When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
ALAN PALOMOThere’s a very distinct difference between a really wonderful DIY label and a soft drink company, or a car company, or a clothing brand, and you will always understand that difference.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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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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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 remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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it opens opportunities up for talented people along with people like Rebecca Black.
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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 would’ve done when I was 16, like texting a really awkward “I like you” message to someone.
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We really are living in the era that all this sci-fi literature and cinema was centered around.
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There’s something really fun and spooky about that teenage feeling of narcissism or indestructibility.
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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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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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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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