http://www.gear4music.com/news/article/The-Prodigy-debut-the-Korg-Monotron-at-Festival/1XR/2010-07-01

Least mines in the right place

To start with, how did you become a record producer?
I actually built a studio first of all. I got expelled from school when I was 16 and living in Malaysia - at the time my parents were out there - and I didn't have the nerve to go home and tell them that I'd got chucked out, so I went up to a friend's house and I remember we were sitting on top of an empty building saying, "Wouldn't it be great to turn it into a studio?" So we started off with a little four-track and one mic.

Were you already doing music?
I'm a flautist by profession, and had a little baby synth at school, but then [had] the idea of suddenly building a studio... Then later I came down to London and got a job as a studio assistant.
In those days programming rooms, which are rooms with just computers, were not really a big deal - no-one knew quite what to do without lots of tape, basically. So there was this room there which was full of MIDI gear which was never getting used and as I wasn't good enough to assist downstairs in the main studio, I just sat in this room all the time, learning to program on this state-of-the-art equipment.
Then a guy rang up one day, and the receptionist wasn't there, so I picked up the phone, and this guy went, "Hello? Hello? Have you got any good bass samples?" and I went, "Bass samples? No problem, I've got hundreds," and I didn't have any! The next week he booked time in the studio and I started working as his engineer. We went off and did a single, which was Guru Josh, 'Infinity'. I joined his band and went on tour, but got ripped off really heavily and made no money - they were doing really big festivals and I was getting ?40 a gig! But I was meeting lots of people, and through that I met Lenny Dee and Carl Cox and worked with them in New York for six months, doing tracks with Frankie Bones, Arthur Baker and Deborah Harry. After New York I came back here and worked for a year on an album called 'Saffron', which unfortunately didn't do very well, but then I had some more success with Carl Cox, and then moved on to The Prodigy.

That's where most people have heard your name from.
Yeah, 'Jilted Generation'. That album did really well, and then 'Firestarter' also did exceptionally well. After this I'm going to go off and work on the rest of their album, which will be really good. And that's kind of, you know, a brief history!