“THIS FEELING IS INCREDIBLE...

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possibly meet the standards set. Who have been your biggest inspira-
tions in the business?
I had decided back in January that I DJ Sappo was a big m otication for me, his music
was going to open up the event with turned his life around. But by far my biggest
my biggest track ‘SPEED’. The track inspiration has to be Skream, I loved every detail
has a filthy beat and its claimed to about his music, I would spend hours analysing
have one of the best Drops in every drop in his music.
Dubstep. I knew this was going to be
a big event for me. There was no Did you have many Childhood problems,
room for error, no room for mistake. If you don’t mind me asking?
That night was the best night of my My Parents both split up when I was around 13,

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life, and a life changing one at that. causing major financial problems. I was left without
My biggest source of motivation is a cover on my bed some nights. I grew up in a
my Mum, after she helped me rough area of Manchester, riddled with knife crime
through my battles of childhood. I and vandalism, my mum was threatened numerous
spoke to her the night before time. I’m not going to bore the readers with my sob
DAPPA, and the one thing she said story, when I was introduced to music my life
gave me the biggest push ever. seemed to get better, a light shined upon me every
morning.
“Fear what you have not
already created… Make me proud”
here is nothing worse that getting into You had Alcoholic counselling at the age
an amazing dream, then only realis- DAPPA 2010 was in full swing, the thrill and rush of
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ing its time to wake up. I’ve gone from Well I turned to alcohol after my parents split, it
the event was out of this world, by the end of the
writing lyrics on the bus home from seemed an easy way to bury my head in the sand.
night, my fingers were taped up like an Egyptian
I soon realised that wasn’t an option after I began
college, doing awfull Saturday job in a mummy, the 2hours of flat out scratching and mix-
to fight with my mother and constantly argue.
local café, watching the clock tick by, ing was too much for my fingers. But it was all This is when a counsellor approached me and
wishing my life away. worth it. pulled me out of my rough patch and back into a
“How can a young man be apart of a world where

“THERE IS ONLY ROOM FOR

new light.
he feels he is no longer wanted”

ONE EGO IS IN THIS BUSINESS, like?

So what was DAPPA 2010
Now look, I’m at an all time high.

AND THAT’S MINE”

I have my own Record Label, I have a Oh my days, it was AMAZING!
dream car, and I’m recognised Before the build up, the seconds
internationally formy music before I walked on stage, where
achievements. P A R A N OI A .. . the most antagonising moments of
I am now living in a Manchester Dream my music career. I felt like I was
Apartment, just out of Manchester For the Readers that don’t already know. going to collapse with tension. When I spun my
City Centre. This feeling is incredible and its only first disk, and the drop of Speed and the build up,
Whats your real name?
getting better. the crowd loved it, I loved it.
My Birth name is Max. The name Paranoia came
It was only 2 weeks ago when I performed my first
about when I was around 16 year olds, my friends
live event, It was the 2010 DAPPA Festival, I was
headlining. The emotions that passes through my
seemed to think I got over worked about every- Is it True medics had to attend you due
thing, paranoid about ever little thing. There it was
body in the up-coming months to festival were so to the state of your fingers?
‘Paranoia’.
varied and spontaneous, Fear, Excitement, Regret, Haha yeah, I had scratched so hard, my fingers
blistered, I didn’t feel anything as the rush was too
Joy and Dread. Months of preparation and creation What Age were you when you took up much! My fingers are fine now and I am scratching
came down to that one night. “What If I forget, the Art of Dubstep? and mixing better than ever! The doors that DAPPA
What if I panic”. Following the events of 2009, with I was around 16 years old when I was first intro- 2010 has opened for me in life, its rumoured that
the official signing of my Record Label and the duced into Dubstep, Im going to be totally honest, I
many high ranking music producers where attend-
growing desire for Drum and Bass and Dubstep, didn’t like Dubstep at first. But over the next few
The increasing pressure was too much for my 21 days, I began to love it. Before I knew it I had a full ing DAPPA and has a close eye over me.
year old brain. The Night before the Festival, all I mix desk in my room with a £500 computer, mixing The futures going to be big and I cant wait!
remember was me played on the sofa, starring into some of the hottest beats. I thought I was “THE
my ceiling, thinking of the 2009 DAPPA Festival, SHIT”
the standard set by last years artist, how could I
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