an ode to... drukQs

[@MaxGiu]

15:12 the "happy birthday, my little son" line always broke me... i mean, even the first time i heard it... the sound in her voice, that emotion (some) parents have in little traditional things as they grew older... or i dont know, maybe i like to feel emotional for anything

[@AbhNormal]

Nah, the emotion is real, I feel it too. Especially in the wake of Richard's parents passing recently

[@MaxGiu]

@@AbhNormal yesss. I mean it happened to me back in the day already. But it took a deeper meaning now I've been relistening to this album after this video. So many memories and rediscoveries

[@youtubeuserdan4017]

And how QKThr comes after that track... absolutely beautiful.

[@MaxGiu]

@@youtubeuserdan4017 totally agree, and thanks for this comment, you made me wanna listen to those two right now

[@Dr.Frogerston]

Aphex Twin is genuinely one of the greatest artists of our time.

[@sleep6837]

*all time

[@omn30]

drukQs just goes to show the sheer variety of Aphex Twin's discography

[@swimb4usink]

Small Aphex Twin vs Big Aphex Twin

[@Dr.Frogerston]

[@styfe2857]

[@jackuw]

time flies when youre passionate

[@LoogiBalloogi]

Both Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada give me this weird uncanny feeling, in something strange or alien sounding which came from a time more than 20 years ago which I never experienced. Strangely, I love it.

[@jackuw]

gonna comment again cuz why not, nice video. because of my short attention span and uncomfort of trying new artists, i probably never would of listened to this album, but this was a really nice way to sum it up and show each track with added commentary too. for big fans of aphex twin im sure this is even better for them, but even for a newbie like me, this was video was great. good job.

[@reubengv_]

Jack.... you are my goat.

[@tenaciousquid]

HOLY SHIT APHEX TWINS VIDEO LETS GO

[@reubengv_]

It's been a long time coming!

[@StebsStuff]

"surely the second half of the album wont have an incredibly depressing trilogy" lol. that 3-track sequence is one of my favorite moments on any aphex album. it's so beautiful but so crushing. and it hits you out of nowhere, being sandwiched between 2 of the most badass breakbeat songs ever. i'm glad you brought it up!

[@DGdescendant22]

I only fully heard this around 2009 and knew it was the best electronic album i ever heard. 15years later and im still in awe every time i hear it

[@taco2422]

omgyiya switch 7 is an absolute arranged chaos , love everysingle second of it especially the melodic part at 3 minute mark , great video , long live the aphex

[@MaxGiu]

OMG (sorry for the hype) i've just bought a pair of headphones, and i've been and aphex fan since i was like 18 (im 33 now) im gonna save this one for later, i need to be on my full energy (?)

[@lukasloukota2142]

thank you so much for making such a thoughtful and amazing video. its nice to see someone who actually gets Aphex Twin and his craft.

Love this album, thank you for making this video.

[@pathetic_girl]

im so glad you made a video on this album. i wrote a review of it for my school paper about a month ago, and you basically said everything i originally wanted to say but couldnt due to space constraints. it has been my favorite album for a number of years now and i think you did a fantastic job with your analysis of it. :D

[@reubengv_]

Thank you so much. I'm glad we are, and have been, on the same page :)

[@Moccason]

I’ve always loved ‘Avril 14th’ it was one of my dad’s favourites. He said it was a strange one for Aphex Twin, but I never would’ve guessed it would be part of an album so unusual and complex. Great to find this backstory :D So uniquely early 2000s somehow too. Brilliant video as usual 👌

[@ajplays-gamesandmusic4568]

I've been listening to Aphex Twin since 1996. Druqks is easily in my top 3 (RDJ Album, Druqks, Syro)... and this is the best retrospective I've seen on Druqks (probably the best restrospective I've seen on any Aphex related project). Good Job.

[@NeonLabsss]

this has always been one of my favorite parts in all of music soooo goooooood 2:51

[@Liam-rf1ey]

Aphex twin my beloved 🙏

[@JONNYTUBSTER]

APHEX THE DAMN GOAT !! So great to see another passion project about the best music artist of all time! Saw this coming from a mile away with the Analord tracks used in the back and the RDJ album cameo in that jam video ! Very in depth and superb video, mate!

