I made dubstep music, or something like drone dubstep music, around 2008 maybe. He thought the sounds I made were really good but the music was shit. We tried to collab at one point in the studio and it didn’t really work out. He just had a laptop and a really, really big MIDI keyboard and I had no idea what the fuck we were doing. We made a really bad track. I started to come in more and more, I bought a 808 and then 909. He was like, “OK, this is going to be good. Make a demo for me, please.” Now, we’re here and doing this together.

Anthony is putting out or making so much cool stuff now. He’s a rhythmical genius. He’s a loop genius. He is insanely good at making music and he’s just getting better and better all the time. I think he is coming in to some really freaky stuff which is highly impressive, like super hi-fi tribal loop music. I think it’s insanely cool.

Northern Electronics is definitely a family project. Abdulla Rashim, Anthony, is 100% family, and we only work with friends and we only keep it local. We don’t look for new talent, we don’t look for demos – we release what we hear from our friends. We don’t want to do remixes from big names just to sell records or sign someone that we love. The person furthest away that we ever released is Neel from Voices From the Lake, but he’s also family. We don’t care so much about what kind of music it is or what kind of genre or aesthetic it is. It’s a pretty clear path sound-wise, but I think it’s only because we are like-minded people.