Disciples Of Sound

"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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