Adrian Younge Quotes

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

I like that kind of classic-type sound. A lot of my favorite albums were tracked live, with a four-piece band. I love the way those albums sound, but I want to make records that sound like that in the way I like to make stuff.

To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh.

You just want to go back to those 70s albums. Even a lot of the 90s indie records were still done on tape, and you hear the difference.

We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

Some people record onto tape, and then they pay for the tape, and download those onto a hard drive. Initially in a Pro Tools program. Other people go straight into digital, and use no tape at all.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

Every record I've ever done with Tool has been on tape.

Gaslight has a specific way of playing and recording that's sort of become the way now.

Just from the beginning, I really liked playing around with tape recorders. And then, when I got into punk rock, I only really liked - the rawer it was, the more I was into it.

I'm very aware of what, say, electric guitar recordings in the '60s sounded like.

Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.

I was born in the overdub years. I wish there wasn't such a thing as a multitrack tape player, because what you heard would be the record.

I lie more with drums and the more heavy and darker aspects of music.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.

What do I call my music? Beats with melodies.

I don't think I could make a pop album.

'The Rising' isn't Springsteen's masterpiece.

Girls Aloud had a style of music, so you come together and work as a group.

I'm a big fan of '80s music, for lack of a better word.