mike&Rich - (Expert Knob Twiddlers) 51/13 Singles Collection Caustic Window - Compilation Aphex Twin - Drukqs 26 mixes want out by that time: january this year |
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yes I totally agree. I have a specific memory for each record I own. |
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http://www.adriandenning.com/aphex.html nice review of this album: Richard D James 8½ ( 1996 ) 4 / Cornish Acid / Peek 824545201 / Fingerbib / Corn Mouth / To Cure A Weakling Child / Goon Gumpas / Yellow Calx / Girl/Boy Song / Logon Rock Witch Our favourite Cornish son dabbles in Drum And Bass and orchestral sounds and everything turns out....? Pretty damn well, actually. There is a freshness to the sound of this record which perhaps was lacking a little on his previous outing. It's a short album too, just over thirty two minutes, which marks some kind of change from albums lasting two and half hours! It's all over too quickly but whilst running we have an utterly captivating experience. The opening "4" is three and half minutes of techno drum and bass beats with nice melody lines running over the top of them. Lots of tempo changes, 'futuristic' noises, it's damn fine! "Cornish Acid" carries on from this but with slower beats and a darker tone, "Peek 824545201" contains lots of extreme electronic squeals amid an absolutely frantic sets of beats that seem to have been speeded up almost beyond tolerance. The melody here is initially harder to get hold of because of everything going on but a melody does indeed appear, and a quite beautiful melody too. The pace of the beats can cause problems though. Still, "Fingerbib" which follows, is fortunately one of the most beautiful pieces of music he's ever made. Lots of easy, childlike melodies and sounds not usual to these kind of ambient/techno records. An orchestral sounding section floats in over top of certain sections, synthetic string sounds. It works very well, the whole song works wonderfully well. Follows this interlude of pure beauty, "Corn Mouth" comes back in with more frantic techno beats but always, always with melody layered over the top of those beats. Great listened to loud, actually. ... |
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"To Cure A Weakling Child" opens with a played around Childs voice before the beats kick in, all strange time signatures and very playful. It's completely ludicrous and not at all serious, but it does make you grin. "Goon Gumpas" is so orchestral in nature it could easily be performed by a proper, full orchestra. Now, there's an idea! Can you imagine how beautiful that would sound? The melodies again are simple, clear - beautiful. Lots of soothing, lovely noises. This is how it's done these days. Why hire an orchestra anyway when you can create something like this in your bedroom with a strange assortment of home-made 'instruments'? "Yellow Calx" is a return to the style of 'Selected Ambient Works 85-92' but with a heavy dose of Drum And Bass thrown noisly over the top. Again, we have at least two things going on - a perfectly 'normal' ambient tune on the one hand, a Drum And Bass track on the other. They seem to bare no actual relation to each other at all, but because the ambient track is all simple melody - the two opposing tracks do work combined. And then, we reach? And then? Well, "Girl Boy Song" for my money is the single best thing Aphex Twin has ever done. Lots of classical music effects, LOTS of Drums And Bass of such a frantic nature it beggars belief. Classical music and Drum And Bass may seem unlikely bed-fellows but Aphex Twin has made them work with each other anyway, whether they like it or not. Again, some beautiful melodic moments sit underneath the beats with the orchestral parts soaring beautifully around both of those parts. Three separate things going on simultaneously but it all seems perfectly natural despite the opposing natures of the styles fitted together. Around the three minute mark, the beats drop out for a moment to allow a truly beautiful orchestral section to come through. I like this kind of classical music! A child-like melody returns and the beats return to fade. It's truly ambitious piece of work that was released as a single in the UK and charted at number |
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.... It's truly ambitious piece of work that was released as a single in the UK and charted at number thirty nine, I believe. That it deserved to be higher goes without saying! One song does remain after the splendour of "Girl Boy Song". "Logon Rock Witch" is all strange Digeridoo sounds with an organ playing underneath, a separate melody playing over the top. Again, almost an unnatural combination for anybody to think of putting together in one track! The organ sounds work particularly well, very 'church organ' to surround the often ridiculously silly percussion surrounding it. |
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