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Drukqs | 
 enlarge | Artist: Aphex Twin
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  154 reviews
Sales Rank: 26534
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 31174
UPC: 643443117425
EAN: 0643443117425
ASIN: B00005QD9N
Release Date: October 23, 2001
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Jynweythek | | • | Vordhosbn | | • | Kladfvgbung Micshk | | • | Omgyjya-Switch 7 | | • | Strotha Tynhe | | • | Gwely Mernans | | • | Bbydhyonchord | | • | Cock/Ver 10 | | • | Avril 14th | | • | Mt. Saint Michel Mix/St. Michaels Mount | | • | Gwarek 2 | | • | Orban Eq Trx 4 | | • | Aussois | | • | Hy A Scullyas Lyf A Dhagrow | | • | Kesson Daslef |
Disc 2
| • | 54 Cymru Beats | | • | Btoum-Roumada | | • | Lornaderek | | • | Penty Harmomium | | • | Meltphace 6 | | • | Bit 4 | | • | Prep Gwarlek 3b | | • | Father | | • | Taking Control | | • | Petiatil Cx Htdui | | • | Ruglen Holon | | • | Afx237 V7 | | • | Ziggomatic V17 | | • | Beskhu3epnm | | • | Nanou 2 |
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Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Often proclaimed as electronica's one true genius, Richard James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin, returns with a double CD that showcases his cleverness as well as his inevitable inscrutability. Still, amid macabre birthday songs, unsettling screams, and other bizarre touches, Drukqs offers the most technically accomplished and beautiful tracks of Aphex Twin's career. Every aspect of the Aphex brain is on display here, from stark pieces performed on sampled piano and zither to Squarepusher-styled drum & bass implosions, all informed by that peculiar Aphex treatment of bittersweet melody and unparalleled programming. For an artist once engrossed in homages to his dead twin brother and grotesque videos, Drukqs shows James getting by purely on music alone. "Mt. Saint Michel Mix" starts as maddening drum & bass, but is soon transfixed by glowing tones, hand drums, and police sirens. "Vordhosbn" is all acid beats and mad synths matched with fart-bombs and haunted cries. "54 Cymru Beats" sounds more like the tweaked-out, goofball techno of Wagon Christ than Aphex, while "Taking Control" goes metaphysical with cerebral synth-drums and muddled vocals. If Drukqs is the result of medication James has been imbibing during his three-year hiatus, then this is indeed better living through chemistry. Regardless, his music is still as beautiful and frothy as ever. --Ken Micallef
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 Insanely Complex Rhythms October 9, 2008
I've never understood this saying: "I don't like classical music it always puts me to sleep." For me, listening to horrible music has always given me insomnia, and amazingly great music puts me to sleep. Let's just say that by the end of the first cd I was already dozing off in mid-afternoon. It's been a long time since an electronica album has really impressed me, rarely do I find something which can hold it's own next to Deep Breakfast by Ray Lynch, Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada, Dead Cities by Future Sound of London, or Simple Things by Zero 7. But I'm tempted to say I prefer this album over any of those. As a classical composer this album has blown my mind, I get lost in these rhythms. 5 stars way up.
RDJ's genre-transcending masterpiece June 14, 2008
Although I admit I am largely unfamiliar with 2 of Aphex Twin's most famous pieces of work, "Selected Ambient Works Volume 2" and "The Richard D. James Album", I can confidently say that this is lightyears beyond the early "Selected Ambient Works 85-92" and "I Care Because You Do", as well as the recent "Analord" vinyl EPs. These compositions are beautiful, multi-faceted and detailed on a level almost comparable to Autechre.
"Drukqz" is perfectly thematic and atmospheric, while being incredibly diverse, stylistically, which is no easy feat... Ambient pieces and piano compositions flow seamlessly in and out of the glitchy IDM songs in an ethereal, red gold haze. The more minimal compositions aren't a completely different style as much as deconstructed; the droning ambiences of tracks like "gwely mernans" also exist as backdrops to the rhythms and melodies of the more frenetic tracks like "omgyjya switch7". The whole collection has a pretty consistent sonic presence.
Unlike the light, relaxed, stoned playfulness of most of his early work and "Analord", "Drukqz" is seriously emotionally intense. It occasionally adopts the numb warmth of his acid material, but is just as often disorienting, dark and alienating, full of microtonal / detuned harmony. It feels like for once, RDJ is taking his music seriously, and despite what some say about 'filler', I feel every track on here serves to make the experience more powerful. Even the more traditional, break beat focused tracks like "Mt Saint Michel Mix + St Michael" or "Taking Control", which might've seemed cliche by 2002, are saved before the end by gorgeous, memorable melody and atmosphere. There is always something interesting going on, and there is an equal of number of standout tracks at any point in the entire double album. Like all good IDM, "Drukqz" also seriously rewards repeated listening.
I feel like the reason "Drukqz" doesn't get the rave reviews it should is that music on it goes over the heads of most of his fan base, who can't appreciate the more slow paced ambient material, or the 20th century avant-classical inspired piano pieces. "Father" seriously almost sounds like it could have been written by Olivier Messiaen or Arnold Schoenberg.
Basically, "Drukqz" is a seriously ambitious work that succeeds on all levels, and probably one of the best electronic albums ever made. Highly recommended.
 Another Hard Edged Soft Ball May 29, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Comparatively quiet and uncrowded this CD proves another insignificant project. Odds and ends picked up here and there then assembled into contradictory resonances. 'Druqs' compositions come across as forced and tacky. Witty short squibs intermingled with blatantly caracatured kinetic never static synth drums. Where do we go from here Aphex Twin? The self appointed revolutionary of noise music has lost his feathers.
 his last good album? April 20, 2008
This seems like Aphex's last good album. I own 26 remixes for cash, and you can basically throw that one in the trash. Druqk's has some really standout, emotional, tracks of all types. The pacing of this album suffers greatly however as frantic IDM beats are interspersed with slow ambient "piano" tracks. Basically, you can't listen to the entire album in one go. Some tracks have me skipping ahead or turning it off. Its not really a classic, and it could have been if he worked on creating a flow. It feels like a singles release with some tracks he worked really hard on, and for that he deserves credit. As a whole it really suffers enough to take down two stars. Musically its pretty good though.
Sucked in. April 23, 2007
Avril 14th was the first song I heard off of this album. That was the reason I bought it. I had owned other Aphex Twin albums such as "Richard D. James Album" and the "Come To Daddy EP." But neither of those are as mysterious and beautiful as "Drukqs."
This album flows together very nicely if played continuously through. There are about ten electronica tracks, 10 piano pieces and a few scattered ambient tracks. Some of the trip-hop tracks really slap you in the face with how involved they are... But the piano pieces are truly beautiful.
Definitely my favorite Aphex Twin album.
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