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ross on 2001-08-24 22:44 [#00025497] | |||||||||
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techno-curmudgeon Richard D. James is back, and he's as surly as ever. James, the IDM guru best known under his Aphex Twin moniker, is back with his first release since 1999's Windowlicker EP. A new 30 track album, Drukqs, is due out in October, and, in what for him amounts to a veritable TRL sized promotional blitz, he has spoken. Sort of. James' promotion company has released an email Q&A session conducted by an unknown entity and featuring loads of the cryptic, cocky, snideness that fanboys throughout the internet have come to know and love. In anticipation of the new album we've examined his responses in hopes of gaining some insight into what to expect. A sampling of his answers reveals a widely inconsistent RDJ, sometimes in top cynical genius form but often seemingly scraping for material. When asked whether all the music on Drukqs is new, James replied, "actually its a compilation of all the fake aphex tracks found on the world.wide.wank, I didnt write any of them." That's good stuff, managing not only to equivocate but also to reference the legions of sneaky folks out there pranking file-sharing networks by posting their own homemade IDM and passing it off as new Aphex Twin. If the music of Drukqs lives up to this level of snarkiness we might have a real masterwork on our hands. However, when asked about any possible collaborators on the album, his response is not nearly so clever. "Yeah, at the beginning of 1997 I adopted 3 goats on my farm in scotland and taught them how to write music,I upgraded one of the goats at the end of 98' with a hoof mod and its fucking serious." While the thought of "upgrading to a hoof mod" is mildly amusing, this is a pretty half-assed attempt at ducking the question with silliness and irony. Goats? Come on, we've seen funnier stuff than that on the AG Message Boards. Don't count him out yet though. When asked, "What is your dru(g)kq of choice?"--James' reply borders on brilliance. "what does dru(g)kq mean,I dont understand the question,sorry." Ingenious. The questioner obviously thought s/he had some kind of "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" rapport going here, what with his/her having figured out what "drukqs" means and all, and James really knocks 'em down a peg or two with a response worthy of a Don't Look Back era Bob Dylan. It's back to scraping the bottom of the snotty response barrel though when James is asked about the criterion he uses for releasing records on his Rephlex label. "Well its usually based on sexual favours'n'stuff best not to go there." Sexual favors? Don't go there? A veteran tough interview like James ought to know that that joke just isn't funny anymore. Hopefully nothing of such an unoriginal or just plain mediocre nature will show up on Drukqs. However, just when the interview starts to read like a bad Jenny Jones parody, James comes back in fine form, once again both ridiculing the interviewer and avoiding the question entirely. James is asked, "It is widely known that Radiohead's Kid A was widely influenced by your music, in particular 'Come As you Are'...What do you think of their new stuff and other contemporaries?" His response: "Well they widely agreed to pay me 70% of the widely royalties so, Im not complaining." The verdict? The interview is about half rapier wit and half mindless blather, (and James is not unfamiliar with delivering tossed off nonsense and passing it off as an album), so things could go either way. We'll give him the benefit of the doubt though, it's been long enough. Drukqs is due out October 22nd. (audiogalaxy) |
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ross on 2001-08-24 22:49 [#00025499] | |||||||||
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i just read on the ag board that the interview was taken from somewhere and may be fake....hmm |
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Mary Poorcredit on 2001-08-24 22:59 [#00025500] | |||||||||
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Sorry to point out an inconsistency in your comedy, but someone who uses the spelling "favors" would list the release date as October 23rd. |
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ross on 2001-08-24 23:28 [#00025501] | |||||||||
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i didnt write the article..it was from audiogalaxy.com, let me just make that clear :) |
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Barrett, Syd from Toronto on 2001-08-25 02:01 [#00025509] | |||||||||
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i doubt ross wrote it. who the hell would write a big fake article? |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-08-25 03:35 [#00025527] | |||||||||
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some idiot. |
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Xanatos from NYC on 2001-08-25 03:35 [#00025528] | |||||||||
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Everyone's a suspect! |
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pelican on 2001-08-25 03:54 [#00025529] | |||||||||
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THe english release date is the 22, the american release date is 23, every new cd/video is released on a tuesday in the US. idiots |
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Barrett, Syd from Toronto on 2001-08-25 05:18 [#00025532] | |||||||||
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I know it was you Xanatos! don't lie! you think you're clever, but i got you. I GOT YOU! WE'RE ALL ONTO YOU!!!!!!! |
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ross on 2001-08-25 09:41 [#00025580] | |||||||||
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it's from www.audiogalaxy.com, check it! i wouldnt write this... :) |
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