Drukqs

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Product Details

Artist : Aphex Twin
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0643443117425
Label : Sire Record Group
Number of Discs : 2
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2001-11-13
UPC : 643443117425

ASIN : B00005QD9N

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Jynweythek Ylow
2. Vordhosbn
3. Kladfvgbung Micshk
4. Omgyjya Switch 7
5. Strotha Tynhe
6. Gwely Mernans
7. Bbydhyonchord
8. Cock/Ver 10
9. Avril 14th
10. Mt. Saint Michel Mix/St. Michaels Mount
11. Gwarek 2
12. Orban Eq Trx 4
13. Aussois
14. Hy a Scullyas Lyf a Dhagrow
15. Kesson Daslef

Disc-2
1. 54 Cymru Beats
2. Btoum-Roumada
3. Lornaderek
4. Penty Harmonium
5. Meltphace 6
6. Bit 4
7. Prep Gwarlek 3B
8. Father
9. Taking Control
10. Petiatil Cx Htdui
11. Ruglen Holon
12. Afx237 V7
13. Ziggomatic V17
14. Beskhu3epnm
15. Nanou 2

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Editorial Reviews

From Amazon.com

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

????? (2004-06-29)

My friends and I listen to s*** loads of music of all kinds, but the only thing we never talk about is this. It quite simply excapes description. But, what the heck... Every track a masterpiece, this presentation pulls the attentive listener through Richard James' consicousness, revealing the expanse of his emotions. Truely one of the few "electronic" albums which has the capacity to toy with your soul, it exudes personality of all tones; from the delicate, fine and gentle, through the cheeky, quircky and mundane, to the revelationary, infinite strata of hyperspacial reality - this recording truely has as much depth and content as the spectator could wish to find or even suppose. To put it another way, this is as close as those who havn't discovered the potentials of the inner landscape will currently ever get to experiencing the kind of continually evolving subconscious patterns that stir within us all. Drukqs exhibits a kind of artistry comparable to all the great masters that display a coherant understanding of the transcendent; and the personality of this genius displays a human originality of which will impact the art world as a strong reference for years to come.

great (2004-05-09)

Just great. I am a fan of his music for quite a while and all of his records are special in their own way. Tracks with a little twist only RDJ can add. Sometimes a bit sinister, but thats ok for me! Most of his tracks are sertainly refreshing and energy boosting. A philosopher teacher once said: "to enjoy and appreciate the quality of sertain aspects (of whatsoever) you have to have rotten spots besides it". In case of some of the tracks ("ventolin" (medicine for asthmatic patiens) for example in which you hear a sample of a person hyperventilating), annoying bleeps, cracks and sounds are added in such way that when they fade away in a track you almost feel a releef....a contrast between serenety and rotten (no offence)

a little twisted (2004-05-09)

Impressive, but not as good as it could be (2004-04-17)

You can divide this album into three sets of songs: (1) the high-speed electronic songs, (2) the slower "chamber music" piano pieces, and (3) little bits of filler and ambient sound effects. There are nine of (1), thirteen of (2), and the rest are (3).

The high-speed electronic songs sound like a Chipmunk version of Frank Zappa's synclavier music. Sampled beats and synthesized notes burst out of the speakers in complex layers. Everything is played over spastic rhythms. It's breathtaking but also exhausting. These songs move so fast, you can't help but be impressed that they don't collapse into a wall of noise. But you can't dance to it.

The chamber music songs are elegant, patient pieces played on a variety of keyboards. The melodies are spare and the songs are short. Instead of layering the music, the keyboard music is played alone. These pieces are the best part of the album.

The final third is made up of people talking, a phone call from Richard's parents on his birthday, some ambient drones, and sound effects. The album works best when all of these songs are mixed together --- and if you listen to the album in order (instead of using the RANDOM function on your CD player) it comes pre-mixed. Ambient music alternates with high-speed electronica, then you hear a nice little piano piece . . . and then its back to the rapid-fire beats. You're always off-balance from one track to the next.

It works, but there's not much depth to this album. It feels like Richard James messing around, not committing himself to anything particularly spectacular. Again, like Zappa, this feels like an album of spare parts that's been put together just to get something new out on the shelves. That doesn't make it bad when you've got a genius at work. Even his scraps are pretty amazing. But this album is far less brilliant that it could be. (P.S. I think the title means "drug use.")

One of RDJ's more thought-provoking works (2004-03-02)

A long-awaited accomplishment from the famed underground genious proves a decent follow up to the classic "Come To Daddy" breakthrough. While (like most of his releases) there are several "space-filler" tracks filled with background voices and strange industrial/piano pieces, the double album length still allows plenty of room for more worthy tracks. An avid "Come To Daddy" fan, I wouldn't rate this as his best work but it comes closer to the latter acheivement than any of his other releases I have heard. The tunes are often long, and packed full of his trademark drum-and-bass jitterbuggery and avant-garde junkyard techno. The twisted sense of humor always accompanying RDJ's work is not forgotten, though many of the pieces evolve into beautifully haunting and innovatingly psychadelic moments. Loud, bold, and obscenely original, yet more underlined with structure and melody than some of his crude earlier works. A must have for an Aphex Twin fan bored with his more obscure releases.

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