You’d play breakbeat, Michael Jackson and all the funk classics – the hip hop mixed in with the disco stuff. And that’s what the art of DJing originally is at core. It’s only recently that it’s gotten so specialised within styles.
But you know, people have only really heard about me in the last 3 or 4 years, but for the 12 years before that I was deep, deep in training. Learning, honing, practising, fucking up, having mental breakdowns - the lot, to the point that now I feel totally confident I find it interesting now when I find out who’s in what I do because of those foundations. played my records or who’s trying to change And when you look around, producers who their sound to incorporate a bit of dubstep have hit songs are getting thrown up in front or whatever. Because while I think that what of massive audiences when they’ve only I do is a wacky evolution of what’s always physically been DJing for a year or so. I feel been – some people see it as completely for them – because they must be shitting revolutionary. I’ve got a show coming up on themselves. And we’ve reached this point Radio 1 with mixes by some amazing dudes. where someone wrote about me recently – I’ve got a mix by Carl Cox on my show. Carl Cox ‘Jaguar Skills – what a joker – he just plays is down with what I’m doing – fucking hell!! everybody else’s tunes’ And David Guetta played my tune. You’re joking Seriously. David Guetta played my tune!! People like Eddie Halliwell, Michael Woods and a bunch of these progressive house DJ’s are playing my tunes, and it does make me stop and think – the guys who you think will be really set in their ways are the ones on the lookout for new elements and new grooves to keep changing up what they do.
Talk about fundamentally missing the point of DJing in this producer led age Know what I mean??? But with all that training – all those years of graft, I feel like I’m ready for warfare and I do sometimes feel like I can take anyone. Maybe I can’t – maybe that’s big headed, but if I can put myself in that headspace – it takes on a certain power