I listen to a lot of music.

I discard most of it and keep the best. Then I go home and load the tracks I love onto my turntables and see what they sound like when they’re performed. It’s basically practice, but I try to make the sets as tight as I can. The only catch is that I’m not completely familiar with what I’m playing so sometimes the energy dips in strange places. I record these sets and listen to them on my iPod so I can hear what works and what doesn’t. This makes me better over time.

Here’s a recording from the other weekend that turned out really well.