[@icekall35]

Funny how one of the Rolling Stone's arguments of giving the album a one star is that the track names are unpronounceable

[@fartoutofthebutt]

that’s gotta be the most pretentious shit lol

[@Aisatsana1971]

Nanou2 is my favourite piece of music ever.

[@iamkaizenn]

still cant get over this video, thank you reuben

[@pathetic_girl]

oh yeah something that i think wouldve been fun to mention about father. if i remember correctly, the reason why his dad liked the track was because he said it sounded like "a drunk robot playing the piano" lol. im not sure if thats confirmed though i just remember hearing it somewhere and based on how he described his father it totally seems like something hed say.

[@benh8153]

This was an excellent analysis. I see from your other videos that music isn’t the main focus of this channel, but I would really like to more videos like this. Just judging by the album you picked for this one, I know you’ve got great taste. Great video 👍

[@reubengv_]

Thank you! Yeah I'm hoping to do this series more because it's low-key fun. Could do like boards of canada and that. Would be nice! It's also cool introducing new people to new sounds

[@benh8153]

@@reubengv_ ok yeah I was right. Definitely do a BoC video, I feel like your editing style would work very well with their visuals

[@Machinte]

I've got to listen to Aphex Twin more. I only know some of his music because of Jam (the series you got me to check out back in October of 2023. I might need to rewatch it again.) I didn't know he did this either. Looks like I've got more music to listen to

[@fabril2673]

Ziggomatic 17 is my favourite song by him and Drukqs is one of my favourite albums ever, thank you for this video

[@LemonFilmsForever]

Not what I was expecting from this channel but a really great watch! Interested in seeing more content like this

[@jevinday]

I've never listened to Aphex Twin but they seem to be legendary online. Thanks for making this, as others have said I've watched all your videos and love seeing people making videos about art that they love. UK dance/techno (whatever you guys call this stuff) is something I know nothing about, though as a musician I find it fascinating. When I was younger I didn't know there was such a huge difference between this and modern EDM

[@darkcassoulet1041]

Really great video, didn't expected it to become so emotional tho

[@nemvevo_]

me personally id go for the big aphex twin

[@hypo2104]

Noob Aphex Twin vs Pro Aphex Twin vs Hacker Aphex Twin vs God Reubengv

[@ihaveagoddamnplanarthur]

Stop i beg you

[@tomio8072]

I listened to the first half of drukqs when I was depressed and angry and sad, and then I vowed to listen to the second half when I felt better. After about 6 months I came back and listened to the second half and I think cried when it gets to meltphase

[@MaxChalkley]

I listened to Drukqs on an edible while watching a lightening storm. I used my best headphones and stereo. This album is insane and Aphex Twin has been such a huge and important puzzle piece that was missing. So glad I took the plunge after being scared of windowlicker for so long. Great video!

[@iamkaizenn]

this video was amazing, thank you reuben

[@behelit1997]

I believe in Aphex Twin Supremacy

[@219SilverChoc]

Great Video! I briefly had a DVD of Rubber Johnny but I gave it to a friend who's a fan of AT, I still need to get into more of his music outside of his singles!

[@valotin4807]

this was great

[@MrOtistetrax]

As a long-time fan of Aphex Twin, I always felt like Come To Daddy, Boy/Girl and Windowlicker were just him kind of taking the piss.

[@smiggleincinc]

i'm glad to see you're finally branching out from niche british television! you could really go places :)

[@nixin6090]

Such high quality, keep it up

[@lovedeathdisco]

you did an incredible job w/this video, thank you for your attention [to detail] . . . bye 🙌🏼

[@ajplays-gamesandmusic4568]

If you adore the melodic breakdown at the end of Ziggomatic... Richard has said that it was inspired by Bogdan Raczynski. If you like "Drill N Bass" and if you like simple but emotional melody... I highly recommend checking out "Samurai Math Beats", "Boko Mo Wakaran", and "Thinking of You". They are all a bit rough around the edges (written on a 386 laptop running Impulse tracker, while busking around in Japan in the late 1990s), but they've all got their golden moments, where the drum programming, and the melodies really shine through... if you're willing to give them the time.

