Jamie xx

I'm Jamie, I'm the producer and I do all the electronic stuff on stage.

I didn't know anybody else that came from my previous school.

So I was on the hunt for some friends quickly.

And I gravitated towards these two quite instantly.

I just felt like some kind of similarity, like a strangeness probably.

I felt similar too.

Then my uncles were DJs, so I inherited my decks when I was 10 years old, playing records, playing my parents' records.

Then I learned about the sampling of those records and all of that.

We were gigging Me, Rummy and Baria for quite a while.

So for a period of time, I was watching these guys do it and going to the gigs.

I didn't really know what to do because I didn't want to play drums on it because it sounded so good as it was.

It wouldn't have worked because these guys were a lot quieter than they are now.

You just wouldn't have been able to hear what was going on on stage if there was a live drum kit.

That was one of my main things that was stopping me from doing that.

Yeah, I remember that.

Hammerhead or something.

Very basic drum machine.

So you made some beats and then eventually... Eventually I went on stage and started playing the MPC.

And MPC is a music production center, that's what it stands for.

And it's actually meant for making full tracks on them, usually hip hop.