"A decade of Drukqs" Drowned In Sound article

Saw Beardyman post this (amongst some of his likely drunken rants about Coldplay being shit), I usually don't read anything on this site regularly, surprised I found it actually. It goes into a lot of RDJ tidbits we all know good and well and now constantly mention sarcastically, BUT I like that:

A. They decided to celebrate the album's anniversary.

B. It mentions the fact that's been "mined" for samples and continues to be a source of reliable bumper and soundtrack music.

I also realized, with the SNL and Kanye samples, and soundtrack choices in mind, they could of just titled this article "Avril 14th, ten years on"

http://drownedinsoun...us-ten-years-on

54 Fucking Cymru Beats (Mother) Fucker!!!

i love drukqs. it's what i would call a "good album". who here can play avril 14th on piano? i can at least play it until it goes minor at which point i kind of have to slow down.

^ what he said.

  On 10/25/2011 at 4:44 AM, sheatheman said:

i love drukqs. it's what i would call a "good album". who here can play avril 14th on piano? i can at least play it until it goes minor at which point i kind of have to slow down.

I was under the impression the full piece is actually impossible to play, because it was composed using a midi sequencer?

  On 10/25/2011 at 5:00 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

  On 10/25/2011 at 4:44 AM, sheatheman said:

i love drukqs. it's what i would call a "good album". who here can play avril 14th on piano? i can at least play it until it goes minor at which point i kind of have to slow down.

 

I was under the impression the full piece is actually impossible to play, because it was composed using a midi sequencer?

yes, Richard said before that it was impossible to play by hand. still some people have said that they can play it. twats.

i can play it up until the last 40 seconds. is this the part that goes minor that sheatheman is talking about? never could find free sheet music for it. that part's prolly the hardest part too. as if playing a melody with your hand stretched an octave wide isn't hard enough.

so i actually just googled and found free sheet music for it: http://www.lapsura.c...usic/AphexTwin/

looks legit to me but i'll have to check it out. that kesson dalef transcription is making me wanna go find a piano now :P

btw it's drukQs not drukqs. some of you may think that makes no difference but i think it does as far as pronunciation goes.

i just say drucks, like trucks, 'n shit.

  On 10/25/2011 at 8:16 PM, Bubz said:

i can play it up until the last 40 seconds. is this the part that goes minor that sheatheman is talking about? never could find free sheet music for it. that part's prolly the hardest part too. as if playing a melody with your hand stretched an octave wide isn't hard enough.

 

 

so i actually just googled and found free sheet music for it: http://www.lapsura.c...usic/AphexTwin/

looks legit to me but i'll have to check it out. that kesson dalef transcription is making me wanna go find a piano now :P

I'm so glad you found this sheet music. I have been looking for those other songs.

  On 10/25/2011 at 8:25 PM, sirch said:

i just say drucks, like trucks, 'n shit.

i say druk q's

  On 10/25/2011 at 5:07 AM, sirch said:

  On 10/25/2011 at 5:00 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

  On 10/25/2011 at 4:44 AM, sheatheman said:

i love drukqs. it's what i would call a "good album". who here can play avril 14th on piano? i can at least play it until it goes minor at which point i kind of have to slow down.

 

I was under the impression the full piece is actually impossible to play, because it was composed using a midi sequencer?

 

yes, Richard said before that it was impossible to play by hand. still some people have said that they can play it. twats.

like this dude?

he's playing it wrong.

i'm fairly certain you can play avril 14th, i used to able to. the tricky part is the octave stretch.

Druqks has some absolute diamonds but I'm not sure about it as a complete album as I find some of it a bit pretentious and some of it little overcooked imho.

Its only just starting to sound dated but thats mainly because a lot of its been ripped off so much.

  On 10/25/2011 at 10:32 PM, soundwave said:

Druqks has some absolute diamonds but I'm not sure about it as a complete album as I find some of it a bit pretentious and some of it little overcooked imho.

 

Its only just starting to sound dated but thats mainly because a lot of its been ripped off so much.

Yeah I agree. I dunno if "pretentious" is the right word, but it is a bit stretched out, even if it's all excellent and some of the tracks are among his best. I usually find most double albums excessive anyway, even if they are great (Mellon Collie..., The Wall, The White Album)

  On 10/25/2011 at 9:56 PM, KY said:

  On 10/25/2011 at 5:07 AM, sirch said:

  On 10/25/2011 at 5:00 AM, AdieuErsatzEnnui said:

  On 10/25/2011 at 4:44 AM, sheatheman said:

i love drukqs. it's what i would call a "good album". who here can play avril 14th on piano? i can at least play it until it goes minor at which point i kind of have to slow down.

 

I was under the impression the full piece is actually impossible to play, because it was composed using a midi sequencer?

 

yes, Richard said before that it was impossible to play by hand. still some people have said that they can play it. twats.

like this dude?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE-g0mWbxlE

Mostly right, but towards the end hes missing a few notes. All the ones he hits are correct, he just didn't hit all of them. Its just impossible to hit them all at once with only 2 hands.

avril 14th is obviously best performed as a piece for four hands or two pianos.

Also, drukqs is a fantastic album that sounds ultra fresh to me right now.

Mt st michaels mount is betta then Ziggomatic v17 lol HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Still my favorite album of all time, so far.

Thinking about it, Drukqs would have made a really good farewell-album.

Avril 14th was always my least favorite track on that LP.

has it really been ten years? how time flies..

i think it came out the same week as michael jackson's last lp.

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Come on. Talk about over rated nonsense. Aphex Twins never did anything that wasn't ripped off form the Prodigy, Chemical Brothers or Fatboy Slim who did it first and best. The true Godfathers of techno music.

 

oenis | 25 Oct '11, 11:17 | X | Reply

Yeah Ziggomatic v17 is a creation of a human being that has total control of the entire audio output of a composition. Everything is perfect.