The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
ALAN PALOMOI wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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I don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
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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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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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Let alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.
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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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I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
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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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
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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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