Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of awful poverty going on around me while I lived in this bubble of middle-classness, but I was a child, and I only really started to (I hope) understand all of that fairly recently.

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something.

When I start working on an idea, I immediately record without judging it.

I met the guys at HeavyRoc through the drummer in St. Lucia, Nick Brown. He is Ben from The Knocks' cousin, and at the time we'd been doing some work together, but everything was still very much in the unsure developmental phase (even though I'd been in it for a year and a half). I told him that if he was going to play the music for anyone that he shouldn't say anything about it and should just play it and see if anyone says anything, and he did it one day at their studio and they loved it and got it touch.

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.

I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.