fredofla
Jul-2-03, 11:44 AM
here's a teaser from a new Mark Clifford/Seefeel interview:
PSF: How did you hook up with the Cocteau Twins and end up remixing the songs for the Otherness EP? That must have been sort a dream come true for you.
Mark C: Yeah kind of. When I was about 13, when I kind of discovered the Cocteau Twins they were a really, really important band to me. At the time I remember thinking, "I wanna make music and I wanna work with the Cocteau Twins." So yeah it was. When we did our first EP, More Like Space, I just sent Elizabeth [Fraser, vocals] a copy of it, just basically saying, "I've been a lifelong fan of your music." It was kind of like saying thank you. I didn't expect to get a reply or anything. It was just a gesture really. I certainly didn't think they'd like it. So then I got a letter from Robin [Guthrie, guitar] saying they really enjoyed it and would I like to come and meet them. So I went up to their studio with Daren and sat there and chatted with them and they were really nice, friendly people. I kind of expected them to be a bit hostile and confrontational, but they weren't, they were the most chilled out people you could possibly meet. [laughes] We sat there and he played demos of their new material. At the time it seemed all really natural, but when we walked away it was like, "I can't believe we just sat there and we chatted to Robin and listened to his new songs while he was mixing them and stuff." I think we got on well with them from the start because it was a very short time after he just rang up and said, "would you like to come and do some work with us?" And he basically just said to me that I could just pick whatever tracks I wanted to, to remix, and that was just... He took us to this little room with all these like tapes of every Cocteau Twins track ever. He said, "mix two tracks off the new album and pick whatever two tracks you want from the back catalog." So I just kind of looked at all these tapes and thought "well I'll have that one and that one."
PSF: That's really cool.
MC: Yeah. It was a really, really uncomplicated process. It was a friendship thing almost, in the end.
and (if you're interested) here's a link to the complete interview:
http://www.furious.com/perfect/seefeel.html
enjoy.
FRED of LA
PSF: How did you hook up with the Cocteau Twins and end up remixing the songs for the Otherness EP? That must have been sort a dream come true for you.
Mark C: Yeah kind of. When I was about 13, when I kind of discovered the Cocteau Twins they were a really, really important band to me. At the time I remember thinking, "I wanna make music and I wanna work with the Cocteau Twins." So yeah it was. When we did our first EP, More Like Space, I just sent Elizabeth [Fraser, vocals] a copy of it, just basically saying, "I've been a lifelong fan of your music." It was kind of like saying thank you. I didn't expect to get a reply or anything. It was just a gesture really. I certainly didn't think they'd like it. So then I got a letter from Robin [Guthrie, guitar] saying they really enjoyed it and would I like to come and meet them. So I went up to their studio with Daren and sat there and chatted with them and they were really nice, friendly people. I kind of expected them to be a bit hostile and confrontational, but they weren't, they were the most chilled out people you could possibly meet. [laughes] We sat there and he played demos of their new material. At the time it seemed all really natural, but when we walked away it was like, "I can't believe we just sat there and we chatted to Robin and listened to his new songs while he was mixing them and stuff." I think we got on well with them from the start because it was a very short time after he just rang up and said, "would you like to come and do some work with us?" And he basically just said to me that I could just pick whatever tracks I wanted to, to remix, and that was just... He took us to this little room with all these like tapes of every Cocteau Twins track ever. He said, "mix two tracks off the new album and pick whatever two tracks you want from the back catalog." So I just kind of looked at all these tapes and thought "well I'll have that one and that one."
PSF: That's really cool.
MC: Yeah. It was a really, really uncomplicated process. It was a friendship thing almost, in the end.
and (if you're interested) here's a link to the complete interview:
http://www.furious.com/perfect/seefeel.html
enjoy.
FRED of LA