Aphex Twin - 1996 MTV Interview
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- Aphex Twin - 1996 MTV Party Zone Interview with Simone Angel.
The real full interview, with some live clips.
01:10 Aphex Twin - Heliosphan
07:49 Aphex Twin - Carn Marth
10:13 AFX - Laughable Butane Bob
You can tell it's old because Mtv is actually talking about music.
Yup. 1995 was pretty much the end of mtv. Went to shit quite quickly afterwards.
Joshua Townsend Agreed. Cant even watch that channel nowaays. Actually havent watched TV since UA-cam came around in 2006. 9 good years!
Music Television became Masonic Television.
Matthew Dohoney Not it just became shitty tv reality garbage.
+Matthew Dohoney Primus called it Moron TV
I think Aphex Twin is the only person who can say "all my fans are weird" and not a single fan will give a dissenting response to that
do not think so at all, but he is definitely one of the few persons.
Fax
this comment just made me laugh so hard because how true it is
I love richard and im Weird af
He called himself that because his twin brother died
I like how Aphex Twin is slowly sliding down the sofa as the interview progress.
hahahha
That's hella adorable LMAO
ору
he is lol
Arthur Huizar you're hella gay
I never tried to imagine Aphex Twin as a person but... This is exactly what I hoped him to be.
half of his releases have his face on it lol
He's still pretty fucking funny on Instagram. At least I think it's his official account.
@@amb600cd0 there is more to a person than their appearance
@@bickyboo7789 what is his insta?
Just like vinny vinesauce
Seeing him actually talk and move is like a rare footage of a creator from another world
Favorite part is when he calls the Internet "decent".
Brock Duplechien its like calling sliced bread “cool” instead of “the fore-bearer of sandwiches”
@J-Cire Dial Up days
I forgot how we used to call everything we liked "decent" back then.
Right after he says "Yeh it's wicked, I love it, can't get off it". "It's decent"
56K dial up + mIRC = Aphex Twin discovery
I never thought that guy is human, nor able to talk.
me too
He sings on milkman
I've met him. He can defo speak
Really?! What made you think that?
i thought music would come out of his mouth instead
i dont understand why people are saying she is annoying and a bad interviewer. this is the best aphex interview i can find and the only one where he doesnt seem to get upset with the interviewer. she did a great job. if you know of a better interview with richard please let me know.
Totally agree. I this she was being very kind. Just the way you are with someone you genuinely like.
She did well, he doesn't often talk to press that long, at least not without making up more crazy stories 😄
он просто не видел то самое интервью с Епифанцевым
She seems genuinely interested
Agree
he brought 2030 music to the 1990's... creating his own synths, this guy is amazing.
Not synths from what i Heard, mostly softq and effects , No ???
@@N.P.G he did create his own synth for the most or he would buy some n circuit bent
2130 music to the 1990's
You mean modify
reading this in 2023 feels so weird and bizarre
Wait, he is an actual person? I thought he was..., I don't know, some sort of collective auditory hallucination?
Michael Palin he's that too
@@dx315 wait..did mulholland drive happen?
@@TheBestCommenterEVER Yes, just not in this timeline. A strange equinox occured.
Most likely a hologram
Yea that's why all of his videos and CDs have his face posted on every character lol
I like how she seems genuinely interested in him haha
Back when MTV wasn’t just mindless trash.
Back in the days when the interviewers/VJs knew their stuff
I also felt it at certain times
She seems like she's a fan
This is literally the nicest my man has ever been to anyone in the media so I would assume he was genuinely interested in her too
This guy's music is way ahead of its time.
It still is >.>
his old music is still ahead of the current time lmao
Very ahead
no its just our imagination. the music may fit to our current world tho
Too bad he's irrelevant now
You can tell it’s old because the interviewer is actually knowledgeable, and presents the material well.
and music is being talked about lol
If he was any more laid back, he’d fade into another plain of existence. I want to live like him.
The dynamic in this interview is wonderful. It's like flirty, but not, in a weird way. Like there's a lot of smiling, particularly from her, but he doesn't maintain eye contact long enough for it to cross over into anything more, despite how close they are to each other. And she also doesn't seem adoring, just fascinated by him. Also he's introverted but never nervous - very chill. I come back to this interview loads because it's just so fun to watch. I also love how he's just a geezer, one of your mates. "You still doing the music Ritch?" "Yeh mate, I love it, it's decent"
Excellent summing up. As another commenter (called Frogmorton Hotchkiss) says, 'she looks like an intelligent girl who has to do the obligatory 1990s ladette thing.' You can see a lot of very practised, superficial 'crazy-tv-interviewer' behaviour typical of music TV in the 1990s which is jarring and seems at odds which how she would behave if just interviewing him straight, unaffected.
