Q: Considering the fact you give real texture to your sounds, do you feel like a sculptor or an architect?
A: Good analogy. Like an architect, yes, because for me the drums are the foundations. Once you’ve got the foundations, each floor you add to the building is harder and harder. To add parts that can help, that might form part of the whole, is harder still; it’s like making a building that gets smaller the higher it goes.
DJ SHADOW, INTERVIEW BY PABLO GIL