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    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

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    From one of his recent sc messages:

     

    I’ve also got other bods to include it on numerous other devices, ill make a complete list at some point but others include Preen fm Tal sampler...etc etc..Tubutec 1oh1 and many more, I’ve been busy! Regarding the monologue Tats came pretty close to what i asked for, main thing missing would be tuning table export to scala.

    I always hook up several input devices simultaneously, including special shaped microtonal keyboards, wind input devices, pads, mini keys, big weighted keys, loads of things

    Can somebody explain please what bods, tats and especially wind input devices is? Thnx.

    Mike & Rich album turned 20 years old [Planet Mu Reissue]

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    And here is a funny interview with them taken from MUZIK Magazine №15 August 1996

     

    ... In an attempt to capture their unique musical rapport, we decided to get them together over a bottle of vodka or three, present them with a few words and phrases, and let them wind their lateral way round the houses.

    Here's what happened...

     

    Are you taking the piss, lads?

    Rich: "We have a laugh with our music, but that doesn't mean we're taking the piss."

    Mike: "We definitely don't take the piss out of the people who buy our stuff. I think what you're getting at is how the music we're into, be it easy listening or funk, is often seen as joke music. But we actually like it. Apart from when the media try to sell it back to us as pseudo-trendy London music."

    Rich: "So 'no' is the answer."

    Mike: "Some easy listening stuff is excellent, though. Especially 'Moog Indigo'."

    Rich: "Yeah, they want me to remix it along with James Lavelle."

    Mike: "I'd agree to do it on the condition James Lavelle doesn't."

    Rich: "Anyway, what's the point of making music if you can't have a laugh?"

    Mike: "Yeah, remember those really boring kids who never had a laugh at school? They'd probably make really boring music. I often hear records and think, 'He must have been a boring fucker at school'."

    Rich: "What's up with you, Mike? You didn't used to talk this much. I suppose the fame must have affected your personality."

    Mike: "No, I was just always quiet with you because you try to play games with people's heads. You're like a bully. And what you do with bullies is ignore them so they go away."

    Rich: "But it doesn't work. The bully ends up kicking the shit out of you even more. Or in my case, it makes me want to play more mind games with you."

     

    ...

     

    Oh wow, I have been searching for this interview for years, literally. Back in 1996 I read it sitting in a cafe near Berwick st somewhere and it always stuck in my head because they did seem to be getting pissed off with each other. Mike calls Rich a bully. Rich talks about Mike's wife having an Aphex tattoo. Rich calls Mikes quality control crap. Mike calls Rephlex crap. etc...

     

    I'm pretty sure this is the only copy of the interview that has ever made it onto the internet because I've googled it before and never found it.

     

    Congrats FilziSH for getting it up here.

     

    You are welcome :)

     

    Found it two mounth ago in Muzik Magazine pdf archive, page 44:

     

    http://www.muzikmagazine.co.uk/issues/muzik015_august_1996.pdf

     

    Not the best scan quality, I think my post is more comfortable to read but there is couple awesome photos by Colin Hawkins of Mike and Rich with bottle of vodka, hope we can see it in good digital quality after reissue came up I'm sure some magazines made a review using some pics from that set.

    Mike & Rich album turned 20 years old [Planet Mu Reissue]

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    Rich: "I like 'Goldie Presents Folk'."

    Rich: "That's true! I was tripping oh acid at the time. I beat him in the Arizona desert."

    Rich: "Listen to Mr Impregnator! Actually, I've been thinking about calling an album 'There Goes My Knob'. I also like knobs, you see. I like to have all my favourite ones in front of me."

    I have 3 question, what is: 'Goldie Presents Folk', Arizona desert and Mr Impregnator?

    Mike & Rich album turned 20 years old [Planet Mu Reissue]

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    Release date: June 24, 1996 - H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y birthday_cake009.gif

     

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    And here is a funny interview with them taken from MUZIK Magazine №15 August 1996

     

    The odd couple

     

    As individuals, MIKE PARADINAS and RICHARD JAMES record under a plethora of exotic names, the former most famously as µ-ziq, the latter as Aphex Twin. But together they're known as Mike & Rich, electronica's most bizarre duo

     

    This month sees the release of Mike & Rich's much-delayed "Famous Knob Twiddlers" album. Issued by Richard James 'Rephlex imprint to coincide with the appearance of Mike Paradinas' new album as Jake Slazenger, it combines distorted beats with Seventies funk, avant-salsa, TV themes and plenty of easy listening.

