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Drukqs [PA] by Aphex Twin

Drukqs [PA] by Aphex Twin

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Key Information
Artist: Aphex Twin
Record Label: London/Sire
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Electronica
Release Date: October 23, 2001
Number of Discs: 2
Song List: Disc 1
: 1. Jynweythek Ylow
2. Vordhosbn
3. Kladfvgbung Micshk
4. Omgyjya Switch
5. Strotha Tynhe
6. Gwely Mernans
7. Bbydhyonchord
8. Cock/Ver 10
9. Avril 14th
10. Mt. Saint Michel Mix + St. Michaels Mount
11. Gwarek 2
12. Orban EQ Trx 4
13. Aussois
14. Hy a Scullyas Lyf a Dhagrow
15. Kesson Daslef
Song List: Disc 2
: 1. 54 Cymru Beats
2. Btoum-Roumada
3. Lornaderek
4. Qkthr
5. Meltphace 6
6. Bit 4
7. Prep Gwarlek 3b
8. Father
9. Taking Control
10. Petiatil Cx Htdui
11. Ruglen Holon
12. Afx237 V7
13. Ziggomatic V17
14. Beskhu3epnm
15. Nanou 2
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Details: Aphex Twin is Richard D. James. It's tempting to imagine Richard James holed up in his basement for years on end, concocting foaming aural experiments to try out on unsuspecting listeners, and he certainly does little to dispel that image here. 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. Like some demented baseball pitcher, James constantly varies his stylings, now pastoral acoustic piano, now impossibly fast breakbeat techno garage, now weird hollers from behind the basement door. He keeps the listener constantly off balance (at one point including a Stephen Hawking-like voice reading ...
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