Bonobo

“Yeah, I'd definitely love to do some scores someday. I particularly love Hans Zimmer's work.”

“Erykah Badu sang with me at a sold out show in San Francisco which was great.”

“I'm just a music fan.”

“I listen to records I made years ago and it takes me back to that time, so why not actually put a bit of the life that you're living at the time into the music?”

“I think I've always had this thing where it's music first.”

“I come from a film background as I studied film at art school.”

“That's when things get exciting - when you're outside the comfort zone, trying different things.”

“I used to go to Glastonbury when I was young back in the '90s, back when you could jump the fence.”

“I was in bands when I was younger, and that's a lot of the reason I started working solo - it was always a compromise.”

“When you're traveling, it's easy to ignore your situation. But once the dust settles, it catches up with you.”

“I'm not keen on terms like 'lounge' or 'chill out.'”

“I really enjoy DJing but I couldn't DJ exclusively. I couldn't produce exclusively either, that would involve spending a lot of time in isolation. But l do enjoy performing the music l create to people. It's a release for me.”

“The process of making music is very therapeutic; it's late at night and I'm wearing headphones a lot of the time, so it becomes a way of zoning out and engaging with my thoughts. It's a solitary environment and process.”

“My parents and two sisters were great musicians but my family's approach to music was always way more academic than mine. They were virtuoso players. But they were all impressed that I could sit down at a piano and find a melody. We had a different approach, we had mutual envy.”

“Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.”

“Albums are just a punctuation of music. I don't usually start out with a manifesto. Your tastes change with the process of the album. I just make music and put it out when there's enough to call it an album.”

“As a DJ you spend a lot of time on your own, in airports, away from friends, away from your home. That can have a big impact.”

“As a club DJ, it's more about the room and the whole immersive experience of the club. In a live show, the focus is on the stage. It's more of a performance, more of a spectacle.”

“There were a lot of labels in the '90s that were fashionable for a time and then crashed.”

“I often use a return channel to get some shape out of the bass. It's a good way to split the frequencies of the bass so that the sub bass is clean and in mono and the higher end of the bass sound can be filtered off - have it on an audio channel and that's where you can use effects.”