    "Famous Knob Twiddlers" is like a conversation between two old muckers. And abstract interaction stretching the realms of reality towards grey areas of common understanding, and off-kilter jam session betraying the duo's perverse sense of humour, it certainly puts the cat among the pigeons of the accepted shifts in electronica. To add to the confusion, Jake Slazenger's "Das Ist Ein Good Beat, Ja?" is a doozy as well.

    In an attempt to capture their unique musical rapport, we decided to get them together over a bottle of vodka or three, present them with a few words and phrases, and let them wind their lateral way round the houses.

    Here's what happened...

     

    Are you taking the piss, lads?

    Rich: "We have a laugh with our music, but that doesn't mean we're taking the piss."

    Mike: "We definitely don't take the piss out of the people who buy our stuff. I think what you're getting at is how the music we're into, be it easy listening or funk, is often seen as joke music. But we actually like it. Apart from when the media try to sell it back to us as pseudo-trendy London music."

    Rich: "So 'no' is the answer."

    Mike: "Some easy listening stuff is excellent, though. Especially 'Moog Indigo'."

    Rich: "Yeah, they want me to remix it along with James Lavelle."

    Mike: "I'd agree to do it on the condition James Lavelle doesn't."

    Rich: "Anyway, what's the point of making music if you can't have a laugh?"

    Mike: "Yeah, remember those really boring kids who never had a laugh at school? They'd probably make really boring music. I often hear records and think, 'He must have been a boring fucker at school'."

    Rich: "What's up with you, Mike? You didn't used to talk this much. I suppose the fame must have affected your personality."

    Mike: "No, I was just always quiet with you because you try to play games with people's heads. You're like a bully. And what you do with bullies is ignore them so they go away."

    Rich: "But it doesn't work. The bully ends up kicking the shit out of you even more. Or in my case, it makes me want to play more mind games with you."

     

    Quality control - I don't care because you do

    Rich: "I think your quality control is worse than mine."

    Mike: "Bullshit! Mine might have been slack for 'In Pine Effect', but all the tracks I didn't like at the time are growing on me now. I can't understand why you think my crappiest tunes are the best ones. And you don't like my best stuff, so I can't win."

    Rich: "I get my friends to select what goes on my albums because I'm not bothered about winning. I don't really care what gets released, I'm just interested in making the music in the first place. I make music for myself and I only sell it in order to make a living. I'm not even bothered if everybody hates it. I'm not like you. You get really worried about what people think of your music."

    Mike: "I don't. Anyway. I thought 'Caustic Window', that track of yours on the UK advert for Nike, was crap."

    Rich: "It was a worldwide advert actually, Mike!"

    Mike: "Whatever, if I'd been choosing the tracks for you, that one wouldn't have made it. Which is why it doesn't always work getting people to select the tracks for your albums. Other people aren't always right."

    Rich: "You're certainly not!"

     

    Board games

    Mike: "I like Connect 4 and Downfall. I bought them for my girlfriend, Jess, who's about to have a baby. I've got really good at them. I always win. Unless I'm playing Jess. Then I let her win."

    Rich: "I once invented a war game with an incredibly boring friend of mine. We also had a customised version of Monopoly, with interest rates and mortgage rates to make it as complicated as we could."

    Mike: "I had Monopoly when I was a kid, but it was all in Spanish."

    Rich: "I used to make bombs as well. And start fires. I was into that risk factor."

    Mike: "Mickey Mann from Pressure Of Speech is always playing Risk. He told me that he played you at chess and you pretended you couldn't play."

    Rich: "That's true! I was tripping oh acid at the time. I beat him in the Arizona desert."

    Mike: "I like games with knobs."

    Rich: "Listen to Mr Impregnator! Actually, I've been thinking about calling an album 'There Goes My Knob'. I also like knobs, you see. I like to have all my favourite ones in front of me."

