It’s a difficult album to manage, that’s for sure. You can never have enough time to prepare for one and you always want to change your mind. “I don’t think many people realise how many constraints there are behind these type of releases. There are so many constraints such as licensing and the length of the CD itself… Is that what put you off before? But when a club with a name and reputation like Fabric, who have this great repertoire of mixes and artists it makes my decision a bit easier!” So I’ve always avoided the idea of making one. It’s not the natural process that’s always inspired me when I work. “The whole idea behind them, to me, isn’t as creative as a DJ performance and certainly not as creative as an album. Haha, let’s talk mix CDs… Fabriclive 68 is your first! Why is that? Have mixes just never interested you? “I split my time coming back and forth between here in Berlin and Belfast.”ĭoes that keep you inspired, changing your scenarios?
It’s cold!”Īre you based out there now or have you just done a gig? His first ever mix CD, it seems it’s just the tip of forthcoming release iceberg he’s actually got three albums ready to roll this year! Read on for one of the deepest interviews we’ve ever run on this blog… We got the opportunity to talk to him about his Fabriclive 68 mix. Refusing to big himself up in any way, he’s as deep as his music… And when he’s in the mood he’ll chat with the same level of proliferation. Interviews with him are rarer than happy bouncer, yet he has more to say than most. Calibre… A producer, a songwriter, a painter, a thinker, a recovered drinker.įew people in drum & bass, or the wider world of electronic music for that matter, are as elusive and enigmatic.