LSD Magazine Issue 8 - Walls of Perception

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idea in your head that you knock straight out and how much do accidents and the unpredictable fit of a sample or a leadline or whatever take you off in a different direction I’m totally open to wherever the flow goes – 100%. So many tracks have started out as one thing and ended up as another or 2 other tracks or multiplied into bits How are you finding the 140 sound and how do you see it as a bridge between dubstep, breaks and jungle It’s been very exciting making tunes at that tempo..It’s a different skill to make jungle exciting and energetic at that speed and there’s a few people who are very good at that. As with anything though, you’ve got producers who are doing that, been doing it for a while and are putting out innovative records and then you’ve got a lot of others coming to join the party, My only concern with the 140 sound at the moment is that a fair whack of the people who are doing it are making it sound like breaks and I wish they would just STOP it. Yep – I’m gonna say it. Stop it – Stop making it sound like breaks – it’s doing my head in. All this really neat and tidy production and snare rolls. Stop it with your LFO’s – it’s jungle ;-)

Classic!!! So about the yoga - how much does it inform what you do musically and how much are they totally separate aspects of your life – I mean are you hitting the studio physically and spiritually centred They’re totally separate. I’d like to say that there was this deep connection between the two, but that would be lying. They’re very different parts of me though I suppose on some level they do complement each other well. I mean I’ve got a yoga mat in the studio and I cycle in every morning and I will sometimes do a bit of yoga but I usually tend to leave it to the evenings when I get home. It’s a massive part of my life, but you know, my music’s quite angry so I’m not sure I’d read too much into them both being important to me! Sitting in the studio all week and then playing out at the weekend – how important is it to have a right good knees up on the dancefloor to keep the vibeometer in check Hugely important. Most of the time when I’m playing out, I get into it and have a proper night out – few drinks – hang out and get right on it. Saying that though I don’t tend to go out much when I’m not Djing – spend enough of my life in nightclubs to push it too much more. But occasionally if there’s someone I want to


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