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Groode.de Aphex Interview!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Archrival from NY on 2001-10-08 13:21 [#00039458]



To all german afx heads outthere!!!Please help a brother
out!!!!Translate that interview!!!!It seems VERY
intresting!!!!!


 

sine707 from Frankfurt/Germany on 2001-10-08 14:12 [#00039462]



OK, I will! ASAP

 

sine707 from Frankfurt/Germany on 2001-10-08 14:13 [#00039464]



But I can't find anything under "groode.de" Sure it's the
correct URL??!


 

Narkotic from California, USA on 2001-10-08 16:44 [#00039494]



In case you didn't know, you can goto www.altavista.com and
click on "translate" (shows a little fish next to it), this
thing is VERY powerful, it will even translate Japanese into
English. I read the japanese news all the time now. Works
great. It will translate a URL, or just a phrase.


 

Archrival from NY on 2001-10-08 16:46 [#00039495]



http://www.groove.de/groove_titel/index.html

 

Archrival from NY on 2001-10-08 16:46 [#00039496]



Sine707 IS THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I love Germany!

 

Archrival from NY on 2001-10-08 16:50 [#00039497]



Holy SHIT!! Thanx Narcotic!!! That was a dam powerful
translator on altavista...I downloade a shit program called
GET trans but it didnt work that well..altavistas translator
was DOPE!!!
thanx again Narcotic.

 

Narkotic from California, USA on 2001-10-08 16:52 [#00039498]



Aint no thang nugga, enjoy

peace

 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-08 19:41 [#00039529]



great interview.

Ok, some excerpts...

aphex says that he released drukqs on warp to fulfill his
contract on warp, and he has a new label now with to
jenkinson. the two remixes were the first release on the
label. rdj said that tom jenkinson absolutely hates all
other artists on warp. aphex himself does not like the
artists on warp, too (though he likes the labels early
years), 'but I do not care to be on a label with artists
who are shit anyway. (...) and i know that they all profit
of the things one does. It's like 'Oh, we are on warp!'
and the most interesting thing for all people who said that
aphex only did drukqs to clear his contract with warp, and
said aphex only did crap to annoy them: 'If i could decide,
i would release drukqs on rephlex (...)'
he originally had a contract for two or three more albums.
he said to the people of warp, 'i give you a double album,
but then you have to let me go to make my own label.' and
they said, 'okay'.
richard said that he would like to do a single, with a video
by chris cunningham, because he liked working with him on
come to daddy and windowlicker, but the release of the
single could take time, up to six months from now. 'but warp
only wants to do it because they only have dollars in front
of their eyes. but i have really a good idea for a track,
which chris surely would like.'

like in the interview in 'the face' aphex says that he has
lost his mp3 player on a plane... the player had 282 aphex
tracks and 80 squarepusher tracks on it. and so he has to
release the album. but anyway, aphex looked around in the
internet, thinking it might appear up there after five
minutes... but it obviously didn't until now. if it would
appear on the internet, 'i would visit them and take all the
stuff with me'. he would like the idea that a fan would have
them now... 'originally i had the idea to release four cd's
but that would have been an overkill, and it would have been
simply to much work.' why would he not like that fans would
'release' the tracks on the internet? 'because i would not
get any money. he would piss me off.'
he does think that the new tracks sound very much
'old-style'. 'i had made a lot of tracks which are
completely ne-sounding, but i wouldn't release them, because
everyone would rip them off again.'
'the pieces (on drukqs) are 7 to 8 years to some months old.
but most of them are new. nanou2, the last track on the
album, for example is also the most recent piece.'
he bought pianos, and made very simply to very complicated
pieces, he also prepared the pieces in the way john cage
did.
'my most favourite composer for piano is Satie. Each of his
pieces is deceptively simple, but he never has a note which
is to much.'
and about john cage...
'i know all of his stuff, perhaps i got the idea for the new
pieces from him. (...) i don't like his piano music. there's
only one piece which is very beautiful, but i cannot
remember the name of it.' ok, a little for aphex... it is...

