#thorpey

And that's not all! I caught up with the man himself to find out what's next:

You're DJ name is Thorpey - where did you come up with the name? (That's a joke ha).

Haha, just a nickname from school that no one who called me it at the time actually calls me anymore

What was the first tune you ever made? Do you still have it and what does/did it sound like?

I cant even remember, I think it was a liquid drum and bass tune – I do actually and its not like... terrible, definitely not good though

I think I heard some of your tunes before the Cannon fodder EP came out in 2011 but your tune on that, 'Velocifaptor' really sounded like a step up in your sound. Was it just me or did you feel that too?

Yeah I would probably agree – I remember being quite proud of it, which is rare for me, and then Kanji Kinetic showed an initial interest and later asked if I would be up for releasing it on Mutant Bass, made me feel like I had made a big step up.

Speaking of which, I seem to recall Kanji saying on one of his shows that you were his "favourite producer of the year". Did that make you tingle inside?

Yeah man mad tingles!

So more recently you've done collabs with Krissi B & Kanji which are unsurprisingly quite different. Do you enjoy those collabs and do you ever get to sit down and make tunes with other people in the same room or always sharing files over tinternet?

I love them yeah, well it's mostly over internet – I do really enjoy sitting down to make tunes with people too. For example, my mate's project called The Beaupreau Project – they record a lot of live instruments and I worked on a tune with them and it's some of the most fun i've ever had on a tune.

If there was anyone you could do a collaboration with - who would it be?

I would have to say someone like Current Value or FFF, just some pure heavy madness vibes!

You like making some dumb shit like JAKAZiD but sometimes it really works. 'Boom' on the Technofear EP for example is a guilty pleasure of mine. Is it a challenge to make something awful sound good or just for jokes on the dancefloor?

Hahahah well, when I was making that tune the basic idea was a standard breakcore tune – then I started messing with a few silly samples in there and then decided it was never going to be silly enough until it had the vengaboys with a donk and chopped up amen breaks :)

The gabba stuff really reminds me of the stuff I used to listen to on wrong music (albeit dancier). You ever inspired by those guys?

Definitely yeah! To be honest i’m influenced by most producers I like in some way or another. I'll always hear little noises and patterns that make me open up Reason and try to recreate and see how I can manipulate it to work with my particular style

You guys don't seem to play London much - which sucks. Why is that do you think? 

You were at Bangface weren't you? Ha. That was a heacy night.

Also, this is one of my favourite mashups - when is the Bieber mix coming or have I missed that?

Yeah it's piss funny – dunno actually. I Have got a few more silly breakcore bits in the works though – plenty of airhorn.wav and early 2000’s pop track remixes

What is your party trick?

Pouting viciously

Skills! So what's next for Thorpey? 

Money and bitchez ;)