superstar DJ, champagne-swilling bullshit so much. Yeah, I think that's right. And I think actually Berghain has probably got quite a lot to do with that. That's kind of their whole thing. For sure. It's fully their M.O. And I think all the other clubs take their lead from that. With the soundsystems as well, it's definitely got better since I've been here. Again, it's clubs taking the lead from Berghain, cuz they obviously pay a lot of attention to that side of it. It's really important, obviously. There's nothing more frustrating to me, and nothing more mind-blowing to me, than going and playing in so many places, anywhere in the world... Especially the kind of music we do. It's like a lot of it is all about having that clarity... Yeah, clarity and low-end pressure and all of that stuff. It's astounding to me to arrive to play in places that have, like, public address, two little speakers and a guitar amp for the bass. It's like, what do you expect here? Of course it sounds like shit. So is it mainly in Europe you're playing out at the moment? Yeah, for the most part. I think you played out in the States with 2562 though, I think? In Canada, recently we played for the Olympics, actually [laughs]. Oh, is that what it was? It was me, Martyn, and Dave [Huismans, a.k.a. 2562], and it was really quite funny. Yeah, that must've been. Was it some kind of like... They had that Cultural Olympiad connected to the Olympics. There's this space, I can't remember which of the universities, but they got this space called Code Live that's this sort of big black-box room with good sound and lights and whatever. Kind of a wack party. I mean, whatever, we had a good time, but it was playing for like 45 minutes. So was it just you three? I can't remember who else was playing that night. There were a couple other people as well. Did it shut down at like, two, or something? Yeah, exactly. It was really quite ridiculous. That's the other thing about Berlin. Your sense of time, in terms of clubs, is totally warped. You don't assume everything is gonna go 'til, like, nine in the morning. Yeah, completely. The whole thing is just shifted, where prime time is like when you're playing at six in the morning. Yeah, and you play anywhere else when you're on at six and there's no one there. Completely. So you just did a DJ mix and an album?
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Basically, I've been really, really far too busy pretty much the last six months. I did the mix in September. As soon as I finished the mix, we decided that the album was going to come out in March. I'd done about like 30 percent of it, so I had to finish all of that before Christmas. It was sorta ridiculous. Between the middle of September and