drukqs is pretty slow

Back when it was new I had the feeling drukqs was pretty fast even too fast. Today I perceive Ziggomatic 17, Vordhosbn and Cock/Ver 10 and pretty slow compared to todays standarts. Why is that?

because everything got faster over the last 10 years.

once the speed of light was broke, everything took a leap forward

For me, it was the fastest hardest thing I'd ever heard at the time (Cock Ver 10, Vordhosbn, and the beginning of Mount St. Michael was too fast), in addition to the Box Energy AFX remix.

Since then I've listened to V-snares and Merzbow, and a couple of others. And then my friend introduced me to breakcore/speedcore/digital hardcore. And now, thanks to Ganus introducing me to more music, that stuff sounds too slow at times.

In conclusion, a lot of music has been made since Drukqs, and we're getting used to it.

Squarepusher was always faster and harder than Aphex Twin, before Drukqs i mean... aswell as Bogdan, and a few others. so it wasn't the fastest hardest stuff i'd ever heard before.

still, i would take a heavy song (Clark?) over something fast. at a certain point i feel like the dynamics get lost.

There was much faster music before & after drukqs, I don't understand.

YEAH

Fast or not.. Drukqs is a fucking masterpiece!

  On 10/21/2011 at 8:03 PM, cern said:

Fast or not.. Drukqs is a fucking masterpiece!

a lot of music may have been made after drukqs, but none matched it.

edit: talking about the same genre (drill n bass stuff)

  On 10/21/2011 at 7:35 PM, sneaksta303 said:

There was much faster music before & after drukqs, I don't understand.

Lol, oh yea. I'd heard Richard D. James before Drukqs. 4 and Girl/Boy were pretty quick. Not sure how far back you're thinking though, sneaksta. I suppose all of that candy rave stuff was kind of crazy.

And no one said there wasn't. Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, and Datach'i happened to be my introduction to electronic music. I haven't been on the boat very long.

I didn't mean composed by afx necessarily, and was just talking about speed. But yeah, to me Drukqs is the same speed it always was, and just as powerful and lovely.

You should listen to some Mozart. That stuff got really slow in the last 250 years.

I thought this thread was about the overall pacing of the album. But Ziggomatic? Slow? Nuh uh.

When I tried to play Drukqs tracks in Audiosurf, it would always detect them at half or quarter speed, and you'd get a really leisurely ride. I'm not sure why this is.

  On 10/24/2011 at 10:00 PM, solarion said:

When I tried to play Drukqs tracks in Audiosurf, it would always detect them at half or quarter speed, and you'd get a really leisurely ride. I'm not sure why this is.

Ha, playing Selected Ambient Works vol. 2 is brutal. Rhubarb is ridiculously hard.

Then again, I haven't played those songs since 4 years ago, so maybe I just sucked at audiosurf at the time.

Napalm Death 1987.

wait so we're complaining about the speed?

who cares?

I haven't heard much as rich as what he crammed into each track, regardless of the speed

  On 10/21/2011 at 6:51 PM, o00o said:

Back when it was new I had the feeling drukqs was pretty fast even too fast. Today I perceive Ziggomatic 17, Vordhosbn and Cock/Ver 10 and pretty slow compared to todays standarts. Why is that?

Been listening to too much Venetian Snares?

todays standards are actually slower. no one listens to breakcore and/or drum and bass anymore because they go for the low hanging fruit (dubstep). the average music listener is not a thinker.