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| | Drukqs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | drukqs comprises 30 tracks, divided into two discs on the CD release (15 songs on each disc), and onto 8 sides on the quadruple vinyl release. | | | drukqs (sometimes spelt Drukqs or drukQs) is a 2001 experimental double album by Richard D. James, released under his most frequently used artistic name, Aphex Twin. | | | James also seems to be on poor terms with Warp Records, his label, and may have released this half-unreleased-tracks/half-piano double album to fulfill his contract requirements. |
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| | Drukqs - Aphex Twin |
| | Drukqs is an advanced album in the aphex style and is the manifestation of Richard James' most honest internal voice out of all the albums made under all of his identities. | | | The hardest part of this album for a listener is deciphering the musical expressions of his style and relating to them on an emotional level. | | | The songs on Drukqs are very distinct from the songs people like when first listening to aphex twin. |
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| | APHEX TWIN - Drukqs |
| | Aphex Twin releases are often received with a strange mixture of both sceptisism and excitement, through the years we have been treated to albums that verge from unlistenable noise to a talent verging on genius. | | | As we have come to learn, RDJ is not one to be trusted, either musically or verbally, however, on Drukqs he allows his unique sound to speak for itself. | | | Anyone who doubted this mans talent, of which there can not be many, can be under no doubt now. |
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http://www.barcodezine.com/revaphextwindrukqs17022004.htm
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| | REVIEW: Aphex Twin - "Classics" & "Drukqs" |
| | He must have composed quite a large amount of music in that time because this release is a double CD with 30 songs on it, clocking in at over 100+ minutes of music. | | | Drukqs is chock full of several varieties of music. | | | I found the entire release to be quite an enjoyable listen, and easily spun it in one sitting. |
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http://www.legendsmagazine.net/123/aphex.htm
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| | APHEX TWIN - DRUKQS |
| | Spanning 2 CDs or 4 slabs of vinyl and totalling 30 tracks, Drukqs was met with a mixed reaction. | | | While the tracks on Drukqs differ in style quite dramatically, they all bear the trademark of a quality electronic music artist; they just have that confident accomplished sound about them. | | | After an extended hiatus from the scene, James began appearing as a DJ and news of a new album slowly emerged. |
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http://universalsource.co.uk/show_article.php?id=60
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| | NME.COM - News - THE 'DRUKQS' WORK |
| | APHEX TWIN's new album is called 'DRUKQS' and is to be released in mid-October by WARP RECORDS - and NME.COM has been given an world exclusive preview of the groundbreaking release. | | | 'Drukqs' is a 30-track double-CD with the most bizarre tracklisting ever... | | | A single featuring new material not on the album is expected to precede 'Drukqs'. |
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http://www.nme.com/news/35906.htm
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| | BBC - Experimental Review - Aphex Twin, Drukqs |
| | Drukqs was actually the first Aphex Twin album I ever heard but in the years since its release I have become a big fan of Richard D. James and some others in the "IDM" genre (hate that name). | | | Drukqs shows another progreesion in aphex twins sound, and those simply expecting more windowlicker were foolish. | | | and Windowlicker are inexplicable works of Genius, for the sheer volume and variety of tracks Drukqs it is an album release expressing a confidence and gleefullness in the process of creation being enjoyed by an artist just entering his prime. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental/reviews/aphex_drukqs.shtml
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| | Aphex Twin: Drukqs (2001): Reviews |
| | Drukqs is the most sincere album [James] has released since 1995's I Care Because You Do. | | | Most important of all, though, 'Drukqs' is an unpredictable (yet compelling) listen. | | | Not enough of Drukqs confidently breaks new ground, and too often James falls back on the all too familiar dysfunctional jitterbeat which has typified Aphex output since 1996's Richard D James album. |
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http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/aphextwin/drukqs
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| | Aphex Twin - Drukqs - Stylus Magazine |
| | Drukqs hits its own potholes, succumbing to many of the failings of double albums before it by the time the hundredth minute is over. | | | Instead of pushing the limits of electronic music again, James has decided to play some pranks (the title of the album itself appears to be a pun of sorts: "Druk qs" is a phonetic approximation of "drug use"). | | | Of course, there's always the possibility that Drukqs was meant as a genuine album. |
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http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=30
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| | Aphex Twin: Drukqs - Release Music Magazine review |