His introverted but calm attitude is something I would love to achieve. I'm an introvert but I tend to be more on the nervous side
Me too
@Bicky Boo Bing search results be like: "you should try being on ketamine 24/7"
@@bickyboo7789 🤣🤣🤣tf u on about bro yeah get on the mxe for your confidence 💀
90's were fucking cool
FutureSoundStation Yeah, I can tell you ...
He's still doing this stuff
@@hightowerTB303 Oh please do, I was born in 2000 and I really wanna know what the 90s was like when it comes to living normally in it.
Noooo, they were THE BEST!!!
@@jimmypesto3179 same shit but you could fully escape at the weekend.
"I quite like my own voice actually, I got into it over the past week."
This guy's humour is fooken transcendentally dry.
Monolith Preacher I don’t think he was joking
Tony Bontana it’s somewhere in between
He sounds like Alan Davies from QI.
Mind your business boiiiii
That's not humour
"So , are you a bit of a net-head as well?"
"Yeah, it's wicked, I love it. I can't get off it. It's decent."
Word up to all tha netters
Nettin it up
Net-head for life
@@nathanlawrence7319 Surfin' that highway!
We thought life would be better
I'm watching this on my mobile telephone in bed. I, too, am a nethead.
so, are you bit of a meth-head as well??
Fans are like "what reverb was used in this interview?"
yuppp
All of those sounds are actually artifacts generated by video/audio compression from converting this video for youtube format from vhs or something. They could probably be well removed with an eq, there is some strange delay on it too like a feedback issue
Spring reverb
Jk I don’t hear any lol
Is it bad that one of my life high points is that I passed this man a joint? 😂
Absolutely not
Awesome
@@dudeivealreadydonethis5tim289 from me to you..... congratulations
Smoking weed with the Nikola Tesla of electronic music, in-fucking-credible.
100% no.
He's one of those guys who's weirdly attractive in a way that's hard to explain. Intelligent, sly, soft-spoken yet flirtatious.
I've never seen him speak before, really adds to the appeal
Dora Robertson yeah my kinda Guy
the only musician who is totally at ease and self inspired. that is very unique
A fuckable troll of sorts.
@@literallyallthingsonice noooooo
"I usually get friends to decide what I put out." That's fascinating, he has that much faith in his friends' tastes. Shows that he cares a lot about how the fans will receive it.
I always thought like "I don't really wanna put anythign put so I have my friends tell me" as a fuck you kind of.
@@robindreier9796 "I care because you do"
That makes sense tbh. When you think about the kind of music he creates, it’s clear he doesn’t view or think of music like most normal people do. If he was to compile a list of 10 of his favourite tracks for an album, I can imagine it would be the least accessible stuff, that even some hardcore Aphex fans wouldn’t get.
Getting more ‘normal’ people to decide what music he released early in his career, made it so much more accessible. Would be interesting to know how SAW 85-92 would’ve been received if it was just his song choices.
I read this comment in the same exact moment he said it while I'm watching. Whoa.
the friends being Squarepusher and Plug, so yeah I would trust those guys' taste as well.
Its 2020 and this guy still sounds like the future
My favorite part is when he talks about companies sending the music for adverts back because they thought the tape was broken.
If you told me that three years later these two got married, I wouldn't doubt it for a second.
It's hard to believe there was a time when MTV was hip and on the cutting edge
Try not being a zoomer.
@@vertyisprobablydead inexplicable aggressive comment that isn't even contextually appropriate
@@hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh6898wow
His voice cracked a little when he was asked about his brother. You can tell that even though it's public knowledge, it still bothers him a bit. I've always had a theory that he chose the name "Aphex Twin" as a personification of his stillborn brother when he's on stage, and then he's Richard in his daily life. Basically living his life for both of them to make up for the life his brother never had.
I love his natural state of mind🌹raw emotion ❤️❤️❤️
We are all human
@joe Horrible, man. Or that He’s a horrible man? Get your shit straight.
That's not a theory or a rumour, that's the actual reason he chose the name.
