Aphex Twin - Drukqs
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Artist: Aphex TwinEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Jynweythek
- Vordhosbn
- Kladfvgbung Micshk
- Omgyjya-Switch 7
- Strotha Tynhe
- Gwely Mernans
- Bbydhyonchord
- Cock/Ver 10
- Avril 14th
- Mt. Saint Michel Mix/St. Michaels Mount
- Gwarek 2
- Orban Eq Trx 4
- Aussois
- Hy A Scullyas Lyf A Dhagrow
- Kesson Daslef
- 54 Cymru Beats
- Btoum-Roumada
- Lornaderek
- Penty Harmomium
- Meltphace 6
- Bit 4
- Prep Gwarlek 3b
- Father
- Taking Control
- Petiatil Cx Htdui
- Ruglen Holon
- Afx237 V7
- Ziggomatic V17
- Beskhu3epnm
- Nanou 2
Free Music Notes for Drukqs
Free Music Review: RDJ's genre-transcending masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
Although I admit I am largely unfamiliar with 2 of Aphex Twin's most famous pieces of work, "Selected Ambient Works Volume 2" and "The Richard D. James Album", I can confidently say that this is lightyears beyond the early "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" and "I Care Because You Do", as well as the recent "Analord" vinyl EPs. These compositions are beautiful, multi-faceted and detailed on a level almost comparable to Autechre.
"Drukqz" is perfectly thematic and atmospheric, while being incredibly diverse, stylistically, which is no easy feat... Ambient pieces and piano compositions flow seamlessly in and out of the glitchy IDM songs in an ethereal, red gold haze. The more minimal compositions aren't a completely different style as much as deconstructed; the droning ambiences of tracks like "gwely mernans" also exist as backdrops to the rhythms and melodies of the more frenetic tracks like "omgyjya switch7". The whole collection has a pretty consistent sonic presence.
Unlike the light, relaxed, stoned playfulness of most of his early work and "Analord", "Drukqz" is seriously emotionally intense. It occasionally adopts the numb warmth of his acid material, but is just as often disorienting, dark and alienating, full of microtonal / detuned harmony. It feels like for once, RDJ is taking his music seriously, and despite what some say about 'filler', I feel every track on here serves to make the experience more powerful. Even the more traditional, break beat focused tracks like "Mt Saint Michel Mix + St Michael" or "Taking Control", which might've seemed cliche by 2002, are saved before the end by gorgeous, memorable melody and atmosphere. There is always something interesting going on, and there is an equal of number of standout tracks at any point in the entire double album. Like all good IDM, "Drukqz" also seriously rewards repeated listening.
I feel like the reason "Drukqz" doesn't get the rave reviews it should is that music on it goes over the heads of most of his fan base, who can't appreciate the more slow paced ambient material, or the 20th century avant-classical inspired piano pieces. "Father" seriously almost sounds like it could have been written by Olivier Messiaen or Arnold Schoenberg.
Basically, "Drukqz" is a seriously ambitious work that succeeds on all levels, and probably one of the best electronic albums ever made. Highly recommended.
Drukqs Poster
Often proclaimed as electronica's one true genius, Richard James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin, returns with a double CD that showcases his cleverness as well as his inevitable inscrutability. Still, amid macabre birthday songs, unsettling screams, and other bizarre touches, Drukqs offers the most technically accomplished and beautiful tracks of Aphex Twin's career. Every aspect of the Aphex brain is on display here, from stark pieces performed on sampled piano and zither to Squarepusher-styled drum & bass implosions, all informed by that peculiar Aphex treatment of bittersweet melody and unparalleled programming. For an artist once engrossed in homages to his dead twin brother and grotesque videos, Drukqs shows James getting by purely on music alone."Mt. Saint Michel Mix" starts as maddening drum & bass, but is soon transfixed by glowing tones, hand drums, and police sirens. "Vordhosbn" is all acid beats and mad synths matched with fart-bombs and haunted cries. "54 Cymru Beats" sounds more like the tweaked-out, goofball techno of Wagon Christ than Aphex, while "Taking Control" goes metaphysical with cerebral synth-drums and muddled vocals. If Drukqs is the result of medication James has been imbibing during his three-year hiatus, then this is indeed better living through chemistry. Regardless, his music is still as beautiful and frothy as ever. --Ken Micallef
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