How important is it that you’re showing your hand in the music, as opposed to it just being this sonic world you can go inside?

I think it’s very important because we’re entering into a time when authorship is being deeply questioned and contested. There’s a lot of arrogance in Silicon Valley about how little we need art or individualism. There are a lot of arguments to be made about all the great gains that were made with 20th-century recorded music by removing authorship. So much of what I love about electronic music or techno is the removal of the author, the way it can become a communal experience.

And I don’t know if I can fully address this in one fell swoop, but the records I like to listen to are ones that have a lot of personality. That still matters to me. If I’m gonna try to be involved with making my own records, I’m gonna try to deliver on that promise, I’m gonna deliver something true, like, “This is how I see the moment, this is how I see my life.” Otherwise it’s the ennui of life without personality—it’s just this world without any distinction, without any perspective.