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six minutes of fame<br />
Your upcoming album doesn’t seem<br />
to have many danceable tracks. It’s<br />
quite upbeat yet more laidback. Every<br />
single track has more of a laidback<br />
feeling to it, is that right?<br />
Yes again that’s perception. It depends<br />
on where you’re coming from. If you<br />
only ever listen to techno and then you<br />
come to listen to my album, then my<br />
album really is kind of chill-out, sleeping<br />
music, then yeah, it’s really slow. But if<br />
you only ever listen to ambient music<br />
and then you listen to my album, then<br />
you’re like ‘oh my god, that’s dance<br />
music, that’s like hardcore dancing.’<br />
So it depends what you compare it to<br />
and what your background is when you<br />
come to the album. The people that<br />
come to listen to my music come from<br />
so many different places: some people<br />
come from this hiphop angle, some<br />
people are more like just students,<br />
some people are more reggae fans,<br />
some people come to me because<br />
they are into soul and some people<br />
are just really from the electronic side.<br />
So for each of them, their perception<br />
of what I do is very different and they<br />
would describe it in quite different ways<br />
to the point where you wouldn’t think<br />
they were talking about the same thing,<br />
but they are. It’s just their perception<br />
and that’s not bad – I mean music is<br />
subjective – as long as people enjoy<br />
it. It’s not that I don’t want to make<br />
people dance. I want to have music<br />
that I can play in a club and I think that<br />
I have achieved that to a certain extent.<br />
When I made my very first record 15<br />
years ago, I don’t think I could play<br />
any of it in a club. I don’t even want to<br />
listen to it again. It really depends on<br />
the individual person listening to the<br />
track, whether they feel it’s dancy for<br />
them.<br />
So you don’t listen to your own music?<br />
It’s very hard for any artist to listen<br />
to their own music because I think<br />
an artist is the fiercest critic of his<br />
own stuff. And I am very critical when<br />
I listen back to my own music and I<br />
think: ‘Aw, I shouldn’t have done that,<br />
I should’ve done that or I should’ve<br />
done a little bit more on that’ – or<br />
stuff like that. So when I listen to my<br />
very early music I just feel like there<br />
are lots of things I should have done<br />
better, but I just didn’t know. But you<br />
know what? Hey, we live and learn and<br />
that’s that. That was 15 years ago. I<br />
feel that with every album my music<br />
has gotten better. I’ve been able to<br />
achieve more things and I just feel<br />
happier with it. Can I sit back and listen<br />
to this album? Yeah I do. It’s not that I<br />
come home like after this interview and<br />
say: ‘Yeah I’m not gonna sit there and<br />
listen to this again because I’ve already<br />
listened to it 400 times.’ I made it, but<br />
sometimes I want to give it a brake, so<br />
I can come back and listen to it again<br />
with fresh ears. I don’t want to hate<br />
my own music. Sometimes if you listen<br />
to something too much, you can start<br />
to lose interest in it. When I sit back<br />
and listen to this, I do like it and I get<br />
a good feeling, but I feel as a whole<br />
piece of work it’s an improvement on<br />
the last album, The Soundcatcher. It’s<br />
an improvement on everything I’ve<br />
done before.<br />
Track by track?<br />
I can’t say that because there are<br />
tracks that I have released in the past<br />
that I still think are very good tracks.<br />
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