Kieran Hebden Quotes
I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions.
People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.
When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.
So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.
When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.
I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there... I wanted to make something that was for the night.
It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.
After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.
I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.
With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.
If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it.
People ask me about all sorts of sounds. There's a sound of a screeching toy or a rubber duck and everybody asks me about that, but it was an absolutely random thing, just a cool sound.
The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.
My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.
I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more.
Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.
