Danny Carey Quotes

I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

I know it sounds weird, but the kind of music I write isn't the kind of music that I listen to, which is quite underground, left-of-centre stuff like PJ Harvey and Tom Waits.

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've been into Sonic Youth since junior high school. I think I kind of have ADD, so it's good music for ADD because it just throws you in different directions all the time. I really like Kim Gordon's voice and Thurston Moore's voice, and I like the guitars going off on tangents.

It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.

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

As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

All my favorite bands are the ones that push the limits and boundaries.

The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.

I love truly forward-thinking music, and I'm not even sure I'd describe my work as that, even.

We are aiming to create a one and only new music genre that exceeds the limits of pop and metal music.