Aphex Twin & Missy Elliot

[KaOz]

Oh hehe, i just saw that in a newer Afx interview ( he got intervied after his gig with vibert in australia )
in this one he told something about a collaboration with Elliot...
dont get me wrong, i really lookin forward to this.. i love elliots stuff.... like he said "she has the voodoo vibe"...

[marcel]

she's da queen

[KaOz]

word.. neptunes are also nice producers, commercial or not =)

[pille'ocheoni]

hey kaoz got a link to the interview?

[karitek]

Originally posted by KaOz
word.. neptunes are also nice producers, commercial or not =)

yep, and both missy and the neptunes are from (and i think still live) in my home town of virginia beach!

[V Knid esq]

Richard James is renowned for making shit up in interviews (e.g. "I didn't sleep for a year and a half once")

[MUX]

hahaha, or 'my tank is now parked in my sisters garden shack'
or even ' to make it in this business, i used to airbrush cocks all day'

[Norn Thorsen]

Dre from Outkast has been bangin' on about how much he loves squarepusher/AFX of late.... that would be an interesting combination for sure.

[thomas hooked]

everyones always banging on about how they love squarepushernaffextwin. see also that hobbit kid, linkin park etc.

[Norn Thorsen]

are they?
why?

[thomas hooked]

because like some weird old genesis cult they believe that they both sprung forth fully formed and made theonlyrelevantelectronicmusic ever. as oppossed to being two individuals with wide and informed tastes whose genius is in transposing their appropriated influences in new and exciting ways

[Norn Thorsen]

oh, ok.

do they really continue to transpose their whatsits in new and exciting ways?

i love work by both of 'em but I'm not convinced that they've really done that much new and exciting of late....

i haven't checked out the latest square album yet tho'...

[Loz]

I really like aphex twin and squarepusher

[thomas hooked]

so do i. but i also like lots of other electronic music to dance to in nitespots. not keen on level 42 though

[Norn Thorsen]

:)

[Loz]

@thomas - bet you love Runrig, though

[grobelaar]

I'm beginning to suspect that Phil may be Richard James... :)

[Loz]

no, don't you remember, Richard James already came to this board. He called himself 'Aphex Twin' so we'd all know it was him, too.

[V Knid esq]

Originally posted by thomas hooked
because like some weird old genesis cult they believe that they both sprung forth fully formed and made theonlyrelevantelectronicmusic ever. as oppossed to being two individuals with wide and informed tastes whose genius is in transposing their appropriated influences in new and exciting ways

WORD YOU-to-the-motherfucking-PEE

I love debunked myths, and the myth of the genius as a magical creature of another species whose work can and MUST never be analysed is a great one. You just summed up excellently the argument in a chapter about genius in this lush book:

<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195143264/ref=sib_rdr_dp/002-2728061-6672007?%5Fencoding=UTF8&no=283155&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&st=books"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0195143264.01._PE_PIdp-schmooS,TopRight,7,-26_SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg"></a>

The important thing is that someone considered to be a genius is QUANTITAVELY different from the run of the mill person (they work harder, they store more information, they can draw more functional connections between things yadday yadda) but not QUALITAVELY difference - i.e. there is not some magic(k)al property, essence, spirit or other transcendent special hat which they where which makes them oh so special.

This doesn't make Tom Jenkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart or Bob Gamelan from 179 Acacia Avenue, Java any less important or great a musicians - in fact it makes them more interesting because it takes away the unecessary obscurantism which tries to hide the brilliant details and processes of creativity....

[KaOz]

Tom Jenkinson is Gay.

[thomas hooked]

yup knid, thats the good stuff. and runrig, i'm so hot-dang all over runrig's face.