Bonobo

A lot of music is like a diary for me.

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I'm just a music fan.

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New York is great in your twenties.

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I like messing around with sounds.

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

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Every record I've made, I've mixed and engineered at home.

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Having the opportunity to see cool places all over the world is fun.

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I'm always just referencing whatever I'm listening to or wherever I am musically.

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

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

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The only criteria I have with every new album is to keep moving on from what I've done before.

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Yeah, I'd definitely love to do some scores someday. I particularly love Hans Zimmer's work.

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You have to engage with the current palette of the world, and what that sounds like.

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I don't make personality-driven music. Personality stagnates, people become tired of it. When it is purely about the music, that is what…

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That's when things get exciting - when you're outside the comfort zone, trying different things.

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You know, the one thing I've learnt or value from back in the day is the restraint and discipline you get when…

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I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation…

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I listen to records I made years ago and it takes me back to that time, so why not actually put a…

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I often use a return channel to get some shape out of the bass. It's a good way to split the frequencies…

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Albums are just a punctuation of music. I don't usually start out with a manifesto. Your tastes change with the process of…

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Ninja has definitely kind of changed its identity since it first started out. Ninja back in the day was always turntables and…

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I've never been one of those musicians to differentiate between acoustic and electronic sounds. I just see it all as sound sources…

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Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to…

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Out on the West Coast, I learned to snowboard in Whistler, and I've been to festivals in British Columbia, and played in…

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All my records feel like a diary of the time and headspace they were made in and 'Black Sands' documents this in…

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The process of making music is very therapeutic; it's late at night and I'm wearing headphones a lot of the time, so…

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

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

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I always have trouble recording drums and double bass.

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

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

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

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I think nostalgia is kind of dangerous in music.

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

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