wub wrote:
Got another - how do you feel your production style has evolved from your earlier beats, to 2008 release, to your output these days?
I think I'm a lot more confident now with what I'm doing and definitely feel less restricted in terms of the sounds I'm using. I still write with the emphasis on musicality, with the tightening of production happening after the music is written in most instances, though would say I do a lot more of this whilst writing now, as opposed to the 2007/2008 sound where both processes were a lot more separate! I think at the moment I'm trying to get out of repeating what I've done so far, so can see the next album being a lot more diverse in terms of sound.
soulkids wrote:fav movie(s) before y2k?
Used to love Pi, though always a sucker for Spinal Tap!
RINSE wrote:you do amazing stuff with vocal artists, such as anneka and indi kaur, who would you like to work with again or any future prospects in the pipeline?
going for a 2 in 1, abit cheeky, but whats your favourite remix done one one of your own songs?
Thanks man, I've definitely been very lucky to work with the vocalists I have. I always tend to get itchy feet, and want to work with new singers after a few tunes, so can't really say what I've got lined up. Would consider doing stuff with anyone I've worked with before, but obviously they've all got their own plans and depends if timing and things work out. Would definitely like to work with some new vocalists in the future to keep things fresh though.
harley wrote:as a fellow guitarist, what got you into dubstep and dubstep production in the first place? which came first?
I've been playing guitar for nearly 20 years (fuck me i'm getting old...) so that definitely came first. I dabbled with not very serious production at school, when the music teacher would excuse me and a mate from class so we could just fuck about on Cubase, sequencing Nirvana and Pantera songs.
I've tended to sway between playing and producing a fair bit, but guess it was when I went to uni around 2001 that I got more into making noises than strumming. I think I've hit a point where I'm happy with the amount of guitar I'm incorporating into tracks, but wish I had some time to play properly, rather than just picking it up to record and then leaving it sitting there until the next tune wants some guitar.
I was producing ambient, breaks, jungle, electronica etc for different projects, but remembering hearing dubstep properly for the first time in early 2006, and really loved what I heard, but wasn't until later in the year where I tried my first tunes, one of which is Willow which appeared on an early Scrumping release
ambinate wrote:how do you usually start writing a song? i've read in other interviews that you studied music and were playing guitar before you got started with production, so i'm just wondering if you like to come up with riffs, melodies, chord progressions, etc. before sitting down at your computer to get a tune going, or if you create a beat or something in your daw first and work from there.
big thanks for doing the q&a! huge fan here, can't wait to hear what you've got coming next.
There's definitely no set way of making tunes. Sometimes I'll start with a beat, but it's normally a chord sequence or a pad or something. I might hear an instrument which is new to me, and start playing around with multi samples and come up with a riff, other times, i write on the guitar and just sequence the notes in on a synth when I get fed up with how bad I am at playing in time these days! Glad you're rating the tunes too mate!
