Mini Glibbs: How much did your first set of decks cost? Fabio: We didn't have decks when we started out. I've had one pair of decks that someone leant me and I've never given back. I bought a deck a few weeks ago for about £300 but I've no idea how much they cost these days. We always use Technics. Sometimes you go into a club and the needles are jumping or stuff but you get used to that.
Kerry: What's the most expensive piece of clothing you've ever bought? And describe what you're wearing today! Grooverider: I'm wearing my g-string! I used to be a label guy but nowadays it's all about the jeans. Quality is more important. Fabio: You don't go out to just shop in designer shops.
Grooverider: "I'm wearing my g-string!"
Da Sorcerer: Hi chaps... r u thinking of doing a 'send in a demo' spot on your show? Fabio: The tunes we get sent every week could be demos, so we do it every week really. If people want to send stuff in and it's good, we'd play it on the radio. Grooverider: A lot of it is demo material anyway. Fabio: If a track is good, we'll play it, even if we don't know them. We're not even bothered about what format it arrives in.
Rob Connors: Have you been writing any new music yourselves recently? Grooverider, do you plan a follow-up to 'Mysteries Of Funk'? Grooverider: I'm doing a follow-up at the moment. I shouldn't really be here, I should be writing. I'm about six months away from the finish. It's a whole new album. It's going to be a drum & bass album, but there's a few other bits floating around in it, some hip hop. No pop things though! I'm doing something with Bjork and I've done a track with Cyprus Hill too. Some cool people on there, but not pop people. I'm possibly working with Tracey Thorn too. I don't think I'd appear on Top of the Pops. They can play the videos though! Making videos is cool. It's hard but when you come out with the end result, it's cool. It's something different for me to do, but it costs a lot of money, so I wouldn't do it very often. Fabio: I haven't done any writing for about 15 years. I'm still thinking about it. I have lengthy writers block!
Laura: If you were to make a record with any vocalist living or dead, who would you choose? Grooverider: Leroy Burgess, a hero from my funk days. James Brown would also appear. Sid Vicious to shout on one. I was quite into punk rock in my early days. People probably wouldn't know what was going on! Fabio: I can't think of anyone specific but there's so many people.
Michael: What do you think of the exclusion of Drum and Bass from the MOBO Awards in the last two years?Grooverider: I got my award so that's the most important! Fabio: I think it's ignorance as well really. I don't have a problem with it. Grooverider: The field we're in isn't really about that, there's not much competition around. You're all in the same game and it's all music. We're all behind each other and help each other. Fabio: At the end of the day, the MOBOS isn't representing what it's supposed to be representing really. It was meant to be a British thing. Drum & bass is one of the main British music styles. Grooverider: It doesn't really matter. Fabio: People always try to draw us back in and disregard us, it's happened twice before and we're not going to let it happen again.
Judy: Which countries have the best drum and bass scenes outside of the UK? Fabio: I've heard a lot about Australia, but I've never been. Grooverider: New Zealand and Canada. America is coming through. Hungary, Greece. Fabio: Costa Rica, there's a few clubs there, Montego Bay, Brazil is going off, lots of really big parties. We've both been there a couple of times. Here is still the most important place for us, so we don't go on huge two month American tours or anything. We need to keep the battle up here and make sure we're fresh with tunes and stuff.
Fabio: "Costa Rica, there's a few clubs there, Montego Bay, Brazil is going off, lots of really big parties. We've both been there a couple of times."
Crawford Warnock: Do you think the current "Old Skool" revival will be followed by a resurrection of the harder, darker drum and bass that took the scene back underground in the mid nineties? Fabio: Nothing has gone away, all elements are there. There's flavours. It just goes around in circles, nothing ever fades away completely. There's always snippets of all circles. We don't analyse the scene at all. When we started this, we were told that dance music would only last three months. Then they started saying what's going to happen next. We really don't know. A lot of the people when we first started off were looking at us really strangely. Never make predictions. Grooverider: I still do house sets sometimes. House music is the root of what we've done. A lot of people really don't understand that. Fabio: There's a fine line between certain kinds of house, but if you stray slightly people wonder why you're changing your style. Grooverider: That's why I want to start a house club! We are contributors of house music, we brought acid house back in the day. We had our little underground thing. Fabio: We used to do a lot of after hours clubs and we were playing music that you wouldn't hear in the big clubs. We've always kept it street.
Bad Man: What do you really think of Ayia Napa? Grooverider: It was alright last year and this year but it got thugged out. I heard a lot of the Radio 1 crew were fearing for their lives. I was hearing all sorts of stories. We were only there for a couple of days though. Fabio: You can't compare it to Ibiza though.
Danny: I've never been to your night Swerve - what am I missing? Fabio: I don't know really! It's my night where I just do my thing. We've been running it for about three years. It's more like the vocal kind of drum and bass. Groove comes down and plays a lot. It's a very small place, a bit more intimate. It's a Wednesday night so you can get away with a bit more. It's going really, really well. You'll expect to hear something you won't hear on a Friday or Saturday night. It's more of a party thing going on there. We've both got residencies at Fabric. We play a lot around the UK too, we're quite regular in a lot of places, like Sheffield.
Kirsty: Is there one tune at the moment which you think has been rinsed too much and now you can't stand? Grooverider: That Kylie Minogue tune is doing my head in now!
Mini Glibbs: How much did your first set of decks cost?
Laura: If you were to make a record with any vocalist living or dead, who would you choose? 
Crawford Warnock: Do you think the current "Old Skool" revival will be followed by a resurrection of the harder, darker drum and bass that took the scene back underground in the mid nineties?