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Where do you tend to get samples from?

Marks:"They come from all over the place, I don't have any particular method of even finding them. I just sort of come across things, like when I'm traveling I've heard people play and recorded a bit, I've picked up tapes, heard things here and there. It's something that I can't be to specific about for obvious reasons."

Do you usually have samples you want to use first, or musical ideas?

Marks: "It various. Sometimes I'll just come across something I think is amazing and I might be able to imagine a tune built around it. Other times I stockpile stuff and when I'm working on a tune if I need a male Arabic vocal to fit a section I'll see if I have anything which would be suitable. But it tends to vary. Sometimes a sample will suggest the whole tune to me, but not very often unfortunately. It would be far too easy if that happened all the time!"