44DRUM&BASS//BREAKS//DUBSTEP SILKIE
You began producing at 15 while still at school- hows the journey been for you since then-crazy yeah?
Its exceeded my expecta- tions because I didn’t have any, I started producing to challenge my one time foe Harry Craze because he said garage was shit and I said drum and bass was for crackheads. We ended up becoming friends and mak- ing music together, since then I’ve been to weird and wonderful places playing music which is a blessing.
How did the whole Anti Social come about and who’s involved with this? Antisocial started as an idea for a record label for me to release my music on when I was 16, I did a little logo on Microsoft paint and though I was gonna start releasing my own music, this never materialised but I always had the name in my head. I was involved with a West London pirate station (React FM) that was showcasing grime and dubstep back in 2003, just through hanging around the station I started to meet like minded artists so we started linking up and Antiso- cial was born. As of now the people repping Antisocial are, myself, Quest, Jay 5ive, Razor Recta, Harry Craze and Mizz Beats.
Tell us about your album City Limits- what is the message behind this? The idea behind City Limits is the fact that before my music kicked off I never left London, so I’m basically saying I’ve broken out of the limits of my city.
Where has been the cra- ziest place/country you have played at? Belgrade was crazy, they don’t get many internationals so they go wild to every tune, it was refreshing.
Your now signed to Digi- tal Mystikz’ Mala’s Deep Medi Musik label- how was it when he first ap- proached you to join? It was at a time when I didn’t know where my music was going I was just making beats that Jay 5ive was playing on rinse, that was my only outlet at the time. Jay 5ive and Quest went to see Mala to get some beats while Quest was there he gave Mala a CD of our beats. A couple days later I got a phone call from Mala
saying how he could hear and album in there some- where and he would like to release my music. I obviously bit his hand off!So we got to work on laying the founda- tions of my first album.
How do you think your music has changed over the last few years? I think through playing at raves my music has got more clubby but I still have got the same influences so it still ends up sounding like me somehow.
What are your thoughts of the dubstep scene at the moment-as its com- pletely blown up?! I’m glad to see people I have known for up to 8years getting international recogni- tion. It makes me proud to have been involved in the scene and watched it grow from a group of maybe 30 producers and DJs vibesing in plastic people in 2002 to what is today.
If you could go into any decade in history for music, which one would it be and why?
70’s mainly because the music that was topping the charts was actually good music.
Are there any producers you are into right now? To be honest I don’t keep track of anyone, I’m too involved in what I’m doing. The only people I hear music for regularly is my boys.
What is the greatest les- son that life has taught you?
That life is a lesson and you graduate when you die.
If you were invisible for the day what would you get up to?! Theft!
Have you any New Years resolutions? Make it to the next.
What’s next for you in 2011 any exciting new projects coming up? City Limits Volume 2 drop- ping early next year.
Tabatha Taylor
Anti-Social Entertainment, Silkie is one of the hottest dubstep DJ’s around at the moment. Breaking from his own City Limits. Expect even bigger things from this guy in 2011.
As part of the Deep Medi camp, as well as being part of
THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | DECEMBER 2010
You can catch Silkie playing at The Outlook Reunion Party at The Coronet on Dec 18th.
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