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10 artists Aphex declined for remixwork
 

PostModernVancouver from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-08-30 17:54 [#00027878]



Wanna know the list of people he has declined for remixing
and productionwork??( from Jockey Slut 3 years ago..
1.Madonna.-Declined.
2.Smashing Pumpkins-Avoided all contact
3.Legendary Krautrockers NEU-No thanks.
4.Beck- 2nd offer declined after he did "Devils Haircut".
5.David Bowie-2nd offer declined after amazing remix
of "Heroes".
6.Perry Farrel ( Janes Addiction)-See number 2 above.
7.The Lemonheads-Gave the courier any old dat.
8.Can-Couldnt be arsed.
9.Steve Reich- 2nd offer declined after he did "The sinking
of the Titanic".
10.Bjork-Nope.( Even though theyre friends).

 

Saman Perera on 2001-08-30 18:31 [#00027897]



I'm glad he turned down Madonna. She's just a
bandwagon-jumping harpy who obviously hoped some of his
credibility would rub off on her.


 

PostModernVancouver from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-08-30 18:38 [#00027901]



Plus he turned down U2 and the Cure several times, gotta
like that...


 

QUADRAPELEGICROBOTIKEV from ardmore on 2001-08-30 18:39 [#00027902]



Madonna should come to my house dressed like a cabbage patch
kid and give me a blow job... she isn't even
innovative...MASSIVE ATTACK, makes all her shit, and a
couple other musicians! Check out the listings of people
that helped her out on songs, you'll see all the
motherfuckers that succumbed to her presence!!!


 

r3fl3x from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 2001-08-30 19:28 [#00027920]



Correction - Madonna is a Band Wagon Creator. She makes the
Band Wagon.


 

Saman Perera on 2001-08-30 19:55 [#00027926]



Correction- You are wrong.

 

Gonzola from stockholm on 2001-08-30 19:57 [#00027927]



the cure are great. it would be a little off with an aphex
remix of one of their songs though


 

r3fl3x from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 2001-08-30 21:14 [#00027952]



oh and tell me how am wrong.

correction! - correction.

 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 22:10 [#00027970]



steve reich - weird. i guess it was the case with the reich
remixed album. interesting. also bjork... really, they are
friends? and the david bowie heroes remix, i guess this was
more a favor to philip glass than to david bowie. it is a
really beautiful remix, i heard a part of it on this site...
aphex only took the track of the string parts from glass'
heroes symphony (without percussion, winds and brass) and
bowie's voice. the result is magical. is it available on cd
by the way?

i would love to see a richard d. james remix ep. with the
heroes remix, the sinking of the titanic remixes, the nine
inch nail remix (this really is a fantastic piece) and
perhaps the beck remix. would be great.


 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 22:18 [#00027981]



oh, wait. 2nd offer of steve reich after the sinking of the
titanic? gavin bryars composed the sinking of the titanic,
not steve reich. but i guess this was steve reich's first
offer (reich remixed).


 

PostModernVancouver from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-08-30 22:18 [#00027982]



Bjork worships Aphex Twin and has for years been trying to
get him to work with ehr even though they are friends.
Bjork ( quoted from various interviews and tv interviews ive
seen and read) calls Aphex the King and the King of
creativity and another one she said that she literally
worships Aphex.
Remember (unknown to most) that Bjork had Aphex with her as
her opening act in 1995 on her North-American tour, except
that Aphex DJ'd and didnt play live...
Even the liner notes of Vesptertine ( Bjorks new album ) she
thanks Richard ..



 

PostModernVancouver from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-08-30 22:20 [#00027983]



Balthus as in the french artist Balthus?(lol)..
You're right I was mixed up with Gavin Bryars and Steve
Reich, I guess he didnt remix Reich at all, but Bryars ,
yes..


 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 22:23 [#00027985]



yeah, this electronic sound on vespertine is very much á la
aphex, and this bjork worship of aphex is the explanation
for that. great info. seems like as if richard is the most
influential figure in music now... but i guess he does not
care that much for it. he would say,' i reckon that this is
not my fault.'


 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 22:24 [#00027986]



yes, balthus like the french artist balthus. thanks a lot
for this list by the way, cool info!


 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 22:30 [#00027987]



this steve reich thing is interesting. nonesuch, the label
wanted the remix album, not reich himself. they made their
offers to a lot of artists, and reich finally chose the
tracks he liked (coldcut, ken ishii, andrea parker and
others appeared on tha album). so aphex, too, was someone
nonesuch wanted for a remix, but he declined. i would like
to know if they did make an offer to dj shadow (parts of
endtroducing are very much like reich's music).


 

Sido Dyas on 2001-08-30 22:31 [#00027988]



I think Madonas "music" is very "Windovlicker" in a way.
(i gues everybody have made that observation allredy)

 

LeMoN on 2001-08-30 22:34 [#00027989]



I am curious as to what exactly Richard did in remixing
Heroes, I've never heard the original song, but the remix of
the song is stunning. The only thing I hear in the song that
it sounds like Richard did was add a tad bit of atmospherics
and did some small effects to his voice here and there, but
then again like i said ive never heard the original...


 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 22:34 [#00027990]



hi palpatine.

 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 22:40 [#00027991]



with palpatine i meant sido-dyas, of course. you are
overthrowing the republic with your clone army, aren't you?

i guess in heroes there's only bowie's voice, the string
parts from the first movement of glass' heroes symphony (and
actually the strings alone sound much more beautiful that
the full orchestration of the piece - strange), and some
atmospheric effects, nothing more. weird.



 

Sido Dyas on 2001-08-30 22:45 [#00027992]



ok i admit, im a starwars nerd Balthus!

