HOUSE 29
ISSUE 88 / 20016
I think we have such a great melting pot of cultures, especially in London. So we can’t help but create new and wild music!
Arren Haynes | Guestlist
Hey man! How are you?
I’m good, working on some collabs & more
underground club bangers, as well as
learning to drive (my girlfriend says I’m a
“”cocky”” driver!) and buying a house.
Busy busy! You looking forward to the
summer? Any big plans/holidays you’re
looking forward to?
Yeah, couple of holidays away, hopefully
passing my test. Got my album coming out
which is very exciting and some exciting
other music bits being prepared for release.
your fingers on the wire?
Many ways. Keeping on top of new
music, sharing tracks with fellow DJs and
producers. I’m in the studio 4/5 days a week
so I’m always creating which helps keep you
on top of things. The label helps too, new
stayed over for a couple of days and we
made our first EP with ‘Beeper’ on it. Four
tracks, 2 days - bosh!
You work really well together as a
production duo, what is it that you like
What would you fill a swimming pool with?
Puppies & peanut M & M’s.
What’s the worst thing you have a
reputation for?
Babbling nonsense, my mind moves around
“I think we have such a great melting pot of cultures,
especially in London. So we can’t help but create new
and wild music!”
Speaking of your album, Hallucinated Surf,
it follows two sick releases on Skint - what
can we expect from it?
Well it’s in two parts over two discs. Part 1
represents my more uptempo bassy club
side and part 2 is very much a downtempo
listening affair.
Looking forward to the results. What’s
changed since your last album, The Art of
Disappearing in 2013?
With The Art of Disappearing I really just
wanted to break from the perception of me
as simply a dance music producer. I realised
I wasn’t expressing a whole side of myself.
Skint Records came along and have been
brilliant in supporting me in making this new
album that brings together both sides of
me.
When did you start working with Skint?
Christmas 2014 / beginning of 2015. They
asked for a track as they where relaunching
under the new head of AnR Matt so I sent
over a track that myself and Trevor Loveys
had done which they liked and released.
Along with your new music under Hervé,
you’ve also dropped the first Voodoo Chilli
material in 7 years. Why was there such a
break?
Firstly I suppose there was The Count &
Sinden album, which took along time to
finish, way too long! That as well as The
Art of Disappearing and remixing and
producing over that period that restricted
the time to come up with one. Secondly
nothing I made sounded “”Voodoo Chilli””
until “”Someday””. I have a follow up already
so it wont be 7 more years more like 7
weeks before another