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Win Butler

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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The Importance of Immediacy in Music

I think as bands have gotten louder and louder with you know bigger amps and louder stuff. It's harder to control that sound in a space. Whereas in the Motown days people played pretty quietly even on James Brown Records. If you listen it's like delicate. The drummer is barely planned. Yeah. So it's a different animal. We always have recorded tape pretty much in the last six months is the first time where I like working on a computer. I'm like oh this shit actually sounds just as good to my ear.

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