11. James BlakeCMYK

James Blake was my first encounter with someone connecting the voice and song structure with the electronic music I was so curious about. Suddenly here was a guy with a voice that he’s treating and integrating with stuff that I thought worked really well – it’s interesting, passionate and soulful. He’s a great singer. Bringing together the two ideas – I was very taken with it. At that time, I never thought that’d be something I’d do with my voice, I didn’t even know how the fuck he did it. I was more interested in the fact that he was performing in that way. It wasn’t until I decided to make more straightforward electronic music that I thought back to that stuff and how I could make what I do integrate in that way.