Bonobo

“I'm always just referencing whatever I'm listening to or wherever I am musically.”

“Albums are a journey, and I even find that as a DJ, with less than two hours, I can barely communicate anything. So I like to play long sets.”

“If there was just music without any genres, then people would look at a lot of things afresh, and approach a record without any preconceptions.”

“With places like Spotify and YouTube broadcasting these days, you get a track made in San Francisco broadcasting in London moments later, so it's more global now.”

“People don't necessarily know who I am. Some people think Bonobo is a band.”

“I was a musician first, the whole DJ-ing came after.”

“I've spent a lot of time in Montreal, it's one of my favorite cities in the world.”

“Having the opportunity to see cool places all over the world is fun.”

“I often find there's an equal benefit to being in a comfortable, well rested studio session, but also the more pressured headspace of being in an airport or working at 7 A.M., fresh from the club with the music still ringing in your ears.”

“Offsetting the sample position every time the sample hits will create more random movement in short samples.”

“I think on every album, I keep experimenting to go where I haven't been before.”

“The ability to have that mobility of music right now, where you can be in an airport with a sample library, it means that you can channel that mind-space you're in when you're overly tired and in an unfamiliar place.”

“The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.”

“I feel like Canada's almost a second home at this point.”

“Yeah, it's a kind of weird thing because I don't define myself as an electronic musician. It's certainly a part of it, and you know I have a band as well, and we go on a tour bus like other bands.”

“PaulStretch is a really out-there, standalone audio stretching engine. So with 'Second Sun,' I took a portion of what I was working on and took it into PaulStretch and then bring it back into the track to sit low in the mix as a drone version of itself. It gives the track a good base and a haunting texture to it.”

“Whenever l've travelled l've found myself affected in conflicted ways. Sometimes the new experiences inspire a path of self discovery, but at other points those situations can highlight insecurities and bring about feelings of displacement.”

“New York is great in your twenties.”

“It's hard for me to use any electronic sounds at all, really. I'm always just layering acoustic sounds.”

“I didn't really think my music was good enough to be heard by anyone. I had some friends who were releasing records who were older than me, and within that group, I was always the younger, patronized friend who was making tunes as well, which everyone thought was cute.”