Present day junglist Aphrodite is no relation to the classical, war-initiating, goddess of beauty, but he has been known to rock Paris (and London and New York and so on). Between such international gigs, the DJ, producer and label chief has been readying a full length LP for release in the United States.
MTV News caught up with Aphrodite (whose feminine moniker is taken from the name of a party he used to throw) at a recent gig, where he nonchalantly explained one reason the album has been taking some time to finish. "It's quite a funny story," Aphrodite told MTV News. "I actually got myself a stalker in London and she put me back about 2 months in work it's kind of weird having a stalker.
"The album's going to come out on Gee Street, hopefully around April time. It's a reworking of the album that's been out on the underground before with some new stuff on it, a lot of remixes, a track like the Quincy Jones track that a lot of people like." [28.8 RealVideo]
Aphrodite said there's only a couple more of weeks of work left to finish the project. In the meantime, the prolific producer added that he will continue to release some of the 12 inches and dubplates that he's recently been spinning. Among those records is a jungle remix of Fatboy Slim's "The Rockafeller Skank."
"One of our artists, Mulder, he's a really good guy, he's from Bristol. He keeps sampling these things, like he sampled the Prodigy and he just sends the demo tape to us and we're like 'We can't release this, this is basically the Prodigy,' and he did the same with Fatboy Slim, but I know Norman [Cook], so I kind of sent this to him and I said 'Look, check this out.'
"And he loved it and he started playing it himself, so he sent us the parts and we mixed it properly," [28.8 RealVideo] Aphrodite explained. |
