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With the elusive producer Friend Within, set to unveil bass heavy single Renegade. Nardene Scott had a chat with the mystery man to find out more about the musc. Tell us a bit about the upcoming single Renegade. It probably originally surfaced about a year ago. The original track, I think it was the first 12-inch I ever bought in like 1995 and I’ve still got it; it’s probably one of my favourite tracks of all time. I was just looking for something to do a little update of and that was one that just jumped out at me and it’s just kind of gone from there. I’m surprised no one’s really said ‘Oh I can’t believe you’ve done that to a classic.’ You were with Monki in the Red Bull studios a few months ago. Did you expect your collab with Yasmin and Karma Kid Feeling So Special to take off the way that it did? I was really pleased with it when we did it, so I did think that it could be really popular so I wasn’t surprised in that sense, but it’s always great to hear people playing it. I saw a video of Bondax playing it at Reading Festival set and the crowd just went crazy. What have you got coming up next? I’m trying to work on original stuff, I have been really busy with remixes, I think I did about 14 or something ridiculous in the space of a few months, so really trying to look about for individual things and in between, gigging. I’ve got loads of gigs around the UK and slowly branching out into Europe, so just trying to balance it all. @FriendWithin releases Renegade 13 October through Method Records.