Thom Yorke talks Madlib and Copenhagen on Gilles Peterson's show

Thom Yorke was Gilles Peterson's co-host on Radio 1 on the night of Wednesday 20 January, choosing the records for a late show that went out at 2am. By Clash's account he played a lot of dubstep, with Charles Mingus, Can and Clinic in between.

On air he said Madlib, the hip-hop producer, had once sent him several beats, but the track they meant to make together was never finished. It fell through, he said, because the timing was crap⁸.

He has done some work for Madvillain, Madlib's duo with the rapper DOOM, and a remix is likely to come out soon; he hopes to release it this year. Last year Yorke remixed DOOM's “Gazzillion Ear” from Born Like This, and he told Peterson that more work with either man is still possible.

Yorke also told Peterson about the climate conference in Copenhagen, which he went to in December, and he is still unhappy with the way it ended. It was all looking like things could happen, and then it went horrendously tits up. So it was a weird place to be, but I'm glad I saw it⁷