Occupation: Electronic Musician Birth: August 18, 1971
In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when….
There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks..
That's just globalization. It's got good sides as well. But scenes aren't allowed to develop on their own anymore. Everyone knows about everything..
If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that….
I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time..
You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard….
It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it..
I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person..
In Britain, it's good for me to be anonymous, because they just think it's a nobody. "Who is this guy?".
When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with i….
Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own..
I wanted to do gigs where you've just got mirrors on the stage, and then you light the crowd so they look at the stage and all they can see is themse….
I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians..
It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is..
Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last ….
It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting..
There's something wrong with my brain, it doesn't work properly! I can hear the same pitch in both ears, whereas for most people, if you listen to on….
I'm trying to work out more ways to involve my children, because the way I do stuff is so anti-kid, it's really boring. It's not fun. It is to me, bu….
You change all the time. Everything changes you..
You're brainwashed in the West with equal temperament, so it's quite hard for people who like following rules to get outside of that and see what you….
A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those..