“I remember buying the What’s Going On vinyl by Marvin Gaye at a yard sale when I was young. I listened to it over and over again in my basement. It really opened my eyes early on to how music can change the world and not just talk about the same shit. The music can go as far as you want to take it.”
“Growing from that experience I really started to appreciate reselling, trading, and collecting vinyl. Digging through the crates is like the ultimate nostalgic feeling for me, especially since I don’t really follow any of the new artists. Most of my inspiration as an artist comes from older acts like The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, Donnie Hathaway, etc. I feel the best way to listen to those artists are in the original format that it was created, vinyl.
It’s a really cool experience, especially when you think about how music was recorded back then. Everything you hear is a real person or a real instrument. You have all these super talented musicians in the studio at the same time having a jam session and in the end you get a masterpiece.
Today’s music—in an era of digital production, mixing and mastering—creates perfect sounding tunes. That’s cool and all and an obvious progression for having better sounding music, but the imperfections in vinyl are the things that I appreciate.
The cracking when the needle runs through the grooves of an album and just the realness of the instruments and vocals make me remember what it is that I love about this art: it’s a big part of what I try to recreate with my music.”
—The Reasn
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