| | The sheer broadness of the "Drukqs" project is overwhelming and promises hours of fun and challenging listening. | | | Then he released "Drukqs", to at least earn some money from his songs that would soon probably be out on the net anyway. | | | Ultimately though, "Drukqs" is almost too broad and demands too much from its listener. |
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| | aphex twin: drukqs Nov 2, 2001 |
| | Each song on drukqs is just as impossible to pigeonhole as the album itself. | | | The main question surrounding the release of drukqs seems to be, "What the fuck is Aphex Twin doing?" Reneging on a promise not to release any more music in his lifetime? | | | During the quieter piano pieces, samples of hammers hitting strings pan from speaker to speaker under each note. |
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http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxxii/11.02.01/ae/p13aphex.html
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Drukqs [PA] - Aphex Twin at Epinions.com |
| | At times, the album can be as gentle and tranquil as a childhood lullaby, but as soon as the last sheep hurdles the white-picket fence, the music changes: morphing into head-bobbing anthems and even nightmarish masterpieces. | | | Different from his previous albums, Aphex Twin incorporates a few sultry, film-noirish piano compositions to the mix on Disc 1 of "Drukqs": evidence that his musicianship keeps evolving with every release. | | | Truly, this is an emotional album: joyous, weepy, angry, and at times, a bit frightening. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_52813598340
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| | Aphex Twin: Drukqs: Pitchfork Review |
| | The problem with Drukqs, a two-disc, 30-track medley that allegedly wraps up Richard D. James' contract with Warp Records, is that there's really no puzzle at all. | | | From a man who has made a career staying a step ahead of his fans, an album as conventional as Drukqs comes as a sad surprise. | | | They sound like throwbacks to the past rather than prospects on the future; and for all of their compositional strength, there's an element of the Aphex Twin mystique missing. |
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http://pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/aphex-twin/drukqs.shtml
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| | The Electric Newspaper |
| | It’s not exactly music to dance to, and occasionally — especially considering it’s length — it’s a record that is difficult to listen to, but it’s never less than compelling. | | | It has been suggested by some that drukqs is James’ fuck-off record to his (soon to be former) label Warp Records. | | | Along with the fuck-off rumour, it’s also been rumoured that drukqs is simply tracks that James had sitting on his computer that he had no idea what to do with, so why not just release it as an album, and — hey presto! |
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| | APHEX TWIN Drukqs |
| | If Drukqs is a similar bric-a-brac of sounds, it also sounds as if two albums were running in parallel, with tracks from each one playing alternatively, sending the listener on a roller coaster of impressions and expressions. | | | There are enough moments here to prove that Richard D James still is one of the most creative musicians on the planet, but too often, he lets slip some incredibly weak tracks through. | | | If Tom Jenkinson’s fast forwarding drill’n’bass has always retained a good level of interest thanks to its jazz connections, James has never really managed to create a digital equivalent. |
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http://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/reviews/aphextwin_drukqs.htm
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| | LAUNCH, Music on Yahoo! - Aphex Twin - Drukqs |
| | 'Drukqs' is a thirty track, 2CD album - the first long player from the Cornishman since 'Richard D James'. | | | So while fans proclaim AFX "genius", 'Drukqs' is way too much an Aphex album to fulfil such a title. | | | And in-between the chaos and peace, 'Drukqs' induces a whole host of emotions using acid squiggles, plucked piano strings and 80s electro-breaks. |
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http://www.dotmusic.com/reviews/Albums/October2001/reviews22341.asp
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| | Splendid E-zine reviews: Aphex Twin: Drukqs |
| | Most of Drukqs is nightmare music -- but of the most compelling stripe. | | | However, with two discs of fifteen songs each -- more than ninety minutes of music -- to choose from, you can be safely assured that just about anywhere your CD player's laser comes to rest, you'll find a sound that'll grab your electronic music paradigm and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. | | | Its blizzard-like flurry of punishing beats, skittering drill-n-bass rhythms, heavily processed vocal samples, archaic video-game noises, creepy-sounding treated piano melodies and ephemeral sonic tinkering may bruise the ears of sensitive listeners. |
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| | Opus // Music // Aphex Twin - Drukqs |
| | There is a great album at the heart of "Drukqs". | | | The haunting piano pieces are a nice touch, a refuge from the drill n' bass assault that makes up the rest of the album; "Avril 14th" is especially lovely, a sort of lovely childhood memory to make up for that whole "Come To Daddy" nightmare. | | | There are many moments of brilliance on "Drukqs", enough for an album's worth. |
