I’d say that it’s important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head. – Tom Jenkinson
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. – Tom Jenkinson
Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. – Tom Jenkinson
There’s a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It’s a new approach to it. – Tom Jenkinson
Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won’t have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction. – Tom Jenkinson
I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that’s fresh. – Tom Jenkinson
I like my stuff ’cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me. – Tom Jenkinson
I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me. – Tom Jenkinson
Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge. – Tom Jenkinson
I don’t know that the best way to approach it is to try and keep up. When you’re doing that, you’re setting yourself into a one-dimensional sort of race basically. – Tom Jenkinson
I’m starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. – Tom Jenkinson
The main thing I’m into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I’m really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky. – Tom Jenkinson
It’s important for that to exist in a society that doesn’t present you with any genuine problems. – Tom Jenkinson
The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That’s the only way that you’re ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go. – Tom Jenkinson
