I don&#39;t care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up?

Life doesn&#39;t give you all the practice races you need.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It&#39;s happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone&#39;s stopped liking their music.

I have a rough idea when I walk into a studio though.

The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That&#39;s the only way that you&#39;re ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

There&#39;s a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It&#39;s a new approach to it.

Tom Jenkinson

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