Interview Dubfire

Sabes que probablemente nunca ganaras un grami produciendo para M_nus o Sci+Tec....Te molesta esto?
"No. Realmente no estoy interesado en hacer cosas comerciales. No por el momento ......[laughs](risas)"

What's life like for you at the moment?
"I'm at home in Washington DC, for the holidays. I like to say it's where I live [but] I pretty much live out of a suitcase. If my house burnt down I'd have everything with me that I need to survive and be happy."

Are you not tempted to move your base of operations to Europe? "No, no, no. I enjoy hanging with the Berlin crew but I travel so much I'm always in Europe, I don't really need to move there. I come home to feel grounded, to get away from the madness."

You're going in a very underground direction these days - is this something you've wanted to pursue for a long time? "My heart's always been there. Sharam and I reached the end of our creative cycle with Deep Dish and I was trying to realise all the ideas I couldn't realise in Deep Dish. As a team we had to compromise so with the solo stuff I call the shots. I had a lot of ideas brewing over the years I wanted to try out."

Did the huge commercial success of Deep Dish make your new direction possible? "I don't think so. People are more sceptical of my new direction because I come from Deep Dish. A lot of people thought Deep Dish had become this commercial beast turning out Top 10 hits and were wary of accepting me. But the music speaks for itself."

But Deep Dish was very commercially successful over the years - does that relieve financial pressure of trying new ventures? "I still face the same financial and creative obstacles I faced when I started out. For most of our career most of what came in went right back into developing the brand. We invested a lot of our resources into building Deep Dish. A lot of people within my inner circle thought I was crazy to go back underground, to start from scratch. But it feels very therapeutic, very rejuvenating to do that. To go back to where you started, how you felt, and what your experiences were from those early days. I was at these after parties, or hanging out at DC10 in the middle of the dancefloor, and it felt really good and natural to go back to just being a fan of music again."

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