You mentioned you were in the studio working on some more pop orientated stuff, can you talk more about what you're working on?
Absolutely. After the M.I.A. record which I did in March, we were in the studio for the whole month just intensively working on stuff and the idea with that was to make some of the craziest stuff in the world. We'd make a track and go home and she'd be like "it's not weird enough, it's not crazy enough", so the whole point was to take the music out, take the chords out and strip it down. So after I was finished with that I wanted to work on some really musical, super chords... the complete opposite. So I worked with Britney, T.I. and Rihanna. I'm a musician you know, and I just wanted to do something with big chords, big melodies. When you're making dance music the number one rule is to keep is simple, and as a dance music producer doing electronic music I keep it simple and often have to take stuff out but when you're doing pop songs, you have to put as much in as you can; as much melody and music as possible, so yeah... I've been living a bit of a double life for the past few months.
When you work on a Britney track is there ever a temptation to sneak in something totally weird?
Well the thing is, they could go to the regular people who make hit pop records if they wanted something straight, but the whole reason they came to me was because I make more weird music anyway, so I already have a lisence to be crazy with it. It's Britney, she's got money. If she didn't want crazy she could ask someone who had a massive string of hit albums before, you know?
