KID SUDA: At the age of 10 I was cutting up tapes and recording with a Casio keyboard onto my dads old TASCAM 4-track, I never thought of it as producing, it was just fun playing around with sound. It's something that's always fascinated me and I've slowly become more and more obsessed over the years.
I started off Djing at warehouse parties 12 years ago in East London - Shoreditch, where I founded the Decknology DJ crew and began to promote underground hip-hop and scratch events. That became quite a platform and within a short period of time I was playing headline sets in clubs. In 2004 I landed a European Tour with Neneh Cherry and that was around the time I decided to get out of the UK for a bit.
- London and Barcelona are two very different stories. I have a lot more time here to write music and that’s the most important thing for me.
- DJing in Barcelona? They’ve pretty much banned it, haven’t they? At least most bars have a limiter that’s set by the Ajuntament and they don’t like people playing music from turntables anymore, so there’s a slight air of oppression regarding the whole DJ culture.
- I still play in London quite regularly, there's more going on there in fact there´s more of everything including stress so I always enjoy it more knowing that I´m coming back to Barcelona.
- Being in Barcelona has definitely opened me up to different styles. I hear more reggae in my sounds, more afrobeat, bailefunk, electronic influences, Latin flavours. There are also less egos involved in music here compared to London so there’s a certain honesty about the other musicians I’ve met. I also think the weather is very influential in the music. It's all about them sun rays!
- Mad Session is a collaborative effort between my label Raw Format, Global Soundz Agency and Genome Records. We basically play dubstep, 2-step, breakbeat, drum‘n’bass and everything else in between. We’ve had some excellent local guests playing and so far the night has incorporated many styles and nationalities.
- B-Low, Plat Du Jour & Jungle Jungle are doing good parties. There's too much minimal house, not enough good hip-hop and there's always room for more good dubstep.
- Producing music can be a very personal and inward experience whereas DJing is the exact opposite! I've been getting most my kicks from the studio recently, although saying that I really enjoy playing out so I think they both go hand in hand for me.
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