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.
I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.
OPN is completely off the grid. Its like the slime underneath techno and other synth-oriented music.
Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.
It's a bit of a bold statement, but the Prodigy should be seen as an important cultural band.
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.
I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was just totally intrigued, because everything he played I'd never heard before and everything he did I'd never seen before. I was so blown away by what he did.
Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.
I love hip-hop, R&B, techno and Latin.
Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.
Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.
Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.
I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal.
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
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 am associated with techno epics.
I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.
I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.
The reason I like Steve Aoki is because I can trace my love of electronic music all the way back to when I was listening to not just new wave but to YMO [Yellow Magic Orchestra] which, to me, was the ultimate Japanese band and launched synth electronic music.
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.
I love futurist music.
I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.
