Favourite artist/music interviews

#1

Quite similar to the docs/films thread, but i always enjoy a good interview (visual, audio or text). Wanted to see what interviews tapped into people’s general interests, gave them some insights or just was an overall good experience…basically whatever.

Here’s some that float my boat

beneath and blackdown - http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2012/12/beneath-sub-zero-rollage.html

pretty much all the beneath ones - http://nosymblogs.tumblr.com/

Geenus on RA, basically about how rinse started - https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?exchange=301

these are more ones that just interest me/was a good read so will come back with some more insightful ones later

#2

The RA exchange series is great, although I’ve barely scratched the surface really. Remember really enjoying the Nina Kraviz one at the time. Currently listening to Erol Alkan’s, where he says in his early DJing days he brought VHS tapes to the club, playing things he’s recorded off TV. Imagine!

This is a classic https://www.juno.co.uk/reviews/2014/01/21/fxhe-toast-a-decade-with-new-mix-cd/

#3

Interviews with Thomas Brinkmann, Wolfgang Voigt, Terre Thaemlitz, Oval, Alec Empire, Mark Fell are always at least interesting. Tzu Sing did a recent informative one as well.

But mostly interviews with musicians are a waste of time.

#4

But mostly interviews with musicians are a waste of time.

as someone with a vested interest (I write for a music site and do a fair few interviews), why do you think that?

#5

Mark Fisher and Burial
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/burial_unedited-transcript

#6

It is almost impossible to talk in any way engaging or illuminating about music. It is very often about something else. I mean the recent RA interviews I’ve read is almost only about “building communities” which is all well and fine but hardly about music. I don’t blame the musicians tbough, almost all artists save for writers have a hard time explaining what they do. Some visual artists are better though. But of course there are exceptions as I noted in my comment.

#7

the one interview that really jumped into my mind was Syrobonkers, with Dave Burraston and Aphex Twin!!
it is in-depth
https://web.archive.org/web/20141103131334/http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part1.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20141110222421/http://noyzelab.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/syrobonkers-part2.html

#8


This interview has dodgy questions and is pretty reactionary (considering its time period when it was posted) but I still go back to it llol

#9

I suppose you’re right in a sense - it is largely about stuff outside of the music itself - but personally I see value in learning about the artist themselves

#10

blackdown’s interview with zombie’s parrot parrot was personal personal