Aphex Twin: Drukqs (4LP) [WARP]

Why you'll love it

Drukqs is back on four LPs, 25 years after Warp first put it out. It holds 'Avril 14th', the prepared-piano miniature that has become one of Richard D. James's best-known recordings, and it entered the UK Dance Albums Chart at number one.

This edition

• 4LP set
• 30 tracks across eight sides
• 25th anniversary reissue on Warp

About the album

Richard D. James made Drukqs in a hurry, or at least put it out in one. After leaving an MP3 player loaded with unheard music on a plane, he decided the tracks would end up online sooner or later and that he might as well get an album out of them first. The result arrived in October 2001 as a double album that flips, sometimes from one track to the next, between hyper-detailed drill 'n' bass and quiet pieces for prepared piano.

That contrast is the whole point. 'Vordhosbn' and 'Omgyjya-Switch7' carry some of the busiest, most finely programmed beats of his career, while 'Jynweythek', 'Avril 14th' and 'Nanou2' are gentle enough for a Sunday morning. Critics were split in 2001, but the album has been winning people over ever since, and Kanye West borrowed 'Avril 14th' for 'Blame Game' in 2010. It may be the only record in the shop with an origin story about lost property.

Tracklist

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Out November 13, 2026 on Warp (cat# LP-WRP-92), a reissue of the 2001 album.