In 2013,Thom YorkeofRadioheadnamed Aphex Twin as his biggest influence, saying:

>In 2013,Thom YorkeofRadioheadnamed Aphex Twin as his biggest influence, saying:
>He burns a heavy shadow (...) Aphex opened up another world that didn't involve my fucking electric guitar (...) I hated all the music that was around Radiohead at the time, it was completely fucking meaningless. I hated theBritpopthing and what was happening in America, but Aphex was totally beautiful, and he's kind of my age too
Lol, what a fag.
>Although he has influenced Radiohead, especially on their albumKid A,he does not wish to tour with them:
>**I wouldn't play with them since I don't like them.**
Sup Forums BTFO!

Radiohead hate thread.

>Radiohead hate thread
hey look, another insecure fag thinks he's special for not liking radiohead

Aphex Twin and Radiohead are the same thing, just different genres

>Aphex Twin and Radiohead are the same thing, just different genres
whoa check out how special this faggot is!

I thought he said Joy Division was his biggest influence.

>Interviewer: Your music has been hugely influential. One of the more prominent musicians who’ve said that they’ve been inspired by your records are Radiohead? Did you listen to any of their last two album „Kid A“ and „Amnesiac“?

Richard: I don’t like them. I heard maybe five or six tracksand I thought they sounded really really cheesy.

>Interviewer: Cheesy?

Richard: Yeah, really obvious and cheesy. I mean I’m just comparing it to my favourite music and I think it’s terrible compared to that. But compared to all the shit boring R&B tracks it’s probably alright. Compared to those teen punk sort of bands or whatever they are supposed to be called, who think that they are really anarchic and stuff like that, they are probably amazing. If you’re only exposed to that kind of stuff and then Radiohead come along you will probably think that they are geniuses.

>Interviewer: Don’t you think it’s a good thing if only one percent listen of the people who buy a Radiohead album will then go and check out stuff like Rephlex?

Richard: I’m not that bothered honestly. I’m quite happyn with the state of things at the moment. I like there to be shit music around. I like people to not be informed of what’s around. If too many people would listen to what I listen to I wouldn’t like it. I always wanted to be seen as being different. I like to like things that other people don’t. If Merzbow was in the charts I wouldn’t like it anymore. Some people don’t wanna do what everyone else is doing and some people do. It’s very simple. (laughs)

I used to think kid a was the shit, then I got into aphex ea and haven't looked back since

>Speaking of more commercial artists – both Madonna and Björk have asked to work with you, haven’t they?
(laughing) Yeah, of course! They all want it!

>What is the difference between the two of them?
Björk’s loads more interesting. A million times more interesting – personality wise. Madonna is pretty normal, she is like a very famous „Sharon“.

>They seem to have a similar interest in picking young and upcoming artists to work with.
Yeah, it’s pretty similar. I can’t guarantee it because I don’t know her so well, but knowing Björk though, I think she does it out of (pauses)... Björk is like a little girl in a sweets shop. She’s like: „Oh I love this, I love this! I want this, I want this!“ Madonna is more like brutal. Like: „These are trendy, I can keep myself young and modern if I use them!“ You know? Björk got that as well obviously but her motivation is that she just loves the musicians and would love to work with them. She picks people that aren’t really that famous."

>But Madonna was the first of them, for example, to work with Chris Cunningham.
She’s got a reasonably open mind, I‘d reckon. I was actually really into doing tracks with her. But I just didn’t want to do it then. She was just too famous. If I did it everybody would just be like „Oh yeah, you’re the person she did a track with“. Your whole career would just disappear. Everything that you’d work for before would disappear.

well, at least he's honest. He speaks his mind and I can appreciate that. 90% of Sup Forums thinks like him but they're too pretentious to admit probably

>Wouldn’t it have been interesting to do something with her on your terms? For example for Rephlex?
I was going to but she was more into me doing a track for her album or a single and I didn’t really want to do that. I was thinking of a white label on Rephlex and I actually wrote a track for her and I had all these ideas: The track is this fucked acid thing and I wanted her to just do stupid noises, there wasn’t to be any singing on the track. Just like grunts and moans and pig impersonations. I really wanted to hear Madonna doing a pig impersonation! (laughs) She was sort of into it. Maybe she even would have done it but at the time she was more concerned with her next single. I wasn’t really that bothered and I’m sure she wasn’t bothered that much either. She’d just be like „Yeah, there’s plenty more fish in the sea!“

