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FIVE THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW
ABOUT MACC AND DGOHN
01. They share a love of kabbadi, a kind of team
wrestling game popular in South Asia.
02. Macc has a near-disturbing affection for pickled
products (except eggs, which he describes as
“just wrong”).
03. Despite having a mild phobia of wood, dgoHn
once fell in love with a tree trunk he met in a
forest. He was off his tits on acid at the time.
04. dgoHn loves scotch eggs: Macc hates them.
05. Macc and dgoHn haven’t made a tune together
for two years or so – most of the tracks on the
album are five years old.
Words George Mitton
I’d rather give things out for free really. I have different drum-based tunes when he heard scene. Both Macc and dgoHn have wide tastes,
done on occasion.” Paradox, Roni Size and Krust doing “all that including a love of jazz. Macc is particularly
wicked shit in 1996”. passionate, relating his views on music to Miles
The question of money over artistic integrity Davis’ groundbreaking album ‘Kind of Blue’.
comes up several times during our discussion. “I came up with a beat on the drums and recorded His opinions reveal a lot about his and dgoHn’s
Macc is, by his own admission, strongly it with one mic, then I made the tune around attitude to music.
opinionated on the matter. Talking generally that. I sent it to Paradox. That was pretty much
about musicians who put profit over creativity, my first drum & bass tune.” “Miles Davis was doing some next shit that no
he says: “If they’ve got kids to feed, and just want one had heard before,” says Macc. “He didn’t
to churn something out to make money then What did Paradox, the hugely experienced give a fuck if anyone said, what are you doing?
that’s fair enough, whoever it is. But I don’t see producer and label owner, make of the tune? “He He’s there sitting on the same chord for like 16
innovation coming from that. You have to look said it was shit!” Macc laughs. “But that if I sorted bars. People ask why is he doing that? Yeah, but it
outside to bring other things in. That’s where the out the sound quality, he’d release it. So I redid the sounds bad. Listen to it! That’s 50 years ago, and
music benefits. drums with a computer. That was how it started.” people are still talking about it!”
“A lot of people complain about drum & bass dgoHn is characteristically downbeat about Could we be saying the same about Macc and
going up its own arse,” he continues. “I remember how he began: “I was sitting in my room in my dgoHn in 50 years’ time?
reading a review of a sample CD in Sound On pants, getting stoned,” he says. “I didn’t really get
Sound magazine. It began ‘no genre disappeared involved until he [Macc] sent a load of my shit out
up its arse because of caning three drum breaks without me knowing about it. Then I started going
as quickly as drum & bass’. And they’ve got a out to the club night Technicality and handing
point, because you’re not looking outside, you’re out CDs now and again. Things got moving a
sampling the same things.” little bit. But I’m still at square one really. I’ve
never wanted to make a fuss or get heavily into it.
I wanted to know how Macc and dgoHn first got I just do what I do.”
into drum & bass, and began developing their
fiercely individual style. As a drummer (check While we’re chatting the conversation more than
out his live shows) Macc was experimenting with once strays to music outside the drum & bass
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