1.Growing Up
When I was able to sit up, my parents would sit me in front of the speakers. I could sit there for hours just listening to classical music like a zombie baby… haven’t changed much.
2.Inspirations
Filmmakers, visual artists, theatre, dance – people like Luc Besson, Luis BuЦuel, Parajanov, the Wachowskis, Tom Tykwer, Mira Nair, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and so many more.
3.Your Crew
I have always been involved in music. I left school at 17 and went busking around Europe; I came back and started forming bands as my own agent, set up tours in the UK pub scene, then starting making records and signed to CBS then Polydor Records. I started my own label and eventually got to a project that made sense to me, which was Juno Reactor – all the other bands I created were a learning curve to this, and took ages to find.
4.The Music You Make And Play
I only play Juno Reactor music, either originals or remixes. We are releasing a new remix album in April in Japan, The Golden Sun… Remixed. [It’ll hit] the rest of the world in June.
5.Music, Right Here, Right Now
Most of the time I feel the music scene is a load of bollocks – nostalgic recycled crap that has been made as an instrument of torture – and then along comes a sound, a band, a singer that blows all of this away and make it all worthwhile. The hardest part for a musician today, especially a young musician, is to find a way to make it pay the bills, and not to have to work in Tesco’s or other slave labour companies. Here in Brighton there is a very strong music scene, loads of new young bands, musicians, old farts and fantasists, so it’s very healthy for music.
Juno Reactor plays Earthcore: One Night In Sydney, along withGrouch and Basic atThe Hi-Fi onSaturday April 4