>Wouldn’t you be interested in doing something with Björk the musician rather than with only Björk the vocalist?
Oh yeah. I always tell her that anyway. I always say to her: „I don’t understand why you get all these people you should just do it by yourself.“ And she’s been trying. She got her laptop and everything. Maybe she will do that when she’s really old and everyone thinks that she’s not pretty anymore. I think then she’ll have to do it. Because then she won’t be able to get all the little techno boys to work with her because they will be like „Björk? Oh yeah, you mean that old woman. I’m not going to work for her!“ At the moment she can just phone them up, talk some Icelandic and they will be willing to do everything. ... With Björk she’s really business when it come to things like that. When you deal with Björk she‘s like: „Ok, I’m going to fax you the details and you are going to send me that...“ If I‘m going to do a track with someone I’d have to be their friend. I’d have to spend some time with them and you’d have to come around my house and drink fifty cups of tea and smoke some spliffs and get pissed. You can’t just send me the track. That’s really cold and I think she didn’t really understand because she has done it that way all her life. I think she has forgotten how to relate to people.

who in the fuck is Thom YorkeofRadioheadnamed

I heard the piece Aphex Twin of Richard James carefully: I think it would be very helpful if he listens to my work Song Of The Youth, which is electronic music, and a young boy’s voice singing with himself. Because he would then immediately stop with all these post-African repetitions, and he would look for changing tempi and changing rhythms, and he would not allow to repeat any rhythm if it were varied to some extent and if it did not have a direction in its sequence of variations.

Mental! I’ve heard that song before; I like it. I didn’t agree with him. I thought he should listen to a couple of tracks of mine: “Didgeridoo”, then he’d stop making abstract, random patterns you can’t dance to. Do you reckon he can dance? You could dance to Song of the Youth, but it hasn’t got a groove in it, there’s no bassline. I know it was probably made in the 50s, but I’ve got plenty of wicked percussion records made in the 50s that are awesome to dance to. And they’ve got basslines. I could remix it: I don’t know about making it better; I wouldn’t want to make it into a dance version, but I could probably make it a bit more anally technical. But I’m sure he could these days, because tape is really slow. I used to do things like that with tape, but it does take forever, and I’d never do anything like that again with tape. Once you’ve got your computer sorted out, it pisses all over stuff like that, you can do stuff so fast. It has a different sound, but a bit more anal.

I haven’t heard anything new by him; the last thing was a vocal record, Stimmung, and I didn’t really like that. Would I take his comments to heart? The ideal thing would be to meet him in a room and have a wicked discussion. For all I know, he could be taking the piss. It’s a bit hard to have a discussion with someone via other people.

I don’t think I care about what he thinks. It is interesting, but it’s disappointing, because you’d imagine he’d say that anyway. It wasn’t anything surprising. I don’t know anything about the guy, but I expected him to have that sort of attitude. Loops are good to dance to…

He should hang out with me and my mates: that would be a laugh. I’d be quite into having him around.

Jesus this guy is a faggot

>Maybe she will do that when she’s really old and everyone thinks that she’s not pretty anymore
FUCK YOU ARCA
FUCK GAY PEOPLE

>I don’t think I care about what he thinks
lmaoo. do you think he cried?

>tfw afx is so creatively bankrupt all he can do is korg commercials these days

>tfw papa stocky is disappointed in you

he's not creatively bankrupt, he just always wants to improve on his previous work, he's always evolving his style. Give him some time and I guearantee he'll blow your mind yet again. Have you heard the tuss stuff he put out this year? Some of that is the cleanest sounding shit you've ever heard

>Have you heard the tuss stuff he put out this year
Not the guy you're responding to but I haven't been keeping up with new music recently - are you referring to the Tuss bonus tracks from last year or has he released NEW new Tuss stuff?

the bonus tracks from 2017 yeah, srry. Hope you didn't get too excited there