radio. How old were you when you first started listening to his shows? Leonard Strickland: I would say I was about 11 years old, so about 1981. I didn't discover house through Jeff, he basically brought it to the mainstream radio around 1984-85 but, Jeff Mills was definitely inspiration to be a DJ. It used to be called progressive music, and people like my older cousin Don Q (Omar-S's big brother) would have cassette tapes that local DJs around town would make and sell or just give away at parties they would be playing at. And were your friends into that music at the time too? Oh yeah!! By the time I hit high school we formed clubs that used to throw parties all over the city. So the wider public only really started to hear about you when you're first proper EP dropped in 2009 on FXHE. But you had been DJing for a long time and putting on parties for a while too right? Yeah, I have been making tracks for over 20 years. As a matter of fact, me and Omar did our first house track together in 1992 called, "It's A Party Ya'll," and it was pretty good. We might do it over in the near future. To be honest for me it was like a hobby, ya know, just for the love. Before you took a break from the doing the parties to focus on your family had you been doing any producing at all?