I really got into Drukqs only a few months ago, when I grabbed the mp3s (and
Analord) off of bittorrent to listen to at work. I put drukqs and analord on
shuffle play and went back to figuring out how to read DICOM image files,
and after a few shuffles through I decided it was way better than listening
to the CD had been when it came out. I liked the Analord tracks because they
remind me a lot of the stuff he was doing early on, without being the same
thing over again.
Drukqs also comes into a new focus if you listen to the arrangements on the
Alarm Will Sound Acoustica CD. Some of the Alarm Will Sound renditions are
of the talking dog variety -- a talking dog is amazing, even if he doesn't
talk very well -- but it made me listen to the Drukqs tracks again the way
the arrangers did -- hearing all the bits in the RDJ arrangements that slid
by unnoticed before.
I don't think anyone should get by with weak tracks just because they're
famous, but Aphex Twin is a sneaky bastard, and you can miss some of his
best stuff if you aren't listening closely.
On 11/7/05, Obed Vento <ovento@keyleadsonline.com> wrote:
quoted 65 lines I'm with the drukqs lovers, piano pieces and all
>
> I'm with the drukqs lovers, piano pieces and all
>
> The entire album was dope
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David @ Audiobulb [mailto:dwnewman@clara.co.uk]
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 5:16 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] aphex gets "complete apathy"?
>
> for me - some of the piano pieces are the best peices on there
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "incredible weirdo" <incredible.weirdo@gmail.com>
> To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [idm] aphex gets "complete apathy"?
>
>
> Universally reviled? Really? I thought the album was genius - all of it,
> even the prepared piano bits that had the IDM purists gagging (I recall
> one
> list member back when the album was released condemning the "general
> midi
> piano" pieces).
> I.W.
>
> On 11/7/05, chthonic <chthonic@chthonicstreams.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Recent history has not been as kind to James and his near-universally
> > reviled Drukgs album,
> > not to mention the complete apathy which has greeted his AFX titled
> > Analord series."
> > found at: http://junkmedia.org/?i=1764
> >
> > funny, seems like the analord EPs were the most frequent topic of the
> past
> > year on this list. i
> > guess the opinions of the people belonging to the group that gave IDM
> its
> > name don't count
> > anymore? or did i miss the apathetic tone of those posts?
> >
> >
> > d.
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