Every morning I hear the alarm, it's like "BEEP BEEP BEEP" For second I'm like, "I could get used to that, just dream I'm in a techno club, or something. "
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.
In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
I connect with techno way more than house. I find it frustrating people call me a house artist because I think my music in general is more in the tradition of techno. House is celebratory and extroverted. I don't connect with that sentiment.
Techno is everything you haven't imagined yet
So my views on equality are pretty obvious. I mean I did play a highly complex lesbian techno DJ on TV, but I know it's not always easy to come out and tell the world where you stand.
The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
I listen to a lot of crazy stuff like pop, techno, rock, hip-hop, rap, baladas, bachata. . . my iPod is crazy. I like listening to a lot of stuff in different languages, so my music is always out there for me.
What I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies. In pop music, it's all about the techno beat to dance to in the club and the repetitiveness, whereas in rock music there is literally, like, balls-to-the-wall singing and playing. I love it.
There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.
I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.
I am associated with techno epics.
The BBC is very much in thrall to all this techno cross-fertilisation, in much the same way that print journalists are now encouraged to blog. To the point where there is an emerging breed of sub-editors who take perfectly well-written and punctuated original copy and rewrite it so that it resembles a text message written by a 14-year-old under the influence of Bacardi Breezers.
In some ways it's hard to see electronic music as a genre because the word "electronic" just refers to how it's made. Hip-hop is electronic music. Most reggae is electronic. Pop is electronic. House music, techno, all these sorts of ostensibly disparate genres are sort of being created with the same equipment.
I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.
I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.
I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.
Girls in New York look like giraffes. Long neck, long legs, tiny tits and ass. Girls from L. A rock over sized shades. And chill all day cause they already paid. Girls in Miami. . . string bikinis and bump techno by Dj Tiesto. Girls from Detroit like electro And dance all night till they break they neck yo.
I have a varied taste, I'll listen to anything. Well, not anything, no techno.
