Richard D James > Drukqs

  Ghostbusters III said:

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

That's how I listen to it, I like the piano pieces but usually I'm in the mood for one or the other.

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RELIEF.

ORDINARY.

THE FAMILIAR.

NOTHING SPECIAL.

I rarely listen to the piano tracks

  Velazquez said:

I rarely listen to the piano tracks

well there is your problem, you like those fast bits too much

  Idiron said:

Drukqs is the best album ever made. There isn't any proof for it, but it is actually scientific fact. Anybody who disagrees is gay, black or gay and black. Blackgays.

fuckin TESTIFY

  Velazquez said:

I rarely listen to the piano tracks

same as.. besides avril 14th ofcourse...

The piano tracks are essential. Listen to the album straight through. Tis the only way yo. Dont listen to it at the same time or skip around. Disc one than disc two. Drukqs is the shiz.

  Rook said:

The piano tracks are essential.

TRUE

  Rook said:

Listen to the album straight through. Tis the only way yo. Dont listen to it at the same time or skip around. Disc one than disc two.

Meh. Not really true. Most can skip around to their hearts desire. It's all a matter of preference. Just as long as !

I love the (different) vinyl tracklisting. To me listening to this album one plate at a time makes more sense.

i just realized there is an alternate interpretation for the name of this topic.

Drukqs is definitely Richard's best album. It truly shows off Richard's geniousness, as he's capable

of making slow piano tracks and ambient stuff like absolutely amazing Petiatil Cx Htdui and Gwely Mernans, just as insane drill'n'bass tracks like Cock/Ver 10. Drukqs is definitely one of most essential recordings ever.

Finally, the man pays his fanboys some respect: 'Thank you for listening. Bye' at the end of Ziggomatic13.

  Ghostbusters III said:

  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

Not again ffs. Its saying "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" a fuckin trend?

I don't see how anyone would say those tracks are unreleased stuff from (AND SOUNDS LIKE, FFS??') "stuff from I care and Saw II".

Now I quote myself:

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Seriously, anyone believing that "I LOST MAE MP3 WITH 99999999999 SONGS ON A PLANE" fails. Also you fail if you believe that Drukqs is just random MP3 "thrown randomly because im afraid of the guy that has the lost ipod because he can release it on the internets". Aphex worked an insanely amount of time, and put an insanely amount of effort on every single track. IMO I don't believe he has lots of "unreleased" stuff that sounds like that, due to the amount of time a track like those would take to make.

Again, make a proper listen to Drukqs, CD1+CD2 straight, nigth, quality headphones, alone etc. Like someone said, "its the only way". I recommend you this since diagnost says: u dun geddit

its the sheer craftsmanship in drukqs that grips me by the balls

You can grip my balls anytime with those green covered hands of yours aquagak...

I never understand when people say Drukqs sounds like a compilation. It all sounds modern to me.

Even though I think Drukqs is the best album, RDJ still has some of my most played Aphex tracks. Fingerbib and 4 and Peek. All the time dudes.

The Piano tracks are nice - not what I'm after however, they interrupt the flow of the album...

  ieafs said:

scrapbooky

that's really a great word for it.

it makes me wonder - arranging, eh? maybe it was a musical diary and was arranged by circumstances... the order he wrote it. write a few tracks a day for however long it is, then pick the best one from each day. or maybe he did a piano track and a drill track every day? or maybe he did the piano tracks a year after the other the same days... there's an infinite number of ways really, but who's to say he sat down and worked out an order one day?

someone obsessed count the number of tracks and see if they match months or lent or anything BOC like that

this post has generated one thing, however - i think a musical diary is kind of a fun idea...

i admire drukqs much more because of it's difference from any other electronic music album even rdja. all piano tracks are absolutely amazing/melodical they're like a piece of classical music :heart: :heart: :heart:

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  burnibus said:

AHAHAHahahahahahahah

wha jooo laughing at bro

He took some Drukqs.

  Rook said:

I never understand when people say Drukqs sounds like a compilation. It all sounds modern to me.

 

Even though I think Drukqs is the best album, RDJ still has some of my most played Aphex tracks. Fingerbib and 4 and Peek. All the time dudes.

yeah 4 and Peek are really good.........yellow calx is wicked as well.