Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. # RIP6MIX
Obviously like many of us, I love music, and I hate music sometimes.
About 20 years ago, I had a dream in which somebody sang one of the most beautiful melodies I'd ever heard, and gave it to me, and warned me not to forget it. Of course, I did forget it by the time I had got out of bed. Now as precaution, my phone is overloaded with half sung melodies.
I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.
I wish I could do something else, I wish I was an amazing painter or a brain surgeon or something, but it's just what it's been.
I think the two sides to me are the same as two sides to anybody. In relation to the link between doing the label and being a DJ, it goes back to the thing of necessity. It's the only way I feel I can do something creative that's going to satisfy me.
You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.
I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.
If you can't frighten yourself, I don't think you can excite other people. And I like being frightened.
One thing I always found hard to stomach over the past few years is that being a DJ or musician is a career opportunity.
Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.
I like the notion of guiding, because I can offer advice through my own experiences, tastes and beliefs. But it's all in that individual's hands.
Break eggs to make omlettes, never be complacent or think 'I've got a career here, I've got to keep it going'.
Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it.
I don't know what genre I've fallen into, I don't know where it is, and that's really exciting.