    Mike: "I'm really not sure what you are talking about, Rich."

    Rich: "I remember playing Orbital your stuff years ago... And look at you now. Just look at you. A heap of rotting shit. A pile of decomposing faeces..."

    Mike: "Go on, go on. I've taken worse than that in my time!"

     

    Babies

    Mike "They smell nice. They've got little buttocks and little fingers."

    Rich "I like the way they do your head in when they cry."

    Mike "The way they get to you when they cry is a wonder of evolution. You simply can't ignore them."

     

    "Vodka"

    Mike: "It's the title of one of the tracks on 'Famous Knob Twiddlers'. We recorded it after drinking loads of vodka. Surprisingly enough."

    Rich: "I can't remember. It was recorded five million years ago."

    Mike: "It was actually recorded two years ago. We did it during the World Cup and I kept playing 'Johnny B Good' in the studio."

    Rich: "You couldn't handle that vodka, could you? You kept falling asleep."

    Mike: "I feel asleep during one mix and when I woke up you had knocked out two more which were total rubbish."

    Rich: "I don't think we should work together again until the next World Cup, Mike. In fact, I don't want to work with you ever again..."

    Mike: "Thanks!"

    Rich: "I don't want to work with any electronic musicians for a while. But I'll definitely be keeping an eye on you. Did you know Mike's girlfriend has an Aphex Twin tattoo on her ankle?"

    Mike: "It's only little."

    Rich: "I was thinking about it the other day, wondering how you are going to explain it when your kid asks, 'What's that on mummy's leg?'."

     

    Techno is in a state of stasis

    Rich: "Electronic music is so easy to make. That's why there's so much shit around. I can't work out how it sells. I hate shit music. It really bugs me."

    Mike: "Is that why you threw my album out?"

    Rich: "I reckon this proposed government bill lo make clubs play a few minutes of chill-out music every hour will make going out more interesting. If people are monitoring what is played, DJs might work harder to add extra elements."

    Mike: "Like playing sandpaper?"

    Rich: "That was blown out of all proportion. I was just taking the piss out of the Disobey club. I honestly couldn't believe it when people thought I was serious. It's like when I played in New York and I finished my set using a food mixer. I threw it off a balcony and it hit some bloke on the head. He came up to me afterwards and asked me to sign bits of it so he could put them on his mantlepiece at home."

    Mike: "I'm too mainstream to be asked to play Disobey."

    Rich: "At the last Disobey, I got completely pissed and played some music I did when I was 1 3. The 20 people still left In the club were dancing to it and I was swinging across the rafters slagging off The KLF's Jimmy Cauty. I was going, 'Your tank's shit mate, it hasn't even got a gun'."

    Mike: "So have you really got a tank, Richard? Be honest."

    Rich: "Okay, it's an armoured car, but it's fucking cool. You can't drive a Sherman tank on the road, so I've got a Ferret. The only trouble is that it wouldn't stop someone taking me out with a bullet. That's a bit annoying."

    Mike: "Do you think someone would try that?"

    Rich: "Getting back to the point. I've decided I'm not going to play ambient stuff anymore. I'm into faster music now. I guess I've just run out of patience."

    Mike: "I like folk music."

    Rich: "I like 'Goldie Presents Folk'."

     

    Pseudonyms - split personality or megalomania?

    Rich: I'm not going to even think about that one. Can I have another triple, please?"

     

    Theme tunes

    Mike: "I'd really like to do a TV theme tune..."

    Rich: "It's my ultimate ambition. Nobody has written a decent theme tune in about 15 years. I'd love to do one for a children's programme."

    Mike: "Yeah, that would suit you."

    Rich: "These days, they're just rubbish computer brass stabs."

    Mike: "'Byker Grove' is a classic, though."

    Rich: "I'd also love to work on a movie, perhaps with Mike Leigh or Stanley Kubrick, but I wouldn't want to do a major Hollywood production because they don't give a shit about their artists. It's the same with adverts. They're forever saying, 'Blah, blah, blah, will you alter this, alter that'. You do what they ask because you want the job, then they change their mind and realise you were right all along."

