Groove Armada chat to I Like Music

ILM: Digging for samples must be fun. What part of music making do you enjoy the most?

TOM: Yeah, I do a fair amount of digging. I mean, if you're an audiophile and you like music then you're surrounded by it. I'm very into my iPod shuffle, I'm constantly surprised by the music that's on there. So I've always got a pen and paper to hand. It's not like I sit down specifically and say today's sample day, you've just always got to have an ear out for it that gets you excited and, even on this album, even though there's very few samples on the actual album, there's definitely a lot of it started with a sample at some point, even if it's not in the record anymore, it's cunningly disguised.

There's certain places that I go…I've got an amazing record dealer out in Ibiza, he's got an amazing record collection, so whenever I'm out there I always pick up a few tunes. LA is an amazing place to buy records as is San Franciso and New York. So, whenever I'm DJing in the States I'll always bring a bag of records back with me, because a lot of the records I know and love are all made there. I remember looking for this track called Playing Your Game Baby by Barry White and couldn't find it anywhere in the UK and went to the US and found about 30 copies of it on vinyl. So I still do a bit of that, but I used to be like a proper collector. I think CDs have changed everything. You can kind of get access to everything now. If you really wanted a track you used to have to spend days hunting in charity shops, now it's a piece of p*** to find a track online.
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