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I'm basically a musician.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
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I don't know how many records I'm selling.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Know How
Records
Selling
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I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.
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Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Artist
Experiments
Responsibility
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I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Different
Purpose
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I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Ideas
Rough
Walks
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The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Bland
Ideas
Rendering
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I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Fans
Ninja
Tunes
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My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.
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I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Feels
Starting
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But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Bops
Moments
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I'll alight upon words because I think they suggest any number of things.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Numbers
Thinking
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I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Travel
Feelings
Roots
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I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Atmosphere
Complement
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I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
People
Racing
Thinking
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I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Groups
Wanted
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Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Periods
Time Of My Life
Without Music
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I’ve started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Aggressive
Electronic Music
Thinking
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It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.
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Genuine
Important
Problem
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Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Demise
Musician
Thinking
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I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Bass Guitar
Play
Starting Over
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I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Causes
Stuff
Track
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I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Eugenics
People
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One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Attitude
Albums
Pieces
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I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Challenges
Giving
Important
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I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Attention
Mind
Want
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One of the more dispiriting things I think about endless touring is hearing the same piece of music over and over again and I end up feeling like a fraud.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Feelings
Pieces
Thinking
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One of the more distant concerns is with the visual interpretation of the music. I find it fascinating but I don't always particularly get involved with it.
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Concern
Get Involved
Interpretation
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The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.
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Mind
Territory
Trying
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But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.
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Bedroom
Gigs
Track
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Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.
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Knows
Thinking
Want
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
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One Direction
Wicked
Writing
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If it's a language you don't understand and you're not concerned with the meanings of the words, your impression comes from how the words look, particularly if the language uses different characters.
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Character
Different
Looks
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The main thing I’m into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I’m really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.
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Journey
Freak
Ideas
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I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit.
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Giving
Perspective
Trying
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People have often assumed that for music to be emotionally powerful it has to come directly from a human hand, whereas I disagree with that, and enjoy proving these people wrong. This project is an excellent way of exploring that area more.
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Hands
People
Powerful
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What happens in the studio is technically the same thing that happens on the stage. In the past I had to make quite brutal adaptations of the material to make it work on stage. I don't always like doing that because sometimes you're shaving away the things that you actually quite like about them, the spontaneity of it.
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Past
Shaving
Sometimes
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There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes and rhythms interlock. Then comes the technical side like programming, instruments and designing instruments. Next is production and mixing and beyond that I start to care less.
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Design
Mixing
Musical
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I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Flags
People
Trying
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My plan is if you come to the shows in the first run of dates the versions you'll hear live are quite close to the record. But because I can set this up identically afterwards in a hotel room I can actually work when I'm on the move. The aim is that all the pieces will have had substantial remixes and different parts added and subtracted.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Running
Different
Moving
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My father had a phase of having jukeboxes all over the house. He was a music lover but he was also into musical machinery. Not instruments, he was never interested in playing particularly but there would be these odd objects, like valve amplifiers being dismantled on the kitchen table. My mum wasn't massively keen on that, but it was part of the environment.
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Father
House
Kitchen
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I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.
Squarepusher / Musical Artist
Character
Ideas
Trying
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