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" Because there's so much stuff I don't release. "
Stuff
Release
Much
" Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged. "
Me
Music
Think
" 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. "
You
Audience
Always
" But I don't really listen to much be-bop at all at the moment. "
Much
Listen
Moment
" 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. "
People
Music
Go
" I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it. "
Up
Wanted
Really
" I don't know how many records I'm selling. "
Selling
Know
Many
" 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. "
Doing
Know
Race
" I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head. "
Important
Challenge
Music
" I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though. "
Studio
Idea
Rough
" I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me. "
Me
Only
Like
" I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots. "
Feeling
Roots
My Own
" I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones. "
Make
Music
Existing
" I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely. "
Absolutely
Work
Always
" I'm basically a musician. "
Basically
Musician
" I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes. "
Different
Purposes
Music
" I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me. "
Nothing
People
Interested
" I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. "
Sound
Play
Kind
" I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh. "
Forget
People
Think
" It's important for that to exist in a society that doesn't present you with any genuine problems. "
Society
Problems
Important
" I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune. "
Tune
Ninja
Never
" I was starting to feel really suffocated, using the sequencer. "
Feel
Using
Really
" Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. "
Music
Thought
Time
" My history is really playing live - not writing or recording. "
Playing
Live
History
" 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. "
Think
Three
Start
" 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. "
End
Bike
You
" The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music. "
More
Ideas
Bland
" 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. "
Trying
You
Mind
" 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. "
Approach
Live
New
" This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics. "
Electronics
Round
Pure
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