Occupation: Musician Birth: 1978
The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands..
I find the more I DJ, the more ideas I have and the more music I want to make..
I thought Everything Ecstatic was the happiest of them all - hence the "ecstatic" name. The whole concept behind that was total out-and-out euphoric ….
I feel like there's a young generation of producers who are taking inspiration from dubstep but trying to push it in other directions..
I've always explored things that people find a bit more freakish, like free jazz, and I'd gotten to a point where the live music I was making was rea….
When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it ….
I think the most important thing for me is putting out records that document ideas..
I realized there were no words or anything in my music, nothing that people would have to draw them in a little bit more..
Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God..
So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out..
My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz..
I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music..
Make a record in your bedroom on a cheap computer, play it on pirate radio, and that's what's it's all about. You can do something really exciting an….
It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good al….
With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages..
I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there... I wanted to make something that was for the night..
I find that people in American are often much more purist. If you're into hip-hop, you're totally into hip-hop - you wear the uniform, that's all you….
People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise..
If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it..
After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience..
When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnac….