Richard D James > Drukqs

I think I'm in the minority here but I feel the RDJ album is far superior. Drukqs has its moments but the RDJ albums flows much better and is not as disjointed.

arent most tunes on rdj in the same key?

I think the whole thing is in C.

when i saw squarepusher in ultravisitor

tour i shouted 'cornish acid' to request

him to play it but he mustve ignored it.

rdj > drukqs in my opinion

  tht! tne said:

when i saw squarepusher in ultravisitor

tour i shouted 'cornish acid' to request

him to play it but he mustve ignored it.

That's odd, Tom's usually fields requests, must've had an off night.

I like Drukqs as his best album. I dont know why. I just do. Although Figerbib is possibly my favorite aphex song and 4 being the first aphex song I ever heard is one of my most played songs. And Girl/Boy song is in G, not C if Im not mistaken. And I think Fingerbib is in F sharp, if Im not mistaken. 4 is in C. I cant recall any of the others off the top of my head. I would need to listen to find out the keys.

  Velazquez said:

  tht! tne said:

when i saw squarepusher in ultravisitor

tour i shouted 'cornish acid' to request

him to play it but he mustve ignored it.

That's odd, Tom's usually fields requests, must've had an off night.

have you ever known him to do covers

though? maybe something i could find

recorded and shared on the subforum?

RDJA is more cohesive because it's really short (the UK version - the US version is a bit more reasonable in length by including Girl/Boy EP tracks)

I personally feel ICBYD is superior to Drukqs.

  tht! tne said:

  Velazquez said:

  tht! tne said:

when i saw squarepusher in ultravisitor

tour i shouted 'cornish acid' to request

him to play it but he mustve ignored it.

That's odd, Tom's usually fields requests, must've had an off night.

 

have you ever known him to do covers

though? maybe something i could find

recorded and shared on the subforum?

no dude i was being facetious, can't imagine Tom being that fan friendly though

  Joyrex said:

I personally feel ICBYD is superior to Drukqs.

do you feel as i do that icbyd is more

stately and profound? what about icbyd

is more superior to drukqs in your mind.

to me icbyd tunes seem all a vast world

unto themselves that each could be turn

ed into a full similar album, whereas trx

on drukqs all seem to inhabit one planet.

  tht! tne said:

  Joyrex said:

I personally feel ICBYD is superior to Drukqs.

 

do you feel as i do that icbyd is more

stately and profound? what about icbyd

is more superior to drukqs in your mind.

I listen to ICBYD far more than Drukqs, much more concise album

I always thought Drukqs had a sort of dry,solid sound. It's change after change and each song sounded different in a similar way.

RDJ just seems to flow. The sounds are smooth and the melodies rise and fall.

Im bad with descriptions,so RDJ > Drukqs.

RDJ isn't in some ivory wizard tower

i vote RDJ - it's having tea with ol' richard vs. going to visit king richard's court

  Dr. Elemeno von Hat X: PhD said:

RDJ isn't in some ivory wizard tower

 

i vote RDJ - it's having tea with ol' richard vs. going to visit king richard's court

thats a really good way of putting it

RDJ is perfect to me. playful, but suddenly hits you with moments of its complexity every now and then, and quickly returning to the playground of noises. overall more enjoyable to me

  Velazquez said:

  tht! tne said:

  Joyrex said:

I personally feel ICBYD is superior to Drukqs.

 

do you feel as i do that icbyd is more

stately and profound? what about icbyd

is more superior to drukqs in your mind.

I listen to ICBYD far more than Drukqs, much more concise album

i absolutely agree. once i put on the first track i have to listen through the whole album, every single track fits so well.

drukqs is well made, some of his greatest tracks in it, but it doesn't age as well as some of his earlier albums, i dunno why.

RDJ definitely, very concise with no fucking about. A short electronic music album makes a nice change.

They're very different albums; I think my favorite depends on my current mindset. They seem to have the following qualities:

Richard D James Album: Innocent and childlike. It's good for when you're punting children over the playground fence or when you're stoned and watching Sesame Street.

drukqs: Introspective and mature. It's good for when you're relaxing in your den while wearing a smoking jacket and contemplating the various effects of the decline of the British empire or when you're stoned and watching Masterpiece Theater.

Drukqs is technically superior, and sounds better.

Said that, Drukqs > RDJA imo.

