TAYLOR DEUPREE: It’s set up the way it always was set up since I guess the very first show, like somehow I ended up doing the drums. So I have the drum machines, and Jason has a pile of synths and does like “melody” if there is any, but chords, noises. And then Dietrich was -- used to be basically the mixer and the 303. So, he’d sort of controlled the whole show, run the 303. Now he brings a couple of synths, the Waldorf Pulse and the Evolver that’s controlled by the Doepfer sequencer. So, he’s doing some synths too, but it was always like I’m the drums, Jason’s the noises, and Dietrich is the sort of controller of it.

DIETRICH SCHOENMANN: [INAUDIBLE]

TAYLOR DEUPREE: Yeah. I guess we tried that.

JASON SZOSTEK: In the middle, somewhere we tried switching it up a bit. Like just kind of tag team match.

TAYLOR DEUPREE: We do a little tag team.

JASON DONNELLY: And then you figured out what works.

JASON SZOSTEK: I’ve been on the drums.

JASON DONNELLY: Oh, okay.

JASON SZOSTEK: From my drum [INDISCERNIBLE] Turn up the 606 which I use for triggers but there’s usually something funky.

JASON DONNELLY: So you program the drums the most part?

TAYLOR DEUPREE: Yeah.

JASON DONNELLY: Are you a drummer? Do you have background in drumming or your just?

TAYLOR DEUPREE: I was a drummer when I started music. Sold my drum kit. Bought a Juno 106.

JASON DONNELLY: Nice. Why?

TAYLOR DEUPREE: It was 22 years ago.

JASON DONNELLY: Because you had to live in apartments for a while or something?

TAYLOR DEUPREE: No. I live with my parents. I mean I was 15. But, yeah. I wanted to do -- I wanted to be a one-man band.

JASON DONNELLY: Oh, yeah, yeah.

TAYLOR DEUPREE: I couldn’t do that with drums.

JASON SZOSTEK: [INDISCERNIBLE]

TAYLOR DEUPREE: Yeah, I tell you. The 106 I told my parents -- because my parents bought it for me. I was 15. I said, “Mom, Dad, this is the last synth I’ll ever need. It’s a synthesizer. You can synthesize anything.” You know, I thought it was the last piece of equipment I’d ever need in my entire life.

JASON DONNELLY: What was it? What did you say? Was it a Juno 106 and a 60?

TAYLOR DEUPREE: Juno 106 was my first.

JASON DONNELLY: What was the drum machine? TR? [INDISCERNIBLE]

TAYLOR DEUPREE: My first drum machine was the 505.

JASON DONNELLY: Oh, okay. 505.

TAYLOR DEUPREE: I got it a year later, something like that but.

JASON DONNELLY: So do you have tapes of all that stuff?

TAYLOR DEUPREE: Yeah. Actually when I was 15 in high school, my best friend also bought a synth at around the same time, and he’d come over every weekend and we’d start making songs, and like maybe a few months later whatever I bought a drum machine, a digital delay. You know, the gear started building up.

JASON DONNELLY: Piling up, yeah.

TAYLOR DEUPREE: And I have every tape ever made from October 22nd 1985, every song ever recorded with a date next to it on the cassette. We’d like have a boom box sitting in the room on record and then our synths playing -- synths playing through guitar amps because that’s what we had at the time. Everything is recorded and I still have everything. It’s wild.

JASON DONNELLY: That’s pretty cool. Yeah.

TAYLOR DEUPREE: I’d listen -- I mean it’s obviously not very good back then. But you can listen to the progression from like over the years and you know it starts to get.

JASON DONNELLY: Well, yeah. It’s great to have that reference point, you know, to --

TAYLOR DEUPREE: Yeah, I mean, I like listening to the old stuff. Because, I mean I wouldn’t play it for anybody but it’s memories for me. And then I met Jason like four, five years later and he was running a label and you know, sort of up at the next level and you know, stuff started getting a little more serious then.