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An Outlet Of Spontaneity with Logan Kane (Thumpasaurus, Dolphin Hyperspace, Louis Cole)

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Logan Kane treats music as an outlet for fun that he takes seriously. He talks through electric-bass attack, MIDI saxophone doubled by a real player, Dolphin Hyperspace and Thumpasaurus, and how house parties turned into a Jimmy Fallon booking.

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2026-10-20

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https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovemusicmore/episodes/An-Outlet-Of-Spontaneity-with-Logan-Kane-Thumpasaurus--Dolphin-Hyperspace--Louis-Cole-e3qo4j3

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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1gl4N6l5MTxjPMgUcVUW1p

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-outlet-of-spontaneity-with-logan/id1567355195?i=1000797217871&uo=4

topicsDiscussed

Bass
Songwriting
Music production
Jazz
Funk
Touring
Collaboration
The music business
MIDI saxophone
Dolphin Hyperspace
Thumpasaurus

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Logan Kane says music has always been an outlet for fun, and that his mentors called the work serious fun. A formative stretch with [Thumpasaurus](https://lukefwalton.com/with/thumpasaurus/) was a month in Scotland performing a rock opera with clown actors, people who were serious about an art form built to make someone laugh. The bass sound people ask about is not maximum pluck. He came up on upright, taught himself electric, and thinks of each note as two steps: feel the string, then use its tension. Tendonitis in college pushed him toward staying relaxed and letting the arm’s weight do the work. Production started at twelve, on a laptop with GarageBand, alongside bands and a hardcore punk group. The MIDI saxophone is the producer signature he comes back to. He still writes with Logic’s fake saxophone, then has a real player double it, including his partner [Nicole McCabe](https://lukefwalton.com/with/nicole-mccabe/). Muting the fake part makes him miss it. That mix of an obviously fake sound and a great player is the same serious-fun split, and it sits next to old Casio patches he likes because they make him smile. Dolphin Hyperspace began in COVID as tracks sent back and forth before they had met. Their first album includes “Wormie,” built from a free saxophone take she sent. Live, the quantized drums in the track are the click. A headphone-jack stereo feed into the snake replaced a USB-C interface that kept unplugging. In San Diego the laptop fell off the stage and the tracks kept going. Visuals are hired and mostly left alone. Millie Cohen designed the Dolphin Hyperspace logo. Ben runs the live visuals for both that band and Thumpasaurus, sings backups, and once bought a mini fridge on Amazon in front of a crowd and then canceled the order. Thumpasaurus does not run tracks or a click. At the Echo, Pendleton Ward drew live. Ward had already emailed about a new Adult Swim show after seeing them open at the Lodge Room. They had about two months, he asked for more of the same music, and he did not ask them to change it. Kane’s advice from that booking is to play the show even when the set is still developing. Strategy matters, and skipping the opening slot would have meant no email. Thumpasaurus started in house parties, more folk and covers, then got stranger, sold out the Troubadour the first time they played it, and picked up an agent from that. A song that had been out for years later filled TikTok with pet videos. Zoos used it. Jimmy Fallon called it his song of the summer, knocked on the dressing-room door, and they were in New York two weeks later. The rowdiest rooms have been north of Manchester and in Scotland, where a chant of “here we fucking go” is a compliment and runs at its own tempo. In London, around one in the morning, they switched instruments so each of them could stage dive. He writes everything on keyboard in one pass, records bass last, and gives students parts that are too hard so the weakness is the assignment. Harmony, for him, is Wayne Shorter’s singable pentatonics over movement that does not need a key center, plus pop-punk and contemporary classical music. One triad over any of the twelve bass notes is the experiment he likes. On Love Music Why he says music is a lifelong project that still makes him want to play every day, fleeting in a way that feels more meaningful than something figurative. The catalog he points people to is solo music under his name, Dolphin Hyperspace with McCabe, Outside Worlds with Henry Solomon, and Thumpasaurus. He is one of the writers on the [Lipstick Makeup edit](https://lukefwalton.com/songs/lipstick-makeup-scoobert-doobert-edit/).

