With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.
Kieran HebdenIt's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.
Kieran HebdenI realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.
Kieran HebdenPeople ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.
Kieran HebdenI thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total out-and-out euphoric mania. I think tracks like "Smile Around The Face" are the jolliest things I've ever done, really. But one of the things I like about my music is the fact that it's instrumental, so there are no lyrics to guide people.
Kieran Hebden