Thighpaulsandra

It's the way I make music, I will take two ideas and smash them together and if they sit well together for…

— Thighpaulsandra

The thing I've learned is it's good to restrict your palette somewhat. I will try and, say, use two or three instruments…

— Thighpaulsandra

If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all…

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My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent…

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Going to public school is like living in bubble, you have no concept of what other people do.

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I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That…

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I grew up in the South Wales valleys, but I think my parents realised from quite an early age that if they…

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Obviously I can't rely on my group, but I don't want to rely on a laptop just to play back some backing…

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I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.

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When I only had one or two synthesisers you learn how to do everything on those things and you know them inside…

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I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them.

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As a person who has a pretty short attention span I think of music like that, completely. That's why I can quite…

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Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so,…

— Thighpaulsandra

I really like working with drummers, I like being able to bounce ideas off drummers.

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I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth…

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I tend to work in the mornings, then take a few hours off in the afternoon to walk the dog, and then…

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I'm a bit of a hoarder, so I did tend to buy things and just hang on to them.

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I'm not saying I don't ever improvise because I do that quite a lot, especially with other people, but generally I've got…

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I don't really worry about whether things fit into a genre or not, it's whether I like it and whether the two…

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Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort…

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I do take a computer to do some processing live and I might use a couple of plug-in synthesisers, 'cause obviously you…

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I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to…

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I still use a lot of cut-ups, I physically cut-up pieces of paper and stick them all together on another piece of…

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There's a lot of people I know who have a lot of synthesisers and they don't really know anything about them, they…

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