    Mike: "That's showbiz. Rich."

    Rich: "The adverts are the best things on TV. I get well into thinking about what they're trying to get across, but I wish the music wasn't always so stupidly warm and reassuring. Insurance adverts are the worst."

    Mike: "I like adverts with old people sitting on sofas."

    Rich: "If we did one for the Mike & Rich album, it would have to be like a cat food advert..."

    Mike: "Yeah! I like cats. Cats and babies."

    Rich: "The way you talk is ridiculous! You talk in clichés."

     

    Crack

    Rich: "Can you get it on the street corners where you live?"

    Mike: "No."

    Rich: "Did you know Luke Vibert smokes an ounce a week?"

    Mike: "Allegedly! And he's a heroin dealer. Joke!"

    Rich: "I thought you'd stopped drinking, Mike!"

     

    "I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits"

    Rich: "It's a lyric from 'Boy/Girl', the next Aphex Twin single. Someone told me I couldn't make a pop song and I said, 'Of course I fucking can'."

    Mike: "Do you know your milkman's wife, then?"

    Rich: "I'm not saying. Have you tasted Jess' milk?"

    Mike: "This is an important subject to me at the moment. I've been breast-feeding from Jess and it's a tough thing to do. I have a lot of respect for women who breast-feed."

    Rich: "Are you embarrassed?"

    Mike: "Not at all. But do you know your milkman's wife?"

    Rich: "I'm still not saying."

     

    Rephlex Records

    Mike: "You don't do any promotion for the label. It's crap."

    Rich: "What do you expect? We're just a couple of boys from Cornwall. We don't know how to run a label."

    Mike: "Is that why people don't know 'Bluff Limbo' has been re-released? And why you've sat on my best stuff?"

    Rich: "We are waiting for Virgin to put money into promoting your next µ-ziq album before we release the older stuff."

    Mike: "Crap."

    Rich: "You're being so selfish. It's too expensive to promote it by ourselves."

    Mike: "Rephlex is a good label, but it could be a lot better."

    Rich: "Look, things are moving now and we've got some excellent stuff coming up, so we might sell more records. But there's no ideology behind Rephlex. We don't sit down and say we should release this or that record because it's expected of us."

    Mike: "But you never release anything! Not on time, anyway."

    Rich: "Hey, this Is all getting a bit like real life now."

    Mike: "Bollocks. I'm having a baby! That's real fucking life, mate!"

     

    AND so we leave them bickering like a pair of gadgies hell-bent on out-doing and out-insulting each other. It's probably a friendship thing.

     

    Mike & Rich's 'Famous Knob Twiddlers' collaboration and Jake Slazenger's 'Das Ist Ein Groovy Beat, Ja?' are out now on Rephlex and Warp, respectively. Aphex Twin's 'Boy/ Girl' single follows on Warp on July 25

    Aphex Twin interviews thread

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    Posted · Edited by FilziSH

    Another one. MELODY MAKER june 19, 1993

    I guess he talk about Phlegm earlier this year on that big epic story:

    Lastly before I got upset by r&s I sent them a c90 tape in excitement that they wanted to release my stuff and i FILLED it with my best tracks at the time and he never got it! phew, phew I was so relieved, coz as soon as i posted it off I wanted to get it back, I wonder where that tape ended up????


    And one of his first uploads Archponf in january was from Phlegm

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    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

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    PurpleMoustache

     

    About track comments. You have to edit ID3 tag by yourself, in archive tracks consist only what Richard wrote. As I said above everything is original even date of uploading each track on sc.

     

    Detailed information about tracks and comments:

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11ouNaaVrNp60Ib34Kp0TO1n1XSc7-9DvfiZ9ZiTiD2c/htmlview

    Richard D James SoundCloud - A Gift To The Fans

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    PurpleMoustache


    My personal archive has 268 tracks. Did you not get the "b-side" remix "I want to be with you" called "You belong with me"? If not, I can get it to you. Doesn't have upload comments/track comments tho



    This track is in archive, thnx ;) I guess you have some previously deleted tracks like 21 Scb, he uploaded, forgetting that already have the exact same track with other title (watery big ez)

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