![]() ![]() We used companies to get us into magazines and get people talking about us. ![]() I’ve come from a time where we paid people to do that. I think a lot of people struggle with that, but maybe more people my age. It’s hard work, this whole social media thing. The spoken word bit in “Broadcast Pain” seems to have an anti social-media message: it tells this story about someone being in distress at a rave, and people filming rather than helping them. But I managed to get some negative ones in there, the state of the world we live in. So I was having to use positive influences rather than negative, shall we say. I’ve usually got a miserable side, but it’s a very happy stage in my life. So I was using those experiences to guide my album. Yeah, these big things happened in my life. I understand that a shift in your personal life influenced the album. Native Instruments caught up with White to hear about the album, and his longterm love affair with MASCHINE, with which he recently made a breakbeat-heavy Expansion, DECODED FORMS, alongside collaborator Kabuki. Creepingly slow and colored with subtle soul, the album evokes quiet, homely spaces rather than the fury of a peaktime rave. Stylistically, it covers the ranges from the drum and bass sound he’s long been at the forefront of, whether in the group Bad Company, as part of the Autonomic movement, or at the head of his label, Exit Records. His second album, A Love I Can’t Explain, is influenced by personal changes-marriage, kids, leaving the UK for Belgium-as much as musical ones. Still, there’s something appropriate about White mixing his domestic and musical life in this way. But now he’s trying to bake while tackling a particularly tricky query about how things have changed over his 25-year career, and the dough has ended up on the kitchen floor. Speaking from his Antwerp home, he’s prepared himself dinner whilst detailing his studio setup and musing on social media. “Trying to cook and answer questions is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever done!” Even so, the drum and bass veteran better known as dBridge has handled the multitasking pretty well. “Do you know what?” Darren White exclaims. ![]()
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