134th exclusive podcast, an energetic blend of house and techno that is a perfect mix of contemporary and classic styles. Benjamin Roth: I mean to be honest, I got into dance music probably around the time that you had tracks like "The Theme" by The House Crew and some of the early sort of breakthrough, cross-over hardcore tracks like "Sweet Harmony." They all started being broadcast on The Box, which was this channel you had on cable. That was when I was about 13 or something. I moved to London when I was 13, and I was already listening to bits of hip-hop and punk. I used to buy stuff like Bad Religion and Fugazi, Wu Tang Clan, that kind of thing. But yeah, I was interested in alternative music, and, you know, street culture, skating, graf, and punk and hip-hop kind of were related to that, but hearing all those rave tracks, which I wouldn't really have heard at that age, had it not been on the TV, felt like the kind of UK, English alternative basically, and that was what got me really excited about music for the first time. Yeah, because you grew up in Cambridge, didn't you? Yeah, that's right. And so discovering that music channel and moving to London must have sort of gone quite well together. Yeah. OK, and from there was it just sort of a natural progression into DJing? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that, like, within about a month of hearing jungle