Yes, believe it or not, Mafro is still being hailed as a talent to watch out for, even though he has quite clearly arrived and is doing the business. Starting with Radio 1 he has already picked up dance legend Pete Tong’s ‘Essential New Tune’ for his debut single Shaken, a track that Tong’s fellow Radio 1 cool-cat Jaguar cited as a ‘Dancefloor Moment’. Then he helped rack up over a million Spotify plays with TSHA on the track Giving Up, before notching up his first soundtrack for Channel 4’s series I Hate You. Enough? Not quite. There’s the small matter of co-producing Diplo’s single Let You Go and reworking the Sean Paul and Dua Lipa track No Lie for the Baywatch movie. Indeed there’s so much to talk about that Mafro tackles 16 questions instead of 15. Well, why not?
1 How did you start out in music production in the first place?
“I’ve been playing music since I was really young but spent most of my early years playing guitar in bands. After university – I studied
