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So, after a 6 month wait, here's part one of the Cylob interview/feature..
The full feature, with pictures video and links leading you onto to free downloads etc can be found by clicking the picture below....
CYLOB
If this world was right, 2007 would see the recording artist mostly known as Cylob, living in some kind of salubrious Baroque palace on the outskirts of Paris.
Yes boss, the man more normally known as Chris Jeffs would be spending his days overseeing preparations for a run of sell out shows at some swanky arts institute to massive critical and popular acclaim...
He'd be getting fatter by the day, whilst smoking fine cigars, ordering a succession of bottles of fine wine from his ample cellar, hurling irrational and narcissistic abuse at his staff, and considering whether his evenings fun and dirty games was to be hosted by Candy, Randy or Shandy...
In short, given his work and contribution, Cylob should be sitting very pretty and worrying about which of his many children is going to get his millions and he certainly shouldn't be struggling to make ends meet....
But as we all know, this world isn't right, and so much of it isn't right, that rather than warming up his throne and fussing over vintage vino 1872, 2007 see's Cylob not so much stinking rich as sick and tired of being poor...
Yes boss, with the record business and economy in general, in the kind of vague turmoil that makes bankers and venture capitalists shockingly rich, and everyone else continually alooking over their shoulder, Cylob's so tired of the daily scrimping and saving, he's considering giving up making music altogether to do god knows what?
You can only struggle so long..
But, though it might not always seem that way, I guess there are some thing's good in every situation, and the upside of this one is that rather than being in the kind of financial position that allows him to forget making new and important music and concentrate instead on COMPLETE FAT INDULGENCE and COMPLETE FAT INDULGENCE alone, Cylob's STILL on the case of making fine and innovative electronic music.
Yes boss, now recording exclusively for his own Cylob Industries label, as well as guesting vinyl releases to WeMe records and hosting downloads to sites like Bleep, Cylob now has his own mutli-faceted musical empire.
Furthermore, he's on a release frenzy, and as a result, those of us who give a shit are continuing to receive top notch music on an even more regular basis than at any other time…!!
HIP HIP HOORAYY!!!!
A Rephlex...
So, who is Cylob???
Well many of you will know of the publicly reluctant electric genius The Aphex Twin aka AFX aka 301 other names aka Richard D James.
Such as it has one, Mr Twin is the public face (a rather scarily human face at that) of the genre of complicated and original music often referred to as Electronica or IDM.
Basically, Mr Twin is a big fish and he has fingers in many pies.
Yes boss, alongside releasing his wares on Sheffield label Warp, making a mint on advertising and grooming a rather clever public anti-image, The Aphex Twin has co-owned and promoted the always quality and generally BIG ball breaking electronic label Rephlex..
Set up way back with long time friend Grant Wilson Clarridge (AKA DJ Rephlex Records), Rephlex, has put out an astonishing and quite probably unparalleled and diverse selection of artists from the sublimely ambient, to the vicious CCGHHHGGHHGH BANG!! to the just plain clever, classic and very good wierd..
Rephlex really is an allsorts kinda label.
And so good and consistent is it's output, I reckon it's one of the few labels, that, had you have bought every release since day one, you'd now be able to sell them on and still make a decent net profit on the prices originally paid – even in this time of thoroughly depressed record prices....
And Cylob??
Well, with the exception of the Aphex Twin, Cylob AKA Kinesthesia has been responsible for the most releases on the Rephlex label.
Yes boss, for years, Cylob alongside other artists like Mike Dred and Ed DMX
has been a good few vertebra in the reliable backbone of thie - a label, that together with Warp and Skam, has defined a whole new genre - no: several whole new genres of music…
Basically, if Rephlex were a football club, Cylob would be it's solid and committed Central Defender. He's the fans favourite, the local hero, the reliable and the ever present!!
More than this, to many who love electronic music, Cylob is a cult legend - a man who, when the PR poo poo of this guitar ridden age dies down, and the hard and certain tacks of musical progression and innovation are revealed, will be seen to be a pretty vital character in the leftfield scheme of the last 20 years music....
TO READ THE FULL INTERVIEW COMPLETE WITH VIDEOS, IMAGES AND CLASSY DESIGN, PLEASE CLICK THE BELOW PICTURE...
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