dncn
by mikrosopht. photo by mark winkley.
what city is nearest your present location
Manchester, England
how does it compare to your hometown? if it is your hometown, do you plan to live abroad
No plans to live abroad at the moment, but Montreal sounds good. I'd have to re-learn french though.
do you listen to a broad range of musics
As far as electronic music goes I am fairly out of touch, I only really hear things that my more vigilant friends play to me, and its been a long time since i bought any records. I like things like Nick Drake, John Martyn and Jeff Buckley, although i havent really worked out how this relates to the music i make yet. Recent things i like are guys like Akufen and SCSI9. Melodic's Pedro was amazing when i played a show with him recently, and Hippocamp.net founder BSR has turned me on to a guy named Radix. Great chip style stuff. The mainstay of what i heart is made by friends who constantly keep me on my toes, stuff like iermoc www.iermoc.net and DRGS www.phush.net really raises the bar.
have you ever gotten very sick
I get really sick nearly every weekend. I am not renowned for sobriety shall we say.
how old do you hope to live to be
Havent thought that far ahead of myself, I'll concentrate on what might be just round the corner to start with.
what is/are your favorite food(s)
Despite the fact that I am a reasonable cook, 24 hour garage sandwiches, despite not being very nice, seem to be a mainstay in my appaling dietery habits.
on average, how long do you sleep at night
depends on the day, not much at weekends and probly 8 hours or so in the week, for someone who doesnt have a 9-5, i get up pretty early, almost always before 10am
do you write music in the dark or the day
Mostly during the day, I find i have more concentration in the mornings.
how many days a week do you work
On my music almost every day, its not uncommon to write the bulk of 3 or 4 different tracks in one day.
what is your favorite animal species
i just saw about half an hour of finding nemo, and now i got to see the rest, so fish at the minute.
tap, bottled, well or rain water
Tap. goes with my cordial.
who do you respect
My parents, for putting up with my skintness to make music and try to do something with it. Seems to be coming together pretty nicely for me at the moment.
do you read about economics/politics?
I keep in touch with news and current affairs, bus journeys between rochdale and manchester give me plenty of newspaper reading time.
if so, what good/bad do you see happening
democracy being a joke, especially in england. For the most part, politicians are as bad as each other, so motivation to vote is wearing thin. I would go beauty pagent style on this one and wish for world peace.
how do you feel when you finish a song
depends on the track, i tend to leave things a while before going back to the finished track, if istill like it then, there's not many feelings to rival it.
do you play your music live, dj, vj, ej, etc
I started playing live about a year ago, and have only just now started getting it to sound right, although at a recent gig, failing software meant i was just Dj'ing MP3's with a few plugins, felt like something of a charlatan at that one, but the show must go on i suppose, i consider the visuals a big aspect of live electronic music, its pretty dull to just see a guy bobbing about behind a laptop. I should maybe get some dancers or something a little more showlike, it wouldnt fit with my stuff, but thats what would make it fun. Might even do some dancing myself, although that would be dutch courage dependent!
airplane, train, car, bike, skateboard or feet
On my budget?? well I am terrible at skating so feet i guess.
what is/are your favorite activit(y/ies)
Making music, going out and getting 'altered', and the things that boys can do to girls!
who would you make love to in a second
Depends what day it is.
if you could live on the moon, would you ?
Not at the moment, I dont have a winter jacket, and i dont think my computer would take it.
has anything weird ever happened to you
Constantly, I think myself lucky for most of them. Remixing Jello (aka Skam's ace 'Bola') seemed weird at the time, I am only just getting used to the fact that some people like my music (seemingly) as much as I do. That and getting my first physical EP out, 'Crayons EP' on 'phush consumables' of manchester ( www.phush.net ), funding by remixing indy band 'elbow' for their 'fallen angel' single.
Probably the weirdest was forming a band on a monday, to spend friday and saturday supporting groovy rockers 'The Music' at brixton and Manchester academies. We went down well and split up on sunday.
anything else
yeah, I hope i dont sound arrogant, I'm actually quite a nice fellow you know. 'I am 1980's EP' is a freebie i just finsihed on ace web label www.hippocamp.net , although i kind of threw it together, so i probably wont like it in a week or so.
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