My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.

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.

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.

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience.

Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.

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.