If you could ask Richard MULTIPLE NON-production oriented questions

crazy thread

  BCM said:

suck my fucking cock boris.

woow ur a dik!!!!

boris is rdj

in b4 rdj posts something

  Super lurker ultra V12 said:

in b4 rdj posts something

every answer aphex ever made is "jus' havin a laugh wiff me mates"

  Brian Tregaskin said:

boris is rdj

If you mean ''reggae disc jockey'', probably yeah...

will you be my fwend?

  marf said:

every answer aphex ever made is "jus' havin a laugh wiff me mates"

So british. i wonder if she spits when ending the sentence.

taken from a 1997 interview

e.x.p.: So, what did you end up doing last night?

RDJ: We went to see Ween.

e.x.p.: How was it?

RDJ: It was pretty good. We left before it was finished 'cause the new album is shit. We left totally stoned and almost got killed walking through the crowd. There are a lot of rough areas down here. We got hassled, and I thought we were going to get killed. Last time I was here I was smacked by this fucking bitch on crack. I was here on the Björk tour, and I wandered out of the hotel wanting to get some breakfast when this woman came up to me and said, "Give me your fucking money." She started pushing me around, and I was like 'fuck!' Then she hit me very hard right in the face, came up from behind me, and whacked me onto the floor. She almost knocked me out! I got up and fucking ran away.

e.x.p.: Tough American Woman.

RDJ: Yeah. I've been smacked by loads of people, but I've never been

smacked so hard it that knocked me on the floor.

e.x.p.: Are you concerned with the availability of you material? I don't know whether you know it or not, but releases like Hangable Auto Bulb 2 and the Caustic Window Joyrex records go for heavy amounts in auctions.

RDJ: Yeah, and collectors shops, I think. The Caustic Window is going to be out on CD through RePHlex Records. The Hangable Auto Bulbs will probably be on CD. I'm sure Warp will probably release that. so I can make some money out of it. (laughs)

e.x.p.: How do you feel about people bootlegging your work?

RDJ: I've seen quite a few, but I don't really care that much. It doesn't bother me, and they are not really popular. It's rubbish

e.x.p.: So do you take it as a compliment?

RDJ: Yeah, I suppose so. I don't know what bootlegs you've seen.

e.x.p.: Well, there's a CD we've been offered that has the Joyrex stuff burned from the vinyl. People are trading tapes over the internet.

RDJ: Yeah, on the Internet. That's fucking great actually.

e.x.p.: Speaking of the Internet, your video for Come to Daddy.

RDJ: Oh yeah, it's on there isn't it. Yeah, I haven't seen it in its

finished form.

e.x.p.: What's the concept behind it?

RDJ: It's got a lot of dwarves, wearing masks with my head on it. We made this rubber cast of my head, and used real hair on it, making it look really realistic. Those cost five grand each to make. Someone nicked five of them from my dressing room in New York

  Brian Tregaskin said:

boris is rdj

Maybe but than again maybe not! :undecided:

Who cares if we're having fun? :laughing:

  boris said:

  BCM said:

suck my fucking cock boris.

woow ur a dik!!!!

is that in swedish?

  MajaIloveyou said:

RDJ: It was pretty good. We left before it was finished 'cause the new album is shit. We left totally stoned and almost got killed walking through the crowd. There are a lot of rough areas down here. We got hassled, and I thought we were going to get killed. Last time I was here I was smacked by this fucking bitch on crack. I was here on the Björk tour, and I wandered out of the hotel wanting to get some breakfast when this woman came up to me and said, "Give me your fucking money." She started pushing me around, and I was like 'fuck!' Then she hit me very hard right in the face, came up from behind me, and whacked me onto the floor. She almost knocked me out! I got up and fucking ran away.

 

 

RDJ: It's got a lot of dwarves, wearing masks with my head on it. We made this rubber cast of my head, and used real hair on it, making it look really realistic. Those cost five grand each to make. Someone nicked five of them from my dressing room in New York

mental!! and i never even thought that much about the masks. this is why i wish he'd be a little more off the cuff in interviews :)

where's the rest of this? big thanks

  boris said:

  BCM said:

suck my fucking cock boris.

woow ur a dik!!!!

no, man, he's a scientist. back off.

  hahathhat said:

mental!! and i never even thought that much about the masks. this is why i wish he'd be a little more off the cuff in interviews :)

 

where's the rest of this? big thanks

Heres the rest:

.x.p.: It was the element of surprise.