I like how he's slowly falling back further and further throughout the interview XD
that's gold
lol I haven't even noticed
Drugs are a helluva drug
buahahah :D Hes god
Shrooms makes you sleepy...at first
omg that was the most chill-out mtv interview I've ever seen, I wish I'd have grown up with this version of mtv :/
This has such a good vibe. I miss the 90s. Life was so much easier.
Yes I was just thinking that. It's like wow, when things were normal.
Watching videos from the 90s and early 2000s feels like going back to real life
@@themoonbootman Yes, just reading this 3am before going to bed and you've nailed it.
Wow! Never saw him speak. Plus, he's being interviewed by someone who is, not only attractive but, quite knowledgeable, and on MTV! Oh wait, this is from the 90s; that explains things. Thanks for sharing.
my0wnme777 nowadays they’d have some british landwhale with dyed hair.
Boomers
jfc
@@perhaps1094 It fucking sucks now, and don't you forget it.
@@perhaps1094 Says the guy with an MF DOOM pfp. The Irony is awesome🤣
Richard D. James is a giant leg.
Funniest thing in this comment section
What kind of a fucking donut thing to say is that hahaha
Nice profile pic_____--electric wizatd--__
Yea, the camera angle makes his leg look like it’s 75% of his body
:D
I met Rich just before he released Drukqs and he was absolutely lovely. Top bloke. His latest music is absolutely amazing as well, he's just gotten better as time has gone on.
Ahhhh lucky fuck
Meeting Aphex twin must be like meeting Jesus or even better
he was the first internet troll
I was reading about how he opened up for bjork and just played a bunch of harsh noise and pissed off her fans. So yes he was lol
dammmm really ? lol
Chris Connor him and mike Patton were known for trolling their own fans
Bet he's on 4chan
Andy Kaufman, og troll.
I'm in love with the interviewer
+Cody Robinson she seems to be diggin' AT though !
Me too!
Gorgeous
We all need a woman who's into us
Cody Robinson stfu
i love it how they keep putting his artist nae under his head like "this is aphex twin" "did you remember, this is aphex twin" "did i already say this is aphex twin"
on the anchie t device known as "television" they had funny thing called commercials. so audiences needed reminded afterward. weird right
@@daltonbedore8396 Im surpirsed it took almost 3 years for someone to point it out to that guy.
That, and if someone happened to tune in mid-interview, they'd need proper context
It's for people who tune into the channel at different times
@@SBACTY99 Ah, man, 'member when you could tune in to something in the middle of it
Mental. Me and my brother promoted the first gig Aphex Twin did in Scotland, in Glasgow in 1993, where his mum and dad turned up! It might even be the gig he's talking about. They were traveling round Scotland at the time and it was the first time they had ever seen Richard play live! I've regretted not filming that gig ever since.
Damn bro thats like promoting Bethovens first gig.
@@salmahumaran7468 LOL I know mate !!
You should post it
That sounds amazing
@@haku5461 It was a great experience! Richard came up to my house before the gig, to chill out and get ready, and he mixed some of my records on the decks I had in my bedroom! He was on them for about an hour and he could really mix!
He gave me a CD of his first album, it's like a manufactured CD before it was printed on! It's blank on both sides but plays like one you'd buy from the shops. It must be a promo or something.
His dad called me the next morning but I was crashed out so the answering machine came on and recorded him leaving a message thanking us for looking after him and his wife the night before! I still have that on the cassette from the answering machine.
He had a real strong Cornish accent, like a farmer's accent! Very nice people, his mum and dad!
Unsolved sexual tension.
Serial Thrilla *Platonic sexual tension
Wtf why people always made up crap like this??? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@darkman4747 i know right 🙄
@Tony Montana she's preening a lot though... she keeps running her hands through her hair, smiling excessively... I hope they got it in cuz I'm starting to ship them...
the way he has his gaze averted and then slowly starts to make eye contact more. it's undeniable. and she's rly leaning it. the vibe is on lol. i dont blame her either
love this interview
i love how comfortable richard is, and the interviewer asks pretty good questions
really sad when he is asked what the meaning behind his name because the 'twin' part is about his twin who passed away
Clearly, Simone knows what she is talking about..
Wow 20 years ago....I've been listening his shit since i was in school, never seen him talk. Only seen that twisted smiling face basically. He's pretty cute, actually, brillz.
He's the best
He does like quite different when he’s not giving us that strange smile
Yeah me too
Omg you! I love your tumblr
Hes quite adorable .
He's adorable lol. Despite the creepiness of his videos, he himself seems really normal.
