In the studio with Claude VonStroke

“You’ll laugh because the studio was basically a bedroom that became a baby bedroom, seven months later. It was in a very small flat on Haight Street in San Francisco.

“All I had was a Novation controller called an X-Station, with a soundcard. And Reason 3. Nothing else. I made the entire album off that.

“I didn’t know anything. Which was awesome. I just would make it sound as good as I could make it sound. But, I didn’t even know how to sidechain, or anything about modern production techniques. I would just get it to sound good in that room.

“I used to run things into Reason really hard, and that worked for me. It was like a brickwall limiter without me even knowing that that was what it was, because I think they had coded it in to not go over zero. I was really just a bedroom producer.”