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An outlet for fun
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205
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Music is fun he takes seriously. Mentors called that serious fun. A month of clown rock opera in Scotland stuck.
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Grab the string, then release it
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328
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The electric sound is two steps, feel the tension and use it, after tendonitis in college. Upright came first. Electric is self-taught.
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Last chair, then bass
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470
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Public-school violin, last chair of about forty, then a switch to bass. He still runs major scales on upright every day.
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Fake saxophone, real player
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655
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Logic’s built-in sax, doubled by a great player, including Nicole McCabe. Muting the fake part is what he misses.
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The headphone jack is the playback rig
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836
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Dolphin Hyperspace uses the drums in the track instead of a click. Stereo out of the headphone jack. The laptop fell off a San Diego stage and the set kept playing.
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A mini fridge, then cancel
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1180
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Ben runs live visuals and backup vocals. He bought a mini fridge on Amazon mid-show and canceled it. Pendleton Ward drew live at the Echo.
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The opening slot was the email
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1470
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Ward wrote after the Lodge Room. About two months for the Adult Swim score. His note was more of that, not a rewrite.
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Song of the summer
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1640
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A years-old Thumpasaurus song filled pet videos, then zoos, then Jimmy Fallon’s song of the summer and a two-week call to New York.
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Here we fucking go
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1760
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The UK, especially north of Manchester and Scotland, is the rowdy market. London at 1 a.m. was the stage dive, one player at a time.
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Bass last
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2142
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One keyboard pass before the idea turns stupid. Bass is learned afterward, including parts written to be too hard.

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For me, music has always at the end of the day been an outlet for fun. A lot of my mentors coming up would talk about serious fun, about how this is fun but it's the most serious thing.
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My concept for how I get the sound on electric has to do with there being multiple steps to every note. I'm grabbing and feeling every note. There's two steps: feel it, and then use the tension to get the note, as opposed to just plucking through it.
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It's all about trying not to resist gravity. It's really about staying relaxed and using what's already there on the instrument.
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I loved whenever I would mute the fake one. I would really miss it. That duality for me has just become so important, of an objectively bad sounding fake saxophone mixed with one of the best players in the world.
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To this day we don't run a click track. We just have the drums in the track. Those are quantized.
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Just go out and play your music, even if you're still developing it. If we had decided not to take that opening show because of some strategy, that would have never happened.
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Jimmy Fallon posted that it was his song of the summer. Can you be in New York in two weeks to do the show?
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When I write, I just like to throw paint at the wall. Writing is an exercise in getting one step ahead of that moment where you say, I don't like this anymore.
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faq

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How does Logan Kane get his electric bass sound?
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He treats each note as two steps. He grabs the string, feels the tension, and lets that tension make the attack, instead of plucking through it. Upright bass came first, with lessons. Electric is self-taught. Tendonitis in college is why he stays relaxed and uses the weight of his arm.
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What is the MIDI saxophone on Logan Kane's records?
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He writes with the fake saxophone built into Logic, a habit from GarageBand jazz-band sketches, then has a real player double the line. He misses the fake part when it is muted. Nicole McCabe, his partner in Dolphin Hyperspace, is one of the players. He will also transcribe a real solo and double it with the patch.
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How did Thumpasaurus end up on Jimmy Fallon?
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The band played every small Los Angeles gig, including college house parties, sold out the Troubadour the first time they played it, and got an agent from that. A song that had already been out later spread through pet videos on TikTok. Zoos used it. Fallon called it his song of the summer, and they were asked to be in New York in two weeks.
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Why does Logan Kane love music?
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He calls it a lifelong project he can chip away at. It gave him a reason to wake up and try to get better, and he still wants to play every day. He likes that it is fleeting, closer to an abstract way of saying something than to a picture of a specific thing.

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Guest

Logan Kane

Thumpasaurus, Dolphin Hyperspace, Louis Cole

Bassist and multi-instrumentalist (Thumpasaurus, Dolphin Hyperspace). Love Music More on MIDI saxophones, bass technique, and why he plays.

Profiles: https://logankane.bandcamp.com/

Also on this site: Thumpasaurus · Nicole McCabe · Lipstick Makeup (Scoobert Doobert Edit)

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