RDJ: It was probably that.

e.x.p.: How was the rest of the tour?

RDJ: It was a fucking good time, those four weeks

e.x.p.: How long has it been since the last time you were in San

Francisco?

RDJ: A year, or something like that. That was on the Björk tour as well which got cancelled 'cause she lost her voice. So it's fucked. I don't think I'll ever play here. Oh well.

e.x.p.: The transition between your previous material and the present

"drill 'n' bass" styled stuff seems to have been drastic.

RDJ: It wasn't so sudden for me cause I've been doing that for quite a

while. It was probably due to the release schedules of my records.

e.x.p.: How does it feel to be able to put on the bigger show now?

RDJ: It's all right, but I'd like to make it much longer. I'd like to do a little tour of America. just some proper shows in San Francisco and Los Angeles as well.

e.x.p.: It would be great to see you in a proper venue that didn't have problems...

RDJ: In LA, I played at this shitty rave. I want to come back and do that right. By the way, have you seen that NASA channel yet? It was the only good channel I could find last night. It's shots of space through cameras on satellites, and it's shown live on this channel. It didn't do anything for hours, and then all of the sudden it did something. I sat there totally stoned watching. That TV was probably the fastest TV I've ever seen. Whenever I turned the channel, the sounds would come up straight away. I loved changing channels. I was making nice little tracks buy changing channels and mixing together what people were saying.

e.x.p.: Do you ever record that kind of thing when you're on the road?

RDJ: No, but I'm thinking about doing it when I get home. Maybe I'll get a satellite dish with 500 channels or maybe more and tape me switching between channels.

e.x.p.: You only have one more album through Warp. What do you see

yourself doing after that?

RDJ: I've pretty much done it really. Don't know.

e.x.p.: What would you be doing if you weren't doing music?

RDJ: Don't know. Wanking. Or Shagging.

"REPHLEX!" Somebody shouts out the window upstairs.

e.x.p.: Did you ever have a proper job before you went into music?

RDJ: No. I never have. I worked in the mines underground with my dad.

That was pretty good. It gave me all the money to get my equipment. I

worked at a Wimpy Burger thing as well. It was terrible. But I'll never do that sort of thing ever again. I can't stand being told what to do.

e.x.p.: Well, people don't seem to think of you as being a person who

compromises by choice, or as a person who is held hostage by your

popularity.

RDJ: Yeah, I'm a totally spoiled bastard really.

e.x.p.: What do you do when you're not in the studio?

RDJ: You mean if I'm not doing music? Recently, my life has been so

hectic. In the past year I haven't had time to stop. I guess I would be having loads of parties. I've got a French girlfriend, and I've been away. So I've either been here or France.

e.x.p.: Luke Vibert was telling us that he hasn't had a girlfriend in six years.

RDJ: Yeah I know. We've been trying to pull him out of it on tour, but he said he wouldn't have anything to do with it. I don't know, he's fucking weird. The other two people on the bus, the bears, were totally sex mad. They were out there trying to get with every girl they met.

"REPHLEX!" Out the window again.

e.x.p.: Did they have anything to do with the music?

RDJ: No. But Matthew just had an EP released on RePHlex Records as "Jones".

e.x.p.: Did you push your Caustic Window release back in order to get

other newer artists out?

RDJ: Yeah, we had a load of new stuff to get out, and we decided to put that out first. And I did a new album, but I changed my mind about it. I didn't like it so I pushed it back. Then I started going through all the old stuff and mixed up the old and the new.

e.x.p.: As for albums that were not going to be released. Test pressing of Analogue Bubblebath 5 have been spotted, but the release was supposedly not going to see daylight.

RDJ: No, that one changed my mind, and I didn't like it. But I'm going to do another one.

e.x.p.: How does the RePHlex Records operation work? For instance, what does

Grant do?

