“In the past, what I do would not have been considered production – it would have been considered noise”: When a young Skrillex explained how he made his early dubstep bangers

We’ve uncovered a few long chats with Skrillex in our archive recently, including an interview from 2012 where he was aghast at having a whole album’s worth of material stolen. It’s hard to remember now, considering his stature as something of an electronic music deity, but Skrillex – aka Sonny Moore – was once an enthusiastic and eager young creative, keen for people to experience the amalgamation of sounds and styles he’d concocted in the box.

“I wouldn’t call myself stubborn in an egotistical way but I do like the idea that in the past, what I do would not have been considered production – it would have been considered noise,” Skrillex told us in a 2011 interview, prior to the mainstream explosion of dubstep. “I like doing things in a very minimal, unconventional way as a personal way of saying, ‘Look, I made a career out of carefully and craft-fully, though unconventionally, making records on laptops and blown speakers’.”