In the studio with Wookie

“I had Room Three in the Soul II Soul studio complex in Camden. I had a Mackie desk, massive Genelec monitors, and a Roland JD-800 for my sine waves and low basses. Then I doubled that with a Studio Electronics SE-1, for the infamous Wookie sound of the modulating bass. Then an E-mu e6400 sampler, because Andy C used it.

“I also had the E-mu Proteus 2000 and the Roland JV-1080, which had The ’60s & ’70s Expansion Board that gave me those Rhodes sounds I used so much [laughs].

“Software-wise, I’d moved from Emagic’s Notator to Logic 5 on my Mac. And I was using ReCycle. Everything went through a little Yamaha 03D desk.

“I’d write my stuff, then record to DAT, and that was my demo. To mix, I would take all the equipment into Studio One, and record down to tape. You probably did about 20 passes to get it down to tape. It was fun. It was part of it. I do miss those days and that process.”