I often credit the Loma Prieta earthquake, which happened in California in 1989 when I was 10 years old, as a huge influence. It was the first time I experienced bass and it was a sound that I associated with being overpowered. It was this WHOOSH and the sound of the Earth changing. I think it’s significant because a human’s ability to broadcast sound with a certain level of sub-bass is really new within the last fifty years. Homo sapiens had never been able to experience bass at will, maybe in a big concert hall with a fucking timpani drummer or something, but not pulverizing bass lines. I think that we respond to that with a mixture of pleasure and fear. There’s a sense of being overwhelmed or overpowered. In the past you could only get that with a hurricane or earthquake.