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08-top 10 podcasts

07-2010’s best artists

05-defected crew’s tribute to japanese

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fuSian

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..19 year old Drum & Bass prodigy, FuSian is the latest addition to Hospital records, handpicked by London Elektricity, the founder of the label. Defected’s very own Puja Chauhan goes down to the Hospital studios to meet him..

FuSian

‘‘..It was a dream of mine to be a part of them, if not some-thing equally as brilliant..’’

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For people that haven’t heard your music, describe your sound.I play Drum &Bass, but theres a lot of influence from Dubstep, House, Electro, Jungle and Trance to name a few.. Ive been influenced a lot by awesome people like Lon-don Elektricity, 4Hero, Shy FX and Dillinja.. I think you can hear their influence in my mu-sic.

How does it feel to be a part of the Hospital crew? Have they been welcoming?Ah yeah, I’ve grown up pretty much lis-tening to them and it was a dream of mine to be a part of them, if not some-thing equally as brilliant, but yeah it feels awesome to be a part of the crew.. Finally! And they’ve definitely welcomed me, I’m really loving it.

How did you get into what you’re doing?I have a Brother who’s about 3yrs older than me and he’s always been into dnb so it was something I was around a lot of the time growing up.

How long have you been involved in the scene I’ve been Dj’ing now for about 7 years but I would say professionally for about 3yrs, I’ve been producing for just over 5yrs and have also had my hand in promot-ing in that time as well.

Who in the scene inspired you to want to be a part of it? Hmm, this is a hard one. A lot of dif-ferent artists inspired me, but each in their own way. Artists like London Elektric-ity. I do think that the scene itself inspired me.. does that make sense?

Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Ah, I’d love to be a regular at Out-look. I want to be a respected produc-er and well have my own successful label, finding and signing new tal-ent..

What other types of music do you lis-ten to? I listen to quite a range of music, Electro House, a bit of rock/metal in there too, stuff like motown and blues thanks to my

parents, I think it comes through in my music.

What tune are you excited about at the moment? This tune called Relapse which is the new one from Lung. It gets played on my iPod quite a bit, espe-cially when im out for a run or some-thing..

What’s the most interesting place you have been to? I havent actually travelled around much, but I went down to a small club in France a few months ago. It was such a good night, i can’t even remember the name! Had a wicked time DJ’ing there.

What are your plans for the rest of this year? Well im hoping to finish off my first album, featur-ing a few great new artists. After that ive got a num-ber of gigs lined up around the UK and also abroad in places in Eu-rope and even one in America which im really looking forward to.

defected 01/01/2011 - coming up: Nujabes Tribute - summer festival guide - outlook special - best of 2010 - hottest acts of 2011 + more

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