When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
ALAN PALOMOI think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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The way you phrase it might change, but it will always continue to happen, and there’s something really charming and calming about that.
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So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.
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I find it so funny that for the first time in history, people have access to this great equalizer in the Internet, which grants everyone the same knowledge base.
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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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Things are changing at such a rate that you really can’t get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
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I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
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You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.
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But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
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But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
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There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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