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| | 'Drukqs' by Aphex Twin from The Portsmouth Chorus. |
| | Deified in the sphere of experimental dance--partly for his indisputable sporadic genius, but partly, it must be said, for his bullish refusal to play the whole "releasing records" game, and the subsequent mythology that such contrariness invariably prompts--every new release is greeted like it's the future of music on plastic. | | | Click for more related Music about 'Drukqs' - from ThePortsmouthChorus.com. | | | The characteristic qualities of darkness, sadness, lyric beauty, impressive violence, vulnerability, and sinister sexual aggression still seem to be there in 'Druqks', linking it to his former works. |
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| | Aphex Twin - Drukqs |
| | Drukqs manages to do this all in one swoop. | | | The contrast between the beat and the piano tracks are really good, so all in a nutshell: Drukqs album is a must! | | | Highlights on this album are Meltphace 6 (beautyfull beats and melodies) and Ziggomatic V17 (very emotional, fits for "the last beat containing-song on the album") |
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| | sonomu: Drukqs |
| | 'Drukqs' has solo piano pieces alternating with drill'n'bass code, pianos and synths played to the background of industrial ambient drones, the stuff you would normally expect from the man (except the solo piano pieces which of course you wouldn't expect). | | | Twin has found a working equilibrium in sequencing the tracks and styles (drum'n'bass, mutterings, 'field' recordings etc, besides the above-mentioned), and also because the tracks themselves tend to be good. | | | If so, then you (and almost everyone I know, myself included) should feel very seriously threatened by this new vicious audio product - 2 disks and 27 tracks warbling and gurgling out their load of bits, bleeps, cuts, beats and, erm, piano lyricism. |
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| | Aphex Twin - Drukqs |
| | Clocking in at thirty tracks across two CDs (or four LPs - 'Drukqs' is the heaviest vinyl record ever produced), the quantity of music here should certainly satisfy all that waiting. | | | 'Drukqs' is a worthy addition to the canon of a maverick innovator whose music will undoubtedly be appreciated as pioneering in years to come. | | | Alternating between belting rhythmic drum and bass and gentle, Satie-style piano pieces, much of the mood of the album recalls the 'Selected Ambient Works 2' collection - this is more about texture, and contrasts in texture, than it is about songs. |
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| | Junkmedia: Aphex Twin : Drukqs |
| | Sensitive, Erik Satie-esque piano bits are followed by spooky, electro-gamelan sounding interludes followed in turn by vicious and over-the-top breakbeat workouts. | | | On the other hand, there is some startlingly fine music here that, if we can ignore history and expectation for a moment, will impress the shit out of anyone giving an honest listen. | | | One of the more troubling aspects of the online hardcore-music-dork reviews of Drukqs was a sense that Aphex had let us down by failing to reinvent electronic music for us again. |
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| | Drukqs by Aphex Twin CD |
| | His past musical output has varied from the gentle but weird, to the baffling, to the ghastly, and with DRUKQS he manages to combine all the aforementioned in a compelling yet unsettling mix that is never less than fascinating. | | | The tracks are listed on the booklet, but not necessarily in the same order they appear on the album, and moreover James seems to have developed his own language somewhere along the way, so we're left to our own devices to figure things out Drukqs. | | | You can have a nice mellow piece of piano, and right after that you've got hit by a raging Drum & Bass track... |
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http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/PID/2211465/a/Drukqs.htm
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| | Aphex Twin: Drukqs Aversion.com Review |
| | James jumps from style to style without a second glance, going from scorching drill’n’bass to acid to out-of-place organic piano numbers in what, if Drukqs was a one of his sets as a DJ and not an album, could only be described as a train wreck. | | | The excruciatingly long double album takes Aphex Twin, or as his mama and papa call him, Richard James, rambling through a total of 30 tracks, most with names even more unpronounceable than the albums’ title. | | | While the techno world’s long waited for the return of a staggering Aphex Twin album, Drukqs bears more resemblance to the scattered and inconsequential Nine Inch Nails double album, The Fragile (1999, Nothing), than the electronic revolution that’s supposedly going to deliver the world from the bonds of organic music. |
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| | EM411.com - [music] DRUKQS 2 TRACK PROMO - Electronic Music 411 |
| | Expectations are really high for the imminent DrukQs album – this will happen when an artist doesn’t release an LP for five years. | | | Unless you are a completist (warp claims “these mixes are very slightly different to the album versions”) then you’ll likely skip this release and get your fix in six days when DrukQs is released. | | | In the meantime, i got my copy of the full cd as well as the full album. |
