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
i was disappointed by this when it came out for the same reason. i've since come to see it as the last word in "drill n bass" shit or whatever, with a pretty brilliant mix of other material thrown in. doesn't always work though, and admittedly i most often listen to a single-disc redux of favorites i made if i put it on these days...
― Billy Crystals (another al3x), Friday, 21 May 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i love this album and i really can't wait to see what he comes up with next
― ma/y/aoi (Future_Perfect), Friday, 21 May 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't really get into chosen lords or much of the analord stuff but bwoon dub off analord02 is very nice
― ma/y/aoi (Future_Perfect), Friday, 21 May 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I also liked Drukqs a lot more than critics did, but admittedly could've done without the multiple straight-piano songs.
― kelpolaris, Friday, 21 May 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I am being a bit facetious about Cheetah, obviously. It sounds like an Aphex album with a more limited sound pallette, and hey that's not necessarily a bad thing. I coold see myself putting it on when im in a particular mood. It's fairly groovy too
Ha yeah I probably sounded overly pious in the response, when I agree with your point too. I remember seeing some complicated acrobatic act on with work people at the Edinburgh Festival—it was rubbish really, and a work guy turned to me stoney faced and said the kindest thing he could think of: "That must've taken a lot of practise". Haha!
― Keith, Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:49 (one week ago) link
xp yeah that is a gem.. also “pissed up in se1”’or whatever
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:02 (one week ago) link
I just got the Cheetah EP recently, not terribly impressed by it. but you can still lose yourself in it if you're a real analog synth head. amusingly it's those 2 short tracks that capture my attention the best.
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:11 (one week ago) link
His "deleted" or "unreleased" albums at the time hinted at this. See the Melodies From Mars album and Caustic Window LP (btw 101 Rainbows off the latter is like a top 5 career RDJ track imho; listen to it immediately if you haven't yet)I’ll have to revisit that track… I remember purchasing the Caustic Window download, and then being disappointed, after the years of hype. I had Melodies on Mars on CD-R, and didn’t think that was too great either. I guess I don’t subscribe to the “unreleased tracks” theory of his catalog, lol
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:23 (one week ago) link
The SoundCloud dump is great if you just start listening in the order the tracks were uploaded, which is how most torrents etc organize them anyway. The first 100 or so tracks are just loaded with gems, if you’re nuts for the early stuff that is
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:33 (one week ago) link
Cheetah is dope dark low riding funk
― brimstead, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:34 (one week ago) link
I've been pissed up in SE1 many times and I do feel for the guy if that's what it sounds like for him. I thought it was rather joyous.
― Keith, Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:59 (one week ago) link
Scanning over the soundcloud dump and a couple of the cheetah tracks are in there as early edits/mixes.
― octobeard, Friday, 22 March 2024 00:34 (six days ago) link
280 tracks are you for real
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:46 (six days ago) link
hmmm looks like it's up to 298
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 22 March 2024 00:59 (six days ago) link
xp and most of it is good-to-great, it's insane
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Friday, 22 March 2024 01:53 (six days ago) link
Yeah holy shit I was unaware of the last 18 tracks, all uploaded in the last 7 years. A few at least exceed a good majority of his released tracks during the same period, honestly, like Love 7. Why wasn't this on Collapse? blargh.
Many of the classics were cleaned up and mastered to be tacked on as bonus tracks for a number of his albums too.
― octobeard, Friday, 22 March 2024 01:58 (six days ago) link
Jah bless archive dot org
https://archive.org/details/aphex_twin_user18081971_soundcloud
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 22 March 2024 02:07 (six days ago) link
(they also have several complete analord downloads)
― koogs, Friday, 22 March 2024 06:12 (six days ago) link
listened to this in the day and now Confield at night. wow, can't believe both of these albums were seen as disappointments. the world was not ready
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 02:39 (six hours ago) link
Confield is easily one of my most disliked albums ever, terrible sonics and no material to justify it. When I’m dead and in hell I’m sure Pen Expers will be on loop
― Premises, Premises (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:22 (four hours ago) link
“lentic catachresis” tho! exquisite.
i like confield a lot myself. kinda like the ae boys playing catch-up with mego digital noise of that era but not quite losing what made them autechre in the process.
is it better than “interesting” tho? still not quite sure! guess i’ll play it yet again…
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:45 (four hours ago) link
I think it's great. I was actually surprised how listenable it was, despite what I'd read in the reviews. The only moments that are really overwhelming are Bine and the end of Lentic Catachresis, though I love the latter because it's such an aural rollercoaster. There's even that moment where like, you stop rising, you speed up a bit, you see the cliff over the horizon and know you're going over very soon...it nails that feeling
totally understandable why someone wouldn't like it though, I guess "head in a pinball machine" isn't all that enjoyable for some people
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 04:52 (four hours ago) link
to me it feels a lot like a real noise record with a pretty major profile, which is cool. but of course… not for everybody. i myself like noise and find it very listenable (sometimes, when it’s done right). but i mean that it’s a “real noise” record as opposed to afx stuff that uses noise more like nine inch nails or a hardcore band like botch might. hits different but both approaches are valid. confield is more like what you get when you already loved roland kayn records also start to love kevin drum’s mego stuff (im guessing). it’s electronic music with very few concessions for people that don’t already find electronic music of this style to be perfectly listenable music. which is cool but… not for everybody.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 28 March 2024 05:05 (three hours ago) link
I just realized this thread isn't about black metal band Drudkh. Maybe I should listen to Aphex Twin and post in the "listen to an album... and tell us about it" thread
― Nabozo, Thursday, 28 March 2024 08:09 (forty-nine minutes ago) link