So for the benefit of our readers, tell us a little bit about yourself. Who are you and where are you from?
Hiya! I�m Casper, from Brighton. And I now live in Camden and work for the Lock Tavern and Adventures in the Beetroot Field.

You�re a guy who appreciates lots of different music. How would you describe your DJ�ing style?
My style is focused on ensuring I don�t accidentally press the cue button on the CDJs at any point. As for what I play, I�m not afraid to call certain elements minimal or deep, but I have had to play to all sorts of crowds in the last two years, and I don�t mind giving people a teensy bit of what THEY want as well. I want people to recognise a few and not recognise a few!

Any plans to get into the studio and record some of your own material?
As well as my day job, which I enjoy and work very hard at, I also work very hard at my DJ career and am trying to expand my knowledge (new and old) and develop my technique all of the time. I haven�t quite conceded that a career in DJ�ing is beckoning, so for now, I can�t see where it will fit into my schedule. I do, however, have a string feeling of what my music might sound like when I do get around to it, and I have already tapped up a few engineers to show me the ropes when the time comes.

Bloggers has seen a wealth of talent grace its decks, many now firmly established acts. Who�s your tip to make it big next, any great new talent we should be looking out for?
I am a fan of the art of DJ�ing above all else, and I think that although there�s a huge gulf of talent in London, there are a few people who have the right balance between good taste and good technique.

The latest Blogger�s Delight resident, 17 year old NikNikNik has certainly impressed me. Stopmakingme from AITBF has shown that the art of the warm up is not truly lost.

Skull Juice, as I have been saying for two years now, are the most innovative and genuinely brilliant young DJs in the country. On their day they�re unbeatable and they have made a conscious decision to live in poverty, in pursuit of their art.

I want to give a separate �shout out� to Tomboy and Fredski who are making the music I can hear in my head, and they�re hopefully set to take the world by storm. It�s like a combination of percussive house with British bass sounds, and quirky touches and breakdowns. Fantastic stuff.

As someone who has embraced and encouraged the blogging community, how do you see things progressing? It seems there are more and more blogs springing up all the time and many of them are throwing up the same music and copying what others are doing better.
I feel proud to have played a part in the emergence and subsequent �golden age� of blogging culture. Many of us got poached by a confused and scared record industry who wanted to figure out what we were doing, and try to control it from the source.

It�s hard to say what impact this will have on the music industry in the long run, but for now it�s made it quite easy to separate the conscientious DJs� from the guys who just like standing in the highest point in the club, and it has also brought welcome attention to many artists that would otherwise have fallen by the wayside by now.

So what tracks never leave your box?
None of them leave my CD case, because it�s the biggest one in the world! However, a few tracks (off the top of my head) that will never leave include Carl Craig�s remix of Falling Up by Theo Parrish, Ho�s Get Down by High Powered Boys, Spastik by Plastikman. In fact, there are just far too many classics, some of which you�ll hear at Polaroid!

And what stuff are you digging at the moment?
At the moment, everything by Duke Dumont and Brodinski of course, some deep house sounds from the Oslo label, Innervisions, Mountain People and Brother�s Vibe, some of Joe and Will Ask�s tracks are promising on a techy tip.

I�m obsessed with an Anthony Collins remix of Kreon and Lemos, I�m enjoying the innovative work on DIYnamic from the likes of Stimming and H.O.S.H, and also an awful lot of guilty banging pleasures, such as Crookers, Proxy, Popof, occasional Dusty Kid records and my friend Matt Walsh�s work as one half of Clouded Vision on Turbo.

You put together lots of different events and parties, if you could pick your dream line up what would it be?
I�ll have to think about this one. I�d want it to be a glamorous affair, with a hint of nostalgia, some girl power, and some ridiculous basslines, not to mention a long forgotten chill out room.

