8. Various Artists1-7

Jonnie [Wilkes] from Optimo came to an Art School gig once [in Glasgow] with a big bag of Burial Mix records and that was my first introduction to Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound, and the sound associated with that. The bass and the sub, and how minimal it was, it was a really physical experience hearing that loud on a big PA. That music doesn’t really cut across when you’re listening to it on headphones or a laptop. It’s a club sound. Discovering Chain Reaction came after that when I delved deeper into it. A whole load of records from them are big for me; the Shinichi Atobe ones and Fluxion’s records. My friend Guy, who I mentioned earlier about the Nosferatu record, put me onto them. That whole spacial, glacial, dub-heavy sound, I could just listen to it forever.