Martin Gore Quotes

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

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.

I love music with real instruments. I'm not one of those guys that's a purist about analog vs. digital, but I love the analog approach. Sonically, I connect to that.

I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

Midi is my hobby.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

I really wanna make hip-hop music, but I don't know how to use any of the tools. Electronic, computer skills, I don't have those for engineering or making beats. I don't know how to use a sampler well. I don't know how to use any of these things.

Everything has changed since I started recording in 1972. But the very things that have opened this industry, like the digital platforms to reach more people, have also killed things that were happening before in the recording studio. Now, most of the time, there are no real musicians in the studio; it's people with sequencers and things.