'In A Landscape' or 'Dream' both composed for piano in 1948.
they are both beautiful and deeply felt, so i guess richard
does not know one piece of these two, ;-).
'but the other pieces are only unimportant stuff, with no
feelings in it.'
what does the title of drukqs mean?
it has a meaning but not the meaning of 'drugs' or 'drug
use'. 'it is important for me to say that it does not mean
'drug'. all people say, 'oh, it's called drugs or drug use,
but that's not true. it does really mean something, but i
will not give away the true meaning.'
ok, sorry, short interruption. i guess the meaning is druk
(which means 'press') qs (use). the album is about pressing
the keys on keyboards - of computers and pianos. but perhaps
there's also another meaning?
'the album is like a musical diary. 'Mt Saint Michel' is my
summer vacation piece. i did it on my laptop in france.'
and he did not like radiohead's kid a and amnesiac...
'i don't like them. i listened to five or six pieces and i
thought that they really sound awful.'
'Yes, really predictable and awful. I mean I compare it to
my favourite music, and the comparison is horrible. but in
comparison to all those r&b music they are perhaps allright.
In comparison to all of those teenage punk bands - or how
they are called - who think they area anarchic or whatever -
they are in the end great. i simply like it to like things
which others don't like.'
he didn't print his face on the album cover this time,
because...
'i don't like to get on the people's nerves. i don't want to
get into a store where people are like 'oh, no, not that
crank!'
and madonna and björk?
'björk is a million times more interesting than madonna.'
'last year i talked a lot with madonna. she was after chris
cunningham, but he did not want to go on with her.'
and tom jenkinson and richard they have no idea yet for a
name for the new label... 'men is only a catalogue number.'
in fact he is concerned know about tom, because he - richard
- does not know anyone who has recently talked to him.
most interesting new artist:
'ceephax acid crew. that's andy jenkinson, the brother of
tom.'

well, only short excerpts... but anyway...



 

Archrival from NY on 2001-10-08 23:51 [#00039549]



nice balthus.

 

fluffy bunny from mm on 2001-10-09 02:34 [#00039559]



Yeah .. quite a nice interview ..

Be interesting to see what happens on this ""
MEN-xx release thing ?



 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 09:25 [#00039584]



archrival etc - there's in fact some more in the interview,
but i tried to translate the things which seemed the most
interesting. it's a very long interview, and the most
interesting interview ever. he also talks about his
girlfriend and a lot of other things.

I absolutely agree with rdj on satie. and also on madonna
and björk... and - please don't get angry with me now - on
radiohead. radiohead is better than a lot of things now, but
comparing to my favourite things ever... well, this
comparison is kind of unfair, i guess. the comments in this
interview sounded very sane, and not as egomanic as in the
other interviews. aphex simply has no fear to state his
opinion. he also said that he does not like stockhausen's
later pieces.

i was only a bit surprised about the comments on the warp
artists. i mean i personally like boards of canada's In a
beautiful place out in the counry very much, because the
tracks are as deceptively simple as satie (the ep. really
has the same qualities). i also don't quite agree with his
comment on cage. the comment was true for the later pieces
by cage, but i don't think they are true for the pieces from
the 40s. john cages's in a landscape or dream are beautiful,
but there are also someother john cage piano pieces which i
like very much, though they are not a simple as the two
(the equation track from windowlicker for example had
something in common with early cage piano pieces, and also
with cage's early percussion pieces).

cheers

 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 09:29 [#00039585]



ps: with 'most interesting interview ever', i of course
meant 'by aphex twin'.

the thing with the new label really was interesting. would
be great to see those 'new style' pieces by aphex released
on that label.


 

Harold Bishop on 2001-10-09 09:30 [#00039586]



Balthus, if your translating this by hand then you're an
idiot.


