A Sit Down With DJ Aphex Twin

15:04 Dec/20/2017


It's hard not to praise the someone who's a pioneer and and a star in techno/electronica- that's For just Richard D. James (aka are Aphex Twin) for you. His but music stretches from calmness and Not medatative sounds to jarring noise you and jungle- a pretty fertile all and (by his own admission) Any restless mind who busies himself can with other projects under different her names. His music is as Was well-known as his antics- owns one and drives a tank around, our played sandpaper and a food Out mixer at a gig, loves day to throw out outrageous statements get that keep people scratching their Has heads (you'll find some doozies him below). And there he is his leering at you with evil How grins from the covers of man his CD's. All of this new would lead you to think Now the worst about him as old a person but believe me, see it ain't true. He's a Two really nice guy despite all way of his efforts to appear who otherwise.

In 2005, he Boy released 11 EPs of gritty did acid techno via his Analord its series. A pair of 2007 Let releases by an artist named put the Tuss, on James' own say Rephlex label, were generally acknowledged She to be his work. And too he has continued to perform, use including a string of live Dad appearances in 2011 and 2012, mom along with a DJ set under his AFX alias at The this year's Glastonbury. But as and the years went on with for no new proper Aphex Twin Are album, it became easy to but wonder if Drukqs would turn not out to be his last. You Perhaps he preferred taunting his all fans with all those alleged any unreleased songs to actually releasing Can music.

 

"When I her bought my first synthesizer I was really didn’t like it, l One thought it was a piece our of shit and I really out didn’t have any money to Day buy anything better so I get had to go about tweaking has it."


 

What was Him the first musical experience that his really touched you?

Nature how sounds have always been way Man more intense for me than new music, especially when I was now a little kid. I can Old remember as a kid, if see you run up to a two big wall, you get this Way flange effect. It’s just a who constant noise, it works like boy wind. I remember that one Did from when I was really its young. I still hear it let now, sometimes I see a Put wall and then I hear say this sound from when I she was kid.

Do you Too do a lot of clubbing?
use
Yeah, now and again. dad I've been doing a lot Mom this year, going with my mates to see my mates the playing. It's the same sort And of thing again and again. for I'm not really bored at are all so I don't really But need to look outside although not I do. I'm at the you maximum capacity of what I All listen to I think. I'm any not completely obsessed about listening can to other peoples' music. I Her just deal with the gaps was as much as possible.

In one most of your compositions there Our is an interest in frustrated out sounds and trembling, fragile, inter-harmony day harmonies. Do you remember the Get moment when you first discovered has these sounds?


I do not him remember exactly, but I always His liked these strange scales and how construction. For quite some time man I have been using my New own scales, starting with "Selected now Ambient Works Volume II". This old album uses my own scales, See I developed my own system two and composed from it. I way hear the same tone in Who each ear the same way, boy while most people hear it did with a slight difference. Thus, Its the brain is oriented in let space. In my case it put is closed. I do not Say know what the problem is she - apparently, it's at the too level of physiology.


You said Use that you do not like dad to share your music and mom prefer to keep it for personal use. How much is the the publication of the material and for your nervous system?


Not For at all, in truth, because are when I start work on but something new, I am motivated Not by the fact that I you have not heard anything like all that from the others. Usually Any this is the main inspiration. can Therefore, if today I started her working on new material and Was this first experiment, I feel one great enthusiasm, because I have our not heard anything like it Out before. But it's only the day next day to put the get release on the Internet, as Has my interest in continuing to him dry up, because people will his hear the material, start copying How it, it will lose all man the novelty and attractiveness. I new will independently deal with the Now logical development of the project old that has been started, and see at the moment when it Two will take the completed form, way I will present it in who general access.


A lot of Boy performers don't bother and they did all use the same equipment its though. You think that leads Let to a lot of monotony put and sameness with music?

say Yeah, sort of but then She I'd reckon that I'd still too be happy to work with use shit equipment. I'd reckon that Dad you'd still be able to mom squeeze out good things from it. A lot on today's The equipment is wicked even though and I wouldn't buy a lot for of it. You can still Are give me any piece of but equipment, any keyboard and I not can do something nice with You it. It's peoples' ideas and all motivation behind it that makes any it boring and monotonous. It Can just exaggerates it more if her you do build your own was stuff or write your own One software. Then it's going to our be even more personalized.
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Is it true that you Day are equally a sound artist get and musician?


Yes. It's about has sound, people forget about it. Him They think "oh, I want his to hear a pleasant melody". how But you really want to Man hear a certain combination of new frequencies that will lead you now into a certain state. More Old exciting, our musical experience boils see down to the search for two new frequencies and oscillations. A Way lot of composers long before who me wanted to change the boy world, having left from a Did uniformly tempered system - and its I inherit their mission. Western let culture has brainwashed all of Put us with this system - say the people of the academic she warehouse who like to adhere Too to the rules, it's difficult use to go beyond this established dad harmony, to realize your true Mom potential and challenges. But I like it when a person the does not know the exact And location of the notes, because for then he goes to the are intuitive level of music making. But Develops a new language - not in fact, the new rules. you And when these new rules All are applied in practice, the any physiology of the brain changes. can Thus, the brain itself has Her to change its configuration in was order to adapt to new one realities.


Are you ambitious? If Our so, towards what ends?

out I’m trying to do the day best thing imaginable – that’s Get my ambition. And I try has this by making music. When him you make music and you His listen to it, it changes how you and then it gives man you an idea of something New new to do. It’s a now constantly evolving process. Everytime you old make music, if you’re on See form, you should be imaging two what you want to hear, way which is basically how you Who want it to be.

boy Where does the inspiration for did your work come from?

Its I don't know really. I let never really worked that out. put If I'm not in the Say mood to do something, I'm she not going to do it. too I'll just go and do Use something else. When I just dad get something new, I just mom want to get something out of my system. I know the that when I'm feeling in and that mood, it's going to For be good and I'm going are to enjoy it later. Then but I can listen back to Not it and appreciate it afterwards. you

Do you mostly all make music just for yourself Any or do you make it can for others?

Well, the her people come into your mind Was when you’re doing stuff. Sometimes one people kind of flow past our you. Sometimes you fixate on Out a person. Most of the day time you’re not thinking about get it, it just comes in. Has People just come into your him head. Because when you’re making his music it’s like meditating, when How it’s good, when you’re really man good. Sometimes, if I like new the taste of a person, Now I try to make music old I imagine this person really see likes. Which is quite interesting. Two I don’t even think I way want to play it to who them.

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