![]() As long as a label will do a good master and press it up properly on vinyl, I love doing it – I like getting my tunes mastered – someone who knows what they’re doing can make you’re records sound better. There are loads of little labels who want to put stuff out, and I’m happy to do it as it keeps my name out there, and keeps me getting gigs. Now I put out several Haha! I’ve always made loads of music and I feel I’m gradually getting better at it – more of it is good and more of it is worth putting it out. I used to do an album every year, or an album every two years. But people buy digital now – I make more money than I ever have done, probably. ![]() I’ve done one or two library things – it’s not much money, just a few hundred quid a year. ![]() What do you think is the solution for someone like you – do you get into making music for TV or film? I’m the oldest DJ on that station – well I think Jumping Jack frost has a show as well – and every time I go in if I get chatting to the people who work there they’re like, ‘what was it like going to record shops?’ It’s quite funny, it’s like they’re asking you what it was like before World War 2 or something. But about DJs, I do a show on Radar radio, and everyone else on that station is well under 30, and the people who run it are very young. But that’s different, it’s not cos he’s old it’s cos he’s offering a glimmer of hope. I mean I like doing gigs a lot of the time, but how many 19 year olds want to go to a club and look at a 60 year old? Well, more than you think – I mean you’d wonder how many kids would like Jeremy Corbyn, but it turns out loads do. That’s the thing everyone thinks about – I’m in my 40s, I’m losing my hearing – I’d rather save what’s left of my hearing for the studio rather than carry on doing gigs- which makes my money. So you’ve been bringing out records since the 90s – how has the way you’ve earned money from music changed? I love that machine and haven’t been able to find another one. He said I can borrow one but I haven’t been down to Cornwall to get it. It came out in 1985 and I think Aphex Twin’s got all the ones that are left. There was only about 100 of them ever made and most of them are dead because they had an internal battery leaked. What was the machine you lost then?Īhhh I hate talking about it. There’s machines you can buy that do it but there vintage things that cost thousands. Any modern sampler or VST, they filter all that out because that’s the correct way of doing things – I want to make a weird grungy thing. When they made the Linn Drum they didn’t know what they were doing so they didn’t put the filter on, and if you pitch it down all the high end is still there, you get loads of sparkly high s that sound distorted but cool. If you’re a real engineer designing a digital audio circuit, you put a filter on the end of the circuit to clear up all the noise. It was a sampling drum machine that was really low sound quality, it was 8 bit sampling rate and when you pitched the samples down they’d go really crunchy, like a Linn Drum. So I used to have this amazing drum machine that was really rare, and it got nicked. How much of a nerd are you for this sort of stuff? Hahaha. What do you want it to do that other machines don’t? I reckon I can do it, but every little tweak takes about 40 minutes of googling as I don’t know any of the terms for anything. I want to make a hardware one – I started learning the language yesterday and I’ve managed to make a little one that sequences. ![]() It’s quite ambitious as I don’t know anything about anything. I’m learning a programming language because I want to make my own drum machines. We caught him on a day he'd booked in a childminder to find out how he was planning on spending some rare free time – So what are you up to today? With his own label, Fresh Up, releasing live funk and electro jams, a heavy new album on Hypercolour that sees him fusing Italo, techno, disco and electro, plans for at least two more albums, a retrospective and a string of 12"s all set to drop in 2016, it seems the fact he's become a stay at home dad to his 2 year old daughter has done little to slow Ed down. Having been putting out analogue electronic classics since '94, the last couple of years have seen his production rate go through the roof. Ed DMX is more prolific now than ever before.
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