That's just globalization. It's got good sides as well. But scenes aren't allowed to develop on their own anymore. Everyone knows about everything.
Aphex TwinWhen you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.
Aphex TwinThe best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.
Aphex TwinIn Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?"
Aphex TwinThe holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen.
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