AFTimeLord He didn’t direct them, that’s the work of a particular Chris Cunningham. Imaginative videos for such imaginative songs
He’s definitely not a regular person
Being the undisputed genius of electronic music is far from normal
@@jackedkerouac4414 You can be a genius in one area but still behave and think otherwise normally
The guys a total madman. In a good way of course. I heard once he puts on those creepy Richard masks to scare his wife when hes sleeping and that he randomly owns military tanks for no reason and he said once that he trained goats to write his music😂😂😂
wow she's obviously a huge fan and knows what she's talking about. even mainstream media had its finger on the pulse of real art for a brief period there, now everything is completely vapid.
His smile is priceless! I love how much fun he’s having with the interviewer :) - Apparently during that time, he has friends from the internet back in 1996, helping him on projects :)
Holy cow it's so weird I'm seeing this for the first time on UA-cam in 2024. I nicked all his jams off Napster back in the day, and I never got to see him be human until now.
that has to be the most introverted interview i've ever seen. The best musicians are mind.
Thank you :)
***** He is taking the piss the entire interview - I'm not all that sure he is an introvert in real life.
***** Nobody beats Keiran Hebden at being introverted hehe
Mc Ride from Death Grips
of course i like richard d james of course
I love the story where he forgot to make a remix so he just gave a random original track lmao
You pubblished this video on april 14th. I see what you did there
"are you a bit of a net-head, then?" in 2014 that is priceless
in 2019 this is also priceless
I couldn't tell what they were saying, so I turned on the captions and it said "effort"!
?
In 2020 this is also priceless
Also what’s a net head
@@sonarbuge7958 suppose it's slang for a person who was on the internet a lot, back then it wasn't used as widely and was still considered a subculture.
in 2020 also
i'm so struck by what a natural bloke he is, no pretention.
spectral morphing vocals in 1996, sick
Lovely seeing you here
20 year ago, without facebook, youtube, twitter, and mtv actually was a music channel.
Ah old MTV. You left and broke my heart.
Like many others have said here: Simone is a great interviewer.
I love how he’s just in the zone with his feet swinging around 😂
love it haha
He is probably the best electronic music producer of all time, hands down.
You look at him vs some of the greats and he's just in a league of his own.
watching aphex twin answering so peacefully in that interview gives me peacefull at same time to me
Same here my friend
He's gotta be on something, he was nearly swallowed whole by the end of the interview hahah
Now that, my friends, is how you do an interview.
it's so weird to look at this and think "it's weird that this sort of thing used to be on tv"
12:00 When she mouths "something that happens" at the same time he said it, I died.
I only have one question after watching this....What The Fuck happened to MTV?
+ThunderForce Well, they pretty much had to change. Who'd watch a bunch of videos they don't want to see for the off chance to see one that they want to see, mixed in with 50% ads, when you can simply turn on UA-cam, press skip after 5 seconds and watch whatever they want?
+0x777 Yeah, only putting on teenagers having sex and kids really worked out for them...
+ThunderForce Human greed killed it ..as usual.
+0x777 yeah watch whatever they want, but no specific shows on your own music style, no surprise videos or stuff you don´t know yet, no interviews like these! I loved MTV in the 90s... it showed everything I wanted to know and it was always GREAT to see your favourite video come on. it was a really good channel!!! loved ray cokes, toby amies and the likes. :-)
MTV in the 90s was actually worth watching. I miss the 90s
His voice is so pleasant.
she is so beautiful
hes so babygirl
realest shit
realest comment
MTV played quality music back then.
I've never heard that word 'nethead' before, pretty interesting that it used to be used in the late 90s... I guess we'd all be netheads by their standards nowadays
He is so chilled and relaxed. He is comfortable about himself. Love it. And I still no fucking clue about the way he does all this crazy rhythms even now with computers.
"Relaxing"
I do the exact same thing with my laptop, laying on the floor with no desk. It is so unbelievably comfortable.
Shut the f*ck up furry
Hurts my shoulders
had friends on the internet in 1996
legendary
@@TS-hw7ro 7 year long conversation
@@SonofPerson si
@@TS-hw7ro yo what up im still here
@@melvinwren same here
I feel like every MTV interview in the 90s was in some cozy odd back room on a couch with the interviewer sitting slightly closer than is appropriate
bro he's just laying there on the ground during the gig lmfao, a legend
A relentless dedication to his music creation, just because he loves doing it, wish I had that.
I met him a long time ago in London and I didn't realise it was him until a friend told me a few days later.
"you plonkah!"
