Thad McKrakenA look back on a Seattle record label's debut year -- and all of the awesome shit that came with it.
Troy Micheau"There are things I've seen and experienced in this world – things they don't talk about in too many books. I'm not even talking about psychedelics, I'm talking about true experience, on this plane of existence..." -- Steve Ellison of Flying Lotus
Vee Hua 華婷婷“‘The Wheel’ was written about The Wheel of Fortune Tarot card, so when we were thinking of a concept for the video, [band member] Rafael [Fauria] suggested that we literally reproduce the tarot card in video form.” -- Honey Owens
"In a self-reflexive case of life truly imitating art, I conceptualized an ode to the often solitary, sacrificial existence of devoting one’s every waking moment towards a craft." - ELY
"I truly believe that whatever an individual gets out of a particular piece of art is far greater than anything the artist could have intended." -- Quinn George
"Interconnectivity… seems persistently ingrained in Substrata: everything flows and happens in a rather organic manner." -- Rafael Anton Irisarri
“… It feels more us when things get unhinged and chaotic.” -- Angus Andrew
"What I feel is: everyone is fed up but most people are terrified of losing whatever little commodity they have conquered by publicly admitting it." -- Ikonoklasta