![]() Soundcraft mixing desk and some patchbays, Neumann monitors, lots of bass traps. Could you give us a little walk through the main components? Thanks for taking some photos around your studio. I think I got that the day it came out, my first time in Brixton. The first things I bought with my own money were an SH-101 (repaired it today actually) and a Boss DR-550. What was the first serious piece of kit you bought?ĭefine serious! I had a top of the range Yamaha home keyboard that was pretty great when I was about 15. Later we got a Technics one with eight sounds, and the first instrument of my own was a Casio VL-1, I think Christmas 1980. ![]() I think I’m still more interested in notes and chords than sounds. We had a book of songs with diagrams of how to play chords in the back and I taught myself all of them. One of the drum beats was broken and did this pure bleep in the middle of the pattern. It was a Bontempi organ in the corner of the dining room with four sounds that were all the same and six drum beats. What was your first ever set-up, when you started making music? The hardest thing has been getting myself out of habits that lead to clichéd music. I don’t have any qualifications or anything. Did some jazz piano at college in my mid 30s. I taught myself basic chords out of a book when I was about six. Off the back of the release we spoke to him about his extensive home set up, his creative process and the power of the mind. ![]() Not one to rest on his laurels, you never know what you’re going to get from a DMX Krew release, a sentiment true of his latest EP for London-based label Utter – three original re-imaginations of Level 42 tracks a sincere tribute to a band he loved during his youth. As well as releasing via his own labels - the old school dedicated, 7″ delivered Fresh Up Records and the electro-centred Breakin’ - Ed’s taken his machine-made jams to a myriad of labels, from regular haunts like Rephlex, Abstract Forms and Hypercolour to sporadic outings on Balkan Vinyl, CPU and Spectral Sound Under this alias alone, his discography has nearly hit the 100 mark, and he shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. Computor Rockers, Bass Potato, Chester Louis III and House of Brakes, to name (literally) just a few, but the one that’s made the biggest splash over the last 30 odd years that Ed’s been producing is of course DMX Krew.
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