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Look @ Leggers...

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Leggers is basically a short interview.  Various
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Boot106 talks to...

Lionel Vinyl

Lionel is
one of the best bootleggers around at the moment.
Amazing production rate with over 50 tracks within the past 6
months.  He has also starting producing his own original
work under the name of 'FakeID'.

How old are you and where
are you from?

Rapidly running out of
room in my twenties. Born in Derby, but spent the
bulk of
my life quite happy to be a soft Southern shandy in and around

Bournemouth.

Why are you called 'Lionel
Vinyl'?

About five or six years ago me
and a pal decided to set up a night in
Bournemouth, and
decided to come up with the cheesiest DJ names we could. He

went for Turntable Tim, and I chose Lionel Vinyl. I've
since discovered
there to be several others in the UK and
the US, and I often get emails
saying 'hey, are you the
guy who played at our uni etc...', but I'm kinda
used to
the name now so its sticking.

When not making
tracks, what do you do?

Web designer
and Flash developer. Seems lots of us are kind of 'new media'

types. I guess were all just geeks really :)

Do you DJ, if so
where?

Haven't played out in a long
long time. Used to do one or two nights in the
big beat
years when I was at Uni in Cardiff, but well out of practice.
The
last BYOB was the first time I'd played out in years,
IB will be my next
date, and I've just been asked to do a
slot at a night back in Cardiff.

When did you start making
bootlegs?

Late February / early March
2003

What inspired you to
start?

I remember sitting in the beer
garden of a Bournemouth pub last summer
chatting to a
friend of mine (Craig, who sometimes co-hosts on Hyman's

saturday show) and we were talking about bootlegs / Erol /
2manyDJs etc...
He was asking if I thought it was
something I could do, and I blithely said
yeah, I reckon
with the right tools and that. Thought nothing more of it

until I got a new laptop earlier this year, and discovered
the joys of Acid,
and figured what the
hell...

Have you come
across any legal problems making ‘illegal’
mixes?

Not so far (touch wood) but I
don't think my stuff is as widespread as some
of the
tracks that have had the old 'Cease and Desist' orders chucked
at
them.

Do you take
longer than an hour to make tracks these
days?!

For the FakeID remixes, yeah
they can take a few hours to pull together, but
for the
Lionel Vinyl stuff I'd still have to say no. If anything as
I've got
used to the software and a workflow I've got a
bit quicker. But its never
been meant to be a case of
'oooh, look at me, aren't I quick & clever', just
that
I'd rather get the ideas out there, and I figure that if the
idea is
strong enough people will be happy to take some of
the rougher edges as part
of the charm of the track. And
if it doesn't work for everyone, fine - I'll
do another
;)

Can you remember the
first bootleg you heard and what you thought of
it?

Probably a white label that used to
do the rounds in the late 90's which was
Public Enemy's
Bring The Noise over Josh Wink. I used to go nuts to that

track, and remember the first time I heard it thinking
'thats blimmin
fantastic', and seeing other people clearly
thinking the same thing. I used
to think it would be cool
to get that kind of reaction for
something...

What is / are your
favourite bootleg(s) ever and at the
moment?

Oooh, tricky one. Ever would
probably have to be one of the older Soulwax
ones - either
Skeelo vs Survivor or Beastie Boys vs INXS. Remember trying to

catch the bloody things as they flew past on their
website? Of current
tracks (current being the past couple
of months) I'd have to say GHP's newie
'Razor
Smile'.

What would you say is your
best track and why?

Got a real soft
spot for Psycho Britney. I think as pop boots go its pretty

good, and kind of free of pretence. No chin-stroking, no
clever
juxtapositions, just a bit of good clean pop
fun...

Do you prefer
making original music with FakeID or
bootlegs?

Er... um... dunno really. I
enjoy both for different reasons. I think theres
more
long-term mileage (if I decided to set that as a goal) in the
FakeID
things, but you tend to approach them very
differently. I think one
complements the other quite
nicely, with the bootlegs stopping me
disappearing up my
own arse with the elektrobollox.

What makes a good remix or
bootleg for you?

First off, timing and
key. I just can't keep a track I've downloaded if its

fundamentally out of key, no matter how much I like the
idea or the source
material. Beyond that though it has to
have, I dunno... it has to appeal on
a gut level. Theres a
lot of really technically accomplished boots out there

that I know I should appreciate and love, but I just can't
get into. I like
things funky generally, and I always try
to imagine what things would sound
like on the dancefloor.
If I wouldn't dance to it then I don't really love

it.

What do you make of the
current ‘scene’? agaiusb?

OK, I've got
into lots of discussions about newbies and stuff recently, and

I don't want to go down that road again. But suffice to
say I think new
blood is a good thing, obviously you're
gonna get more people want to join
in as the popularity of
a scene grows. And of course the more tracks that
are
being released, the harder it can become to sort the wheat
from the
chaff. But I also think that nostalgia and
rose-tinted specs can be very
dangerous things. For
example, I'm all for the return of Boomselection, but

because it became inactive before I joined in the 'scene'
I have no romantic
perception of how great it suppposedly
was. A case in point was the other
weekend on The Remix,
when Hyman agreed to play a track unheard simply cos
it'd
been given to him by the Boom crew. Dunno how many others
heard it, but
if you did then you'll understand what I'm
saying :/

The other
thing to remember is that its easy for us all to become

over-analytical about the actual tracks we produce. We all
listen to a lot
of boots, and tend to listen to them with
the ear of a fellow bootlegger,
rather than as a punter on
the dancefloor of a packed sweaty club. We tend
to forget
that your average club-goer surprisingly *hasn't* already
heard 50
Missy boots, and still gets off on hearing
something they recognise in a
context they don't expect.
But it depends on your approach I guess.
Personally I'm
not making boots for the 'craft', I'm making them for fun,

but there should be room for all of us.

If you could work
with anyone in the industry, who would it
be?

At present probably someone like
LRD / Zoot Woman. Or I'd quite like to head
down the same
route as Tom Middleton / Cosmos, remixing a load of

guitar-based bands to within an inch of their life. Oh and
Neptunes of
course. Pharrell could go get the ladies while
me and Chad muck about with
all the studio
stuff.

Thanks!

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