Below is part of an interview on SystemCulture:

• As a (very) middle aged man I am an embarrassment to my children because…I still find ‘new’ music addictive. Do you think music is going through a Renaissance and that maybe there might be something new and exciting around the corner or is it all over and done?

Firstly I need to make it clear that embarrassing your children is the only clear job a parent has! Music’s long way from being over and done. I feel like I hear something that grabs my attention most days of the week. Which doesn’t mean I can’t get all middle aged on occasion (and complain about the lack of melodies in this “American rap music”) but mostly I keep finding myself surprised when I hear something that seems so obvious but which I’d never have thought of doing. And it’s even possible that not only do I over hear things that my kids are playing and like it, but that I might even introduce them to things! This certainly happens to me in my day job when the young things I work with put on a track and I can pick out the old samples in it. I’d like to think they’re impressed by that by I have a feeling they may not be! Read More…