I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

I don't want to rewrite history.

Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

I see someone play, or I listen to a record, and I think, "How did they make that sound?' It's not emulation; it's more building a vocabulary that can be called up at a moment's notice.

The computer does things that can't be done with hardware, like freezing sounds.

I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.