Originally, it was just cool imagery. We found this vintage bunny on eBay, and it became a studio mascot. Then we said we should just make it the album cover because it's been through the whole ride.
Honestly, for this one, I don't have a ton aside from...
The lead singers aesthetic was particularly unique with a short mohawk and large trench coat - seeming like a spirit guide on the astral planes...
All the guys were super humble/kind and had the energy of people you want to be around...
The term rockstar is thrown around a lot, but in every sense she embodies that term in every conceivable metric...
Because of Flying Lotus’s nature I knew the visuals at this live show would be postmodern abominations...
The live set echoed something out of a horror movie with Yeule’s various Junji Ito tattoos to LED backdrops looking like they surfaced from the gates of Hell...
Daniel's set had some of the most intense use of bass I’d ever experienced - being right next to the stage it shook my entire body. The others in the pit were looking at each out like ‘holy s***...’
My biggest inspiration definitely comes from my friendships and the people I surround myself with...
RANDOM
Right now, the norm is for labels to make decisions based on data. And they've all got access to more data than ever before, so it turns into a science. They look at the trajectory of streaming numbers and social media followings, and they avoid artist development...
Let’s see we’ve got: hot pink bitch named breakfast, crazy frog, king palms, tetris, thembofication, sophie is god, cringe comps, poggers, poppers, frogger, früh, nightcore-beyonce, vineyard vines, maroon 5...
夢の砂漠 explores a lot of feelings I’ve been having over the past year - mostly a lot of self-exploration and I wanted to convey this a long and ethereal album so that other people can travel through the ‘dream desert’ and explore all of these intense feelings themselves...
It's almost like a radio you turn on. Maybe in 2015, it sounded very different, and I'm sure in 2025, it will sound very different as well...
I’ve always wanted to make my own music purposeful in luring the listener either further into themselves or conversely, further beyond themselves...
After witnessing an Empress Of live performance, it's obvious she has an exceptional voice and a lot of talent...
"The name Etran de L’Aïr translates to “the Stars of the Aïr,” the mountainous region of Northern Niger."
I think of this song as a journey that started with a love folk song that somehow turned a different direction into something more mysterious and beautiful that even I can't explain very well...
Nature, spirituality, my every-day life experience. Emotions, interpretations of experiences. Theology, psychology, physics. My cats. Weather patterns. The mystery of life...