"Among fans of IDM, or Intelligent Dance Music, as this sort of stuff is
unfortunately labeled"
What the hell is he talking about? Then he goes on to say that HE thinks
Richard just threw together the crap lying on his computers to make the
album? Christ man, the album's not THAT bad. 1/5 score? Pheww.. I would
give Drukqs 3.5/5 for a rating if I had to. I think most people would
agree.
- Dan J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucas Caldwell" <luke82@charter.net>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] Rolling Stone on Drukqs
quoted 15 lines bwa hahaha. who hired that village idiot to write that review?
> 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
>
>
> > 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.
quoted 11 lines But
> > 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
quoted 1 line haunted-house movie by Damien Hirst, but tracks like this inevitably
> > haunted-house movie by Damien Hirst, but tracks like this inevitably
lead
quoted 7 lines to
> 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
quoted 2 lines after
> > after
> > listening to the Beatles' "Revolution 9," then erased the next day.
Among
quoted 12 lines fans of
> > 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,
quoted 13 lines because
> > because
> > his new noise mostly just sounds fukqed up.
> >
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