![]() It almost completely stopped the interesting bit of my career from happening. But maybe doing that early stood me in good stead, and I don’t feel uncomfortable doing that again now, or again in two years’ time.ĭo you have some advice, when it comes to signing to a record label? You have to step back and disappoint all the people who think you’re going to carry on doing that forever. The first lesson was that once you’ve done something, it’s really hard to get away from it. Because, obviously, the record label wanted to make money, so they’re pushing this thing. Yeah, it was a friend at university that played it to the label.Īnd from there on? It was like they dubbed you the wunderkind of trance or prog or whatever. It wasn’t planned, but then you’re quite quickly sucked into this tunnel. ![]() And I didn’t see that 4/4 music was going to be where I went with my life at all. Yeah, at the start, I was making all kinds of things: techno, electronica, and trying to make drum & bass as well. So, you made it specifically for your mate’s night? Really, the music I was making was another thing, but then this thing happened so I went along with it. It wasn’t planned this was what I was going to do. Someone played it to a record label - I hadn’t even sent the demo out - and then it just sort of happened. But he was never going to organize something like that. It wasn’t really something I’d taken very seriously, I just made a dance record because my mate had a techno night and wanted to do a CD. I was, I think, 19 when the first one happened. You were pretty young when you put out your first records? That Sunday, I ditched all my rock CDs and moved on. ![]() Then, a physics teacher at school gave me Orbital and stuff like that, ‘90s drum & bass and that sort of thing. I didn’t know any electronic music at all, I thought it was for idiots because of Radio 1’s dance music coverage. I was playing three sounds at once, sinewaves and then you had noise as well. It was an accident, I had an 8-bit computer and I was a nerd so I was programming it, and then making music with it seemed quite interesting. I don’t know if it would be very good on the piano. It was just that, him playing classical music, and I was really quite old before I even got a radio or a tape recorder, a teenager before I had my first tape player.Īnd he had the sheets of all the Kraftwerk stuff, that’s why you got into electronic music later on? It was weird, he just played the piano but we didn’t have a very good stereo. My dad played the piano, we didn’t really have very much music in the house. So, James, what were your first musical memories in your childhood? I could go on now and do a really long introduction about his music and art, about idiosyncrasy in music, but his name is James Holden and he runs a label called Border Community, he makes very nice electronic music that makes you want to dance. To my right is a fine gentleman who lives in London, so it wasn’t too far for him to come here.
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