― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I know, I know ILM. Hold your breath.
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Tha always makes me feel like I'm in my high school gym. Not cause I played it in there either...
― A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head (Bimble...), Sunday, 5 November 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyways, Killian Murphy was OTM in his initial remark that the first two tracks were the best thing on the album.
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 5 November 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 6 November 2006 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer: none of th movies make scence but they r good. (latebloomer), Monday, 6 November 2006 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― All The Furniture Is In The Garage (Bimble...), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 6 November 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― pipecock (pipecock), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Finally got 'Ambient Works 85-92'. Absolutely loving it. Need Volume II as soon as possible.
― krakow, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
SAW2 is soul-ambient
― pipecock (pipecock), Wednesday, November 8, 2006 9:41 PM
*cringe*
― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:16 (fourteen years ago) link
haha
― won't you be my GAPDY / come and make it rain down on NME (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
soulbient
― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lastfm.es/music/100dBs/_/Poppa+Large+In+The+US
Loving this mashup of IZ-US against the Ultramagnetic's Poppa Large.
― Moka, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Selected Ambient Works II > Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Even though Selected Ambient Works II is twice as long, I find it a far more engaging listen than Selected Ambient Works 85-92. I particularly like the track that sounds like snake charmer music, which sounds to me like a track Robert Smith could have come up with in 1984 or something if he had to come up with an ambient B-side for a Cure single.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:02 (seven years ago) link
Richard D. James Album > Selected Ambient Works II > Selected Ambient Works 85-92
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
probably about equal
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
Drukqs > Selected Ambient Works II > Richard D. James Album > Selected Ambient Works 85-92 > Syro > ...I Care Because You Do.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
I have a hard time rating SAW II. It's a tough album to compare to anything, really. Either you want to hear 2.5 hours of dreamy surreal synth stuff or you don't.
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
funny, nobody rated Drukqs back then.. do people still think it's a bad album?
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Thursday, 30 March 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
I particularly like the track that sounds like snake charmer music,
This one gave me a serious full-on audio-sensory nightmare once upon a time.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
xp Druqks is a bad album with some outstanding tracks. It's basically four different mini-albums on shuffle, innit? But yeah, I have trouble with it and always have.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
I remember when Drukqs came out it wasn't well received by some, but I reckon that was mostly down to people thinking it was just thrown together or something, which of course it wasn't. For me, it's about the sprawl and the experience and the way the acoustic piano tracks rub up against the more frantic beat-driven stuff. His best album, IMO.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
no
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:14 (seven years ago) link
yes
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
ok
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
Drukqs is great! Better than I Care Because You Do, which is spotty for me. Probably like it better than Syro as well.
Cheetah EP is fantastic, too. "CIRKLON3" is a top 5 Aphex Twin track for me.
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 30 March 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
druqks, man, I don't get it. It's a mostly unpleasant listening experience for me. I even tried slowing down the drill and bass tracks but they didn't become any more palatable to me.
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:52 (seven years ago) link
Every track on ICBYD is grand
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:53 (seven years ago) link
ICBYD is the shit. No way is it the bottom of the heap (with).
― andrew m., Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
I reckon that was mostly down to people thinking it was just thrown together or something
lol no, i just don't enjoy listening to it very much
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:57 (seven years ago) link
nearly every lukewarm or negative review made mention of the fact that it was unfinished or wasn't intended to come out. I think that definitely colored the way a lot of people heard it at first.
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Absolutely! I still reckon that whole thing was a rumour put about by RDJ himself.
― The Roger Waters Experience (Turrican), Thursday, 30 March 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link
ICBYD is my introduction to Twin as a full length. So classic!
SAW II is probably my favourite Aphex ambient release due to Lichen, Rhubarb and Blue Calx - all utter classics
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link
"bbydhyonchord" is one i really like from druqks. great melody/counterpoint, funky groove with odd/fun hand drum sounds
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 31 March 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
ICBYD is classic
― the late great, Friday, 31 March 2017 06:54 (seven years ago) link
I agree, ICBYD is the ne ultra plus Aphex album. Somehow the eclecticism on that one really works in its favour whereas with Druqks it kind of ruins it. I don't think Druqks sounds unfinished. It suffered at the time from high expectations, coming a couple of years after Windowlicker and Come To Daddy, but not really doing anything much more in terms of creativity than those EPs, which in my opinion are his pinnacle. It's a very stilted album with little quality control, and does this cyclical mid-tempo / banger / avant-garde / mid-tempo / banger / avant-garde thing all the way through. It could easily have been a series of EPs rather than this Russian roulette double LP. Nevertheless, it's got at least one or two tracks that are breathtaking.
It's my problem with almost everything else he's released since. On CTD and Windowlicker, Aphex had transcended into high-concept avant-pop music, but Druqks felt like he was repeating himself. Then the Analord series seemed more about looking back to the past and the sheer glut of releases became hard to keep up with. Syro too, just doesn't sound creatively interesting to me. Music tech fans have told me how much they love the Cheetah EP because he's coaxing impossible sounds out of old, difficult-to-use technology, but that's just not something that interests me. For me, the execution of the music is of less interest than the final result, and the final result just doesn't cut it in the same way as the ICBYD/CTD/RDJ/WL stretch, which seemed well-cultivated and hooky.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Friday, 31 March 2017 10:47 (seven years ago) link
I particularly like the track that sounds like snake charmer music,This one gave me a serious full-on audio-sensory nightmare once upon a time.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:00 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Snake charmer music? Which song is this?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 31 March 2017 11:15 (seven years ago) link
Cheetah is brilliant because it's funky as, all other considerations secondary at best. ditto Analord.
― Django Chutney (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 March 2017 11:15 (seven years ago) link
Haven't really dug anything Aphex has done since drukqs tbh. I also remember there was another rumor that he made it a double album so that he could get out of his contract with Warp. Don't know if that's true or not. But goddamn does it have some amazing songs on it. How can anyone hate "Avril 14th"?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 31 March 2017 11:17 (seven years ago) link
I would like to second all of mr dog latins points
― Not the real Tombot (El Tomboto), Friday, 31 March 2017 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Drukqs is one of my favourite electronic albums largely because of how all over the place it is (though I can definitely hear where the criticisms come from), but I'm a terrible dilettante when it comes to this sort of thing so that doesn't count for much. His last couple of releases have just refused to grow on me I'm afraid
― ultros ultros-ghali, Friday, 31 March 2017 12:31 (seven years ago) link
comparing his other stuff to Come to Daddy and Windowlicker seems like setting yourself up for disappointment, both those tunes are parodies that would've really have made sense in another era
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link
would've -> wouldn't've
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link