Flying Lotus Quotes

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.

My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.

The first artist that did it for me with just production was James Blake... I was just blown away... I feel like James Blake kind of was the one that introduced me into that world.

A lot of my favourite songs have Eno involved, but I love the work he does on the first two Roxy Music albums. He's creating atmospheres as opposed to composition, and it's a beautiful mixture with everything else in that band.

I'm a huge fan of Flying Lotus. I like The XX's stuff.

The 11-minute 'Colouring of Pigeons' takes The Knife's experimental, cerebral side to new heights.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.

I love futurist music.

I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.

I'm a huge Stereolab fan.

When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.

Games isn't really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the undercurrents of pop music.

I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.

I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing - it's very loop-style.

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!