Sean :

Outsiders always have the best ideas. I don't get any ideas from the techno scene. The British scene is far too insular and inward looking. There is a sound developing but I don't think we're part of it. I'd call what we're doing music.

We were into electro first - BMX kids for a couple of years. It was the perfect underground for kids and even teenagers at the time were more into New Order. Then it mutated into hip-hop and there was a stage around '87/'88 when we thought 'hip-hop is shit' and the bands had stopped being decent and there was no totally original music coming out, but there was some original music coming out of Chicago at the time - all the acid stuff, and we just loved the sounds. we were going through a phase of listening to all sorts of stuff - Meat Beat Manifesto, Renegade Soundwave and we followed this through. I think we've only been grouped in with this British Techno movement because we decided to give Warp Records tracks for their 'Artificial Intelligence' album. They were about the only label that we thought were brave enough to take a chance.

I don't just like one genre of music. We just do what we want. We're told we sound jazzy, but...I suppose we got it through hip-hop and certain types of soul, old Marvin Gaye and stuff. I think it's just that we don't know what we're doing with music.

I'm constantly shocked by peoples reactions to our music. We just write it because we need something decent to listen to.

Rob :

For someone else to come along and say it's good, if we didn't know them as people, we wouldn't know if they were being honest in their reaction.

Sean :

We have a few close friends who we will bear in mind when we're writing a track..we might say we'll write a track for Jed or a track for Andy 'cos we think they'd really like the direction that track is taking. We tend to think that if they haven't spent the last five years with us listening to all this weird stuff, how can you like it...

Rob :

It's quite a selfish attitude really.

Sean :

But we're quite selfish musically. We tend to do things that we like. It's great to be able to release it and get enough money to pay the rent. we're totally happy with the way things are at the moment and we're not really looking to expand our audience.

We're not really into all this computer communications stuff. We'd rather buy records. There's more gratification in music really. I'm too obsessed by music to be able to expand my mind to start getting into the Internet or whatever.

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