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2014 marks Groove Magazine’s 25th year in publication. It’s been a year-long journalistic bacchanal for the Germans, replete with articles and puns on the number 25.
This week they explore the art of the interview with legendary DJ and voluntary recluse Richard James (Aphex Twin). 2014’s Syro was the first Aphex Twin album in 13 years, but it doesn’t mean James wants to talk about it. He’s a busy man and doesn’t give a lot of interviews. Instead he does things like hire programmers to make a unique “mutation” music software.
But Groove tried something new, gathering 25 artists to ask James one question each. The roster includes Nicolas Jaar, Caribou, Hot Chip, Skrillex. Some choice responses are below. You can read the full interview on Groove.
Nicolas Jaar: Have you ever had a ghost, a spirit or an accident speak directly to you through making music or while making music?
Yeah, I always felt a presence or something, I don’t know what it is, maybe it’s just a human conditon, but it always feels like the gods are looking on us and are like: ‘Ah, let’s make him do this’. And it’s really weird, because the other day I got stoned and went to bed, and I had the biggest intense feeling of someone watching over me.
