it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
ALAN PALOMOit opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
ALAN PALOMOThe Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
ALAN PALOMOYou 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.
ALAN PALOMOI don’t mind that I’ve created an identity around what I do.
ALAN PALOMOI have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
ALAN PALOMOWhen you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
ALAN PALOMOLet alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
ALAN PALOMOI wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s no real template to follow these days for what a band should and shouldn’t be – bands are just becoming these weird little Internet avatars that you either follow or download or interact with in some removed way.
ALAN PALOMOBut all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
ALAN PALOMOBut it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
ALAN PALOMOIs my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
ALAN PALOMOWe really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
ALAN PALOMOBecause anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
ALAN PALOMOSo 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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