Do you prefer smaller venues?
A lot of the places I do my regular clubs now are about 600 people, I find that the smaller venues are more all over the place and you can go with the music, but if you have 600 people who are into everything anyway you get the same kind of intimate atmosphere as if you have 100 or 200 people. So, anywhere as long as the atmosphere is right and the whole feel of the place, with attention to decoration, it is difficult to classify venues by size. You released some stuff on Warp, some remixes Yeah, I did a Nightmares on Wax and a Red Snapper remix
How did that come about?
I had known them for ages, I met George from Nightmares on Wax when we used to DJ together, Red Snapper were just into my stuff and I met with them and they asked me to do a remix.
You did one for Badly Drawn Boy too, 'Disillusion'. Did you know him?
Yeah, I have know him for about three or four years, but that's Manchester, everyone knows everyone so it's no big deal really.
On Ninja Tunes, do you know any other artists and are you friends with them?
Yeah, we used to go on tour quite a lot, I got to know Roots Manuva and Dynamic Syncapation, Mix Master Morris, Coldcut, Amon Tobin and Herbalizer I have spent three weeks on sweaty busses with these people. Clifford Gilberto, Neotropic, Kid Koala.