Jamie xx
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Podcast Appearances
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.
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.
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.