For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
The thing about places like Trinidad and Jamaica is that they can be very musically insular. There isn't much space for kids making hip-hop, electronic music, or hybrid genres.
Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.
Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.
I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.
A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.
