Influences: Nathan Fake

Orbital are basically the reason why I’m into electronic music. I was completely obsessed with this track and the album it’s from. I spent most of my teenage years playing this on the keyboard, haha. It’s weirdly quite raw and spiky too but I just love it so much.

I was obsessed with the Prodigy too before I fell for orbital. The first two albums are the ones for me and this track (or ‘No Good’) is the most memorable one on Jilted Generation.

Another early love of mine. ‘Dig Your Own Hole’ blew my head open at the time and it was hard to pick on track from it, but I think this was the big one. I used to love their CD singles too as the B-sides were always amazing, and they always had interesting remixes too.

My favourite Aphex track, well either this or ‘Windowlicker’ but this one hit me much earlier on. This is the perfect Aphex tune for me; the insane drums, the pleasant melody, the wonky vocals, the intense energy bursting through it at all times.

I studied LP5 so hard. At the time I loved how bone-dry it was and my early stuff tries to emulate this mixdown/sound-design wise. Despite it being over 20 years old now it still sounds like the most futuristic music imaginable to me, absolutely no-one can touch Autechre. They are gods.

Bit of a curveball maybe. I was so into MBV around the time I wrote ‘Drowning in a Sea of Love’ as I was trying to make stuff that sounded like this track, and the rest of Loveless also. This still sounds so good today. This music makes me very happy.

Even bigger curveball. Around the time I was getting into Orbital and Aphex, bizarrely I was also getting well into speed garage, or whatever you want to call it. I think you can still hear the influence of those beats in my stuff today. The swingy hi-hats and offbeat snares are still present in my stuff. There are a hundred tracks to choose from but I think this tune is the most memorable from that period.

Might be a bit biased because of my border community alumnus status but I was a huge fan of James before that, hence me sending them a demo in the first place. This track reminds me of the dawn of that period; discovering his music and researching his discography at that point. He’d already done a tonne of brilliant stuff before border community was even conceived. James is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, musical influence of my life.

I became obsessed with Chris’ music from the very first track of his that I heard, which happened to be this one. I heard it on a Warp sampler CD I think. Chris’ music had and still has a very unique energy and feels totally virtuosic in composition and production. He remains a massive source of inspiration to this day.

My favourite artist in recent times. When I first got into his stuff it gave me the same feeling as hearing Autechre for the first time – utterly stone-cold but with a warm human heart, completely engrossing and highly addictive. This track, along with the rest of Splazsh, is among my favourite material of Mr Cunningham’s.