everything matters (when it comes to you) (commentary)

Right, so here we are

Hello beautiful people

This is San, San Holo

Welcome to the "album1" commentary album

I don't even know where to start, um

This album has been such a beautiful chapter of my life

Both the writing and touring side of it

I thought it'd be cool to tell you guys a little bit more about the songs, you know

About what they mean to me, and maybe a little bit about the process behind it

As you might know, I wrote most of the album at an Airbnb

In Echo Park, LA, no fancy studio

Or expensive equipment

Just a laptop, some old tape machine and a bunch of guitars

Often times surrounded by beautiful, genuine people I am happy to call my friends

Let's start with the first song, of course

"everything matters (when it comes to you)"

With "album1" I really wanted to bring back the guitar in my music

I studied guitar, I used to play guitar in bands

I was a guitar teacher for many years

But when I started producing music as San Holo

I kind of stopped playing because I was just so inspired by the entire electronic music world

And instead of a guitar I grabbed a keyboard or a drum machine to express myself

However I really started to miss the sound and vibe of guitars

And one night on tour I was messing around on my guitar

Because I was feeling kind of weird

You know how that goes

At some point I played this thing

I don't know why but it felt like something special that I had to record

So I recorded

And then it kinda evolved into

And then I stopped recording and I went on with life

And I forgot I recorded it

And I think almost a year later, when I started writing "album1" I rediscovered it

And realised this was the intro for my album

There's a little guitar harmony, later in the song

That I was pretty excited about when I wrote it

This is guitar one

And then together with the second guitar, it sounds like

One, two, three, four

Something like that

About the lyrics

I sampled the line "everything matters (when it comes to you)" from an old song my friend Appleby made

I actually put a part of this song in there as well

It's kind of like a thank you to him

But yeah, "everything matters" is just a song for someone you really care about

"everything matters (when it comes to you)"