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For me, I really like listening to music really loud.

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Erykah Badu sang with me at a sold out show in San Francisco which was great.

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I think on every album, I keep experimenting to go where I haven't been before.

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If you're in a current mind state where you know what you want from the track, you can't just leave it and…

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Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.

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If there was just music without any genres, then people would look at a lot of things afresh, and approach a record…

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Albums are a journey, and I even find that as a DJ, with less than two hours, I can barely communicate anything.…

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Towards the end of touring 'The North Borders' I had a lot of personal stuff going on - family members who had…

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The way I make music is often to kind of treat instrumentation like I would a sample.

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When you're traveling, it's easy to ignore your situation. But once the dust settles, it catches up with you.

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When I started touring and coming to San Francisco, especially, I felt the most at home in America, other than in New…

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In the very beginning, I kind of had this hip-hop, cut-and-paste approach to music. The first record, especially, was from looking at…

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PaulStretch is a really out-there, standalone audio stretching engine. So with 'Second Sun,' I took a portion of what I was working…

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I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy's and…

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I didn't really think my music was good enough to be heard by anyone. I had some friends who were releasing records…

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There was a time I was around those fan boats that go across swamps, and the fans had a really rich, multi-textural…

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There's a progressive arc in the sound of 'Black Sands' creation. The title track was the first piece in place. Then the…

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When I made my first record, I was very naive, and I didn't know much about production, and I had a very…

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I do really long DJ sets - I play for five or six hours sometimes - but the live shows are a…

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Fifty percent of what I've worked on is never going to get heard, but I think the important thing is just working.

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There's this kind of dialogue between African music and dance music, especially Moroccan stuff, because it's kind of ceremonial and has built-in…

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For me, the energy when I'm DJ'ing should be about the dance floor and not about the person performing.

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Offsetting the sample position every time the sample hits will create more random movement in short samples.

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I record a lot of stuff on my phone when I'm out and about and regularly use the recordings in my tracks.

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I was in bands when I was younger, and that's a lot of the reason I started working solo - it was…

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When I was young, I wanted to take a year off from college and come to India but never got a chance.

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I definitely come from that background of the more subtle shifts, the long build... rather than the quick short-attention span dynamic.

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My taste is developing constantly, and it goes in whatever direction it wants to go in - the music follows.

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I make music that I consider to be very personal. I think the main aspect is to make it as human as…

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I often have an idea and it starts splintering off into a whole lot of directions; I'm interested in exploring every single…

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I used to go to Glastonbury when I was young back in the '90s, back when you could jump the fence.

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It's hard for me to use any electronic sounds at all, really. I'm always just layering acoustic sounds.

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It's one of those things that always astounds me, when I make a record and it connects with people.

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I respond to creativity well when I'm outside and reacting to experiences, not inside a studio.

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With places like Spotify and YouTube broadcasting these days, you get a track made in San Francisco broadcasting in London moments later,…

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As a DJ you spend a lot of time on your own, in airports, away from friends, away from your home. That…

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When I was 16 I was in a neo hardcore band called Finger Charge. I played the drums with my shirt off.

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There were a lot of labels in the '90s that were fashionable for a time and then crashed.

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When DJing works and the room is with you then it's one of the most enjoyable things you can do.

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If something is done really well then the question of live vs. DJ vs. instruments vs. drum machines doesn't matter - it's…

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