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Julius:Here, when you think about going out at night and, you know, especially in the media I think sometimes there's this whole thing about, there's a behind the door kind of "shush," you're going to clubs, it's almost like I feel sometimes we're doing a bad thing or doing something wrong. It's either you're drinking too much or you're trying to go out and join the meat market ranks and stuff like that.

So people perceive nightlife, I think, differently here than the rest of the world.
DJ B: I think that's a holdover. Not so much Canadians, but I think citizens of the United States tend to have that kind of Puritan hangover where we're just a little more uptight than the Europeans about a lot of things like nudity and, you know, sexual relations among consenting adults and all the rest of that. I think the United States would do itself a big favor to just relax a bit on that kind of stuff. And you talked about the difference in attitudes between the US and Europe in particular, and since you know, you've done sets in places like Ibiza and the Ministry of Sound gigs in London, you've had an exposure to a lot of different kinds of cultures and where I was going with that is, is that not only does it obviously inform how you perceive club life, but I think you also can hear that kind of reflected on the music on this disc. It has a really, I wouldn't say a world music kind of sound to it, but it has a little broader range than even a normal house album would.

Julius: Yes, and that's kind of what I'm about. I like to be eclectic in anything I do regarding music, whether it's playing live in front of people in a club or a venue or even when I'm producing music. I've done plenty of downtempo tracks which have nothing to do with house music, but I'm just very eclectic in my music. That's the way I was brought up, back in the day. My grooming for music came in the '70s really, even though I'm totally open to music today for anything, as long as it is how I feel, as long as it's good music in my opinion. But the 70s and the programming on the radio and anywhere was very eclectic. You hear a song by the Eagles going into Donna Summer, going into Chuck Mangione. Rock to disco to jazz all on the same station, so people would be constantly exposed to a variety of music which today does not exist, period, on the radio. And if it does it might be on satellite radio, but not on regular commercial radio. Everything has been downsized and is very specific - if it's hip-hop it's hip-hop, if it's country it's country, if it's classic rock it's classic rock, if it's alternative, it's alternative. But in some respects that's not a bad thing.

DJ B: I think it is, I think that the fragmentation of? well, we're going to get off into some deep philosophy here pretty quickly.
Julius: Yes.

DJ B: OK, so I think a fragmented society is a bad society, because you get these little pockets and you get people don't understand each other because they have no common references. So you mentioned satellite radio, I've been an XM subscriber now for about three years and I listen to The System a lot, which is Channel eighty-two, and it says here that you have had guest spots on XM. And I was just wondering, are you on Channel eighty?
Julius: Well, you know, I don't. I have to admit I don't actually know the exact channel. It's whatever the guest spots I was on, I don't?

DJ B: You don't know the name of the station or anything like that?
Julius: Well, you know Eighty rings a bell, but Loveslap has a show on there wherever it is. I don't have XM so I can't tune in, I just know of it and hear about it and I know some of my friends have it, but I don't have it myself.

DJ B: I highly recommend it, you can get the units pretty cheap and it's thirteen bucks a months and if you're feeling like listening to the Eagles and Donna Summer and Chuck Mangione, they have a channel that's nothing but 70s music. If you want to listen to classic alternative, they've got a channel dedicated to that. I've been listening to a channel called Math Lab that's basically just prog rock bands like Genesis and Gentle Giant and that kind of stuff, so it really is something for everybody, especially if you have the kind of diverse taste that it sounds like you do. That's money well spent I think.
Julius: Well it sounds like it's a good thing and, really, I'm not stuck in the past, what I mean, I respect the past and I love the past like the 70s and 80s but I'm not stuck in them, I'm not one of those guys that are like, "The only good music is from Yes." I definitely love the music from the past but I think there's amazing music coming out today.

DJ B: So who are you listening to today, some stuff that you picked up like say in the last twelve months that really knocked your socks off?