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What else is on schedule at the moment?

A New Jack Techno compilation featuring a lot of our new core artists, Proxy’s long-awaited debut album, new EPs from Skream, Clouds, Gingy & Bordello, and some more Twin Turbo releases as well. Tiga has some awesome new material, some of which will probably be on Turbo as well.

There’s even a shift towards dubstep, with upcoming releases by Skream in the works. Can you give us more details about it?

The Skream record is awesome but very different from most of his stuff. I love what I’ve heard so far, and we’re just waiting for the final masters.

What’s interesting in dubstep for you at this moment? In North America it’s like a mainstream dance sound at this moment, with all this Skrillex craze, so I was wondering if this is the correct moment to go in that direction –unless you want to attract new crowds to the label.

We were admittedly a bit late on the whole thing… Tiga is very into a lot of the big dubstep stuff, but I think in general we both favour the UK end of that scene, especially the more dubstep-influenced techno sound of guys like Untold, Zomby, Skream, and even someone like Blawan (though the dubstep influence might be a bit thin there).

You’re signing a project called Clouds as well.

I think there’s some confusion with Clouds, as there is a dubstep act from Finland with the same name as OUR Clouds, who are two young Scottish kids. In any case, their new EP is a monster… they’ve been playlisted by Sven Vath and Martin Gore lately, so it’s nice to see them getting picked up.

It seems the future will be exciting for Turbo. What are your feelings at this very moment, in the wake of a new phase of development, and without a glimpse yet of what’s to come in terms of reception?

It’s exciting to change things up and not stand still. I feel amazing about the new talent we’ve signed and really look forward to hearing all the new music they make this year!

What position on the global dance music market would you like to achieve for the next 5 years?

If not complete domination, then survival is ok with me. Just keep putting out music we love…

When’s the new Tiga album coming out? He said on Twitter that he has started to compose stuff (and playing the piano again, if I’m not mistaken)?

I can’t give any timeline for that, although I will say that he’s made some awesome new tracks and I’m sure SOME of them will get released this year. He’ll need to decide whether he wants to release singles first or just save it all up for an album, but the music is coming together one way or another…

At this point in the story, what do words like electroclash and nu rave mean for Turbo?

Almost as little as words like ‘Indie-Dance’ and ‘Deep Jack Swing’.