How about this?:
Maybe DRUKQS IS JUST OUTAKES FROM YEARS PAST? being a fan, of course i want
to love this album... so, to console myself i now believe that all the
piano pieces are fairly recent, and all other tracks are just his favorites
from his archives. after listening to Drukqs i went back and listened to
Daddy, and i think it can be said that any song off that album pummels
Drukqs in terms of innovation, creativity, passion, warmth, grotesque...
SO, to come to terms with this clearly sub-par performance from the man, i
firmly believe that these are outakes... we all know how anal he is about
releasing stuff as RDJ. if this is the best new stuff he could come up
with, i don't think he would release anything.
also, there is this whole hoopla about him wanting to cut his contract with
Warp to start a fresh with Jenkinson on a new label... so, doesn't it make
sense that he might just release some old material to get out of that...
saving his new super-duper-shit for his new label? at least this thought
helps me sleep at night...
nat
a new home for indie and electronics...
http://www.littlefurythings.com
quoted 131 lines From: Ben Hatchelt <hatchelt@yahoo.co.uk>
>From: Ben Hatchelt <hatchelt@yahoo.co.uk>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] [rant] sorry, new aphex record blows
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:59:47 +0000 (GMT)
>
>nah, i don't really like it...it's too much like hard
>work to listen to...and i'm basically a lazy git! ;)
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David O'Toole <dto@qwsi.net>
> > To: <boston-idm@yahoogroups.com>
> > Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:36 AM
> > Subject: [idm] [rant] sorry, new aphex record blows
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Last week I picked up the latest full-length from
> > Aphex Twin.
> > > Unfortunately, post-millennium, he has done
> > exactly what Autechre did:
> > > gone from being one of the major innovating
> > electronic artists of the
> > > 1990's to being a complete joke. There are
> > precious few tracks worth
> > > listening to on this record, and none of them
> > equal the melodic skill
> > > or production quality of his "middle period".
> > Aphex's little sample-reuse
> > > problem gives the "ambient" tracks a very samey
> > feel (vaguely oriental
> > > chimes in the vein of "Nannou") and the orchestral
> > piano pieces just fall
> > > flat.
> > >
> > > The rest of the album is tired, mediocre
> > drum-and-bass. The originality in
> > > drum arrangement, rhythmic composition, and sample
> > creation that graced
> > > most previous efforts is gone here---the drum
> > sounds are ripped from some
> > > old tracker's sample pack you might find on an
> > obscure Scandinavian FTP
> > > site. And that shrill, dissonant "sample-rate
> > conversion" effect is
> > > everywhere, hanging like a pall of smoke over the
> > melodies---the obsession
> > > with certain facile, sonically homogenizing DSP
> > effects that killed
> > > Autechre circa LP5 has finally snuffed out the
> > last of 90's IDM's original
> > > megastars.
> > >
> > > The awful truth for the elites who shunned
> > melodists in favor of more
> > > "difficult" music: the glitch disease was
> > terminal, the patient has died
> > > with the release of this album. Glitch-fetish and
> > DSP-fuckery sapped
> > > attention from the first commandment of what we
> > do---the idea that melody
> > > *is* music---and led the greatest electronic
> > artists of a generation into
> > > the sorriest work of their careers. Bouncing-ball
> > percussion and granular
> > > wank are as worn-out as The Cher Vocal Effect.
> > >
> > > Sitting in a dark, hollowed-out building somewhere
> > under the Manhattan
> > > Bridge last year, at a show where a friend and I
> > had played a set
> > > earlier in the evening, watching kids actually try
> > to dance along to
> > > the-latest-hot-shit-from-warp, realizing that he'd
> > been hovering over
> > > that PowerBook for more than an hour without
> > producing anything resembling
> > > melody, chords, or steady rhythm----I knew, this
> > can't seriously last.
> > > Well the iMac has crashed and all our Max patches
> > are lost. Our Metasynth
> > > license expired, the Kyma's power supply burnt
> > out, and glitch has
> > > imploded----in Helvetica Bold, leaving nothing but
> > the smell of burnt
> > > Atari logo t-shirts and an angular plume of smoke
> > rendered in cubist
> > > fracture courtesy of The Designer's Republic (with
> > a few symbols
> > > of Katakana thrown in for luck).
> > >
> > > "Drukqs", like Autechre's awful "Confield", will
> > probably have its staunch
> > > defenders among the elites. But don't be fooled---
> > don't waste your time
> > > with this flaccid and uninventive record.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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