THC: Anybody in particular that you want to ask, or is that secret?

TH: It's secret at the moment, yeah.

THC: Growing up, what do you think were your major musical influences?

TH: Right...The Ramones, Velvet Underground, Stooges. Moving on into punk, the Ramones, UK punk, then you kind of get into reggae, dub reggae...

THC: Like Lee Perry, King Tubby?

TH: Yeah, especially King Tubby, that kind of stuff. The Clash, of course. And then I kind of took a step back from what I think of as guitar-based music, when hip-hop started to kick off and got into that and then techno and a lot of electronic music. Kraftwerk were massive influences. I got into Detroit techno, especially early Detroit techno, Chicago house, and then I think it got a bit lame, it got a bit boring, and it got a bit obvious, and that's when I started going back to guitar-based stuff and Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth... Sonic Youth--awesome!

THC: It definitely seems that the first album was more electronic than the second one. Do you see that as a progression, or just coincidence? Is the third album going to be more like the second one, or go back to more electronic stuff?

TH: That's the good thing, we really don't know. I mean, the last track we did was a completely live 12-piece thing in the studio, and it sounds like an old Stax record--it's called "One More Time"--and, well, that's the fun thing. We might start off with a noise, an acid noise, something like that, and do a four-to-the-floor beat on it, and then you go "no, it needs live drums," so you get live drums, and guitars, but still keep it acid music.

THC: Your last album was very rock-oriented, but it seemed to me that the key element was the sense of groove--that the rhythm, the sense of repetition was the most important element.

TH: Repetition, definitely. That can be found in many different kinds of music. You got dub, where it's so stripped down it just goes down to repeating bass line and drums. Dub and acid house, where you'll just repeat a riff.