"Future Primitives" sounds quite a bit like the last Delerium album - how do you differentiate between the two projects?

RHYS: Delerium has always been more ambient, and Intermix has been more dance. In the dance area, we're more interested in the ambient kind of stuff so that's why it sounds the way it does."

Where did the vocal samples used on "Future Primitives" come from?

RHYS: "I don't know. Bill records stuff from all over the place and brings them into the studio and we sample stuff. I don't know where they came from! It could be from anywhere, I have no idea. He'll bring a DAT home and a few weeks later show up with a tape of stuff."

Do you usually have the music done before dealing with the vocal samples, or do you base songs around samples you like?

RHYS: "It goes either way. A lot of times we'll find some kind of nice vocal loop and get it in tempo and then figure out the notes and write a riff around it so it all fits."

Bands like Deep Forest and Enigma use a lot of the type of samples you have been using all along. Do you think their success influenced you at all to use them more extensively?

RHYS: "I never really thought about it. We listen to that stuff, not a lot, but you hear it and think 'oh, this is kind of cool.' But I never thoughi about it. We've always done that kind of style. When all that other stuff came out and became popular, it didn't bother me or anything, it's better to have that than something else. We kind of through if that became popular maybe more people would be interested in what we're doing. I hear it and it sounds really simple, while we've always been into stuff with a little more depth. We never really think about it in that kind of way."

Why is Roadrunner releasing Intermix under the "ESP-SUN" label name now?

RHYS: "That's been happening for a while, because the people at the Dutch office are big on techno so they started up this techno/ambient label and I think only now it's starting to filter over here."

Whatever happened to Third Mind?

RHYS: "Third Mind got dismantled, which is a bit of a drag but that's what happens in the record world sometimes. Gary's doing other stuff, he's managing some bands and doing some stuff for Delerium, promotion and stuff through Nettwerk. I think the problem was that a lot of the acts, with the exception of Front Line, I guess weren't selling a lot of records and Roadrunner I guess kind of ran out of patience."

Has that had a big effect on the band?

RHYS: "No, not really."