Yes, I was half a composer, half a pianist at that time. So that was really the beginning of my engagement with electronic music.Īnd you're a pianist by trade, right? I take it by that time you'd already been taking piano lessons.Īnd you ended up studying at the Royal Academy. But you could buy kits from magazines and build these things with a soldering iron in your bedroom, which is what I did. So then I attempted to try and get my hands on this instrument, but unfortunately I discovered that at the time they cost as much as a house. It was really - my life before hearing that and my life hearing after hearing it. And this was the synthesizer at the beginning of 'Autobahn.' And it was like being struck by lightning. And I encountered this sound that I'd never heard before, and I couldn't imagine what instrument was making it. Well yeah, I had a sort of lightbulb moment hearing Kraftwerk's record Autobahn when I was in my early teens. Which is, I would say, kind of a solid music education.Īnd then I read that you built synthesizers in your bedroom. So, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven - and The Beatles and The Beach Boys. Well, I heard basically the rock and pop music of the time and the core classics. I'm wondering what kind of music you heard in the house as a kid growing up? You were born in Germany but grew up in the U.K. And I like the fact that there's not too much kind of theory and rules around in that space - some very creative music. It's a space where there's a very open-eared audience. And it's just perfect music.ĭo you listen to a lot of what we might call 'indie rock?' It's got a sort of perfection that's really simple.

It starts out with that little drum box, which has got a sort of a retro quality, amazing fuzzy guitar and bass. Well, I mean, what's not to love? Everything about it is perfect. What part of this music is it that turns you on?

So next is a track called 'What Part Of Me' from Low - the wonderful Low.

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