Dirk
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Taken from an interview in '94. Funny how he has embraced dance music again when his career bombed. Knobend.
"We had to really fight to get respect," says Howlett. "The dance scene in particular has always been quite snobby against us." He has relentlessly baited clubbers in the past, memorably telling one journalist that he hoped Ibiza got bombed. Understandably, he is unmoved by dance music's recent decline in fortunes. "I really don't know much about it to be honest. I don't listen to much dance music. That kind of Ibiza music, that **** that Pete Tong plays, I hate that ****. I sound like my dad, but it's ****ing music by numbers. The lack of imagination does my brain in. Like, if I'm in a petrol station and the dude pulls in with his ****ing shades and his nice shirt and his car stereo playing his Ibiza music, it just ****ing irritates me. They're so ****ing annoying. It's so stale, something needs to poke out. It would be cool to have bands that are like, electronic bands with leather jackets on, but with no guitars, no drum-kits, just raw electronics. If there's any ****ing kids out there, I'm up for producing you, because I'm into the idea of creating an army against the DJs."
"We had to really fight to get respect," says Howlett. "The dance scene in particular has always been quite snobby against us." He has relentlessly baited clubbers in the past, memorably telling one journalist that he hoped Ibiza got bombed. Understandably, he is unmoved by dance music's recent decline in fortunes. "I really don't know much about it to be honest. I don't listen to much dance music. That kind of Ibiza music, that **** that Pete Tong plays, I hate that ****. I sound like my dad, but it's ****ing music by numbers. The lack of imagination does my brain in. Like, if I'm in a petrol station and the dude pulls in with his ****ing shades and his nice shirt and his car stereo playing his Ibiza music, it just ****ing irritates me. They're so ****ing annoying. It's so stale, something needs to poke out. It would be cool to have bands that are like, electronic bands with leather jackets on, but with no guitars, no drum-kits, just raw electronics. If there's any ****ing kids out there, I'm up for producing you, because I'm into the idea of creating an army against the DJs."