And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
ALAN PALOMOThings 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.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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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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Memory is just as much of an instrument as anything else in music.
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Because anybody can find their fan base through the Internet.
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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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I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project.
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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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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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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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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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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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You should always choose your associations wisely because people create impressions around the music.
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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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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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It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.
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