From noze Sent Wed, May 5th 1999, 21:34
From noze Sent Wed, May 5th 1999, 21:34
Please God, let this tour happen. Please get Trent to release this damn album already and get this show on the road. Amen... Aphex Twin Wants To Tour With Nine Inch Nails Aphex Twin, (who did a few tracks for NIN on Further Down The Spiral, and who are also famed for their disturbing video "Come to Daddy"), wants to work with Nine Inch Nails again when they tour... Below is a snippet from a recent interview with Richard D. James (The man behind the curtain of Aphex Twin) and explains that he has an extreme interest in touring with Nine Inch Nails sometime in the future. And by the way the new Aphex Twin album just came out, WINDOWLICKER which looks like an opportunity to tour together in order to promote their new albums. CC: What are you plans for the immediate future? RDJ: I want to come out by the end of the year and do a good tour. Put the rock bands to shame. CC: Is it true that you want to tour with Nine Inch Nails? RDJ: Yeah, I thought that might be all right. They're not touring, so I can't do it. Someone told me they were into it if they were touring, but they're not. Interview taken from Aphex Twin at Chaos Control. The entire interview can be read here... Choas Control Interview by Bob Gourly Chaos Control: When Chaos Control interviewed you during the NASA tour, you mentioned that you built your own electronic instruments. Can you describe them a bit more, and explain how they work alongside commercially available gear? Richard D. James: Well, I don't use the electronic stuff I made before. I use about two things that I built when I was younger, and that's all these days. I'm strictly into the computer domain. CC: What home made equipment do you still use? RDJ: I've got one thing that's like an effects box for signal treatments and bizarre sorts of effects that I can't get out of anything else. The quality is very fucked up and it sounds pretty cool still. CC: What was the reason for the move towards computers? RDJ: It's just that analog electronics has had its day for me. It's too limiting. I'm much more interested in using computers. CC: You're known for being very prolific. How much material did you write for the new album? RDJ: For this one, I had about 200 songs. It was quite hard, it's always hard, because I never know what to release, basically. So I get my mates to listen to it and try to see what they like. I don't usually end up putting out my favorite tracks. I don't reckon people will get into those. Not that I care, I just want them to buy the record so I can get some money. CC: Do you try to chose songs with common theme? Do you try to find a varied group of songs? RDJ: Usually I try to get a sort of range. I approach thinking about what I would have wanted if I bought and what people will actually buy, to get a compromise in between. CC: How long did it take to create those 200 songs? RDJ: A year. CC: Will the other material come out, as either side projects or bonus tracks? RDJ: Some of it probably will come out. They just go into the realms of all the other millions of tracks I do that never come out. CC: Do you ever go back to songs you did a long time ago but never released? RDJ: I'm totally nostalgic, so I get into listening to old stuff every now and again. CC: Do you usually start and finish a song, then go to the next one, or do you tend to be working on many tracks at the same time? RDJ: I tend to do things in one go, if I leave things I don't go back to them because I don't get the excitement out of it. But I do that sometimes, and sometimes I'll have like four of five tracks on the go. But mainly, just one. CC: How has your live show changed over the years? RDJ: I use my laptop computer for everything now, I've got one effects unit controlled by the computer as well. I think the next shows will just be the laptop, and a 2 channel mixer. CC: So you don't have any MIDI gear connected to the laptop? RDJ: I've managed to work it all out on the computer, and it's loads better than the way I used to do it. It's more flexible than what most people do with sequencers and samplers. CC: Are you using custom software do accomplish this? RDJ: Some of it's my software, and some of it's existing software. CC: What are the advantages of this set-up? RDJ: It's like I've got quite a big choice of tracks, and I change them around loads when I'm playing them, basically. It depends on what the sound system is like, and what I feel like, basically. CC: Will the Mike and Rich album be released in America? RDJ: Possibly soon. Rephlex is doing tons of deals, one with Sony and probably one with Sire as well. CC: Have you had any other recent releases under other names? RDJ: No. CC: It seems like a few years ago you had so many side projects that it was hard to keep track. Are you getting away from that now? RDJ: Yeah. I still do other things, but haven't had anything out recently. I want to keep it simple. CC: What are you plans for the immediate future? RDJ: I want to come out by the end of the year and do a good tour. Put the rock bands to shame. CC: Is it true that you want to tour with Nine Inch Nails? RDJ: Yeah, I thought that might be all right. They're not touring, so I can't do it. Someone told me they were into it if they were touring, but they're not. Interview taken from Aphex Twin at Chaos Control. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]