What is your musical background history, how did you get into the industry?
I started DJ'in at 12, started making music when I was 18, moved to Bristol when I was 19 and made my 1st record there. I got into it through a guy called Giles Peterson and he signed my 1st record. I just have a friend a demo and she said a friend she can play it to. Then about a week later I got a phone call from her saying Giles has heard it and wants to sign it. So it was just like wicked. But I'd sorta made a lotta music in Bristol for like 5 years just grinding it out.
What's your preferred tools for producing music?
I use Cubase as my main door but then I use Reason and Abelton like as samplers. Then I've got a lot of hardware, like I use SSL 4000 Channel Strip, vintage ones, Neve Preamps, Imperial Labs Fatso, SSL BUS Compressor C2, Steven Slate Audio Dragon and LA-2A.
What inspires you to make new music and where do you draw your influences from?
At the moment just Amsterdam really. I moved here like a year and a half ago. It's just a really inspiring place to live. Creatively, it just feels right creating here at the moment. The house and techno scene is really diverse and forward thinking and it's not really separatist like you get in some places. It's really open and everybody has really good knowledge and you get to hear a lot of interesting records.
How did the name Breach as a stage name come about?
That came about from I guess from With Fatherless as the 1st track I made as Breach. It came from merging two styles like House and Dubstep as it was at the time. i used to draw from stuff that I'd heard down at Forward. I didn't even make dubstep and never really got that deep into it but I'd go down to Plastic People and just catch a vibe. Then I'd go to the studio round the corner in Brick Lane. It was sort of taking some sounds that I was getting influenced by and making it more House. So it was like breaching the styles.
You’ve been around in the game for a little while now, but the release of jack without doubt brought you untold success, what’s the story behind the track and how did it change things?
The story behind it, it started as a B-Side that I was doing on Dirtybird. I made one track and Claude Von Stroke said he really liked the one track and then he was like let's do something a bit sleazier. Then I went to bed and woke up with the thing in my head. I just sand it into my phone then went down the studio and recorded it. It was on my computer for a few days then I just went in. It only took a few hours really but the mixing down took a bit longer. It was the B Side for Let's Get Hot, and then it just went crazy.
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