Uit het uitstekende interview met Boards of Canada in De:Bug:
Simon Reynolds strongly relies on you as the forefathers or
originators of certain musical and theoretical concepts of the last ten
years, like Hauntology or Hypnagogic Pop. You’re actually the starting
point for one aspect of his Retromania concept – making music sound old,
worn out, triggering memories etc. Those were things you did and talked
about almost 20 years ago and have become the principles of many young
producers. What are you thinking about that today?
Mike: That’s still absolutely a driving force in our work. It’s
something we love doing, we can never run out of inspiration in this
direction, because if you only pay attention to current music then you
can’t help sounding pinned down to the fashion of today. But when you
allow yourself to explore music from various eras in the past, you can
find starting points that were never fully explored, like tangents that
didn’t actually occur in the real history of music, and that’s really
exciting to me. Especially in the face of so much current music that is
becoming indistinguishable because all the producers are basically using
the same tools.
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