D. James
D. James
interesting sticks done
It's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously - you get more of an honest reaction to what you've done.
lying kids should-have
I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.
successful america underdog
In America, it's quite admirable if someone's done well or been successful at whatever it is. Whereas in Britain, they're not. They only like it when you're the underdog.
track erratic switching
I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.
interesting people projects
It's really funny, because if you make up words, then people project their own meanings onto it, which I find interesting.
sound arrogant favourite
It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.
cheer track people
You can't rely on the fact that people know you. At Glastonbury, when they all knew I was DJing, everyone was cheering even though they'd never heard some of the tracks I was playing before.
people holy-grail different
The holy grail for a music fan is to hear music from another planet, which has not been influenced by us whatsoever. Or, even better, from lots of different planets. The closest we got to that was before the Internet, when people didn't know of each other's existence. Now, that doesn't really happen.
brain the-end-of-the-day forget
Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.
order brain deals
When you get new rules that work, you're changing the physiology of your brain. And then your brain has to reconfigure itself in order to deal with it.
fun children kids
I'm trying to work out more ways to involve my children, because the way I do stuff is so anti-kid, it's really boring. It's not fun. It is to me, but not to them, because they don't even know what I'm doing.
real the-end-of-the-day sound
It always sounds more right to me when it's detuned. When it's right in tune, it's like there's something slightly off. But at the end of the day, it's all about frequencies and what they do to you. That's the real core.
play piano work-out
I actually prefer it if I don't know what I'm supposed to do. If you've got an equal temperament piano keyboard, then you know what you're going to get if you play certain chords. But I actually like it if you don't know where the notes are, because then you do it intuitively. You're working out a new language, basically. New rules.
balance dizzy problem
I've got a weird balance problem as a human being, like I'm dizzy, and it's something to do with that.