We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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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 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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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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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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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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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 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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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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It’s difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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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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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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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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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 nothing better than having an experience now that’s the exact same thing.
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