Bonobo

New York is great in your twenties.

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I like messing around with sounds.

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A lot of music is like a diary for me.

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I'm just a music fan.

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People don't necessarily know who I am. Some people think Bonobo is a band.

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I think nostalgia is kind of dangerous in music.

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I think I've always had this thing where it's music first.

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Sometimes it's a discipline to try and not sound like myself.

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I think on every album, I keep experimenting to go where I haven't been before.

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Erykah Badu sang with me at a sold out show in San Francisco which was great.

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For me, I really like listening to music really loud.

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I'm not keen on terms like 'lounge' or 'chill out.'

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When I was 16 I was in a neo hardcore band called Finger Charge. I played the drums with my shirt off.

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Life has highs, lows, loud and quiet moments, beautiful ones and ugly ones. Music is a reflection of life.

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If something is done really well then the question of live vs. DJ vs. instruments vs. drum machines doesn't matter - it's…

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I think it's good to sort of push people's expectations a little bit. I've always been doing that.

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There were a lot of labels in the '90s that were fashionable for a time and then crashed.

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When DJing works and the room is with you then it's one of the most enjoyable things you can do.

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My taste is developing constantly, and it goes in whatever direction it wants to go in - the music follows.

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I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

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I never used to be able to work on the road, I was always strictly in the studio. But not everything's gotten…

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People think about L.A. as being sunny and relaxed, but there's a darker side to it. There's people living in tents under…

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You can't live in the times that you live in and be exposed to all the new music that's happening, ignore it…

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Most of the time I approach a track as series of experiments: seeing what fits, and trying to manipulate sounds into each…

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Whenever l've travelled l've found myself affected in conflicted ways. Sometimes the new experiences inspire a path of self discovery, but at…

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My records are not informed by whether the music is going to work live. I just kind of make the music I…

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My parents and two sisters were great musicians but my family's approach to music was always way more academic than mine. They…

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I really enjoy DJing but I couldn't DJ exclusively. I couldn't produce exclusively either, that would involve spending a lot of time…

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You really only have to use one half of your brain when you're deejaying.

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I always have trouble recording drums and double bass.

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Ninja was able to survive its own hype and become a very strong label.

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I've spent a lot of time in Montreal, it's one of my favorite cities in the world.

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I feel like Canada's almost a second home at this point.

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I was a musician first, the whole DJ-ing came after.

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I come from a film background as I studied film at art school.

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I'm always trying to find new things that I haven't done before.

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DJ-ing taught me how to create a journey over the space of two or three hours.

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I think you haven't tried enough sometimes unless you're suffering a bit.

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I've always wanted to do a big theater show in San Francisco.

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I've noticed one in five ideas never amount to anything.

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