What U Want
“The club tracks at that time weren’t really inspiring me. So, for this, I went a back to my roots again to the rockier, punk stuff.
“I started with live drums. Obviously I put some electronic drums under it, but the main thing is real drums. Then I had these cool samples that I chopped; they were just banging. And then I put a Massive synth on that. I loved it. The sounds in some of the dubstep records from Skream and people after were some of the only things exciting to me.
“The main ‘Womp womp womp’ was Massive, and the answering ‘Diddle diddle iddle’ was the [Teenage Engineering] OP-1. I had to layer it like crazy, as it was so thin.
“I had like, probably five layers of the same sequence. And I remember I was so annoyed because it was really hard to mix.”
XTC
“I made this the night before my main stage gig at EDC, and I was so stressed. Like, ‘Fuck, I have this big gig and nothing that excites me to play for it’.
“I needed a big intro, that no one knew. So,
