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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
Then even when I started working with other folks, a lot of them came from the same tradition.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
Something built into my understanding of music was
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
just what I brought to it personally.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
And so when I started Song Exploder, all of that assumption kind of went into it.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
I was like, well, of course you can hear every single piece on its own.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
You can isolate everything and hear exactly what's going on with nothing else.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
Because that was like the house I'd built for myself.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
And I'd just been living there.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
Phil said, when I had my first reaction, I was like, this is a crazy way of making music.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
Like, what are you talking about?
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
He said, it's not crazy actually, that actually for the majority of recorded music, that is how music was made.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
The thing that I was used to was a more recent phenomenon and actually quite a big departure from the quote unquote normal way of working.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
And he was just returning to that.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
It's funny because it just makes me think about there have been times when I haven't been able to do episodes of Song Exploder because someone didn't have isolated stems because they made music in this way.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
They're really like, yeah, we just put up a bunch of mics and so here it is.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
So everything's in everything.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
And I was like, oh, I'm so sorry that that's not going to work for the podcast.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
And of course, I didn't know because it's not like...
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
you can still have great songs and popular songs that are made that way.
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Hrishikesh Hirway made an album “the old-fashioned way.” He nearly exploded.
I just, it felt like I had to rewire my entire brain, not just from my own music career, but then from this whole second chapter of making the podcast.