Paper Plane Pilot Blog

Be remarkable. Or go home.

February 4, 2010

Bob Lefsetz had a great post yesterday about albums vs singles. About how the old world of selling albums has given way to a new digital age of singles and ‘a la carte’ music consumption. In the old paradigm, artists sold a collection of songs because they could. Records, tapes and CDs all held X amount of music, and they had to give someone a certain amount of listening enjoyment for us to pay $10-$20 for the one song we really wanted. We didn’t mind spending $15 for the rest. To experiment. To find the one or two other tracks that moved us. The ones that weren’t supposed to be good.

But we didn’t have the choice we have today.

Paper Plane Pilot Interview (Outliered Reprint)

November 21, 2009

This interview was originally conducted for Outliered Music Magazine and published Friday, November 20, 2009.

There is no denying that these days art and technology not only collide, but frequently morph and spawn the most interesting music. Dustin started Paper Plane Pilot in 2006, originally writing his music on a little 25-key midi controller. Now he uses a Digital Audio Workstation to write electronic pop music with an Indie twist. Think Lily Allen meets New Order, the kind of sound you would happily listen to at home with your headphones on. In his home studio Dustin embraces the latest technology, he has even become a bit of an expert on the subject of DAWs. I talked to him about it, to find out his views on the marriage of music and technology.

What or who got you into music?

Hi, I'm Dustin. I create electronic indie pop music. Click here to learn more.