I think that the creative process, especially in the beginning of making an album, I'm feeling very fragile, so to speak, because you are trying out so many different ideas, and if you are listening to it from the outside, it would sound horrible!

It's very easy to overproduce stuff and you can forget those first spontaneous ideas are often the best ideas.

I like to surprise the listener a little bit and also surprise myself when I write the music.

Sometimes, I actually end up doing three or four different versions of one song, and sometimes, those versions can be done very differently. They can be very laid back, downtempo, or sometimes the same song can be quite uptempo. But it is always the same melody and chord progressions.

It's pretty much the songs I write that dictate what vibe it should be and what singers it should be.

If the melodies are strong, it's much easier to see which way I can take them sound-wise.

Banging techno grooves from the one and only Ben Sims. Around the time of this was written he had that tribal/funky techno sound that rocked the dancefloor. He was a favorite then and still is now.