The first thing I remember hearing was just the dance music that was in the charts when I was growing up. I don't remember many of the names of specific tracks - they were just kind of early acid house things.
I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.
I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?
Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.
We got pretty techno on 'Eliminator' and 'Afterburner,' which I enjoyed. I think they're good albums, but we wanted to start using the techno element a little more sparingly.
All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.
I am associated with techno epics.
I think that party music will live forever.
Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.
I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.
I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by everything. I didn't ever wanna progress out of that scene.
I'm gonna be honest: I was never really a fan of techno music, dance music.
I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.
I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.
I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.
I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.
I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.
I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.
The '90s were a party, I mean definitely maybe not for the grunge movement, but people were partying harder in the '90s than they were in the '80s. The '90s was Ecstasy, the '80s was yuppies. There was that whole Ecstasy culture. People were having a pretty good time in the '90s.
I'm a big, big, big techno dork.
There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.
As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
