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For me, the audience is the most important thing in the whole chain, so finding out how they respond to things is a learning curve at all times.
Alexis Taylor
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Alexis Taylor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 20
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I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.
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I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.
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Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.
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I know that I can't ever write a song that just sounds completely saccharin. Even if I'm singing about someone being my complete love life, I'm singing about my own inabilities to be as bright as that person.
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If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.
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That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song.
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When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.
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You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.
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I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.
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There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.
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In the recording process, sometimes people feel that there isn't a space for them to contribute.
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When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, Are you having a good time? what they're really saying is, I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?
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We're still making Hot Chip records whilst doing these other things, so why not just try and make music you enjoy making rather than being tied down by things? It would just be crazy to not allow people to make music.
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Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.
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I'll also listen to music on a Discman and realize how nice it can sound when it's not compressed to MP3 format.
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I really enjoy playing for hours and hours. DJ sets where you turn up over an hour and you're on a festival stage, people basically expect much more pounding than I ever would play. I just feel like a fish out of water when I do those. They want something really kind of aggressive that's not really the kind of music that I'm into.
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It's not like that because the improvisation makes it automatically democratic. No one's leading anything. I didn't have to worry about anyone feeling involved. It was just the most natural, easy process of making music.
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To stop for years and then discover that the audience is getting smaller and smaller would be demoralizing.
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A lot of people in the crowd want to be told what to do if you just put your hands up, they do it.
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When a band first comes along, they should be confusing and doing something people don't accept. You don't want the first reaction to just be, Oh, I get that.
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