Aphex Twin interviews are few and far between, but they do exist in various places - and here we have many of the audio conversations compiled together. We start off with a conversation about why he;s called Aphex Twin, which is a fine start to the stories and the folklore RDJ has built around his work. See below for a comprehensive lists of contents:
00:00 Playing live
01:05 Identity / Lying about name
03:57 Messing with machines
07:50 AFX in films
08:30 Come To Daddy release
10:00 Self sampling vocals
12:40 Living in a bank Interview @ NPK Norwegian Radio (1996)
14:55 RDJ Album
15:30 Children samples / Equipment
16:57 Main aliases / Music being divided
18:01 Record buying / The music industry
19:39 Touring
20:58 Music videos Interview @ Kiss FM Radio (1993)
22:12 Eurotechno
23:22 Meaning of Techno
25:20 Comparison between Punk & Techno
25:45 Jungle and rave
26:40 Admired artists
28:01 Starting to make music Interview @ BBC Radio 3 Mixing It (1995)
29:40 Thoughts on Karlheinz Stockhausen / Improvisation
32:50 Thoughts on Oval
34:02 Making his own instruments
35:50 Philip Glass collab
36:18 Making soundtracks
37:30 Hangable Auto Bulb EP / Jungle Interview @ Space Age Bachelor Magazine (1997)
38:32 Buying the bank vault
40:40 Driving a tank
42:20 Buying a submarine
44:04 Where he records / The studio
45:58 Interest in military
46:22 Making music for adverts
48:40 On people buying his records worldwide
50:54 Having lots of free time
52:00 Playing videogames a lot
54:42 Seattle
55:11 People queueing up to poop
55:30 Trouble coming into the US
56:33 Lied about drugs on tour bus
58:58 Sleeping
01:01:56 Ideas for songs before recording
01:03:50 Mixing styles in music
01:05:52 Neighbors tried to evict me
01:08:30 F*cking hippie
01:10:43 Drugs / Making music while sober
01:13:35 Getting signed for demos / Sending tapes
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