TIM GANE: I'm Tim Gane from Stereolab, and I originally am from London.

I -- The Nord Lead is just [SOUNDS LIKE] pure lead for life. We don't -- I don't, you know, I've had arguments with like Andy the drummer and stuff. He thinks they’re fine to use live, and I really don't like them. To me, they're just really the basic minimum of sound, you know, that we could put up with because we used them in the past two tours and it was so depressing to sort of hear them. I mean I think what they're good at is making sounds and doing kind of everything. But when you -- for instance, when you, to have an organ sound is I mean they're pretty bad I think and I had to tweak them a lot and still was like oh, so it's like -- For me, it's like what gives you the character when you play a chord is what makes chords sound good, and you just have a Jaguar, it's offensive. It's a basic Vox Jaguar which is not fantastic, he would by any means, and it just instantly sounds like a great sound, you know, when you're playing live. It's got a kind of inner energy to it, you know, whereas I find the Nords, as good as they are I think of the type, lifeless, you know, and need to be constantly tweaked and make up on them and constantly buffeted up to get the sound. But it's not their fault. They tried to do something which is you'll find to be more complex I think.

Well, no. We brought a lot -- I mean we brought the Vox Jaguar, which is not the one we used on the record. We used a Continental on the record, but the Jaguar I a bit more hardy, and the Clavinet that we used, we have an original Hohner Clavinet. We brought that with us and you'll hear that tonight, and the Rhodes that we used. We brought that with us and we have the Moog Voyager, which we used all over the record, and that's brought with us, and Laetitia plays a Little Phatty, which is interestingly enough the baby version of that. So yeah, we pretty much used what we played on the record in general.

Yes. I mean he's basically -- I mean Andy's always had a VCS3 Synthi, which is my old-time favorite synthesizer, so this is the one, you know, I really wanted. We did start to get a lot of stuff from Doepfer and Analog Solutions, Analog Systems I think it was called. They looked kind of similar. We've got those in the studio. We use them from time to time. My favorite piece of gear is an EMS 2000, a vocoder, and I'm not sure if John's got one. I'm not sure who got it first. Me or I saw him, but maybe I'll ask him tonight.