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USUAL QUESTIONS
Original Sin answers our questions this time…
WHAT’S YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY? pleased with how the intro and chaotic at the best of times. was driving me at the time) had to
I have a few but I can’t tell which breakdown turned out! drive back with the windows right
came first, listening to 80s music WHAT CAN’T YOU LIVE WITHOUT? down in winter because I couldn’t
in the living room of my parent’s WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE My Blackberry stop being sick. The icy air seemed
house, being at the beach with my YOU’VE EVER HAD? to help although Jaydan was having
brother and grandmother. Try before buy! WHAT’S THE FIRST THING YOU trouble feeling the steering wheel!
DO WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE
WHAT WERE YOU LIKE IN SCHOOL? WHO’S YOUR ALL-TIME HERO & MORNING? WHAT’S THE MOST MEMORABLE
Good at the start, not so good by WHY? Check my Blackberry, then I put CROWD YOU’VE PLAYED TO?
the end but I got through my exams Sorry to be boring but I don’t really the CD of my work on from the I’ve played to a lot of good crowds
so I suppose okay as far as they were have a hero, but I will say anyone day before while I take a shower. and plenty bad ones too but the
concerned. who’s stood up and made something best one so far (that I remember
of themselves, I find that to be WHAT WAS THE FIRST RECORD anyway) was Global Gathering B2B
WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE WHEN something I look up to a lot. YOU BOUGHT? with Taxman, just because of the
YOU GREW UP? Some horrible bouncy techno volume of people it was massive.
Famous. WHAT’S YOUR VICE? record from Bass Generator
Partying, poker, Cheese (not the Records in Newcastle, think it was WHAT WAS THE LAST NON-DRUM &
WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT THAT eating kind) and champagne. on a label called Twisted Vinyl. BASS ALBUM YOU BOUGHT?
WOULD SURPRISE PEOPLE? Groove Armada – Sound Boy
Ironing, and I’m pretty good at WHO WAS YOUR FIRST LOVE? WHO OR WHAT MAKES YOU Rock.
laying carpet on ceilings now too. A girl from Tynemouth, I was LAUGH?
17/18. Will Ferrell, Family Guy, WHO WOULD BE PLAYING AT YOUR
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ARRESTED? Phonejacker, my girl Maria Jose. IDEAL NIGHT OUT?
Not since I was 16. WHAT DO YOU SPEND YOUR Beastie Boys, Chemical Brothers,
MONEY ON? WHAT’S THE BEST PIECE OF Leftfield.
WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF? Trainers, jeans, T-shirts, food, EQUIPMENT YOU’VE EVER USED?
Flying. I know, poor choice of toys (for the house or studio). A frequency analyzer, it’s eyes for WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO CO-
career! your ears! PRODUCE WITH?
WHAT’S THE WORST ITEM OF Goldie, Fresh, Sub Focus,
WHAT’S BEEN YOUR WORST JOB? CLOTHING YOU’VE EVER WORN? WHAT WAS THE BEST SET YOU’VE Pendulum, Dillinja, Daft Punk
Selling anything and everything I think it has to have been the red EVER HEARD? The Prodigy Bukem. But I’m
over the phone to random jeans that I owned when I was like Bad Company at Newcastle Uni not so hot on working with other
companies for some small time 13... the shame! when I was 18 but it might have been people, I’ve become a bit too
marketing outfit. Grim! I did a few the drugs!! That was back in the day selfish in my ways I think.
years of that kind of stuff to fund WHAT’S THE COOLEST THING YOU when producers had intro tunes
my first studio which I ended up OWN? with their names in, I was always a WHAT TUNE WOULD YOU LIKE TO
in £10,000 debt for anyway, so it My studio! It’s my place of worship! sucker for that and they had a great REMIX?
seems it didn’t work. intro. I’m more about what tunes ‘Timeless’, I asked him, I’m not
WHAT WAS YOUR LAST BIG TREAT people play than how they mixed so allowed and quite right too! Some
WHAT ARE YOU OBSESSED WITH? FOR YOURSELF? long as it’s clean and tidy. things just shouldn’t be remixed
Right now, the pursuit of success Four pairs of the same trainers but
and, more importantly, happiness. in different colours. HAVE YOU GOT ANY TRAVEL WHERE DO YOU SURF ON THE
HORROR STORIES? INTERNET?
WHAT DO YOU HATE RIGHT NOW? IF YOU HAD A TARDIS, WHAT TIME Not exactly horror stories, but I MySpace, facebook, dv247.com
People with poor personal hygiene WOULD YOU GO TO? did take too many sleeping pills on and YouTube. I refuse point blank
in clubs and overuse of that bloody 2001 and I’d do some things a plane back from LA once. I fell to read anything about myself in
autotune effect on every r&b tune differently that’s a secret but then asleep during takeoff and I didn’t the internet, I’ve seen what it can
you hear. I don’t think I would really as I wake up until we landed in London do to people.
might not end up sitting here and when I did I had the cake I
WHAT’S THE BEST RECORD YOU’VE writing this! Confusing! vaguely remember being handed FINALLY, YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO
MADE? by an air hostess mid flight stuck PLUG WHAT YOU’RE UP TO. GO!
The best one I have had released WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE ABOUT to my face and shirt! And I had to Watch out for my ‘Dr Feelsgood
I would say is ‘Overfiend’ but YOURSELF IF YOU COULD? cancel Fabric one night because EP’ and my forthcoming debut
that’s just because I’m secretly well I’d be more organised, my life is I was so ill. Me and Jaydan (who album on Playaz later in the year.
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