PARAPHILIA TRASUMANAR

I hadn’t actually really thought about it before at all. A lot of people were asking for Mark Stewart dub versions of stuff and whatever, but this became more like a re-edit of a film or something. One of my favourite filmmakers is Chris Marker and… it’s kind of a reprocessing, it’s... I don’t know what it is, but it started happening and it got a life of its own. It’s a whole thing. I’d release it as a standalone thing even if the first one didn’t exist.

You’re no stranger to reinterpreting your material, as your live shows have long attested, and this record seems a more comprehensive but logical extension of that. Does this method point the way to your future work?

I’ve suddenly got a new wave of intensity, and making new stuff with the Pop Group and the solo stuff, making two new albums at the same time, although obviously they won’t come out until next year. This morning I was talking to this Japanese extreme noise guy and I started getting these visions of kind of Chicago footwork basslines, but backwards with Japanese noise.

Something has started to form in my head and I just want to start creating. I’m really getting excited about it. Because this record was received quite well and we got a massive piece in the Daily Mirror and stuff it got us a lot of attention and made us realise there are a lot of cool people in there. And now it’s started in America and all over the place, it’s really kind of set us up. So I think the next one will completely and utterly blow my mind and blow a lot of other people’s minds, because I think people are ready for something that is different. People are hungry for new noises and new sounds. It’s like candy. They want fresh things. They want to be fed interesting things. I think it’s great.

You’ve seen a lot of changes over the years in the ways audiences interact with art and culture. In terms of attracting, maintaining, and interacting with your audience, have you found the internet to provide a more useful and immediate way to promote your work and ideas?

Personally I’m shocked by some of this stuff. We put out a single called ‘Stereotype’ with Factory Floor, and earlier I was talking to DJ mag, and suddenly [the single is] number one on DMC, this DJ chart. And it’s like, what the fuck? Suddenly we’re in the same category as someone like Flying Lotus who is a young act. It’s really quite refreshing how open-minded people are for interesting stuff at the moment. What I get from the internet is this sense of community, that I can talk to this guy in Japan or collaborate with him, or I can find out some Italian political theory stuff, or check what someone is saying at some lecture in the States or something. That’s what I find, you can kind of hover around and decide to go into this room or that room. Whether it is also a distraction, and whether it is part of the zombification, well…

I suppose that is the ongoing debate as to the internet’s prevailing value.

Yeah. And also what you guys [in Paraphilia] are doing… when you sent me these questions it was like, oh good, because sometimes you just get asked complete and utter shit. But I knew 116