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Drukqs by: Aphex Twin List Price: $19.98 CD-Charts Price: $16.99 You Save: $2.99 (15%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0643443117425 Format: Explicit Lyrics Label: Rhino / Wea Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Rhino / Wea Release Date: October 23, 2001 Studio: Rhino / Wea Sales Rank: 46060 MPN: 31174 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com's Best of 2001: 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 Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - RDJ continues to impress with his challenging fifth full lengthHaving a body of work as diverse as Richard D. James sets up a lot of unreasonable expectations for fans and critics. From his early work in the late eighties through his four albums recorded under the name "Aphex Twin" and countless other recordings under other names, RDJ has blazed trails and created many unique styles that characterize him. Through those four studio albums, RDJ pioneered and arguably perfected the genres of IDM, ambiance, orchestral electro horror, jungle, drill `n bass, synth pop, and more. The expectation for a new Aphex Album, especially one after a long hiatus and one to lead off the new millennium, were surely extravagant and overblown. What will James concoct next, and how will it shake the musical world? Read More: Rating: - Insanely Complex RhythmsI've never understood this saying: "I don't like classical music it always puts me to sleep." For me, listening to horrible music has always given me insomnia, and amazingly great music puts me to sleep. Let's just say that by the end of the first cd I was already dozing off in mid-afternoon. It's been a long time since an electronica album has really impressed me, rarely do I find something which can hold it's own next to Deep Breakfast by Ray Lynch, Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada, Dead Cities by Future Sound of London, or Simple Things by Zero 7. But I'm tempted to say I prefer this album over any of those. As a classical composer this album has blown my mind, I get lost in these rhythms. 5 stars way up. Rating: - RDJ's genre-transcending masterpieceAlthough 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 ... Read More: Rating:  - Another Hard Edged Soft BallComparatively quiet and uncrowded this CD proves another insignificant project. Odds and ends picked up here and there then assembled into contradictory resonances. 'Druqs' compositions come across as forced and tacky. Witty short squibs intermingled with blatantly caracatured kinetic never static synth drums. Where do we go from here Aphex Twin? The self appointed revolutionary of noise music has lost his feathers. Rating:  - his last good album?This seems like Aphex's last good album. I own 26 remixes for cash, and you can basically throw that one in the trash. Druqk's has some really standout, emotional, tracks of all types. The pacing of this album suffers greatly however as frantic IDM beats are interspersed with slow ambient "piano" tracks. Basically, you can't listen to the entire album in one go. Some tracks have me skipping ahead or turning it off. Its not really a classic, and it could have been if he worked on creating a flow. It feels like a singles release with some tracks he worked really hard on, and for that he deserves credit. As a whole it really suffers enough to take down two stars. Musically its pretty good though. |
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