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I'm basically a musician.
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Musician
Basically
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I don't know how many records I'm selling.
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Records
Selling
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I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.
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Absolutely
Pleased
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Because there's so much stuff I don't release.
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Release
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I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.
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Purposes
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I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
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Rough
Studio
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I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.
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Ninja
Never Fan Been
Tune
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The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
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Bland
Rendering
More And More
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I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.
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Suffocated
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This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.
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Electronics
Gigs
Pure
Current
Round
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I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.
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Roots
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I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.
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Complement
Existing
Generate
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I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.
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Best Way
Racing
Territory
Best People Way
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Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.
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Periods
Life Music My Life
Brief
Dangerously
Edge
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It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.
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Genuine
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I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
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Melodies
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I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
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Appeals
Me End Always
Tracks
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I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
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Music Your Important
Challenge
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I don't know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you're doing that, you're setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically.
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Approach
Best Way
Setting
Best Yourself Way
One-Dimensional
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The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.
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Territory
Signs
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There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.
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Approach
New Approach
Drum
Record
Rhythms
Similar
Tracks
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But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.
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Bedroom
Communicate
Feedback
Track
Always Doing Never
Pretend
Gig
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Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.
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Music Me Anything
Constantly
Music Me Know
Head
Hear
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
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Just One
Pushing
Wicked
Direction
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The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky.
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Bike
Freaky
Making Up
Routes
Journeys
Main
Main Thing
Someplace
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Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.
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Bass
Programming
Yeah
Drum
First Thing
Shaped
Somehow
The First Thing
Translated
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Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music.
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Approach
Changed
Dry
Sound
Music Your People
Direction
Leave
Liking
Radically
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Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.
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Chords
Sentences
Basic
Direction
Evaporates
Strictly
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