Porter Robinson Quotes

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.

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

I think my sound is post-Internet.

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

New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.

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.

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

I do love the music aspect of the Internet. The Internet made me.

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

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

I like Beach House a lot.

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

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

Virtual Self' combines a lot of unlike elements - trance, jungle, slowed-down breakbeats.

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

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

Bjork's album, 'Homogenic,' it's got beats, strings, traditional Icelandic stuff. That's my benchmark for what an album should sound like, right up there with Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' and Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On.'

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.

My parents used to play me this album when I couldn't go to sleep. It was called 'Deep Forest.' I think it was a self-titled record. It's actually still one of my favorite albums of all time.

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

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

Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, is a U.K. electronica artist whose diverse tastes have helped fuel a lengthy discography.