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OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.

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.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.

All I'm interested in is liberating sound beyond all tradition.

I'm the haphazard engineer of my own music.

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

I think my music is a little shocking to some people because my voice is very traditional-sounding, and my music is not.

There would not be Skaters or Emeralds or any of these bands if it weren't for Double Leopards.

That's really where my heart is, unfortunately - I'm less interested in songwriting and more into just making noise.

'Maxim's' was supposed to be on 'Ekstasis,' but it was very much in its own world.

Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.

You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.

Every Dirty Projectors album is a world unto itself.

'Rann' is a new genre to me, a new experience and it is very special.

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

There are songs out there in the world which, in some ways, seem so unmusical.

The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is very experimental. It's pop meets urban meets indie meets alternative.

Our audience seems to be able to handle whatever kind of weird opening acts we turn them on to. I mean, sometimes it happens to be something like a band like Nirvana or Mudhoney, and other times, its just weird noise crews that we dig up.

You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's a stimulation chaser, and I relate to that.

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.

My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.

Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.

I've purposely made my music to be challenging and different. There's some electronics, R&B, blues, Motown, country, jazz and lots of soul.