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Hey, how you doing? I'm doing good, you? Great thanks! It's been a big week for you… Huge week. Massive. Great week though… So your album came out… Yes, World of Dynamite Deluxe is out! So what can we expect from that? Well its kind of a two-pronged attack, in the one lane there are people that know me and are aware that I released an album a long time ago that hasn't been available for a while. And they'll go oh cool, I remember this, oh and there are 14 other tracks I haven't heard before, Bam. And on the other hand, the people go what you did an album I had no idea, and they get 30 tracks. So I'm hoping it's a win-win situation for everybody because there's classic stuff, new stuff, music that's unheard, unreleased, remixed, a twisted multi-genre trip. There's drum & bass, hip hop, breaks, garage, dancehall. ...covering all spectrums the only thing I didn't do is an opera track haha I saw a lot of guest producers on there; Roni Size, Zed Bias. Yes, loads of producers. Roni Size is my brother from day... then there's Zed Bias, Wookie, Danny Bryd, High Contrast, Andy C, Skitz, Blame… there's a lot. It's good though, because I know a lot of people in the industry which is why I work on some many different tempos. I think it's important to be versatile, because it allows you to have an audience that is more versatile. You also won best MC at the drum & bass arena awards... I did, second year in a row and I'm very, very thankful and humbly appreciative of everybody that voted for me and I will continue to thank you, it was a great feeling. So all these achievements keep pushing you further? Well yeah, but I push myself along and I work with a lot of creative people and if you surround yourself with creative people you assimilate to the people you surround yourself with. That's why if you hang around with people that waste their days, you're gonna waste your days too! You mentioned you've worked with a lot of creative people, you're the front man of Roni Size's Reprazent – you've been dominating the scene for a while now Yer I've been around, I'm no spring chicken haha. I'm not gonna be winning best newcomer any time soon but you know, I'm going in for outstanding achievement in a few years! Any ideas that have changed your life? I've been doing music for a long time so it's not like, yes I gave up music to be a parachute instructor, that's the kind of thing that will change my life. I mean, I've extended my life, I've wrote a book for children on philosophy that was a life changing avenue for me. I've started an online travel agent, I learnt how to code. I think any kind of Buddhist influence on philosophy is quite life changing because it takes away all the anxiety and any ego driven pursuits and brings you back to this humble realisation. Music's changed my life, whenever I hear a new tune it makes me think "how can I adapt my life to this, how can I adapt my lyrics to this, how can I vocally fit in, how can this be part of my forward direction?" We hear it was a photo that infuelnced your book... Yer because my book's called The Bird and the Elephant. So I saw this photo of a bird on an elephants back. The bird is asking questions, ten discussions on philosophy; why are we here, where do you come from, why do bad things happen to go people, pre-destination. It's all stuff like that, its all written in rhythm so its poetry, so its like how I write rhythms anyway but more in what they call quatrains, four lines. But just something that I felt, if I've got the idea why not do it!? Anything about yourself that you'd define as weird or strange? Well…, I count stairs, that's pretty weird, when I go up them like, 2, 4, 6, 8. I know its not the worst crime in the world, I'm not like killing squirrels at night or anything. Maybe I'm too introspective sometimes? But every lesson is a blessing, you've gotta go though the fire, you gotta go through all these hard times to appreciate the good ones. So any fault that I have I either recognise it, change it, or embrace it. It's no good punching myself in the face that doesn't achieve anything. 2015 was a big year for you, you want 2016 to be even bigger, any ideas how you're gonna do that? Lots of Hospitality stuff. There's still new Reprazent material, the album that came out was only a live show, there's still two albums of new material just waiting for the right lane so that's there. Now I've released World of Dynamite Deluxe so I'll let people marinate on that. Then I've got my own label, Strong Records now, got Echo Fox – that's a project coming out, I've got invisible ink and I'll work on some more dynamite stuff. I can go in the studio now knowing that I've got my label and my roots. So yeah I'm just gonna keep working, keep touring, I'm gonna keep perfecting my art, my craft embracing the sound of drum & bass and whatever other genre I like to experiment with. I'll keep flying the flag for UK music. It's a good flag to fly! It's a great flag, a big old flag, so wave it! 7 41 Issue 82 / 2015 DNB guestlist.net When it comes to MCing, few are celebrated and decorated as Dynamite MC " Every lesson is a blessing, you've gotta go though the fire, you gotta go through all these hard times to appreciate the good ones " Follow @DynamiteMC INTERVIEW DYNAMITE Interviewed by: Arren Haynes