Judge Jules chats to I Like Music

ilm: Is there a piece of music making software and/or hardware could you not live without?

Jules: Yeah Logic, the sequencer program. Logic is the brains behind everything and most dance music producers at a professional level use either Logic or Cubase. Beyond that, we're moving into a world of plugins as opposed to the world of external synths; ideally you want to use both. There is no plugin or synth that is used on every single track, but obviously the sequencer is.

ilm: And can you describe the Judge Jules process of making such brilliant tunes?

Jules: I think the first thing you've got to do is go into the studio knowing what sort of track you want to make. On the album, some tracks are vocal, some are part vocal, some are slightly more techy, some are more trancey. You've got to have some sort of vague bluprint before you even start. If you just start tinkering away, you end up, more often than not, getting something very wishy-washy. For instance, if you know you're doing something more trancey, you wanna start with the chords and not be satisfied until you have a very memorable set of chords on exactly the right sound, and then build the track around there. Its kinda similar with the vocals too, but build the chord and then try and write the song. Don't go too far down the line of finished production until you've got the song element sorted out. Whereas, if it's a more groove based track, you could start with a drumbass upwards, but you have got to know what you are doing in the first place. I think having the idea is fundamentally the most important thing.
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