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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked the idea of shaving the back of my head and getting a tattoo of my own face there so that, whichever way I was looking, I could freak people out.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got this pretend grass stuff called LazyLawn on my roof. Now I can go out on my terrace in bare feet, and it looks exactly like a lawn. This is what science should be for.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I took eight or nine months to make 'Immunity.' I just focused on mainly that, and it felt amazing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not someone who can just be paid to play keyboards on songs. I tried to do it - I needed the money, but it made me really unhappy and ill to be doing it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've tried to do every album in a different style, which is why I tend to leave a fair bit of time between each one.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To try and create a transcendent state through music has always been the intention.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in getting a lot of new gear all the time, so I get very deeply into one instrument and use it for many years.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, I'm a quite big believer in not being in the studio if I don't feel like being in there.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I don't remember many of the names of specific tracks - they were just kind of early acid house things.
- Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember having a 7-inch Depeche Mode single when I was ten and really loving that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always fascinated particularly with synths: how they looked and stuff that when you're a kid you're like this is the most incredible thing in the world just to play.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a massive catastrophist by nature.
- Main
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the score is one of the main characters of a film.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love starting a track in one place and not knowing where it's going to end up.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I've improved, gone up a level in sound-making, it's been because I've done an album.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never advocate anyone doing anything without educating themselves and finding out exactly what they're in for.
- Really
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, you don't really have restraint.
- Harming
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe there's a human right to experiment with your consciousness, as long as you're harming no one else.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing music - particularly music without lyrics - calls almost exclusively on the subconscious.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I did 'Immunity,' even though I did a film score at the beginning and also at the end, I was left uninterrupted during the middle bit. I got a good year of just writing and focusing. That, to me, is when I make the best stuff.
- Meditation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the thing with electronic music, you set up systems to bring in an accident, to bring in quirks you didn't choose, but you still will have had to set up systems.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The track 'Open Eye Signal,' when you hear that choir sound come in, that's actually me singing but sped up and with huge reverb and overlayered harmonies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really want to go into the world of production and I don't really want to produce other people particularly.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can only make the best thing you can make, and if it offends purists, or angers certain critics, you can only have done your best.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to do something that makes your brain just switch to a different mode, and music can do that really powerfully.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some machine-y music is great, but you can apply any groove to any song now - there's literally a massive drop-down menu on most programs. And that's what takes the human being out of the process.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe I'm just stubborn about learning new things - I can't stand learning new programs - but any sound I can imagine, I can make with SoundForge. And I'm using the old version, like 4.5 from 1999. I use it for every sound.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer a long day of starting in the morning over working late into the night.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the most important thing is to keep everything moving very fast, so when I have an idea, I can realize it and make it audible as soon as possible.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right light... it's essential.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to listen to podcasts while running. I don't like to listen to music because my brain would try to get me to run in time with it.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meditation is a regular part of my day, every day.
- Centered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning how to be calm and centered in any situation is a skill for life, whatever you do.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love switching stuff off and going for a run, or sitting down and eating cake.
- Mine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of repeating a rhythm while it gently evolves has an incredible effect on the brain, or on mine anyway.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 23, I felt like I was further back than when I was 21. After two solo albums for this small indie label Just Music, they'd gotten no real profile. So I kind of turned away from the solo thing a bit.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always make sure there's something for the audience to connect to, in terms of my movements relating to the sounds being heard.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020