You started out as the drum and bass producer Spor, and over the last couple of years you’ve transitioned into Feed Me. Where does the inspiration for your current sound come from? Any preference as to what genre you like producing in?
Not really. Through drum and bass I met probably some of the best producers still to this day, worldwide. I think drum and bass, due to its nature, is fast tempo. It requires you to be a lot more efficient in terms of what frequencies you’re using and the time you get to use them for. I came from a musical perspective, I was in a school orchestra, I played classical instruments like the piano and guitar. Drum and bass, to me, was always more rhythmic and engineering orientated. When we used to go out to the clubs, my friends [and I] saw that it was more about how it sounded rather than the notes it was playing. I think that was during the time when the software Crimson was coming through. It was becoming more and more viable to make music in your bedroom without having a hired studio and I found it very difficult coming into drum and bass. I was a joke because I made my music at home, in my bedroom and it was impossible to get taken seriously. If I lied to people and told them I hired a studio they’d believe me. If I told them I made the track in my bedroom they’d laugh at it and it would make no difference; I could play them the same piece of music five times. That would piss me off. But, carving out a reputation in drum and bass and after touring for so many years, eventually I wanted to incorporate more musical content into my sound because drum and bass is, because of its tempo, quite restric- tive. I thought as Feed Me I can use more notes, I can do arpeggios, I can do proper chord progressions and I could move away from 4/4 formulaic structure. I wanted to do a project where I didn’t need to worry about any of these things so immediately it was just purely for fun.
You’ve just released your excellent EP “Death By Robot.” Can we expect a full-length album from you anytime soon?
I didn’t want to call it an EP, it was supposed to be a single, but if you put more than two tracks on iTunes as an artist they make you call it an EP and then your fans are like
‘your first EP was 8 tunes, why is your new EP 2 tunes… or 3 tunes?’ It’s frustrating; but the full album is probably, I guess, like 95% done. I was supposed to finish before I left, to come here to talk to you, and play these shows and hang out with these beautiful people (pauses and says “Beautiful People” referencing Marilyn Manson) but I didn’t quite finish so I need a couple more days of work. So, when everyone else is in Miami being idiots, which is mainly why I didn’t wanna go there, I’m gonna be at home finishing my album off. We also have a puppet that we’re working on for some video work and various other things. I also have a second album as well under a different name, which I’m going to finish. If everything goes well this year I’m going to release three albums under three different aliases, which is what I want to do. I feel like this year I ac- tually have the preparation and time, so that’s the idea… but yeah, hopefully soon, early summer.
What are your other aliases?
My other aliases are Seven Stitch, which is probably my melancholy outlet because despite making really bouncy, happy electro, I’m actually a horrible, dark, twisted, dis- gusting individual who just wants to die in a pit, so I use this outlet to make sad music. I also have a Spor album, which is drum and bass, which is something obviously still very close to my heart. But yeah, one is a more of a classical music outlet, something I can kind of relax to and the other one is something that’s just my history so both should be fun.