Peter Banks Quotes

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

When I hear something new, mostly in rhythms, I often find it interesting to recreate it in a studio in a completely different way.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

A lot of people hear things on the radio and try to make their own version of that.

All the Public Enemy albums, I knew what records they were sampling but was like, 'How'd they construct it like this?!'

The difference between doing a remix and an original track is that when you do a remix, you obviously already have the original track as a starting point. But with the originals you start from scratch.

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

I like tinkering with the tribe beat boxes and love using Reason as a beefed up beat box.

A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.

I think remixes give songs more life.

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

I think I prefer producing a little more than DJing because you have more freedom, you can make anything you want; it doesn't necessarily have to be four to the floor. You can go more with your mood, or the atmosphere that you're in.

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.

I never had any plans to become a producer when I was a kid. I wanted to be a DJ, like most other kids at the time. Then my mum bought me a Casio keyboard and I started to sample sounds that I liked.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.