Genre: Opinion/Argumentation

It still sounds quite broad though ? ' A lot of people have said that , but you know in doing it I did focus it quite a lot - I just took off a couple of the things that might have made it really difficult to listen to , you know , really really aggressive tracks engineered to sound horrible stuck in the middle of a nice album . ' What kind of person do you think it will appeal to ? ' I suppose people like me , but I do n't know what ... I was trying to make an album that I would buy , so just trying to put all the things that I like in it . You know , I think there must be a lot of people who are both into club stuff and more song-based stuff but not divided up . I think you get a lot of music that is either for playing in clubs or , what everyone goes on about as a chill-out , you know , post club music ... I do n't know , I guess I was just trying to put different elements of all sorts of things that I like into one album . Not that I suppose it 's got ... I 'm going around in circles actually ... but you know what I mean , do n't you ? I have n't consciously thought about who will be buying it , but I sort of do think that it 's a principle that if you make something that you yourself would buy then at least it 's going to be a coherent thing . You know , like ... ' I think we 're gonna need some faster tracks ' ... so you purposely do some faster tracks , or ... ' I think we need a track that sounds like ... that ' ... I think then you get into problems . I was making it because ... partly I 've always wanted to make an album where I 've played everything on it and I 've recorded it all on analogue 24 track , it 's just kind of ideas I 've had that I 've been thinking about for a long time that , in principle , I thought might work like , you know , not using a computer to control the sampler to playing all the samples manually just onto tape . It 's a nice idea and for years I 've been thinking it would be nice if we could get around to that , and finally I got the chance to try a lot of things out , you know the slinky reverb which we used loads in the mixing . Things like that track , Needles , we made all the drum sounds by just dropping a stylus onto the record and blowing on it and stuff . So there were lots of ideas like that I just wanted to ... ' Where do you get ideas like that ? ' I 've just always thought that when you first put the needle on the record that it 's just a really good bass drum sound , and so I 've always thought that one day I must sample that . ' Read the second half of the interview on Mr Dan's official site