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Interview with Alan Wilder 
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JB
: If , for example , in 5 years you will release a new Recoil album
, you won't need to come to Paris to make its promotion , you could
make it directly by internet.
Alan : Yes , it's possible , but it's still better to meet people face to face . But that's something possible in the future .You can't deny it, all record companies actually have a website but are slow to fully integrate themselves into Internet . We can't do anything against it, in the future ths music will be only donwloadable music . It's a shame , cause it's not the same feeling as having a finished product in your hands .Because it's something real tactil. JB : Is it Intro that made the design ? Alan : Yes. G : Is there any common idea between each design of the albums of Recoil ? Do you involve yourself in the choice of the design of the album ? Alan : It works more based on the dialogues with the people who make it , I don't do the design myself . We talk a lot about the ideas and what it should represent. I try to make each album as an individual project and not like a continuity from an album to another . We try to make a continuity and i succeed in finding a continuity since I work with INTRO. I have more the feeling to work with collaborators than with people who only make the design. It's the same thing for the artworks ,and the videos. I can't do a video myself, so i try to choose people who are the more appropriate to do it for me. JB : You decided to include the lyrics of the songs in the booklet , in the survey you asked if you had to include the lyrics or not ; What was the answer ? because most of the people on the internet say that either way , we'll have the lyrics on the Shunt website . Alan : Approximatively 85% of the people said YES . But that's not why I made it , i made it because i wanted to do it . I felt that the lyrics were more important this time . Because this album is more based on the lyrics than the last ones. They deserved to be present in the booklet , because each of them are a complete story . For foreigners it's hard to understand . JB : Mostly for french people ! It's more difficult. |