I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh man I've got a job to do.' It's more like 'Oh man I didn't even realize I've been there this long.'
Boygenius' was the first time I produced without a producer-producer in the room. It's been crazy.
If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
I got started as a producer first, but really, I feel my beats had more life than anyone could rap on them.
I really, really want to produce. That's the top of my to-do list.
The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.
I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.
I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
The producing side is always a hard thing for me. I look at Flying Lotus and see producers dropping instrumentals, and I think I should do it myself. I just try to be an artist for myself. That way, it's a lot easier.
I'm doing bass trap; I'm doing EDM songs.
That's one of the reason T-Bone Burnett calls me... he thinks I'm used to doing what I do in the studio for him.
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.
I grew up writing songs and producing music, and I studied music production in college.
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.
We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes - it's all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it's everything goes; it's a such a beautiful world.
