Nick Thayer
Infamous for the supremely controlled chaos of his cutting edge, window shattering, floor shaking, trouser dropping, dancefloor destroying bangers, Nick Thayer has perfected the art of slicing straight through the frontiers of stylistic orthodoxy. Cherry picking ingredients from the straight up to the ‘what the fuck’, dropping in a coctktail of free flow good times, perverse basslines, a wry smile and an orgy of original edits, he’s currently setting international bass bins ablaze with the pulsating energy of his new album Passenger. We caught up with him as he ditched his XXXX for the nuanced delights of a fine English ale for a quick chat. Tell us a little about your musical background I’ve always had music running through my veins. I started at about 4 years old with the
piano and the violin and continued through my school days, ducking in and out of a series of pretty shit rock bands in my teenage years. But it didn’t take me all that long to work out that records were a hell of a lot easier to deal with than drummers and would actually turn up to rehearsals when you want them to and so I progressed fairly rapidly into DJing. I’ve been at it now for about 12 years, getting into producing almost simultaneously and while it opened up a whole new world of electronic possibilities, I also brought a lot of my earlier influences into my production. I still listen to a lot of rock music – my ringtone is still Welcome to the Jungle – as well as a lot of hip hop and I think that does come through in my style. Whenever you write music or perform it, it is in many ways, a confluence of everything you’re listening to or feeling at the time and all of your experiences and inspirations along the way