I caught you at Dimensions in September, what a great festival!! Did you get a chance to check out any other DJ’s? Yeah, it was really cool, the venue was amazing. I stayed for 3 days so saw loads of different folk, the stuff on at the Mungos area was probably my favourite. Like most festivals I missed a lot of the acts I'd planned to see but definitely wanna go back next year… It was good to see Carl Craig's 69 thing and I enjoyed the Hessle Showcase. You are resident DJ at Highlife in Glasgow, what’s the club scene like there? For the size of city, I can't imagine a better scene. It's known as a party town but folk are knowledgable with it. Glasgow doesn't follow trends too much and tends to do it's own thing. There's so many people doing so many cool things across all music, arts, fashion etc. When you are on tour, do you get a chance to hang out in the cities? Yeah, I've not got the most hectic touring schedule so usually we get a chance to stay a couple of days and see the city. How many cities/ countries have you played in? Any favourites? I've played quite a few this year… I played Portugal twice this year and going back next week for a couple of gigs. it's definitely a favourite, the people are amazing. Will you be touring as much next year? I hope so! It's not up to me but if we continue to get booked we'll definitely be up for it. What do you do to chill out? Make soup. You’ve recently reworked Atakoru Manu’s ‘Bebo Ne Komo’ for Autonomous Africa, tell me more about this project. How did you get involved? Twitch from Optimo got in touch to ask me to do it. He had sent me the other tracks on the EP a year or so before but didn't know what to do with them. I guess he eventually came up with the idea to release it as a four track and give the proceeds to Medicins Sans Frontier. I didn't have much time but knocked up an edit – the original is so amazing, I just wanted to do it justice... What other plans do you have for 2013? I’m gearing up for my next set of releases which are under the banner Rituals. The first two will be released by Mule Musiq at the end of November and the next will be on Kompakt Speicher in December. I'm a massive fan of both labels so excited to be releasing via them. I've just done a mix to support the releases which will hopefully surface at some point. I've also got a few remixes coming out and a few more gigs – playing Panorama Bar in December which is one I’m particularly excited about. That’s good news! Finally an insight into your taste... Name an artist/group from the past, present and future who you respect and who’s music you enjoy... Past – Fela Kuti it would have been his Birthday today. Present – Matias Aguayo – always been a massive influence in my production and djing Future – check out DrumTalk – his forthcomin release on Soundway is a banger. Thanks Brian! Where can we catch you next? 9/11 - Tallin, Estonia and 14/12 - Panorama Bar, Berlin
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