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" A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence. "
Time
Music
Go
" At some stage in the process, most mainstream pop records are being manipulated and possibly completely rebuilt on a computer, with a visual program. "
Most
Stage
Some
" Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place. "
Sound
Me
Design
" If all the elements are in place, you should get 80 percent of what a song has to offer no matter how you hear it, whether on headphones or on the radio. "
You
Radio
Place
" I never really approach collaborations as kind of normal things where they're arranged and they happen because you've arranged them. I've always been like this, I just have friends I hang out with, and while we're hanging out, if music happens then it happens. "
You
Kind
Always
" In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way. "
Me
Feel
Way
" I think Japanese audiences are much more attentive than a London audience. "
London
Think
Audience
" I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people. "
Music
Better
Other
" I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument. "
You
Learning
Play
" It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill. "
Day
Busy
Age
" I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really. "
Feelings
America
Me
" I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline. "
Follow
Way
Songwriting
" I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before. "
Sounds
Heard
Before
" I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki. "
Trying
Like
Listening
" My mum especially listens to music in a way that is incredibly feelings-based. There's virtually no snobbery about what sounds are in it, she just wants to hear a song and that is quite refreshing. "
Hear
She
Song
" The commercialization of dubstep isn't something I'm part of. "
Something
Part
Commercialization
" The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level. "
Level
More
Up
" We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect. "
Live
Time
Space
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