There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
ALAN PALOMOLike the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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There’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.
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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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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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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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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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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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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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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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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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Is my music indicative of a caffeine-surged green liquid? Probably not.
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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