Derek Bailey Quotes

I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.

I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.

I know what it's like listening to Aphex Twin driving down the beach.

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.

When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.

My main inspirations come from early '90s Trance, the French electro movement round '06, then a bunch of artists like Flying Lotus, J Dilla, Moby, The Prodigy. So I'd say it's some kind of experimental electronica with a strong hip hop influence. It's chilled, but people can still get super crazy and dance to it.

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

I love futurist music.

I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.

The 11-minute 'Colouring of Pigeons' takes The Knife's experimental, cerebral side to new heights.

I've always wanted to be a PC Music girl, like Hannah Diamond or SOPHIE.

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

Leading into 'The Hurting,' what changed our view of music was Gary Numan.

Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. That's my benchmark for what an album should sound like, right up there with Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' and Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On.'