Seb Diamond

After months of cold-shouldering us, Rob just walks on stage one night and starts freestyling. It might have been one of the first nights he came to one of our parties, too. Also, clearly we cared about rap because we had good underground rappers performing, such as Subtitle and Cadence Weapon.

Rob Squire

Eventually, I would go to their party and be like, “Oh shit, these kids have work ethic and make their own flyers and book a headliner and are playing shit that no one else is playing.” That in itself is enough. You’re not going to just discount somebody who has that work ethic at seventeen.

Seb Diamond

With good effect, I think, Rob nurtured the younger [among us] as protégés. He was very nice and helped a lot. I could go to him with studio questions. I think only way later did I see him as kind of a peer, an equal and a friend. I think there was always a sense of the background he had. He really had this unbridled, punk rock, hip-hop, do it yourself, fuck everyone else, “there are no rules” kind of attitude.

Rob Squire

Those guys definitely had as much of an influence on me as I did on them, there’s no question.

Lunice

Phil [Jacques Greene] hit me up over email because we were both big fans of Lil B, and that was right at the time when Lil B was on his Based God stuff. Phil’s like, “You’re from Montréal. I heard your beats, they’re really cool.” One of my first DJ gigs ever was playing Bass Culture with Phil and Seb, and we had so much fun that night. Rob was there as well, and he saw me DJing. He was like, “Hey, I’ve got a night tomorrow called Megasoid. Would you like to play that one, too?” And I’m like, “Yeah, sure.” From that day on, I just kept playing with those guys and just learning everything. That’s how I got into using controllers and everything. It was those guys.