Paul Oakenfold chats to I Like Music

ILM: It'll be a cosy vibe then.

OAKENFOLD: I prefer it when it's small. It's more personal. I like it when it's intense. You come off from some big shows and you're a bit removed.

ILM: You'll be able to see the white's of their eyes

OAKENFOLD: They'll be throwing things at me.

ILM: Nooooo they won't.

ILM: A Lively Mind is your second artist album and second for Perfecto. Featuring 12 new songs composed and created by you it was three years in the making, which track did you enjoy laying down the most?

OAKENFOLD: I think the track I enjoyed recording… I enjoyed it all. It was more of a creative process than the first album, and I was working with a lot of different people, similar to the first album, but the title Lively Mind came because I was being stimulated generally. I was working with an artist, a hip hop writer, a producer, so it was very stimulating. I was also working with guys who'd never put music out before, so I felt it was very creative. Probably the track I had the most fun with was a track called Vulnerable with the guys from this new band called The Bad Apples, and their music hasn't come out yet. So I was in a studio with a full band and we were doing electronic music. So I was saying to the drummer 'no you have to stay really tight and really on the rhythm, because in electronic music it's programmed, there's no slack movement.' So with the guitarist I was like, 'I need just a riff, not a part, like musicians tend to do'. So it was a different process but I enjoyed it; and we had fun.
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