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Gordon Raphael

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[Wikipedia] Gordon Raphael is an American record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington and New York, currently living in Hebden Bridge (UK), after spending 15 years in Berlin. Gordon runs a website called Gordotronic which features his own original music, artwork and writings. In the year 2022 he publi

Quotes by Gordon Raphael

I tend to get sounds that sound a little bit wrecked.

Bits

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I go shopping for jeans, and they're playing shitty music in the store, I just leave. I can't be around music that…

Hate

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When I hear music which is really exciting, I get really excited, and when I hear music which is really boring, I…

Angry

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Music is very personal. It is not objective. We're not talking about how tight they were. How famous they are. How rich…

Boring

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The music I make is very underground-sounding, it doesn't sound like it goes into the charts. It doesn't sound like it's trying…

Art

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I don't get a lot of big offers. Never have in my career. For some reason, record labels don't call me, famous…

Band

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There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really…

Artist

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I don't want to hear from a band that pretty much sounds like another band. Oh I've heared this riff before, or…

Band

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Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did…

Abandon

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The fact that I don't get big offers, it means that I don't refuse them. And I say no occasionally to bands,…

Band

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I'm definitely not a laptop/midi/abelton guy. But there is a lot of music I like. I really like Bach organ music. I…

Bob

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