bwa hahaha. who hired that village idiot to write that review?
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From: "Michael Stein" <Michael.Stein@allscripts.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: [idm] Rolling Stone on Drukqs
quoted 11 lines > http://www.rollingstone.com/recordings/review.asp?aid=2043238
>
> Aphex twin, also known as England's Richard James, was once a pioneer of
> techno
> and ambient electronic music, and he made records, particularly 1993's
> gorgeous
> Selected Ambient Works 85-92, that changed the course of electronic music.
> But
> since then, he has bravely charted a course toward tech-noise and slowly
> veered
> into unlistenability. With Drukqs, James delivers his most irrelevant
album
quoted 7 lines to date:
> to date:
> a double CD, thirty-track compendium of indecipherable song titles,
> gratuitously
> weird sounds and occasional wisps of ersatz classical piano that are
> aimlessly
> pretty. The moody "Kladfvgbung Micshk" sounds like incidental music for a
> haunted-house movie by Damien Hirst, but tracks like this inevitably lead
to
quoted 14 lines tracks
> tracks
> like "Cock/Ver 10," a hyperactive splutter of drum-machine beats and
> deflating
> video-game drones. The confused and self-indulgent "Gwarek 2" is a
> seven-minute
> soundscape that resembles something that Trent Reznor might have recorded
> after
> listening to the Beatles' "Revolution 9," then erased the next day. Among
> fans of
> IDM, or Intelligent Dance Music, as this sort of stuff is unfortunately
> labeled, rumor
> has it that James merely loaded this record with outtakes that have been
> eating up
> space on his hard drive for years, then released the album as a
deal-breaker
quoted 2 lines with
> with
> his label, Warp. Or perhaps the explanation for the incoherence of the
album
quoted 9 lines lies
> lies
> in its punny, unfunny title. Either way, he should have never done Drukqs,
> because
> his new noise mostly just sounds fukqed up.
>
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