The first computer I ever had the chance of using was my family's HP Compaq DC7100 running Windows XP and that clean yet primitive UI design had a very big impact on me...

I had all these strange pieces of audio, from conversations w/ my friends, snippets of old medical films, warped acoustic noise, and chaotic synthesized recordings, and they all struck me a certain way...
Music is emotion. Whether happy or sad, it's just a way of helping you deal with them and set the record straight about yourself...
Plus we're all having midlife crises and doing this was cheaper than buying a Miata or getting TRT therapy...
I’ve been lucky that I’ve always had more ideas for music than time to produce them all, so in the beginning, it was easy. I was releasing 15-20 tracks a year, and labels were eating them up...
Given JPEGMAFIA's notoriety our expectations were high for his live performance...
Headlining the event was non-other than Earl Sweatshirt of Odd Future fame. Earl's evolution as an artist has been fascinating to view, and we believe his change in trajectory came with his 2018 release titled Some Rap Songs...
夢の砂漠 explores a lot of feelings I’ve been having over the past year - mostly a lot of self-exploration and I wanted to convey this a long and ethereal album so that other people can travel through the ‘dream desert’ and explore all of these intense feelings themselves...
RANDOM

The term rockstar is thrown around a lot, but in every sense she embodies that term in every conceivable metric...

"The name Etran de L’Aïr translates to “the Stars of the Aïr,” the mountainous region of Northern Niger."

You, as ur future self is called, tells you that they are on vacation (you explain that rather than just simply travel to different places in the world, people from their time travel to other time periods)...

The live set echoed something out of a horror movie with Yeule’s various Junji Ito tattoos to LED backdrops looking like they surfaced from the gates of Hell...

I wanted it to feel like how the internet feels to navigate, so the variety of sounds is very reflective of that...

Music From Saharan Cellphones features various tracks recorded on Saharan Africa collected on cell phone sim cards...

Originally, it was just cool imagery. We found this vintage bunny on eBay, and it became a studio mascot. Then we said we should just make it the album cover because it's been through the whole ride.

Everything needs to make sense together. It's easy to create music that is overbearing when you have six instruments on stage. You have to make sure every single one of them is playing something that is contributing without smothering...