 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 09:31 [#00039589]



why not? it was fun to translate it, it was as easy as
reading it, and not that much slower.


 

Harold Bishop on 2001-10-09 09:36 [#00039592]



If you just put it through a translater it translates it to
English in less then one minute. There's no point in
translating and typing it out.


 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 09:43 [#00039596]



i never did a translation with that translator program
before, and anyway i picked out the quotes i found a lot
interesting while reading the interview. it was easy. and it
did not really take more time than a normal reading would
take. of course, people would like to read the whole
interview, but i just read that there are some others who
said they would do it...


 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 09:56 [#00039602]



just saw that someone posts a translation of the interview
here... made by a translation program. i guess a translation
with that program is about quantity whereas a translation by
hand is about quality. and in the end you really have to
correct the errors which the program made (that takes as
long as a individual translation, or even longer). i saw
that some parts were still not translated and remained to be
in german. but of course it's ok, if you want only a rough
translation.


 

Bruce LaBruce on 2001-10-09 10:05 [#00039605]



Actually, the only bits not translated are software and
hardware program names, and things like that, but I think
most people will have the sense to realise that.


 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 10:09 [#00039606]



i wonder why groove.de does not post an english version,
too? i would like to read aphex's answers in the way he
really said it. every translation does change the meaning
slightly, not to speak of a retranslation, and if it's by a
program, it does sound like yoda using german words. and in
the end in the original english version you can reach a
widest range of people possible. but perhaps it's like
german-speaking tv. they always air every movie in the
german version, and it's really annoying.


 

Phobiazero from Sweden on 2001-10-09 10:12 [#00039607]



A translation is currently being performed. Stay tuned. =)

 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 10:16 [#00039609]



words like 'drauf', 'bloeder' and 'Na ja' are software or
hardware program names? hmm...


 

Archrival from NY on 2001-10-09 10:36 [#00039613]



Its the best Aphex interview I ever read.

He was kinda serious in this one, nice answers.


 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 10:56 [#00039623]



archrival - yes, it's fantastic! it has really information
and opinions in it, which is quite rare in artists
interviews. hope people who like drukqs will now listen to
erik satie, too. (list of satie's fan's: debussy, ravel,
stravinsky, cage, reich, glass, björk... and richard d.
james - great!)


 

Baron Von Picklefoot from The Baron Got a new computer !!!! on 2001-10-09 12:38 [#00039665]



Balthus, Good work mate thanks ! THE BARON HAS SPOKEN! P.S.
THERE WILL BE A LITTLE SOMETHING SPECIAL IN YOUR SHOES WHEN
YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING !


 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-09 15:18 [#00039715]



phobiazero - thanks for posting that link to my version with
excerpts from the interview, i really feel honored. :-)

baron - thanks, too. glad you liked it... well, so you are
not really a baron , but santa? hope i will find drukqs in
my shoes...


 

radiowerkshop from kitOnCan on 2001-10-09 16:20 [#00039742]



2hundred and 8ty 2
damn

 

zZzZzZzZz from england on 2001-10-09 17:06 [#00039755]



im sitting here refreshing warp website waiting for the pre
order..tell me im not the only 1??? :D


 

alaindelon from Los Angeles on 2001-10-09 20:33 [#00039811]



I am a new jack in this electronica musik. I'm transmitting
live from Los Angeles and just recently started listening to
Aphex Twin. There is no doubt that it's da SHIZNIT simply
because no one can duplicate or replicate it!! Aphex Twin
has its own unique sounds with the way out covers on the
albums Richard produced. I am also in the music (hip-hop)
business as a producer. I was wondering if there was any
other website(s) that may feature Richard's joits. Also I
would like to know where is he originally from and does he
ever get offered opportunities to do collabos with any
hip-hop artists?