 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 22:50 [#00027993]



i admit, i'm also a kind of a star wars nerd... but i guess
that was obvious from my comment... :°)

and i'm an art nerd, too. and a music nerd.


 

PostModernVancouver from Vancouver, Canada on 2001-08-30 22:53 [#00027995]



Bowie is probably my single favorite solo artist besides
Aphex as I have his whole collection rare and all that...
While I was talking with him on his own personal website
chatline www.davidbowie.com ( its a pay site) since he
actually comes and talks online there quite often and he
does admit that the Aphex remix is one of his favorites.
The remix is brilliant IMO.....
Heroes is from his 1978 Eno co-written album called
"Heroes"..
One of the Eno/Bowie trilogy albums starting with Low then
Heroes then Lodger which were total groundbreaking
avant/garde electronic albums...
Seriously also one of the very influential albums for the
electronic music scene unknown to many.
On Low and Heroes, both have I side singing the other sides
were both Ambient...
Have a listen if ya can...these albums were the Radiohead
Kid A's and Amnesiacs of the late 70's....


 

balthus from europe on 2001-08-30 23:13 [#00028001]



philip glass said exactly this about low, heroes and lodger
(with the exception of the mentioning kid a). i listened to
the albums and i liked them, and reckognized the themes
which glass used in the symphonies. in his symphony no.1
glass used themes/melodies from low, and in his symphony
no.4 he did the same with heroes. i don't think that they
are glass' best symphonies, though (my favourite are glass
symphonies no.2 and 3), but they are both very good, anyway
(no.1 is a lot better than no.4, actually). in no.1 there
are exact orchestrations of parts from low (comparable to
the orchestration of aphex icct hedral), but in no.4, the
influence from the actual bowie/eno album is not that easy
to reckognize... but in aphex' remix you can hear how glass
composed along the melodic lines of bowie's vocals - so it's
an amazing bowie-glass-aphex collaboration. glass is planing
a third symphony after bowie/eno with lodger (as perhaps
philip glass symphony no.7). he said it would be a vocal
symphony, so it could be a choral symphony or even a
symphony with david bowie as vocalist.


 

Barrett, Syd from Toronto on 2001-08-30 23:38 [#00028006]



all bjorks new album is her with maltmos.

i don't know why richard turns down so much of that. i'd be
honoured to be asked by bowie to do another remix, or the
cure.... bjork...... i don't know why he wouldn't. maybe
just to try and not be to popular. which sucks, cause
there's so much cool shit he could do that he
dosen't............... i want to know what top 40 hits he's
had under other names or fwritten for other people.........
i hope he lets his secret out one day.


 

Id Lab from The Untitled Kingdom on 2001-08-31 00:04 [#00028015]



If I were RDJ, I'd remix Steps, Craig David, Hear'say, etc.
Especially if they didn't want me to. Huge props to V/VM for
doing this kind of thing.
http://brainwashed.com/vvm/audio.html


 

f.l.e.a from NZ on 2001-08-31 01:14 [#00028027]



just sat through the debacle that's Madonna's Drowned World
live tour with my jaw dropped...how could a single monotone
media blip like her systematically trample and destroy every
single alternative subcultural refrencing system most people
my age (Gen X) got involved in...Punk,Goth, Alt Indie
Rock,Industrial, Techno, Electronica, I.D.M not not mention
performance art, Hong Kong Action Flicks, manga and anime in
the space of a couple of hours before launching into her
redneck rodeo themepark...I mean U2 were bad with swiping
cultures with the Zoo TV but this..was...CRIMINAL...!!!!
good on RDJ for recognizing what she is...a danger to brain
cells... period!!
I will have to gently disagree with r3fl3x here..she didn't
create any band wagons that night mate..she just rounded
them all up..and had a good ole footstompin, line dancing
bonfire..YeeFuckingHaw..sob


 

Barrett, Syd from Toronto on 2001-08-31 01:23 [#00028030]



don't be picking on U2. pop was a brilliant record.

 

f.l.e.a from NZ on 2001-08-31 01:44 [#00028035]



I am talkin about Zooropa...they swipped the whole Media
Gurella Warfare concept off Negativland even as their
lawyers were taking the poor bastards to the cleaners and
making em loose rights to their entire life time's
work...It's not about them as musicians..but as artists..


 

((>e.V.o.L.u.M.e<)) from a hot and muggy seattle on 2001-08-31 01:55 [#00028036]



he has also avoided all contact with me about remixing my
stuff.
put me on the list.
(har)

 

Jaffa Kid from Tyne Bridge with a bottle of Brown.. on 2001-08-31 04:08 [#00028075]



I like Madonna.

 

Baron Von Picklefoot from The Baron Got a new computer !!!! on 2001-08-31 04:52 [#00028081]



At one point in my life I made sweet love to a watermellon 9
months later it tryed to tell me the baby was mine (It
didn't even look like me ) Jeez THE BARON HAS SPOKEN !


 

Barrett, Syd from Toronto on 2001-08-31 05:13 [#00028085]



nonsense.

baron, do you really think that we beleive you?

geez. some people can be so dumb.

like you can really have a baby with a watermellon. LIAR!

geez............

 

[REFLEX] from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 2001-08-31 07:37 [#00028111]



madonna = watermelon sex goddess.

 

Jam Rag from knickers on 2001-08-31 10:29 [#00028158]



I like her up until Immaculate Collection, then she got a
bit embarrasing, like your mum dancing at a wedding disco.


 

Baron Von Picklefoot from The Baron Got a new computer !!!! on 2001-08-31 12:07 [#00028175]



Barrett, there is no need to be ashamed of your melon kids
too I know it hurts but please condone their existence they
need your love too THE BARON HAS SPOKEN!


 

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