I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
ALAN PALOMOI 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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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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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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But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.
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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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I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn’t.
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The Internet really does create this dimension around the music that’s always in relation to what else is happening at the moment.
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And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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 never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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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 remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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