12/05/01
Keigo just completed US and UK press trips to publicize the January release of ‘Point.’ Next up, he’ll be rehearsing for live shows, gathering his touring ensemble and perfecting yet again his impressive synchronization of video and song, making this tour one of next year’s most anticipated live events.

Be on the lookout for a Matador exclusive Cornelius video interview (uploaded soon) along with a series of music videos from ‘Point,’ commercials, and his own web games! His official website has recently been translated to English so you can actually read it aloud. For some of us, we won’t have to spend so much time cut and pasting text in JDIC.

11/01/01
Getting to the Point (Already)
At a press conference attended by some (but not all) Matador staff, Claus Von Bulow, and former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Fran Tarkenton, the label proudly announced that January 23, 2002 would be the North American release date for the new Cornelius album, ‘Point.’

After this announcement, we didn’t have much to say, so we turned the dias over to Mr. Tarkenton who graciously offered to do a live reading from his best-selling audiocassettes “Failure Is Not A Terminal Disease” and “What Losing Taught Me About Winning.” The presentation came to an abrupt halt when SEC investigators rushed the stage hoping to have a word with Fran. Displaying many of the scrambling skills with which he set many records as the field general of the Vikings, Tarkenton somehow slipped away through a fire exit (though not before collecting his speaker’s fee). We’ll have more Cornelius news of a more substantiative nature very soon.

08/29/01
The video for “Star Fruits Surf Rider” has been added to the music & video section.

07/12/00
Cornelius — Putting the “power” back into “puff.”
Cornelius has contributed a new track to the Powerpuff Girls soundtracky CD that Rhino are about to release. Other featured artists include Devo, Frank Black, The Apples In Stereo, Shonen Knife and of course Bis. The King of Men, Fred Blassie, could not be reached for comment (because we don’t have his phone number).

04/14/00
2000 is the year that Cornelius will be taking a break from the fray of being an international cultural emissary and focusing on the making of his new album and book documenting the craziness that has been the Fantasma campaign. Sure, there will be the occassional live performance in select global locations and remixes to bide the time. I can’t tell you EVERYONE he’s remixing because, well... you’d think I was making it up if I told you. One piece we can divulge is the recent release of his remix of Beck’s "Mixed Bizness," which is out now on the G.A.S. / DGC / Geffen / Universal / Seagram’s / Microsoft / Worldbank label. And if you squint really hard, it sounds like Cornelius was remixing Prince or something.

02/10/00
Some guy claimed his dog ate his Cornelius CD and wanted to know if he could have another. "Your dog has very good taste!", we told him. OK, that's a total lie. We told the guy we'd send him a replacement if we could get a photograph of the Cornelius CD in his dog's mouth. Clearly, we were asking for too much. Please, don't get any ideas, if we have to issue replacement CD's every time one of these vicious creatures gets hungry, we'll be out of business faster than you can say "Casablanca." And yes, that's the real story behind that classic label's demise. All the stuff you've heard about the cocaine and the prostitutes is just puffery designed to make them look like high rollers in retrospect. The truth is, they were such nice people, replacing all the Kiss, Donna Summer and Village People albums that dogs were chewing on, that the company could no longer turn a profit. We're not going out like that!

11/19/99
Tune into HBO, those of you who have it: Cornelius will be on "Reverb" November 23rd (11:30 ET/PT) with Moby and Calexico. Reverb broadcasts live footage, backstage interviews, swooping cameras, all that good concert stuff.

I know we told you this a while ago, but it’s out now: Cornelius remixes Blur’s "Tender" on the b-side of their latest single. And finally, a Cornelius remix of Beck is looking like more of a possibility, though we don’t know if we’re going to hold it hostage until we get our Beck remix of P5.

10/08/99
Gerard Reports: At 3:30am I get a phone call from Nicole, telling me that Cornelius and band have been screwed out of their hotel rooms by the knuckleheads at the Hotel Pennsylvania (note to all travelers not named Bush: don’t stay there. The rooms are filthy, the bugs are huge and Scott Kannberg’s room was poorly decorated). Using my powers of persuasion, I convince the manager of the Chinatown Holiday Inn that the Cornelius entourage are traveling biochemists who must secure rooms or they will be unable to solve the West Nile mosquito virus sweeping the city. The manager doesn’t know what the West Nile virus is, so I have to go into this whole Yul Brynner impersonation about the frogs and the locusts and the death of the first born, etc. One $500.00 deposit later and the rooms are reserved. Only problem is, Nicole never calls back and no one from Cornelius’ band shows up. On the bright side, I now have 5 additional hotel rooms, so if I feel like storing many different things (like kittens) in each, no one can stop me.

05/21/99
Attention, British! Cornelius, Mogwai, and Pavement recorded live at the recent Bowlie weekender and will be aired on Steve Lamacq's show on BBC Radio 1 this Monday, May 24th from 8pm - 12am GMT. You can expect to hear Cornelius' set around 9pm. Or if you live in the States, you can expect to hear none of this.

05/07/99
The new Rolling Stone promo compilation, "Editors Picks" (which is sent to new subscribers who subcribe over the web) kicks off with Cornelius' "Count 5 or 6". The track was REALLY picked out by the editors of Rolling Stone, who then ACTUALLY put the track to open the record.

03/12/99
Cornelius has a new remix on the Manic Street Preachers single, a radical re-construction of "Tsunami." Nils went so far as to call it the best thing he's ever heard but then backtracked.

01/09/99
News: Ninja Tune is broadcasting the Cornelius remix of Coldcut's "Atomic Moog 2000" on their website. This puppy will be on one of two forthcoming Cornelius remixes albums due out in March, one of which, FM (Fantasma Remixes), consists of various arists' remixes of songs from (guess). Basically, this all came about after several people--Money Mark, Buffalo Daughter, Coldcut, etc.--asked Cornelius to remix their songs. Instead of getting paid, Cornelius asked whoever to do the same in return with a song from Fantasma. Thus, FM....

And CM (Cornelius Remixes), which is a compilation of Cornelius's work on other artists' material. Coldcut's "Atomic Moog 2000," for example. We'll have some more clips ourselves soon....

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