The Daily Swarm

Resident Adivsor:

Do you find it strange to have this extra-musical content added to your tracks, do you worry about it?

No, not at all. For me, the idea that electronic music is not political is bullshit. Every movement—if it’s more than two people—is political, in a way. Every common interest where there is a connection, is a political thing. And you have a political responsibility. The sound, the artistic approach, the content of text, if you play a siren in your set, some Arab preachers, some classical music from Bach, it will all polarize the dance floor in a second. All of these things are political.

I recently talked to some people at Fabric, and they said that you were among one of the first DJs to take advantage of the soundsystem. What do you think they meant by that?

I don’t know, of course, because I wasn’t there for the context. But the thing about Fabric is that it’s one of the few clubs that you go to, and when you first walk in, you realize the sound is the biggest instrument you can use in the club. There is a guy that goes around measuring the average feedback frequency of the night. He will come back to the stage, press a button and the frequency will disappear—and there is no feedback anymore. It’s the best sound I’ve ever heard in a club. When you go there, the motivation to play all sorts of different things is there immediately.