[@angeloocolee]

this video is really beautiful, i loved watching it. thank you❤️

[@festivitycat]

1:54 When you've only ever seen the word 'folk' written down

[@SorryDiego]

aphex twin is someone i've been trying to get into and the drukQs album is one of my favorites espically with the classic tiktok sad boy edit song in there which i'll admit while very basic is sitll my favorite amazing video reuben i can't wait to see what you're cooking next

[@oliboom11672]

The Aphex Twins logo will still forever give me nightmares😱😂 But a smashing video like always Reuben, get those high views and likes 👍🎉👍🎉

[@worldscrap2738]

when i originally discovered that aphex twin existed i found it from this random corecore short that popped up, i clicked on the song qkTHR because i loved the song, when i originally saw the album and that qkTHR was in it i was like "oh this is gonna be a nice track to listen to" i clicked on the song Vordhosbn and got hit with literal whiplash by how different it was

[@epicgamermoment]

Weird that I just subscribed to you a few weeks ago and started listening to Aphex Twin shortly after. I enjoy many of the tracks on Drukqs although it's a bit too long winded for me. Thankfully we got Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments Part 2 which has to be my favorite project from Richard. It takes all the best ideas from Drukqs and pushes them to the extreme. Great video! Please make more like this, hearing people talk about art they are passionate about is very inspiring to me.

[@pathetic_girl]

whenever i listen to it i like to split up the discs and take a little break after the first one. it makes it a little easier to digest.

[@notimput]

Regarding the comment on Gwarek2, for me this is perfectly in line with Musique Concrète and other contemporary electronic music that followed in it's wake. There are so many composers to mention, but I'll throw out a few that I think are good examples: start with Pierre Schaeffer and his "Cinq études de bruits", considered five of the earliest electronic music pieces. Listen to Karlheinz Stockhausen, who merged to French and the German school and shook the music world with this "Gesang der Jünglinge". Personally, I am also a fan David Tudor and his "Neural Synthesis" series. Maybe also check out Luc Ferrari's "Presque rien avec filles" as a good example for pure Musique Concrète. I mean, the Beatles' "Revolution 9" is in that line and upset many fans (they also included Stockhausen on their Sgt. Peppers cover), which brought it into a wide mainstream view and influenced many more people than Pierre Schaeffer could ever hope to. Hope this helps people who haven't known much about this line of music and maybe you get into some new stuff!

[@MTBPIDD]

Top notch video - spoke all my thoughts of the album out loud. Way ahead of its time, released the same year I was born which I just can’t wrap my head around

[@sureleyyy]

if you enjoy the prepared piano stuff on drukqs, you should check out john cages sonatas and interludes for prepared piano. there’s many in that collection that feel like aphex.

[@toastedcherries]

YYYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@toastedcherries]

The #1 thing i needed rn is a video essay about drukqs this is litr one of my favorite albums of all time

[@geiko6637]

hkhkhhhhhg

[@yunk1514]

Man i am begging you continue making videos like this. This might be one of, if not my favourite video on yt. I love Drukqs but honestly after watching this my appreciation for the album and even for Richard has skyrocketed. Thank you so much 🙏

[@zaiden_2006]

personally i'm more of a boards of canada fiend, but aphex has kinda interested me, i should try more of his stuff

[@reubengv_]

I love BoC so much, but I think Aphex's stuff translates so much better into my style! Plus there's already great videos out there covering their albums and career.

[@bounceysteve]

i’m guessing geogaddi hypervisitor I love your editing, and the things that differentiate you even slightly from other youtubers I watch I have no clue why I decided to comment this 6 months after watching this on release

[@Flippy1565]

best album ever

[@doomedatx]

aoty user reuben 🙀 who would have ever guessed (a lot of people)

[@reubengv_]

Leave a follow lmao

[@doomedatx]

@@reubengv_can’t believe i’m ruining my follow list by adding a weirdo aphex twin fan into it 😞

[@thebluke]

I love drukQs great video.

[@oliboom11672]

Funny grinning face guy 😭😭😭😂😂😂

[@MaxGiu]

once i read "Gwarek2" is considered "Concrete Music" or "Musique concrète"... where someone uses raw material to make something like a "audio collage" Igorrr's Moisissure always reminded me of this track too (we also love Igorrrrrrrr)

[@user-go9mc8vb5h]

This is a great ode to Drukqs! I have been watching your videos since the Russian roulette one. You've got me into Jam and done a lot of research about Chris Morris! Keep up the good work mate!

