"It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all."

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"It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all."

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"I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciously wanted to do something that was very different from Mars because we were all very close."

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