I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.
Because there's so much stuff I don't release.
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.
I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.
I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer.
This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.
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.
I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.
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.
I'm basically a musician.
The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.
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.
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.
I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.
My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.
It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems.
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.
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.
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.