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RS: It was great because I've been going through this business for so long I just know so many people, and a lot of people in the past two years who used to be really into drum 'n bass have made this switch to electro and those people, I really like their production quality. People who are just making drum 'n bass, they always use subs, and their music sounds really fat and has that extra "umph" to it. So that's pretty much what we're focused on because it's myself and SubSonic doing the label together, and SubSonic, he's killing it with drum 'n bass. He's like number one on BeatPort and TrackItDown all the time. So we're taking that sensibility of the really good production like intricate drum programming and heavy bass and translating that to other styles of music that we like as well.

CT: Is that how you've come along? I mean, "Resonance" is completely drum 'n bass oriented and then there's say, the Back to School mix.

RS: It's been like a circle. In '97 when speed garage came out I was playing a lot of speed garage back then and a lot of 2-step, but it never became really popular so I was playing this really unpopular music for a long time. Like 10 years, nobody wanted to hear it and now finally people want to hear it. A lot of people think it's new to me, but it's actually kind of like going back to my roots if you will. Getting a chance to finally have people like this music that I was trying to push 10 years ago is really nice. I never got it why nobody liked it back then; I always thought it was so great, I was like, "Oh, it's like jungle, but it's house!"

CT: Is that how you see the electronic scene moving toward? Like Dubstep?

RS: It's moving toward convergence. If you listen to the Hip Hop that's on the radio, The Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom," whatever that song is. If you listen to Lil Wayne, and T-Pain, and all this Kanye West and then you listen to Dubstep and you listen to electro, it's just converging. Like all music is coming to a point.

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