find it hard to explain the reasons why
I make the different sorts of music that
make I'm consciously trying not to think
about it because when you hear a track
that you love it's not like a thought
process quite you love it just love it I
decided to move to Brixton because it
just feels familiar everyone for my
school used to come here and weekends to
go Ravens drum basin in Mass was the
first place I went out and like heard
club music
like for real I sighed listening to jazz
and soul going to hip hop as the samples
that was that were borrowed from that
music and then into electronic music
because the production side of it and
eventually it kind of ended up in pub
music first person I ever saw using a PC
was my daddy - he played it live I went
to a gig in Paris and I'd already like
fallen in love with his album dead
ringer and which was the thing that made
me want to start producing in the first
place so yeah he was the guy I've never
actually learnt how to produce an MPC
it's the easiest way to do electronic
music light but I much prefer taking my
time on something on a computer
which I never see is that for live even
when it comes to performing my own stuff
just because it I don't like the way
that is it we were standing on stage
with my laptop she could be doing
anything I want to try and make some
instrument with the company maybe a kite
we make the MPC that kind of makes
things a bit more human in terms of
performance I have some ideas about how
to do it but it's just a lot of my head
of them so I hadn't considered
performing way and stuff like for a
while because after make more my own
music first the majority of the stuff
that I'm working on now is the XX stuff
and we're just about to start recording
hopefully we'll get it done in time to
be asked to festivals next year so
that's the most fun as with everything
with the XX try and keep it simple so I
just use logic and a space echo and a
bunch of preamps and occasionally some
Cassio's most of the drum sounds that I
make it samples like layered like ten
different samples from ten different
funk tracks or something but I don't be
like just taking something putting it
putting it in as is just like a bunch of
disco records which just sound
incredible I've never been able to
achieve that like quality of just like
the sound of a snare or something that's
why I aspire to do
we'll come back often kind of been pie a
little bit more we left when we were 17
missed out on that chunk of our lives
when everybody else was playing and so
club music is definitely had an
influence on the next record
I've kind of had some dream
collaborations in the past year the ones
that I've enjoyed the moments of like
realization that I'm making something
good where the Florence one the other
one and by the end of the album to go on
when I'm doing remix I usually try and
think of it as like just something a
track that I love and working around
that rather than thinking about the
artist too much because gills have such
a big deal in my life before I even
started making music
my parents are fading as I was growing
up and one of my art teachers in
secondary school and reintroduced me to
his stuff so it was a real honor to be
asked to do that there were a few tracks
on there that I'd taken from his earlier
recordings from 70s and he wasn't too
sure about putting them on something
that was about being new I wanted it to
be kind of part about him half about me
since it was kind of like the
collaboration and I wanted to show his
influence from his earlier work on me
just why I put them in and then he was
my own
so many highlights it's completely
unbelievable like when I stop to think
about everything this happened and how
lucky I am it's kind of hard to believe
one of the highlights was playing at
Shepherds Bush Empire because its venue
that we will grow up with and it's
beautiful and and the gig just went
perfectly and it's just one of those
things where everything comes together
and it was amazing and playing at
Coachella as well last year with the Sun
setting and Beyonce and jay-z and the
front singing along and 50,000 people
all enjoying your music it was madness I
never thought I would enjoy standing up
in front of 5,000 people and then all
being focused on me and that actually
with wit I don't think about it and I
just go out there and do it
best time ever
okay