it's been very difficult to get harbor
this secret and I'm waiting for this
album to intoxicating infect everyone
so I'm not making music in a sterile
world anymore you change your life
because of this record yes what did they
do what did these two artists do what
did they create that moved you Tim I was
talking about where you know they wanted
to pick up this West Coast vibe and at
first I didn't really know what that
meant
I'm from Jersey I've gone to LA like
twice in my life but they were saying
like you know going back to the time of
like Fleetwood Mac The Doobie Brothers
and but just picking up the West Coast
vibes the Eagles and sob like alright so
I'm starting to get a vibe for that we
would uh drive down from Tomasz house
off of Mulholland Drive with the top
down
the weather was gorgeous and this is
like a dream you know like it's like it
sounds like something in a movie I was
just like this is amazing
I've been producing for almost 20 years
now I'm known for my sampling style I
take little micro samples and make
musical collages cutting up those sounds
and making it have spaces so it has like
a futuristic flow that I'm known for
I sang co-wrote and produced face to
face with Daft Punk and you know I've
been asked before like you ever see
yourself working with them again and the
way I always looked at and they're
always taking on new challenges so I
didn't you know with I wouldn't expect
to have been asked because I would think
like okay they're on to you know you
know trying something out
there is no going further into this
direction it's been constantly
replicated and imitated and emulated and
so the concept was they reverse gears
and and went back to a time that no
one's really focusing on and even just
the way they record music I mean I never
knew how how live instrumentation was
recorded before I didn't know that you
set up different microphones in front of
guitar amplifiers to get different
sounds and how many tracks just for the
drums there were so many tracks for each
instrument I have enough trouble just
working with the instruments that I have
let alone to you know to deal with you
know different takes of live
instrumentation and to pick the best
takes out of those and it's crazy the
magic was that it's it's live
instrumentation it's done in a lost art
form
and just being at the studio and just I
mean Henson studio just the vibes there
it's just it is really vibey and you
just feel a presence Toma put me in one
of the side compartments of the studio
and he's like I want you to cut up do
your cut ups on this part so I do what I
do when I'm actually sampling I'm
cutting up and putting spaces in between
things and he listened to it and and
Eamon listened to and they were happy
with it then he looped it around from
that part into the other part I realized
he was making that the chorus yeah I
think they they you know that younger
producers are gonna be blown away by
what they're hearing and it's not going
to be possible to to do what they did
but you can take ideas from that maybe
it'll make you think you know what I
want to bring in a lot of bass player on
this or you know what let's experiment
with you know using analog gear again
let's see with you know let's try to see
what the effects are you know think
outside the box when you start to you
you start to understand music you need
new things to inspire you you know it
doesn't necessarily have to be more
complicated but just something that you
might never thought of yourself
what I experienced while I was while I
was out here it's just it's inspiring to
me it's almost like you know I've kind
of made music in a bubble in New Jersey
I was I spent most of my time over the
list to 15 years in a room you know I
didn't go out to a lot of clubs and
stuff so and they were always making
comments about - like he you like the
fact that I was never really connected
to the scene for saying it's still doing
what I do I'm here for three weeks it's
like I don't want to go home like you
know you're already thinking like this
is so amazing
like you know you want it to last so
that was like kind of the beginning
premise of the song
you know I'll just always recall all
these wonderful things going on like
here I'll just keep playing him back
these fragments of time never where I go
these moments will shine you know I
packed up my studio and drove a 14-foot
truck across the country I moved here
because of this that those three weeks
does it change the way you think of how
they've developed these personas yeah
these androids have taken on characters
of their own and it's just kind of just
building that like this big show they're
fulfilling their vision on all levels
you know all the statics so the crowd is
experiencing it but to be able to see it
from the other side is it to really
appreciate you know what they've
accomplished you're listening to this
and they're their future classics they
brought the the sound of you know
something that's been lost for for a
long time
10-15 years ago you had to make your own
music I mean like E whether whether it
was picking out samples or playing
keyboards or you know whatever
instruments you were using you it was
all coming from inside you or inside
someone else when the the music becomes
focused on the effects that are being
used or the presets of sounds it's just
computer there's no soul there it's kind
of ironic to to Android's are bringing
soul back to music
Mexican lucky we're up all night to get
lucky we're up all night to get lucky
we're up all night to get lucky
Mexican lucky we're up all night to get
lucky we're up all night to get lucky
again