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| | Drukqs from LiveJournal |
| | Literally, they just turned both CDs into one track each, and then got both tracks to play simultaneously on one channel in the one track. | | | I hope I didn't lose all credibility with mentioning Janet and Alanis, but fuck, those are some really good albums and I was young... | | | Some insanely awesome guy, with admittedly quite a lot of time on their hands, decided to combine both CDs of Aphex Twins Drukqs into one song. |
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| | RollingStone.com: Drukqs : Aphex Twin : Review |
| | 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. | | | Either way, he should have never done Drukqs, because his new noise mostly just sounds fukqed up. |
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http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/182317/aphextwin?pageid=rs.ArtistDiscography&pageregion=triple1
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| | Aphex Twin: Drukqs - PopMatters Music Review |
| | I guess enough people ignored his threats: he decided to do Drukqs, an album whose title might as well have been inspired by the same demented numerologist who demanded Dionne Warwick add an "E" to the end of her name. | | | The tunes oscillate between exciting hyperactive beat-happening compositions and tedious exercises in piano practice or can-banging. | | | The new Aphex Twin release, Drukqs is an amorphous mulch peppered with a handful of tasty, exciting tracks. |
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http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/a/aphextwins-drukqs.shtml
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| | Armchair DJ: Music Review: Aphex Twin: Drukqs |
| | But on his new double album, "Drukqs" - his first long-player since 1996 - the man known as the Aphex Twin leans toward the former on tracks that echo most of his earlier musical phases but don't assert any bold new direction of their own. | | | Spastic breakbeat freakouts, hip-hop hymns, elliptical ambient sketches and stark piano solos appear at fairly regular intervals, but no one sound dominates. | | | Richard D. James knows how to do pretty, and he sure as hell knows how to do ugly. |
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| | Drukqs UK Double CD by Aphex Twin at eil.com |
| | APHEX TWIN Drukqs (2001 UK 30-track 2-CD album set from the West Country Techno genius featuring a deep and dark mixture of ambient lushness with a smothering of aggressive noise!) | | | Drukqs UK Double CD by Aphex Twin at eil.com | | | All items are in mint or excellent condition unless otherwise stated. |
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| | Gridface: Aphex Twin: Drukqs |
| | Richard’s provided us with plenty of tracks, but unfortunately Drukqs isn’t a terribly cohesive album. | | | It’s difficult not to get your hopes up when you hear there’s a new release from an artist you haven’t heard from in years. | | | Not only that, but we’ve heard virtually all these sounds before. |
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http://www.gridface.com/reviews/drukqs.html
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| | Ink 19 :: Outsight :: Outsight: Illegal Drukqs |
| | The TV spot for Aphex Twin’s new album Drukqs was banned in the United Kingdom. | | | Previously, Mordam Records had distributed Kill Rock Stars for about 8 years and before that K records from 1991 to 1993. | | | Outsight brings to light non-mainstream music, film, books, art, ideas and opinions. |
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| | RAN: Aphex Twin - Drukqs (2001) |
| | Whilst Drukqs is not quite a quantum leap from his previous work, it's a definite progression from Richard D James Album, the Come To Daddy EP and "Windowlicker", with more moments of beguiling beauty that suck you in before ambushing you with something hard and blunt. | | | It's not hard music, just a case of finding bearings to orientate oneself to. | | | The album makes damned clear that for all of RDJ's oft-amusing media strategies, there are few compromises for popular taste here, and this will grate with some people. |
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| | Aphex Drukqs Twin |
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| | Aphex Twin - Drukqs: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
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| | X Drukqs |
| | Song Lornaderek found as track 18 on Album Drukqs | | | There are no exact matches for the search. |
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| | Aphex Twin Drukqs |
| | Song Ziggomatic 17 found as track 28 on Album Drukqs | | | Monday 07th of November 2005 12:08:39 AM Home |
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| | Welcome to Streets Online Leftfield Drukqs |
| | 'Drukqs' is a mesmerising mix of understated ambience and construction site cacophony, a variety of musical textures that holds the attention perfectly across this double disc set. | | | Richard James has been making a nuisance of himself for rather a long time now, and his sense of musical mischief has certainly not abated since his last album, five years ago. | | | The inclusion of a voicemail birthday greeting from his parents is exactly the sort of thing most artists wouldn't commit to digital format, but it's also exactly the sort of thing we expect from the Twin. |
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| | APHEX TWIN - DRUKQS: Buy CD for $15.91 |
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