Lapsley Quotes

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

With technology being the way that it is right now with Pro Tools and all that other stuff, more and more people are recording stuff at home and just utilizing Youtube and Facebook.

I remember discovering that I loved recording - that breakthrough when I was in high school getting to record for the first time.

SoundCloud was my first break I guess. I got a little bit of a following.That whole bedroom producer genre was kind of kicking itself into gear, and SoundCloud was becoming more of a hub for producers at the time.

I created the Soundcloud big bang; you already know what's going on.

I put some songs on the Internet back in 2009 - that's kind of how everything started with Washed Out. I had never really planned on being in a band or anything like that. It was kind of a hobby I did on my own, just recording music.

As a technology guy, and someone in music, I'm on top of technology and social media.

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

Now anybody can make music at home, and you can hear music on any computer without having to buy it. Everything is apparently better with all the machines we have now, but at the same time, the quality of life is not improving.

I record everything myself, I engineer everything myself.

I think probably the first time I recorded anything was mid-2010.

Where I grew up, there was only one CD shop, and I didn't really like school, so we'd register, then bunk off, and we would be round my mate's house making drum-and-bass mix tapes.

My most prized possession would have to be 'Trick It.' I did rap here and there with some songs before, but 'Trick It' was my first time challenging myself to write lyrics from beginning to end.

The first time I shared music was on Myspace. Then SoundCloud came along. The difference with SoundCloud is that people can comment on stuff, which was more frightening but also way more fun - especially if they liked it.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

It's amazing what you can do in your bathroom! I would do vocals and stuff on my computer that would need to be sent to London or New York for things to be added on, and I was thinking they always say you sound good in the bathroom - but then I'd kick the bin, or someone in the next room would flush the chain or something and I'd be like 'oh no!'

In high school, for two years, I made all my beats on earbuds. I'd just guess, so the frequencies would be all off.

My dad has learned all of the songs that I've sent him. He put it on his computer, on his jukebox, on his phone.

There's one song that I recorded called 'Saviour' and every single sound from that song was actually recorded in a shipyard on my iPhone.

Technology has made music ultimately more democratic.