[@MaxGiu]

i like you, man... you are really awesome

[@MaxGiu]

2:44 LOL! how you dare? thats Mr VSnares you talking about

[@lespwineg]

very very very very very good video

[@plythbird]

great video man, deserves more views

[@linkawesome]

crazy insane song names

[@oGrqpez]

Saw this coming

[@OZZY9669]

Awesome video my man!

[@glx404]

great video

[@sethmeadors1274]

Tbh I can’t categorize Richard’s music. It seems like it’s 2-3 in one ya know? Dunno if I’m tweaking or not

[@m_st1cxl]

also if nobody has said that yet 54 cymru beats uses samples from the formula track off of the windowlicker single

[@Joeseaman42773]

#crazy

[@danielflynn1864]

Amazing vid!

[@Bruhmomentwedeb]

Cool

[@narakiabee8370]

eu amo Aphex ele representa várias fases da vida, altos e baixos. 7\

[@bounceysteve]

if you like boards of canada too your my favorite internet person no exceptions made me think of geogaddi

[@reubengv_]

Oh, BoC is one of favourites of all time

[@bounceysteve]

@@reubengv_ thank you so much that's great to hear

[@bounceysteve]

I only just realised boc might be on this series because of this and that's insanely cool if so

[@satin360]

Nice

[@softcactus0147]

Cool editing and video idea :) keep it up

[@comscrum]

Very well made video, Drukqs is one of my favorite albums ever.

[@Ben_19M]

yeah

[@aspiregabriel1]

great video man, just recently listened the album and this is accurate lol i always liked the double disc concept

[@TheAndradeCS]

Should i listen to the album first to fully enjoy the video or can i just go straight for the vid? I am familiar with Aphex Twin's sound already, so i can handle drukqs.

[@reubengv_]

Real talk, having listened to it already will improve your experience but going into it blind will equally be as nice to watch

[@TheAndradeCS]

@@reubengv_ Thanks for answering. I think i'll listen to drukQs first so i can experience it myself. Im a big fan of his, love the first Ambient Works and the Richard Album.

[@thomaspostgate1222]

Always heard the vox at the end of takin control as “these bits”

[@imcrowbug]

i thought u couldnt get more based

[@GOD_NEON]

Currently in the “it’s growing on me” phase haha

[@hmx12]

very nice video

[@blqkp]

Incredibly well made video 🎶

[@profdre]

Drukqs is one of those albums where I'm always a bit annoyed that other people like it too.

[@grainybrews]

This album is so fucking good!

[@MaxGiu]

(sorry, mate, im gonna kinda spam your comment section here) i will always remember the moment i listened to aphex for the first time... i was 16 years old or something like that (33 now), and i've found a "demotivational image" ('member those?)... it was this music sheet full of stuf and it said "does he write this stuff or just slam his keyboard?"... immediately needed to listen to that, and i found Come To Daddy's video.. and damn it blew my mind i'm still cleaning the ceiling from my brains... next thing i know, i was listening to DrukQs for the first time, and it changed a lot in my concept of listening and making music im loving this video so much

[@MaxGiu]

actually first time i listened to aphex, was some years before... when i found this "creepy-pasta-alike-website" with "Rubber Johnny" playing on loop... nothing else, no information, no words, , no video controls or anything and damn i loved it

[@anesssssssssssssssssssssssssss]

The pioneer of breakcore was actually Alec Empire on 1996 with The Destroyer album

[@Matthewscrimbly]

Ah the copyright demons gonna get you bro

[@mintyy_yt4633]

Hey I have an idea for the next video, and I’m thinking do you did something on inside no. 9 and Especially the episode on season 5 or season 4 where they went live for Halloween, any thanks for reading :)

[@Trench303]

Yerr

[@lawrencemoon9638]

great video keep up the video :) (also by any chance do you like daft punk?)

[@reubengv_]

Discovery is an all-time great, and in general I think they're pretty cool

[@2rotten4you]

This is a great video.

[@Natural_man10]

I cannot believe this video has less than a million views

[@shelly-]

lovely video

[@y2kona]

20:25 whats the font you use for the interviewer?