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Type: Musician Quotes Category: Canadian Musician Quotes Year of Birth: 1974 Nationality: Canadian Find on Amazon: Eric San Related Authors: Neil Young Alanis Morissette Geddy Lee Deborah Cox Sebastian Bach Sarah McLachlan Joni Mitchell Rick Danko |
A lot of the stuff I've accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren't good dance beats they weren't ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.
Eric San Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car. Eric San Even though you were radiated doesn't mean you get to have that sort of power. Eric San Eventually it just got really crazy. Less and less oxygen in the apartment. Eric San Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit. Eric San I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this? Eric San I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together. Eric San I think that for a long time it scratching was sort of frowned upon within music because people didn't understand that there was a craft involved. Eric San I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing. Eric San I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept. Eric San If you can understand the humor in the drawing part you'll probably get the humor in the audio part. Eric San If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to. Eric San It'd be interesting if you had to find a record for everything you had to say. But I think that whole talking code thing is great. Eric San It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes. Eric San It's something I've been working on for about two years and I just finished doing the inking about three days ago, so I'm pretty excited. Eric San My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded. Eric San Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything. Eric San Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time. Eric San There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do. Eric San We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together. Eric San When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other. Eric San When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music. Eric San When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other. Eric San You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself. Eric San |
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