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• ‟ My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally.

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• ‟ People don't realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don't realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They're hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit.

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• ‟ As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.

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• ‟ I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.

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• ‟ I'd never record digitally. It's not because its' a horrible way to record, it's just not the best way to record my music, because my music is rawer, darker and a little more nostalgic.

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• ‟ I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music.

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• ‟ I remember those moments in my life when the tape came out on that Tuesday, and I went to Sam Goody to cop it. And sitting and listening to it. In awe of the music I was listening to, but also imagining this music at the hip-hop clubs and with the homies in the car.

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• ‟ A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic.

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• ‟ A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic.

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• ‟ I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.

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• ‟ Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.

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• ‟ I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now.

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• ‟ To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music.

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• ‟ I tell people, 'I don't make music, I make worlds.'

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• ‟ As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.

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• ‟ When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That's stupid.

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• ‟ I don't do anything digital. Everything is analog, and that's a limitation for me. However, in my world, it's not a limitation at all because I don't create the type of music that would generally be created by musicians that work with digital recording studios, and/or digital equipment, as far as production is concerned.

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