working with musicians

Antony was perhaps the most organic (collaboration). I met him through friends and we gradually became friends. Timbaland and me had been aware of each other for a long time. I had met him 10 years ago and he complimented me on the bass line in Venus as a Boy ; then he sampled Joga, and through the years there have been talks about doing stuff.

Konono No. 1, I fell for after hearing their album that came out a couple of years ago. I just thought it was so amazing that they took thumb pianos and hooked them up with electricity, and then played many of them together - polyrhythms.

For an electro fanatic like me it is so rare to hear electronic rhythms that are in real time, not locked to a computer grid. It is just more organic and natural, like I feel electricity is anyway - a part of nature (thunder, lightning, northern lights and so on).

www.canada.com, September 20, 2007