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Fabio Perletta – “When I see a sculpture or listen to a piece of music and you immediately feel the urgency to turn on the laptop or other instruments to make something new”

Minimalism and order. These are the main words that come to my mind when I see this picture of the posters, and the empty spaces between things you seem to like. Both visually and musically you seem to go in this direction. What drove you there? Yan Jun said here on our blog a funny…

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Greg Kelley – “I tend to like things that are in between the cracks and haven’t yet been codified”

  I love the totally different shelves/boxes/furniture where the records are stored. It’s funny, they even look like if they’re from different houses. I suppose you don’t care about having ‘stylish’ things around, like for instance Robin Rimbaud/Scanner, whose red shelves were very appreciated by some of our readers… Over the past 20 years, I’ve…

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Chris Forsyth – “I’m pretty deadly sincere, musically, but I have a lot of mixed emotions and a very sarcastic sense of humor”

The most evident stuff is the Velvet Underground box (just above the Dylan one): are you among the many that see Velvet as a very big influence? Or is just ‘a big box that stands out over other stuff’? Both. There’s really no one who’s not influenced by the Velvet Underground, whether they know it…

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