RDJ: I do hardly anything but listen to music: either tapes friends give me, or music that I get on tour. I got 35, maybe more for this tour. I think I got 50 actually.

"REPHLEX!"

RDJ: ...and they do all the work. But Grant is a really hard worker.

e.x.p.: Does he ever create any music?

RDJ: He used to. He did an E.P., which he played for me. But then he

never played it again.

e.x.p.: Are people ever why about playing you things?

RDJ: No, they are all right actually. I'm just used to dealing with

fucking insecure artists.

A particularly large truck distracts us and obliterates the recorded

conversation.

e.x.p.: Like when you first met Mike Paradinas?

RDJ: Yeah, he's a fucking weirdo. He pretends he's not these days. He

pretends he's normal now 'cause he's got a baby.

e.x.p.: Speaking of babies. The fatherhood theme seem to be popping up

lately: Tom's Hard Normal Daddy, your Come to Daddy, Luke's Big Dada

involvement, Drum 'n' Bass for Papa.

RDJ: I don't know. I've been wondering about that as well, actually. I

think It might be something in the air.

e.x.p.: And the beatboxing.

RDJ: Yeah, we're really into beatboxing. I got a really wicked tape

actually, in Denver, in some hip hop show. We've got a beatboxing

compilation coming out on RePHlex Records.

e.x.p.: what kind of stuff do you spin at your parties?

RDJ: Everything. At the moment, everybody had been on the stupid tip.

playing eighties instrumentals, and mixing in massive jungle tracks, like nineties hardcore stuff. The last two sets of Tom [squarepusher] Djing have been hilarious. He's just been playing some of the stupidest tracks. But it sounds wicked. Luke has been taking acappellas and playing them over the wrong instrumentals, but to the extremes. making loads of stupid fucking songs. When I get back and I'm DJing, I'm just going to play stupid music.

e.x.p.: Do you have any favorites, apart from you posse?

RDJ: Yeah, I like Drexciya, I really like them. I do get loads of records in London. They are always one-offs. Some from bass bins, jungle bins. They are never ever people you will hear again. But usually I try to get everything that the artist puts out, or labels and stuff. It's pretty hard to keep up though.

e.x.p.: Do you have a favorite Spice Girl?

RDJ: Yeah, sporty spice. Doesn't everyone want to do her?

e.x.p.: What? I thought nobody liked her.

RDJ: Yeah, that's why I do. Her, or Mel B.

e.x.p.: Finally, what does e.x.p. stand for to you?

RDJ: Experimental.

"REPHLEX!" again as faces appear out the window. The two "bears" wave

hello from above, and Richard waves goodbye with hands barely out of his pockets. Following the waves and shouts, items are thrown from the window and come fluttering down. "Have some Mike Dred stickers for the road!" Machine Code promo stickers sticker make the whole weekend a bit more palatable. Well. End

During the performance of the technovirtuous Aphex Twin there were some weird scenes. Some overenthusiastic admires almost succeded in destroying the whole setup when they stormed the stage intheir hunt for their idol. Himself hid behind his turntable, frightened to get stabbed. Richard D. James as his name really is seem to attract all kinds of madness to his person. After earlier stories about fans who named their children after him or wanted to be buried with his records, the sick admiration is felt openly at this year's Hultsfred Festival.

Through the years he has played behind some of the most defining moments of electronic music. Even since the last part of the 80ies it has succeded him to create music that none thought existed, under his various aliases. In spite of this I find it hard to see why admirers in these underground technocircles could want to disrupt this, in Sweden uncommon, performance by storming the stage like hysterical boyband fans.

Despite the events, Richard is in a good mood when i meet him after the concert. In his tent he generously offer a drink and talk about the festival.

- I thought the guy who jumped the stage wanted to stab me.

He claims that that it was from fear of further attack that he was on his knees behind his turntables during the remainder of the performance.

- I would rather hang out with my friends than be here. Festivals have never directly attracted me. Further I dont appreciate when people try to stab me, he points out, laughing.

I have many more in case you want to read them!

sure... i've read a bunch. this one is my favorite, probably:

http://www.space-age-bachelor.com/features/99/aphex.htm