Aphex Twin
Drukqs

Multifaceted, brilliant, deep within our inner self, close to us, far from us, psychopathic, syncopated, surreal, unreal...

Completely deconstructed, out of the preset molds, destroying what for centuries, for millennia has been told to us to be and what to do... sometimes almost furious, diabolical, terrifying, in an almost Dadaist vision and never cacophonic.. other times in line with our conscience reaching our subconscious... with who we really are or even who we would have wanted to be.

Fucking aseptic… arid, brilliant, passionate, empathetic, apathetic….

I have in front of me another project by Aphex Twin titled "drukqs", the tracks are written in a strange way, they seemingly look like letters without meaning, placed haphazardly, some might think of the usual oddities of the author, but instead, part of them are written in Cornish, a Celtic language of Cornwall, others instead like Lornaderek " are combinations of the names of James' parents, "Father" instead dedicated to his own father, and "Mt. Saint Michel + Saint Micheals Mount" are two real places.

I consider Aphex Twin's projects a series of sound experiences, in a perfect fusion between ambient and techno, within a visionary madness, tormented by moments of maximum schizophrenia and paranoia, and moments of absolute calm, but almost apparent... evocative... as if wanting to test the listener.

The tracks flow fast and crazy, as if following a design, at times even cheerful in others melancholic and sad but warm and pleasant, maintaining that particular attention from the listener, as if guiding you to a distant place, as if asking you to follow them... and it is there that you really begin to listen to this splendid project.

You start following the notes believing they may lead you to places familiar and known to you, in contact with your deepest self in full inertia and in complete abandonment of forces… you are completely attracted to it and remain at its mercy.

But Aphex Twin does what it wants, it distances you from yourself, initially maintains the same sound, but at times changes the rhythms and cadences sometimes syncopated, very fast… genius and unruliness, it throws you off… you can't stop listening… you are almost forced to, with hopeful anticipation of the arrival of a melody that relaxes you... splendid! you are completely enveloped by it! like the warmth of the sun on a cold Tramontana day.

In the most "intense" and fast tracks, your thoughts are invaded by strange feelings of discomfort… in the track "Omgyjya Switch7" I think of "vieni avanti cretino" with Lino Banfi serving coffees… very strange and ridiculous!

The whole then is pervaded by rhythms completely played with piano solos.

The album must be fully understood as a single catharsis of sounds that follow each other, in which frenetic techno melodies alternate with a syncopated blend of abstract jungle/drum'n'bass and melodies in perfect ambient style.

As already stated, a sound experience, awaiting the next melody to envelop you, warm you, and abandon you in the cold grayness of your existence, the one most inherent in us, so close to us that we don't want it to be seen or revealed and therefore rejected.

Within this sound project there is a track "afx237 v.7" which synchronizes as a perfect soundtrack to the short film Rubber Johnny directed by Chris Cunningham; another visual experience where the viewer, besides being bombarded by a frenetic jungle/drum'n'bass, as if injected intravenously, is "entertained" by a video as brilliant as it is gruesome.

Recommended even to those not fond of the genre…