Not this again. ;-) Both Dan and I think it is very wonderful, thank you. Yay us!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― o. nate, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andy, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― A Nairn, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
and, no, they do not nessecitate the same thing.
― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
and yeah, i like drukqs too
was actually my favourite until i was told i should be liking the 'ambient' stuff more.
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimn (jimnaseum), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimn (jimnaseum), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
For me, it's got plenty of good things but it's the least interesting of the "proper" studio albums, no doubt.
― It's Tough to Beat Illious (noodle vague), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I pretty much thought it was shite when it came out.
― KeefW (kmw), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― held tony (held tony), Thursday, 8 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― held tony (held tony), Thursday, 8 February 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Thursday, 8 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link
I got into Aphex Twin way late and sorta heard everything all at once. Drukqs struck me as the best. It's still my favorite.
― Nigel (Nigel), Thursday, 8 February 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Thursday, 8 February 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― plan b: videodrome (fauxhemian), Friday, 9 February 2007 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― friday on the porch (lfam), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary S (Zach S), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link
but... the drill stuff was already getting kinda old when this came out and he was looking to end his relationship with warp. I found the analord stuff actually pretty good and at least had a bit of a new direction.
― hector (hector), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Friday, 9 February 2007 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I keep replaying "Avril 14." Is the rest of the album this good?
― Tape Store, Sunday, 21 October 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i finally picked this up a couple weeks ago. it's a bit of an inconsistent album, but i think there's some great stuff on it. i've not yet really digested disc 2 (which seems a little spottier) but disc 1 is excellent.
it kind of got trashed, it seems, when it was first released, but i'm quite happy i finally picked it up. it's a lot better than some of those early reviews made it out to be.
― Mark Clemente, Sunday, 21 October 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Tape Store, it's his most complete album, however it was let down by the fact it came out about 4 years too late. Rather than a huge stylistic leap, it's a sprawling double album that concentrates on refining what he had been doing since 1996, so to seasoned fans who expected another wacky twist in the ongoing Aphex saga, they were to be disappointed. It has an awful lot of material, some of it excellent and a lot of it, well, awful. But that was always the idea with Aphex I suppose. It was never about being polished and more about the fun ideas. Throw it at a wall and see if it sticks, and if it doesn't chuck it in the pot anyway.
― the next grozart, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
"54 Cymru Beats" is one of his all-time best.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
The stretch between "vordhosbn" and "Afx237 V7" is great, but after that I usually turn it off or skip 7 tracks
― robertwolf8080, Sunday, 21 October 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
You can makea a dinky 60 minute cut by ripping out all the whoops-I-left-the-tape-running moments.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 22 October 2007 05:51 (sixteen years ago) link
grozart's response intrigues me; I'm going to buy this.
― Tape Store, Monday, 22 October 2007 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
"Avril 14th" is like the best soundtrack piece Jon Brion never wrote.
― jaymc, Sunday, 10 August 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i love drukqs
― Creeztophair, Sunday, 10 August 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i wonder if druckqs will be one of those albums that gradually gets the kudos and props that weren't there initially, until, one day, it is described as a classic (probably around the time of the next release, when people will say "man this, shit is just druckqs redux, now that was a cool lp"???
― gareth, Monday, March 11, 2002 8:00 PM
^^
― am0n, Saturday, 5 September 2009 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
miss gareth :(
― ian, Sunday, 6 September 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm, I just noticed that my copy of "Druckqs" has a parental advisory sticker on it. What am I missing?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 September 2009 15:45 (fourteen years ago) link
It has a song called "Cock", no other reason really.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 6 September 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Which I guess makes Richard James the only other act besides Frank Zappa (at least that I can think of) to get a parental advisory notice stuck on an instrumental release.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 September 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a swear on one of the tracks I think?
― Relatin' Jews to Jazz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 September 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah 'Cock/Ver10' has the word "cunt" on it
― braveclub, Sunday, 6 September 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah. All I could hear in my head was the Squarepusher track with "I'm the fucking daddy" on it.
― Relatin' Jews to Jazz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 September 2009 16:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Jeez I bought my copy from Warp and I actually have a sticker somewhere that says "Come On You Cunt Let's Have Some Aphex Acid"
― Relatin' Jews to Jazz (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 September 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I have just bought this album again, and am about to listen to it for only the second time in 10 years.
It's just become such a "thing," my fear of this album. I think I'm such a different person and have such different tastes in music and different expectations that it will be interesting for me to see how my reactions to it have changed.
― The Curve Of Binding Energy (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 20 May 2010 10:04 (thirteen years ago) link
how can you even remember your reaction to an album (a double disc album no less) that you heard once over 10 years ago?
I always wrote this album off due to hearing a lot of bad reviews (ok, just from allmusic, but in my teen years AMG was biblical to me), I'm kind of curious about it now.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i remember my reaction and that was that it was good, but nothing new - and "something new" was what i'd come to expect of aphex, and therefore druqks was a bit of a failure. i've dug this out recently and it's a real re-assessor. Ziggomatic is a good fun tune peeps.
