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 play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.
There's nothing more exciting to me than using real instruments in the studio.
I'm an electronic guy, I'm a freak for electronic music but real instruments, the dynamic range of it, and the emotions, there's no comparison.
I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.
Fans want real songs, they want real experiences, and they want real instruments.
No matter how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing.
I like live-sounding things.
I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.
With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
