I started playing with sounds when I was seven and my big brother taught me how the sound gets out of tape recorders and into speakers. I would plug two tape recorders together and overdub noises. He later got an old eight track rhythm machine and an electric guitar. I learnt how to play the drums. All these things got recorded and overdubbed until you couldn't make out what was going on at all.

Later, my brother went to music college. They had a big studio there and he and I made a crap pop demo. I learnt loads about studio mechanics there – most imortantly I learnt how to work a mixing desk and Cubase and samplers. In 1994 I bought an Atari and my S950 sampler. Since then I've been making music with computers. They play everything in time and give you the opportunity to program stuff that nobody could ever play and to use any sounds you like. It's great.

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