Johann Johannsson Quotes

I love futurist music.

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock 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.

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

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

The Geezer album, Black Science, had a lot of keyboards and it did not work.

Kraftwerk isn't a band. It's a concept. We call it 'Die Menschmaschine,' which means 'the human machine.'

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

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.

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.

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

I'm also very impressed with the best people in experimental electronic world, like Peta and Eckart Aillers and Finez and Jim O'Rourke and Oren Umbarci and Francesco Lopez. Most of them use the computer as their main instrument.

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

'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.

Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass.

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!

I want to keep Flume kind of experimental, weird, melodic, pretty.

It turns out that there's a huge community of African-American musicians whose main influence is Throbbing Gristle.

I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.

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

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

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