6. The Technical Space Composer’s CrewCanaxis 5

A lot of the records I’ve chosen are from the late 60s – it’s such an amazing time in history. Both this, by Holger Czukay [and Ralf Dammers] and A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley are from 1969 are albums I discovered through David Toop’s Ocean of Sound compilation when I lived in England from 1997 to 1999. Basically, I came to England as an Erasmus student, in Winchester, then I fell in love with someone and decided to move to Liverpool and then to Manchester after I’d left Dijon – I was very young and my life was a bit of a mess. But then I started to listen to Gilles Peterson’s programmes and got the David Toop compilation, both of which really opened my mind. Canaxis samples Vietnamese music in a really, really beautiful way – it was super-influential on me deciding to sample other types of music. It was my first introduction to sampling non-Western music or music that is not easily identifiable in general.