I wanted to make a record that worked against the hypnagogic paradigm, for sure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.
I still hold on to the idea that a record can really change the way I feel.
I've been reading about the idea of cyclical lives - it matches up to the idea of string theory and a multiverse. So I wanted to write a record about that instead of another song about broken hearts and drinking.
I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.
My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day.
I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.