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The band's 27-date tour begins in July in Europe and will reach the US in September before ending in Japan. It follows a more limited 2010 tour, all much more than was originally planned for the group, named by Yorke -- whose father was a nuclear physicist -- after a 1953 speech by President Dwight Eisenhower. "It was quite fun anyway because it was no biggie," he said. "We had one gig planned at the end of it. If it wasn't going to work out, then fine. But I was just amazed at how sort of slinky the grooves got." And could those slinky grooves be evolving into another standalone project for the always-exploring singer-songwriter? "No. I'm deliberately not talking about any new ideas right now because I think all our heads would collectively go pop," Yorke said, taking bites from a banana. "No believe me, I'm restraining the urge to like go into studio and try to do some more stuff. I'm very happy to start things and not finish them, forever and ever." Yorke, in a grey t-shirt, blue jeans and wearing a black trucker hat with MIDI emblazoned on it, said sunny Los Angeles has kept him creatively inspired. He's a fan of the city's burgeoning experimental hip-hop and electronic beat scene, specifically 29-year-old producer and rapper Flying Lotus. "I've grown up with a sense of sort of snobbery to someone who just stands on a stage with one interface and a laptop. That's it?! But he completely flipped my mind about that," Yorke said. "Because actually watching what he was doing and everything, it was like, OK, now I get it. It turned me on to that idea much more. The next generation will come up. And all the rules that you've made for yourself, they don't give a (expletive)." Yorke says the band will be playing cuts from "Amok," "The Eraser" songs and some B-sides on tour. The laptop figures heavily into the band's sound, but they'll rely on live instruments as much as possible at the shows. Flea said he's been just as impressed as fans by the quality of the assembled musicians. "This might not ever happen again. There's just this window," Flea said. "Every time we play, it just feels really important." ___ Online: http://atomsforpeace.info/
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