1 Hour of Aphex Twin Interviews

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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