Missrepresent played the interview of Break on www.koollondon.co.uk between 7pm and 9pm of the 2nd November 2016…
First off, thanks for doing this interview! I feel quite honored, and I actually want to ask you straight off, how was the Symmetry night last night?
Yeh no worries, congrats on the baby. Yeh it was really good down there. We were a little bit unsure before because the event was on a Thursday night but it went really well in the end. The turnout was wicked, the crowd was sick – they really knew their stuff, and yeh all the DJs and MCs were on point, it was great music all night, so I’m really chuffed how it went down.
That’s def what you want. What’s in your DJ bag right now that you drew for last night?
I definitely played the new album, the “10 years of Symmetry” I got most of those in. I played the Strictly Entertainment VIP coming on Playaz and my Dillinja Hard Noize Remix… that went down really well. There was a few other sneaky bits but I’ve been sworn to secrecy on the track titles, but yeh the set went down nice. I really enjoyed it.
So how has your summer been? I know you’re busy as I watch the work you do on music lectures and computer music, and what people don’t realise is that producing good music sometimes takes time… so, have you managed to enjoy any of our British summer this year and actually get in the garden – or are you still perfecting a studio tan?
Yeh I’ve been trying my best to fight that studio tan, and I’ve moved my studio back home so I can step out the back to the garden and try and soak up some rays… while I’m doing phone calls and stuff.. but it still doesn’t really do the job. There are always emails… and studio work to do so yeh there is certainly more vitamins to charge up on. I haven’t really had a proper holiday in a few years so I’m hoping 2017 it might happen, but yeh it never really comes together there is always work.
I def feel your pain there I hate my email inbox! Can you go back to when you were growing up, how music came into your life and how that progressed into drum and bass? (could you talk about your brass instruments for those that may not know, and yes, i’m a trained e flat tenor horn player 😉
Oh that’s cool… brass is hard I didn’t even get to grade 3 on that, but I did have a go at French Horn, Trumpet, Trombone. I mainly played the piano from about 8 years old and then the drums from about 12 / 13 and messed around in a few bands and played some guitar and bass. But yeh when one of my mates showed me a sampler and he was chopping up the amen break – seeing that was pretty much the beginning of the end. We started making tracks and slowly learnt what was going on, but there was no internet or youtube tutorials so there was a lot of trial and error and it was a slow curve pretty much.
So following on from that… do you think it helps producing music if you have had some musical training?
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