Bjork - Biophilia

Finding it difficult to get excited about any choice of producer here given the quality of her songwriting over the last ten years or so.

The Haxan Cloak and Total Freedom are among collaborators as well. This is going to be dark.

guess arca isn't the "sole producer", then?

but yeah, very excited to hear the haxan cloak is involved as well. i don't know total freedom.

funny, just came across these comments on Bjork by Aphex Twin in an old interview:

Why did you turn down Björk?

Björk was also on Tom’s (Jenkinson) case. She’s been on everyone’s case. She also did some stuff with Bogdan (Raczynski). He was going to do a track on her album and they didn’t use it. They were quite sort of crafty and business. They just wanted to give him ten percent but I think if you work with someone you should always get fifty percent. It doesn’t seem very respectful. But she doesn’t get involved with that stuff she has people doing it for her in case it goes wrong. It’s a bid sad in some ways. I mean she wants to work with the people she likes but at the same time she’s really obsessed with „this is the newest thing“, you know „goldfish memory“. For some reason people always think that the best things are the most recent things.

I’m actually quite surprised that Björk wanted to work with you. I would have thought that you are too established for her.

(laughing) Yeah, that’s what I thought. I mean she’s also worked with other old people like that string quartett and stuff like that. And they are not famous. If I really wanted to work with her I could make it happen but I’m not really that bothered. If I’d work with singers I’d rather work with someone no one has ever heard of. Like opera singers or things like that.

Wouldn’t you be interested in doing something with Björk the musician rather then 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.

jeez rdj chill out

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!

jeez rdj

pretty certain that until the day she dies bjork will have a line around the block of people who would love to work with her

Let's go through the list of Aphex Twin remixes and imagine each of them trekking to his house, drinking 50 cups of tea, smoking spliffs and getting pissed. Surely he held everyone to the same standard.

26 mixes for hash

Collaboration =/ remix

Total Freedom is on track to eclipse Ornette as my favourite-ever American musician tbh, Karl you should check him out

tbf he did address the remix difference right after:

But you have worked with musicians as well in the past that you didn’t really know.

Yeah, but only with remixes and that was just to get some money. And that’s not really like working with someone either.

http://www.groove.de/2014/08/21/aphex-twin-groove-interview-2001-english/

Ah, that adds the necessary context. Now i'm going to have to find something else to be indignant about. Shouldn't take long.

RDJ sounds like a fucking tool in that interview. I love his music but he should steer clear from interviews, he always sounds like an agoraphobic downer.

Also he believes he is much smarter than he actually is.

Ironic that he is the one pointing that Bjork has forgotten how to relate to people.

sadly otm

operative word there may be "forgotten"; I assume RDJ never actually knew how to relate to people based on those comments

I don't remember giving this record proper listening time when it came out, but it sounds incredible now. Listening to the podcast series helped.

Maybe in 10 years I'll be spiritually prepared for Fossora, lol.

I always adored this album!!