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Band Started From Studio Experiment
- Ryan Olson built Poliça by recruiting friends from other projects and quickly realized a studio project could become a live band.
- Chaney brought an old song with keyboard and vocals, and Olson processed her live take into two different synth parts from the same performance.
Value Of Playing Over Programming
- Olson often captures performance spontaneity instead of programming, preferring loose, played-out parts for digital effects.
- The two synths on 'Smug' are from the same take but processed differently to create arpeggiated and ambient textures.
Pioneer EFX Shaped Poliça Sound
- Olson routed an 808 Ableton shaker patch through a Pioneer EFX-1000 to create the song's smears and pickups.
- He credits watching DJ Shadow use the older EFX-500 as the moment the effect pedal blew his mind and shaped his processing approach.