You've got so many machines Richard!
+BaddaBigBoom "I don't like them" :P
+BaddaBigBoom He haven't got THAT many...
+BaddaBigBoom I like those fast bits!
+BaddaBigBoom go on, give us a snare rush!
+Mr. Toaster SCREEEEEEECH BOOOM BOOM BOOOOOM
Only a very brief part of this interview ended up on American MTV. I remember seeing him play in Detroit (Pontiac, to be precise) a few months later with the dancing bears, and it is still, to this day, a wonderful memory. It isn't hard to believe that his music has held up all of this time, but sometimes it's mind-blowing considering the amount of technology we've seen developed, yet he still made things then that still push the envelope now. And, of course, I'm so happy he's releasing more music these days, but nothing will hold a candle to when his stuff was (quite literally) 15 years ahead of its time.
When I first heard Fingerbib a few years ago I thought it came out recently so I was shocked to learn it came out in the 90s!
He was making his own as synthesisers aged 14 and put out selected ambient works from that time. 4 decades ago and those tunes are still being used in TV and films.
lovin the coziness of the interview
shes straight geeking. you can tell shes a fan . cool interview
I love his "I don't give a fuck" attitude.
His vibes are immaculate
Aphex Twin.
Comes from the fact he had a twin in the womb who died.
Hence he’s the Aphex Twin.
Probably why he didn’t want to go into it.
Notice how he just sinks further and further down during the interview?
Simone Angel was an absolute darling
Today, the entire world is one big Nethead.
This is actually a 20 minute interview but they cut off the part when she realizes that she's been interviewing the couch the whole time
we need to find the full!1!111!!!!!1!1!
This man is a genius in every sense! Not everyone can appreciate his music but I love it! We all choose our own destiny and this is exactly what I want mine to be! Thank you so much!!!!!
I can't keep thinking that he's vision is way ahead of that time.
I remember listening to one of his songs in 2018 and I was mindblown to see that the song was from 1995.
Thank you for inspiring Flying Lotus...one of my favorite producers.
Facts man, FlyLo is one of my favourites too! Loved the way his sound developed through his partnership with Thundercat too
Never knew Simone was Dutch. Her English is amazing.
I enjoyed this interview, for the fact that the interviewer seems genuine and she doesn't seem to mind the fact that Richard is being facetious
I love you richard man thanks for your music it helped me get through high school
Same!
Holy shit, this is the day before I was born.
Back when mtv was cool. She’s lovely and he is a legend.
Thinking about it now, a tv channel based on music was fucking awesome. I miss that now, UA-cam channels just don’t hit the same. No matter who it is, even if it’s nardwuar, the fact that it was on tv was so cool.
Bless Simone - not the easiest interview to do of her career!
I spent all my adult life listening to his music, that s 15years now. Thank you Aphex Twin to make that music that used to make me dream, and now reminds me of those beautiful dreams, places and friends. Will still be blasting we are the music makers in retirement home
This guy is the best troll ever :D
What do you mean
Matt Mihalko read about his background. He's known to make up crazy stuff.
***** so is some of the stuff he's saying in this interview is made up?
Matt Mihalko yep
Matt Mihalko He's known to be incredibly dishonest and a liar in interviews. The only time he was honest in an interview was with Pitchfork about his latest album Syro.
4:41 That laugh makes me melt... they are such an adorable couple.
They really are ❤
I reckon that was definitely dubbed
Mike flower 🌼 🎉 🎊
NAH your voice is class
Smashed it
Aphex Twin's music is way ahead of today's music. It's way ahead of tomorrow's music. His music is way even ahead of his own music.
Aphex Twin made a lot of dream music. Just going over the reality.
When MTV was still about Music, a looong time ago...
New album 'Syro' coming up next month. His last one 'Drukqs' was released in 2001!
"I love being scared." :D
don't forget 'Analord' from 2005
royaltm1975 Technically that was under AFX so PPPPPPHHHHHHFFFTTTT.
Conrad FULLNAME
You're writing labels, my point was about the man.... and "The Tuss" in 2007 :P
Drukqs was his last album. I'm not forgetting anything. ;-)
Personnel Account technically its still fucking richard so pfft yourself
He's so cute I love his energy
Everybody talking about the artist, but can we appreciate how effortlessly the host engages him in a conversation and get anecdotes and insights out of him all why being joyful but also knowledgeable about myths and facts around the scene.
The cut of him kicking his feet always gets me hahaha 0:36