I can see how one could have such an opinion though.
I must admit, and I would bet my left foot that there
are at least a few that would agree....there have been
quite a few Aphex Twin songs that when I think "if
this was not Aphex, but just some unsigned artist how
would I feel about it?
interesting? yes, though provoking? most of the
time.....but sometimes I would not be afraid to say
that in my humble opinion its just a bunch of
"fuckery" that almost anyone with enough gadgets and a
computer could pull off.....
I wouldn't say Apex Twin is not a great musician and a
wonderful artist.....I think he's great....but
sometimes its just too much of nothing, and I think a
lot of whats on Drukqs, when compared to where it
seemed he was headed.....is just lazy, random, and
certainly nothing close to what he is really capable
of.
--- Lucas Caldwell <luke82@charter.net> wrote:
quoted 11 lines bwa hahaha. who hired that village idiot to write
> bwa hahaha. who hired that village idiot to write
> that review?
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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 62 lines Aphex twin, also known as England's Richard James,
> >
> > 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
> > 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
> > 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
> > with
> > his label, Warp. Or perhaps the explanation for
> the incoherence of the
> album
> > 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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