Speedy J approached techno from a different angle, however: “No matter how electronic it goes, music is still a thing of feelings, it comes from the inside, from the heart.”

“Ginger”, his debut album as Speedy J, is the sixth in Warp’s Artificial Intelligence series, gets right to the heart of the series’ “electronic listening music” spirit with lush, worldly sounds.

When making Ginger, Speedy J wanted to step away from Rotterdam’s hardcore rave scene, instead finding himself at an intersection of globally sourced instruments, downtempo and ambient sound design, and his influences of “the black roots of dance music”.