Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.
Dub has been a big influence in terms of production. It's inspired so many people and so much music - in terms of music where mixing desk was the instrument. Central to that is the echo chamber, and I think there's a little bit of a romantic thing there.
I want to do more R&B, more reggae, everything.
You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.
The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.
I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.
I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.
I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.
Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring.
Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.
My set can get really screamo and aggressive, or it can be ambient and Enya-esque.
Dubstep has been big in the UK for years. I'm fine with hearing a dubstep drop in any song.
I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.
I've been asked a lot about the state of dubstep in America, and everyone wants me to say something controversial, but I have no negative feelings toward anything, really.
I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.
Skrillex is dope. He plays everything. It's amazing what he does.
Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.
Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.
I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.
If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.
I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.
When dubstep came out, I loved it.
Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.
