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Interview Bastien Roque

“The tape machine doesn’t care about your feelings.”

Bastien Roque on analogue recording, studio discipline, and why perfection is boring.

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Ines Calder photographed in Glasgow Photo: Sarah Jenkins

French producer and multi-instrumentalist Bastien Roque refuses to use a computer screen in the live room.

Why commit everything to eight-track tape?

Bastien Roque: Because you have to decide. You can’t leave seven options open for the mix engineer six months later. You make a sound, you like it, you record it, you move forward.

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