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It was so bizarre, so strange and I liked it a great deal. It was a difficult story to conceive, but I was strongly attracted to it because it was so off-the-wall. We ran the gamut of musical styles in early talks. The first thing everyone said was that it had to be really modern, hip and cool, all the words that are meaningless when you're talking about a specific project. I then realized that Cherry 2000 was a modern Western. I call the score the "3 M's", a mixture of Mozart, Morricone and Moroder. Cherry was the first time I had used electronics so strongly in the forefront of the acoustic instrumentation.
Starlog Interview November 1993
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