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Potato Sounds

Star Wars Vice: When did you first create an instrument of your own invention and why? 

Adi Gelbart:

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Did you say potatoes?
That’s very analogue. How does it work?
Aren’t you upset that you are surrounded by so many charlatan laptop musicians? They aren’t really musicians—their agenda is often mainly scene-related. They exploit the nerd-as-chick-magnet trend but it’s a lie. You actually know how to play. 
Who knows. I guess you’ll be accused of prog snobbery, and of being opposed to some fundamental emotional impetus made expressable thanks to punk’s DIY revolution. But is this division still relevant?
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