"We had this chat a couple of weeks ago. I asked Junior
'Do you make it for anyone specifically?'"
"When you start making a track at the end of the day
you're doing what feels good for yourself," answers Junior.
"You're not trying to copy anything. It's just when you
start putting it together you'll know for yourself what areas
it's going in and it goes from there."
"Some records I find are quite monotonous. They really
don't do much for us," admits Rob. "Our stuff does
tend to change quite a bit. In the tracks we make it's almost
like two or three tracks within one track. So it keeps people
guessing what the next thing is. It's not the same all the
way through. Steve Lawler is a key influence on us and that
is also because he plays a lot of our stuff. We don't tailor
make it for him. We find that he's a fan of what we're doing."
Radio 1's Steve Lawler, Pete Tong and Carl Cox are all names
synonymous with house music that have been found heralding
the DJ duo, but it's something that we'll have to talk about
later because someone's just turned on all the televisions.
For a short time we wonder around the Theatre District looking
for somewhere quieter. Settling down in the Spice Lounge we
talk about their earlier years. Junior hasn't always been
into dance music and like Rob he didn't always want to be
a DJ. Was he then perhaps into his indie music?
"I can't remember what sort of music I was into,"
he answers. "Not indie but Depeche Mode and that sort
of thing."
"I liked the early R&B stuff, new jack swing, all
the Teddy Riley stuff from the early 90s," admits Rob.
"It was also in the early 90s when the first few acid
house tracks came out around that time and I really, really
didn't like that sound. I never gave Djing a second thought.
I used to go clubbing from 1992 and it was always a case of
enjoying myself and being happy. Djing was probably the furthest
thing from my mind."
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