ROLLING STONE interviews Sekicho, creative genius behind Saidai...
RS: Now tell us, 'cho... if I may call you that.
S: Sure, stoners, fire away.
RS: What inspired you to donate your profits from the sale of this album to the Everything Development Company?
S: Well, I was trippin' with some Buddhist monks when the thought hit me: why should I use my musical genius for evil? There are hundreds of starving Perl nerds out there who need a server and a hot bowl of Top Ramen to spill on it, and I'll be damned if I let them go for one day without their connection to the informative motorway.
RS: Is that so?
S: Well, that, and I'm also in a good mood because the Marlins won the pennant.
RS: How did you make Saidai?
S: Mostly by drinking lots of Pepsi and fucking around with Jeskola Buzz until my ears began to ring like the White House switchboard on a MoveOn call-in spree. It's the infinite monkeys theorem in action, really. Get sekicho behind a powerful synthesizer package and let him screw around for long enough, and he'll eventually make a symphony.
RS: There are several other artists listed in the credits of your CD. "Joyride Rakucha?"
S: My imaginary girlfriend. She's a great pianist and she wears a sexy Chinese dress.
RS: And Utada Hikaru?
S: Uh, same thing, I guess.
RS: But you actually made all these songs yourself.
S: Well, sort of. The voices in my head helped a lot, especially with the vocals.
RS: ...But there are no vocals, aside from samples of people who clearly don't sound like you.
S: This interview is over.