About the being cohesive or not... I find Drukqs tracks meticulously selected, they all fit. Seriously, if you haven't heard it for some time, I encorage you all to take yourself the time needed to listen the whole thing (CD1 and CD2, in order obviously), because I don't understand how there are people talking about "the tracklist seems randomly picked, with some pianos inbetween". I recomend listening to it with HEADPHONES (and good ones), at night, alone, and paying attention to what you hear.

Good luck.

P.D: Post how it went if anyone does it.

  tht! tne said:

  Joyrex said:

I personally feel ICBYD is superior to Drukqs.

 

do you feel as i do that icbyd is more

stately and profound? what about icbyd

is more superior to drukqs in your mind.

to me icbyd tunes seem all a vast world

unto themselves that each could be turn

ed into a full similar album, whereas trx

on drukqs all seem to inhabit one planet.

While each ICBYD track can stand on it's own (they really can; I can't think of a single track on there that isn't A+ material), they all have a similar feel and sound that connects them for me... ICBYD simply does not sound like any music I have ever heard before (or since)... it's unique.

  Velazquez said:

  tht! tne said:

  Joyrex said:

I personally feel ICBYD is superior to Drukqs.

 

do you feel as i do that icbyd is more

stately and profound? what about icbyd

is more superior to drukqs in your mind.

I listen to ICBYD far more than Drukqs, much more concise album

Agreed. ICBYD, to use the Mac phrase "just works". Drukqs is great, but feels too deliberate (which is not a bad thing, as I am sure Richard planned it that way - perhaps that's what I don't like about it, whereas it seems (and I might be totally wrong) that his other albums were mere collections of similar tracks that worked well together rather than following a theme like Drukqs seems to.

  stolemb said:

Drukqs is technically superior, and sounds better.

Said that, Drukqs > RDJA imo.

About the being cohesive or not... I find Drukqs tracks meticulously selected, they all fit. Seriously, if you haven't heard it for some time, I encorage you all to take yourself the time needed to listen the whole thing (CD1 and CD2, in order obviously), because I don't understand how there are people talking about "the tracklist seems randomly picked, with some pianos inbetween". I recomend listening to it with HEADPHONES (and good ones), at night, alone, and paying attention to what you hear.

 

Good luck.

 

P.D: Post how it went if anyone does it.

I'll have to try that - I also recommend listening to ICBYD with the 'phones, as you WILL miss the little things like the whispering voices, and other little sonic wonders.

man the amount of work put into druqks, the detail the composition THE SOUNDS... there's no beating them.

it's hard to compare them

snapshots of different parts of his life

it's all filed under the same guy anyway

"I recomend listening to it with HEADPHONES (and good ones), at night, alone, and paying attention to what you hear."

good one

i recommend you dont pay attention when listening to albums

always have mates around drinking playing poker with the music on quiet

it brings out the best in 90% of albums

I dont really have a favourite aphex twin album (i find his afx albums to be a bit weaker)

all the three people have mentioned thus far in this thread are my faves

RDJ album is not only the best aphex album, it is also the greatest album of all time.

p.s. last post.

  Velazquez said:

I think I'm in the minority here but I feel the RDJ album is far superior. Drukqs has its moments but the RDJ albums flows much better and is not as disjointed.

yeah im in fully agreement. I never saw Drukqs as a real album, its more of a compilation of unreleased tracks to me. It even sounds like unreleased stuff from I care and Saw II got on there. The piano tracks are very forgettable, and the prepared piano tracks are unforgivably pretentious and boring. The crazy drill tracks are gold, and it would be the best AFX album if it was just 1 disc instead of the filler 2.

the fact that Drukqs is an unecessary filler 2 entire discs, most of Aphex Twins full albums stand up superior to it. I would rate Hangable Autobulb, Analog bubblebath 3, I care because you do, Saw II, Richard D James, Donkey Rhubarb, Melodies from mars all as better more well rounded complete works than the finished product of Drukqs.

and for those of you who say "all the tracks fit on drukqs" , you would say the same thing if your favorite electronic musician recorded him making flatulences on half the tracks. People would think it was great and integral to the flow of the album. Drukqs as it stands is an extremely disjointed album. If this was his intention to have jarring track changes fine, but it doesnt work for me. the only way i can tolerate listening to Drukqs is by makign my own custom mix cd of it