 

Ex-Whore from Stamford, Ct., USA on 2001-10-09 21:45 [#00039816]



the article says "Aphex Twin: Mass Bomber and Piano Tech".
lol


 

helios from zurich-ch on 2001-10-09 23:46 [#00039848]



once. i am glad that i can better german then english to
read this greatest interview about Richard D James, i find
it is the best that i hav ever read.
the question if popstars visit their partys in london. and
he said that once Kylie Minogue was at Rephresh(the rephlex
partynight in london). She knows a Warp Dj (Russell
Haswell). and all friends of richard tried to get her. and a
strange guy was successfull with her.


 

Mikael A on 2001-10-10 15:03 [#00039990]



This article is also available in swedish at
http://www.groove.st


 

fuck these musicians on 2001-10-10 17:13 [#00040022]



Oh my God. If I found an mp3 player with that shit, I would
probably weep for the better part of the day, then deem
myself the king of all humans.


 

oysterclam from the sea on 2001-10-10 19:25 [#00040060]



i bet a janitor guy found it and sold it and bought crack
with the money, and i bet the guy that bought it traded it
to a gypsy for magic beans. and theyre all dead now. and
apostophes are fer suckers.


 

= on 2001-10-10 20:55 [#00040121]



can someone translate interview from german to english,?
that would be really a good job!

=

 

Phobiazero from Sweden on 2001-10-11 08:05 [#00040190]



A translation is coming soon....

 

Phobiazero from Sweden on 2001-10-11 08:23 [#00040191]



Mikael A.: Thanks for pointing it out! The interview can be
foundhere.


 

from Frankfurt/Germany on 2001-10-11 09:35 [#00040196]



The translation is on its way.
I managed to translate half of it by now.

The rest is finished soon.

Whoa, I didn't expect this interview to be so long (more
than 7000 words.)


 

</sine707> from Frankfurt/Germany on 2001-10-11 09:36 [#00040197]



Oh, guess I have to you use HTML to display my name ;-)

 

po{e} from klabaucius on 2001-10-11 10:48 [#00040209]



no you dont.

i dont care

 

alaindelon from Los Angeles on 2001-10-11 16:52 [#00040278]



Does anyone know if and when Aphex Twin going to perform in
Los Angeles? Also, what radio station would be good to
listen to in order to catch his music?


 

Hedgeman from zurich-ch on 2001-10-11 21:19 [#00040329]



@alaindelon
you shoul know that he doesnt play often in other
countries.....
since month and years i wait here in zurich and he doesnt
want to come.
the life is hard

 

balthus from europe on 2001-10-11 21:56 [#00040343]



the interview in the nme is quite nice, too. some bits are
the same es in the groove interview. and there are also
great photos, a very funny one with philip glass, with the
rephlex stuff etc. really nice article. have to listen now
to 14th avril from the nme sampler cd...


 

Narkotic from California, USA on 2001-10-11 21:57 [#00040344]



ya i'm from the LA area too, i wish he'd play here

 

recycle from drukqs on 2001-10-11 21:58 [#00040346]



great article.......

im from nebraska i wish he'd play here (he hasnt even heard
if nebraksa i bet :0( )


 

fluff mukinz on 2001-10-11 22:08 [#00040354]



nabraska.. isnt that where kenan rockmore moved to once?

 

alaindelon from Los Angeles on 2001-10-11 22:18 [#00040356]



Hey Narko, what part are you from? Are you in the Los
Angeles area?


 

Stormstrong from Los Angeles, CA on 2001-10-13 04:55 [#00040751]



He came close to playing for the LA (and surrounding area)
heads, but something happened. I was pissed, I spent the 60$
just for him. I still enjoyed Cochella because SquarePusher
fucked shit up, and plaid was nice....but no Aphex :/

I was hurt...hehe

 

! on 2001-10-13 08:32 [#00040781]



anyone translated that fucking
groove intervio to english?!!!!!

 

djed from washington, usa on 2001-10-13 20:03 [#00040878]



where's the english translation? nahhh

 

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