Did anyone notice Taking Control sounds different?

Off the upbeat, non-piano tracks on the album, this track sounds different. It's like it was made on a different gear, the production just sounds different, if you compare it to the rest. It's hard to put it in words but I do notice it. I always thought this track doesn't really fit on there, even if it's a great track.

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yeah dude it sounds like it was produced on that one studio dark side of the moon was made because the analog frequencies were just a tad on the holy cow this is perfect area.

I thought the voice was supposed to be stephen hawking's...

And that's what it would sound like if stephen hawking took control of your drum machine.. =/

I think it fit in well with everything on the second disc to be honest.

  On 6/29/2014 at 12:02 AM, Klopjob said:

I think it fit in well with everything on the second disc to be honest.

  On 6/29/2014 at 12:31 AM, Ivan Ooze said:

 

  On 6/29/2014 at 12:02 AM, Klopjob said:

I think it fit in well with everything on the second disc to be honest.

 

I was just thinking about this track earlier.

I always think of it as a track to show off all his sampling & programming expertise. Especially at the 5min mark where it goes bananas with the Led Zeppelin break and Caustic Window style kicks.

  On 6/28/2014 at 9:43 PM, PhylumZunami said:

I'm talking control of

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the drum machine

 

yeah dude it sounds like it was produced on that one studio dark side of the moon was made because the analog frequencies were just a tad on the holy cow this is perfect area.

oh and nice MDE pic :)

Changing sounds during a sequence.

  On 6/28/2014 at 9:43 PM, PhylumZunami said:

yeah dude it sounds like it was produced on that one studio dark side of the moon was made because the analog frequencies were just a tad on the holy cow this is perfect area.

+boc

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Anyone know what is said in the sample at 4:40 before it goes absolutely nuts with break spam?

Also hardest/best breakdowns in a musicians career general.

this part

Tough call between Meltphace 6 and Taking Control as my favorite Drukqs song. Going with Meltphace 6 though.

to me this is probably the closest Aphex has ever gotten to sounding like 16-bit chiptune music. It kind of reminds me of Team Doyobi's sound pallette, very evocative of late 80s Capcom game music

I think it does sound a tiny bit... I dunno, 'chunkier' than the rest of the album? There's something about it that makes it stand out a bit. Great track though. I think it fits.

this just in: 

i just noticed the girl (supposedly rich's ex-gf) says 'tu prends le contrôle de la boîte à rythmes' at 6:05, which is french for 'you take/you're taking control of the drum machine'.

this probably got figured out long ago already but it's new to me

Melts my brain how much information is in this song

Love it - especially the drums from 5:58 out

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  On 2/17/2020 at 3:56 PM, brian trageskin said:

this just in: 

i just noticed the girl (supposedly rich's ex-gf) says 'tu prends le contrôle de la boîte à rythmes' at 6:05, which is french for 'you take/you're taking control of the drum machine'.

this probably got figured out long ago already but it's new to me

  On 7/21/2013 at 8:34 AM, aencre said:

• Taking Control contains the line "Tu prends (le) contrôle de ma(/la) boîte à rythme" (first at 3:32, then 5:59 and forth) : "you're taking control of the(/my) drum machine" (more litterally, "rythm box").

• And I've never seen this mentioned elsewhere, but in Meltphace 6 it goes : "Tomber" ("to fall"), (3:54, just after the "just relax" bit) and it's a nice moment because with the augmenting delay it really does sounds as if the music itself is falling down.

What a track. It sure does what it says on the can.

yes, it's a bit more lo-fi than the rest of the album. Probably the most lo-fi track but in itself not THAT lo-fi.

@aencre i see i'm way late on this, well done.

about hearing 'tomber' in meltphace 6: i don't hear 'tomber' at all, the vowel of the first syllable sounds nothing like the french pronounce it (she pronounces it like 'temps' whereas we pronounce it 'ton'), is this how the québécois pronounce it?

I remember hearing this track for the first time and noting how narrow the stereo field is on most of it, especially compared to the rest of the album.  Kind of bugged me at the time, thinking if the sounds were a little "bigger" it would be that much better.  But I suspect these are things I'd consider part of the charm now, and strengths rather than problems. Forces you to focus a bit more to absorb what's going on in the beats.  ... I think this means it's time for another Drukqs album listening.  Been too long.