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Real Name Simon Walley Therapy Session With Simon Walley CiM Igloo Could You Give Us A Brief Intro About The CiM “landscape” And What Your Aim Is In Creating It. What Influences Would You Call Upon? CiM There’s No Aim As Such. Not That I Am Aimless But The Music Just Kind Of Evolved From Me Tinkering Around With Computers And Realizing I Could Write Music Without Needing Any Real Equipment. I Normally Turn The Kit On And See What Happens There’s Nothing Really Definite Or Planned About It. Influences Include Early/current Electronica Each In Different Ways Detroit Techno Computer Games Reading Old Science-Fiction Anything. Igloo When Did You Begin Your Musical Portfolio? What Caused You To Create CiM? And Why The Name CiM? CiM Started Tinkering In 1991..First Release Was In 1996 I Think. CiM? Its Just A Name. I Thought Of Using Sim But There Was That Pentatonik Guy Called Sim. So I Just Tweaked It A Bit. Igloo At What Point In The Process Of Recording Music And Then Releasing It Do You Gain The Most Satisfaction ? Eg. Making Sounds / Hearing That Someone Bought It For Their Mother’s Birthday / Reading Reviews Etc. CiM I Just Enjoy Making It. I Like Playing With Samples And Sounds And Making Nice Loops. That’s It Really. You Can Spend Hours Doing It Without Noticing. I’ve Been Working On A Track Before And Being So Into It I’ve Not Realised My Bladder Is Full And I’m Sitting There In Pain..Just Not Aware I Need To Go To The Bathroom! Releasing Tracks Is Nice Because Of The Possibilities It Presents But The Tracks Would Be Written And Be There Anyway Whether They Get Released Or Not. Igloo Do You Think That The Practice Of MP3 Bootlegging In The Electronica Genre Has An Impact On Smaller Labels? Have You Experienced This With Any Of Your Releases? CiM Yeah Some People Have Said They Liked My Tracks After Getting Them On Napster. I Think It Can Be A Good Promotion In Most Areas But Having A Full Album For Download Kind Of Cancels Out The Point Of The Promotion. There’s Still A Healthy Market For CD’s And Vinyl So There’s Not As Much Impact At The Moment. But When There Is No Physical Media And Everyone Gets Their Stuff Off The Net It’ll Be A Different Situation Perhaps. I Don’t Know..Its A Big Grey Area. I Think If You’re A Fan Of An Artists Or Label Or Genre Its Good To Support That. Igloo Do You Think That Melody Is Slowly Becoming A More Prominent And Acceptable Ingredient In Electronic Music Today? CiM I Think Electronica/IDM/whatever Has Fractured A Lot Over The Last Six Or So Years. Its Really Fragmented Now. So You Have People Who Dig Melodies Not Listening To Say More Noisy Breaks Stuff. Whereas Previously These Variances Were More Due To Slight Artistic Differences Rather Than Completely Separate Genres. There Will Always Be Labels And Artists Into Melodies. But I Think Its Become More Clearly Defined From Artists Doing More Abstract/noise Material. Igloo If CiM’s Music Was Used As The Score To A Hollywood Movie What Would The Plot Be? CiM I’d Like To Think One Of Iain Banks’ Culture Novels But In Reality Probably Something Twee And Nice..That Goes Straight To Video. Igloo Is There Anything That You Dislike Or Like About “intelligent Electronic Music” That You Can Clarify In Relation To Your Own Project? CiM I Like Bits. I Dunno..I Think Electronica Can Be So Sterile And Unstylish Sometimes. I’d Like To Hear More Booty In IDM. read less