With a lot of the music I really love, like Miles Davis, you can go back and see the processes and the stages.

It's such a normal thing for a dance producer to make music and try it out in the club, but that was relatively new to me. I wanted to make a good album that felt like it had a point.

I worked on the tracks so they sounded as good as possible in there... I wanted to make something that was for the night.

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.

When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

I find the more I DJ, the more ideas I have and the more music I want to make.

So many people I was at school with have all ended up being musicians and putting records out.