Eric Lau on imperfection.
I was put on to Eric Lau in early 2010. This Producer/DJ from London comes super clean on the beats (hiphop.soul.neo-soul). His production style is characterized by heavy drums, often unrecognizable samples, and a mixture of live sequenced instrumentation. In this video he says, “when you use a computer to program stuff, everything is completey straight, but what’s really beautiful to me, is when you get the geometry right, but it’s more hand drawn, so you get imperfection, which makes it more real….” I must say, I used to heavily rely on the computer to make the beat perfect, but ideas of “imperfection” give the music a more natural feel, which to me is what it should be about.
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