Groove Armada chat to I Like Music

ILM: Please can you describe the Groove Armada process of making such brilliant music? Is it melody first then lyrics or samples or samples first then build a beat round that? How does it generally work?

TOM: It tends to start with beats and a groove, that's what it's all about and that's the nicest bit about putting a track together, the most exciting part of the track. Putting in the bass line and the beats and shifting it all around; it's a very step by step process. I'm not the sort of guy who sits down at a piano or dreams up an idea in your head, you just work it out. But sometimes a lot of stuff comes through the live stuff because we rehearse so much with the band, you get a lot coming out of the randomness of rehearsing. Superstylin' was written in conjunction with the band just playing that tune again and again until we were into it, and then we recorded it. But mainly it's layer on layer and then it's organised in layers and finding the best combination of layers and then hammering it out. But it tends to be music first, and then you sit back and say 'this is what this track is saying to me' and you try and put that across in the best way possible.
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