I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.
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.
This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.
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.
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 ...
I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.
I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.
I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.
I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.
I don't know how many records I'm selling.
I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.
But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment.
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.
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.
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.
Because there's so much stuff I don't release.
My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.
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.