― village idiot (dog latin), Friday, 21 May 2010 00:56 (thirteen years ago) link
You mean you weren't intimately familiar with the cinematic work containing the "Fantasia, having a party is not my idea of a fantasy..." dialogue? (j/k)
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:12 (yesterday) link
Having been an Aphex admirer since purchasing the Analogue Bubblebath 12", I have to say that my enthusiasm was somewhat lessened by hearing "Milkman". I really can't be doing with that kind of puerile guff. In fact, I found the whole "Girl/Boy" E.P. to be a complete letdown. Happily, I was blown away all over again the following year by "Come to Daddy".
― Vast Halo, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:12 (yesterday) link
Yes, as many have pointed out, the kind of studenty humour can be a bit of a put off. I forgive it, given the profound brilliance of lots of it though. And yeah I agree about Girl/Boy—one of the weakest of that period.
― Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:15 (yesterday) link
As much as I liked the RDJ Album (US edition), Come to Daddy was almost surely the one I ended up listening to more.
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:17 (yesterday) link
Actually no, is it a grumbleflick or something? TBH, I don't listen to that album much... Lots of people love it, and I actually listened to it yesterday for the first time in a long time—there are some great moments, but I find it a bit of a stepping stone... The abrasive bits are just too abrasive; he hasn't quite yet worked out compelling percussion; too much in the way of 'classical' pretence, but as I say, lots of people love it, and I do think it contains some great moments; I also suspect it was a necessary step.
― Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:18 (yesterday) link
I do love it, it's my favorite – but it's also the first one of his that I heard/got into (and I think it often works out that way...)
Here's the (sfw) sample source for the dialogue.
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:23 (yesterday) link
Hehe, right.
― Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:33 (yesterday) link
Listening to RDJ Album now; it's so warm and inviting, more than I even remembered. "To Cure..." / "Goon Gumpas" is such a terrific pair.
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:58 (yesterday) link
Yes, it isn't a difficult listen. I listened to it twice tonight given the chat, and am still amazed how great it is.
Here is Goon Gumpas in Cornwall:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Goon_Gumpas_from_Wheal_Maid_DSC_2951.jpg
― Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:06 (yesterday) link
UK version feels incomplete to me, ending on "Logan Rock Witch"... had to search for the EP to complete the trip I'm used to.
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:14 (yesterday) link
I guess it's what you're used to.
― Keith, Thursday, 28 March 2024 23:16 (yesterday) link
I used to consider I Care Because You Do as AFX's zenith, but now feel it's the RDJ/Come To Daddy/Windowlicker records, which all feel "of a piece" to me.
xp from Confield discussion above - 100% OTM with the "we weren't ready for it yet" sentiments lol. It's extremely musical when compared to say Untilted, and so infinitely less weird and self indulgent than 1/3 of NTS or Elseq.
― octobeard, Friday, 29 March 2024 00:18 (thirteen hours ago) link
the first three tracks of ICBYD are definitely a zenith of some kind
― default damager (lukas), Friday, 29 March 2024 00:36 (thirteen hours ago) link
^^word
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2024 00:37 (thirteen hours ago) link
yes yes yes
― brimstead, Friday, 29 March 2024 00:45 (thirteen hours ago) link
Having been an Aphex admirer since purchasing the _Analogue Bubblebath_ 12", I have to say that my enthusiasm was somewhat lessened by hearing "Milkman". I really can't be doing with that kind of puerile guff.While there’s obviously something, I dunno, Ween-coded about “Milk Man,” the song is such a banger… those beats skittering on top of the melodic swells; synths chiming out that simple little melody; and those goofy, charming bass drops… There is obviously a very specific sort of take-the-piss artistic intent behind – “I’m gonna make these lyrics as dumb as possible” – but damn if it doesn’t work!
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Friday, 29 March 2024 04:38 (nine hours ago) link
(for me, anyway)
Ween has a lot of Aphex-coded tracks too so I'd say the feeling was mutual
― frogbs, Friday, 29 March 2024 04:45 (nine hours ago) link
> PEEK 824545201
a lot of the cheat codes in magazines at the time POKEd 201 (RET in z80) into memory to terminate routines before lives were decremented. but you are right that PEEK is lookup and even 824545 is way too large for a 16 bit address space (65536 bytes)
(i can't remember the day of the week sometimes but i do still remember random z80 opcodes. 205 call, 195 jmp...)
― koogs, Friday, 29 March 2024 08:11 (five hours ago) link
morrisp OTM
― octobeard, Friday, 29 March 2024 08:46 (five hours ago) link
Koogs OTM
― Keith, Friday, 29 March 2024 09:02 (four hours ago) link
"PEEK 824545201" is a missed opportunity. He could have named it so as to perform a public service. For example, POKE 59901,82 fixes the Attic Bug.
― Vast Halo, Friday, 29 March 2024 09:42 (four hours ago) link
Haha
― Keith, Friday, 29 March 2024 09:51 (four hours ago) link
Beautiful classical guitar version of Avril 14 on Shane Parish's forthcoming album.
https://shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/repertoire
― Composition 40b (Stew), Friday, 29 March 2024 12:03 (one hour ago) link