Aphex Twin Drukqs

Drukqs was the end. There is no more ideas left after that. The electronic pieces on there are perfect, you wouldn't change anything. Complex as hell, lots of "how the fuck he does that" moments, but still with a meaning, not random things happening, everything programmed by hand, and always enjoyable. Everything fits. The combination of the beauty of the piano pieces and the electronic pieces fits perfectly. It has an unique "something" arround the whole sound of it that makes it timeless.

Lets pray for an equal, or better (if possible) release.

Drukqs killed the whole genre, and only Aphex Twin himself can surpass it.

yep, well written album, THE best electronic album

  stolemb said:

Drukqs killed the whole genre, and only Aphex Twin himself can surpass it.

i expect him to, or if not him autechre.

theyd have to incorporate elements from

their earlier albums though more melody.

complexity and innovativeness doesn't automatically equal good

your right it dont, but this album is amazing, what are you suggesting mr...

great great album but the richard d. james album will always be the pinnacle of electronic music imo...

it's hard to determine his best album, i love all of them.

  Morgan Dunn said:

great great album but the richard d. james album will always be the pinnacle of electronic music imo...

Imo, RDJ Album was the developement stage of the "complex beat patterns", while being morphed with the different melodies and sounding totally awesome.

But Drukqs was the ultimate refinement of that. Everything was polished up to the extreme, and instead of only the two elements (complex beat patterns+melodies) being the main characters, here, everything, every single sound, played a role and did something useful and enjoyable, that made you went "what the fuck was that". I dont know how to explain it... just take any (electronic) track, and listen carefully to the insane amount of details, and how they interact between themselves, in a totally creative way that i've NEVER seen (including any other Aphex releases). Just try to do something similar, and experience how you fail to acomplish something even near to it.

said it before,

guess ill say it again

only electronic music/electronic album i'd ever consider saying "masterpiece"

listen to many tracks everyday since 2001.

not old. still growing. meltphace did replace vord as top+, though... mmm

meltphace 6 is indeed an amazing song...it almost makes me put drukqs above rdj album, but the one thing rdj album has the innocence and fun that drukqs seems a bit too pompus and dark to offer us. except for the robot saying the story of goldilocks and three bears over a psychotic wall of sound...that was nice

  Morgan Dunn said:

meltphace 6 is indeed an amazing song...it almost makes me put drukqs above rdj album, but the one thing rdj album has the innocence and fun that drukqs seems a bit too pompus and dark to offer us. except for the robot saying the story of goldilocks and three bears over a psychotic wall of sound...that was nice

Thats the whole point. Drukqs has that "strange" vibe that makes it unique and timeless, but wouldn't know define it.

Can't you let Aphex Twin decide if Drukqs is the end or not? You love to box people into things. Maybe you should write for a fucking music magazine with the rest of the blathering wind bags.

But then again I wouldn't say that Drukqs is one of those super-DPS'ed glitchy chopped-to-hell drill album. It's raffiné, to the point of obsession.

The tracks are composed, not mashed up or random micro-glitchy. Every sound is there with the previous and the next one for a reason, or the ones at the same time.

Is it the holy grail of electronic music? No. Because for me it's all about the "Summer of 2001" I call it. It's a 12-month period, where we had DRUKQS, CONFIELD, GO PLASTIC and GEOGADDI. !!! That was the holy-grail-omg-moment of the entire movement. It's not just one album.

i think he should do drukqs again, but with the following elements adding or replacing existing elements:

- electric fiddles through stomp boxes

you guys are amazing.

"THE best electronic album"

well in your opinion yes but come on there is SO MUCH electronic music to have ever been released and still being released. Its a good chance we have heard a very small percentage of the entire genre yet we feel that one album is the paradigm of electronic music.

Just seems a bit closed minded to me, DruKqs is amazing i agree but so are 200 other albums i could think of in 20 minutes not to mention all the others i havenet heard.

  burnibus said:

you guys are amazing.

 

"THE best electronic album"

 

well in your opinion yes but come on there is SO MUCH electronic music to have ever been released and still being released. Its a good chance we have heard a very small percentage of the entire genre yet we feel that one album is the paradigm of electronic music.

 

Just seems a bit closed minded to me, DruKqs is amazing i agree but so are 200 other albums i could think of in 20 minutes not to mention all the others i havenet heard.

Im not being an blind, close-minded Aphex fan here, I just believe that Drukqs was the perfection of all of afx ideas, resulting to be the best thing I've ever heard (imo). Yeah, Go Plastic was awesome, but for example, its "easier" (still fucking hard) to "mimic" the sound of Go Plastic, since it uses plenty of "amen-ish" breaks (to give an example). On Drukqs, every single track uses LOTS of diferent sounds/things that make you recognize that they are from the Album in no time.

I agree with you that Drukqs is special and its an amazing listen.

You talk about how difficult it is to recreate a drukqs and how difficult it is to mimic its sounds / production but this is reductionary and not really the true test of how "good" music is.

Just cos something is hard to mimic it doesnt mean it incredible. Lots of Russell haswells work is impossible to mimc but only some of it is great (imo).

Surely the test of quality is on the emotional impact it has on you and what it makes you feel when you listen to it and in that sense i can say that there are hundereds of albums / artsist that move me as much. donbt get me wrong though its still one of my faves, but it is what it is.

I know you aint being blind bud, but some of the comments in this thread are properly sensationalist such as "the only electronic album i would consider a masterpiece". Well its great that you can find an album in your lifetime that has such a connection but from my experiences my definition of what constitutes masterpiece changes all the time, and the amount of music that has moved me to the very root of my being is huge.

Its nice to see people so passionate about music though, just often these boards tend towards exclusion as opposed to inclusion.

Ciao

thus the reference st micheals mount, nothing can peak it

To be honest as a whole I can't see this album being topped by Aphex Twin, who knows what the future holds though.

Amazing album though, it really is.

"Quite Good"

I'll get my coat...

Drukqs as imho more "standout" tracks than any other electronic release. Hmm yeah even Tri Repetae++. Almost a dozen tracks are marvellous. Could it had been a single CD? Yeah but it would defeat it's purpose.

But it's also that Drukqs is a "composition" in true classical sense, instead of a DSP-wankery or a mashup of everything.

It's form and function.

well i agree it aint just DSP jiggery pokery but apohex said himself that he just got 30 odd tracks at random from his DATs and slapped em on an album to prevent them being released elsewhere. so in that sense it isnt composed as an album its a load of tunes out of a DAT of hundereds picked at random.

No doubt the tunes are composed but like i said so are loads of great electronic albums

not too sure who said it was "quite good" as joyrex said cos its certainly much better than that.

  burnibus said:

apohex said himself that he just got 30 odd tracks at random from his DATs and slapped em on an album to prevent them being released elsewhere

That's bollocks.

  môak said:

thus the reference st micheals mount, nothing can peak it

same with me. The track has few developing lines, all

of which are superbly correlated. It aslo has that nostalgic

vibe.

Great ablum. Those piano works deserve to be put on a special record.

Drukqs is untouchable, it's not just an album it's a work of art. Just everything about it is perfect, even the track arangement.