'Jockey Slut' magazine came out today, and in their 'What's Going on'?
page, it had this bit on Aphex.
"Aphex twin's next single - 'Window Licker' - will again have a Chris
Cunningham video. The £150,000 script features an LA shoot involving limos
and 35 dancing girls.
It also featured a 6 page Squarepusher article, set in the location for his
new video, a hospital in MIddlesex, where he's playin boyracer in a
wheelchair, strapped up in a straitjacket! Chris Cunningham, (who
incidentally looks like he could be Aphex's sweeter, more innocent likkle
brov, same long chestnut hair, beardie action) ... doing his magic film
bizness again.
Talkin bout the new album ...
'The new album, the one he won't talk about, is however far removed from
both of the previous ones. It's music made almost from the opposite
direction. Gone is the meticulous drum programming to be replaced by
looser live tracks performed by Tom himself. These new foundations are then
worked on with his bass and keyboards to create a dark fusion sound that's
more mature, closer to his idea of pure expression, and destined to
challenge (alienate even) a proportion of his audience.
"When I go to a record shop and hear loads of mediocre records", he offers
by way of explanation for his sound, "it makes me go fuckin mental inside.
Music's the most beautiful thing in the world, the thing that can take you
out of yourself and show you new shit that isn't part of the objective real
world, and yet we're suerronded by all this mediocrity! I've heard people
say you can sell a thousand copies of anything," he continues more
animated, "which means suddenly that musicians aren't musicians any more,
they're simply people who can just about blag it. I'm not saying you
should study music for X amount of years to do it but just shunting round
other people's ideas is fucking sad".'
(Jockey Slut, issue no. 15, August/September.)
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