It reminds me of the early days MCing with the sound systems, back when there were no record company A&Rs and nobody worrying about sample clearance. "Me and Blaze listened to the tracks I'd been playing in my set and said, 'Right, if we want to make our own tunes, where do we take this?' So, we got a fat bassline going, added some 808 kicks… Man, it put a smile on my face. I grew up in the reggae and dub scene as a kid, and I suppose that bottom-end thing with trap immediately sparked my imagination. "I was out in the US quite a lot, listening to tons of trap, and that whole sound really appealed to me. As everybody knows, being a DJ in 2014 means you have to be a producer, too, so, as I was playing out all these tunes, I began to think about making some music of my own. "It all started when I was doing a few DJ gigs a couple of years ago. I'm not trying to distance myself from what I do with The Prodigy, but at the same time, I'm not sitting there in my bedroom thinking, 'OK, let's write a new Firestarter'. "Not really - there was nothing conscious about it. Were you consciously looking for a sound that was very different to The Prodigy? Did you feel you had to stamp your own identity on We Are Noize?
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