Main Room
Richie Hawtin vs Villalobos
!!! live
DJ Hell and Tiga b2b
Ivan Smagghe circa 2003
Audion live
Casper C
Tiesto

Back Room
The Hot Boys (Juvenile, Lil Wayne, B.G, Turk) live
Cajmere
DJ Assault vs DJ Funk
Gay black disco all-stars (Ron Hardy, Larry Levan, etc)
Skull Juice
Olodum & Timbalada (Brazilian live percussion)
The Cantina Band (Star Wars) live

Chill Out
John Williams + Orchestra live
Jean Michel Jarre dj set
THE BBC Library Soundsystem
Jimmy Saville
Aphex Twin vs Squarepusher ambient wig out
Joakim chill out set
John Carpenter visuals

Where�s the strangest or most unusual place you have played?
At the blue lagoon at midday in Iceland, in freezing cold winds while everyone swam and jumped all over each other, like an American frat party!

What have you got planned for the summer?
I can�t wait. I am scaling back on London gigs in order to focus on my T Bar residency (with Matt Walsh and Skull Juice) and the August bank holiday Blogger�s Delight event.

I�m also involved in running a tent at Glastonbury (with AITBF), a Bloggers Delight tent at Field Day and a gig every week or so, including twice at Razzmatazz in Barcelona, the end of season party at Culture Club in Gent, a post Fuji Rock event in Tokyo, the Loop Festival in my home town, Brighton and gigs in Bristol, Birmingham, and hopefully, beyond. It sounds like a lot, but it�ll be the most relaxed schedule I have had in a long while, thank God!

So tell us about In Flagranti. Who are you and where are you from?

In Flagranti are Sasha Crnobrnja and Alex Gloor. Both of us were born in Basel, Switzerland. Sasha is from Serbian emigrants and we both now live in New York.

How did you meet and how did you end up in New York?

We met at a record shop in Basel in 1991. Alex was already living in New York since 1984. After hearing a mix tape by the cosmic DJ Baldelli, he was looking for someone that had or knew some of the records that were on the mix tape. So he went to the record shop and asked the guy at the counter. As the guy was telling Alex about me� I walked in to the shop. So Alex came by my flat and we discovered that there was a similarity in the taste of music even though living miles apart. At that time I was working as a tailor making my own clothes. Alex suggested for me to come check out New York and after staying with him for a month I decided to make the move.

What�s the meaning behind the name In Flagranti?

Well it means to have no alibi, have nothing to say for oneself, get caught in the act, with reproach, blamefully, criminally, red-handed, red-handedly, in the very act of� In Flagranti!

How would you describe your sound to people who are not familiar with you?

Our sound is vintage dance music with a mix of disco/electro/funk/rock and anything in between.

It�s a very unique sound. How do you both work together when creating the music you make?

I do the recording and producing; Alex is a record collector and sends ideas and samples via email. I then send what I�ve done back to Alex for some edits or comments, and then I take the tracks to the club to test on the dance floor. Sometimes Alex sends pictures and sleeve ideas and I make a track to fit the sleeve. Either way, as long as both are ok then the track gets pressed. Both of us deeply believe in every note and sound we put in to the mix. It’s very personal. We do it for our own pleasure in the first place, we are 100% in to it and it has to sound like that and no other way.
Yeah, your 12�� releases are always accompanied by some really interesting artwork. Who is responsible for those and what is the idea behind them?

Alex does all the graphics, sleeve design and the little video clips. The images have a big influence on the sound and vice versa. It�s an audio/visual experience. It was always very important to both of us from the beginning when started Codek Records

What can we expect from an In Flagranti DJ set?

It’s very unpredictable. Lot’s of edits, anything danceable from the 70’s and some 80’s and 90’s. Some new stuff that we get from other producers, electro/house/disco. Some new In Flagranti tests� It varies. It depends on the venue and crowd.

Who would you say were great influences on your music?

Sasha: Early punk rock, new wave, punk funk from the late 70’s early 80’s.
Artist�s such as Liquid Liquid, Medium Medium, Material, A Certain Ratio, Cosimo Lampis, the cosmic scene in Italy in the early 80’s. African drums, Afro Cuban, Brazil…

Alex: New York of the early 80’s, Larry Levan, Chicago�s DJ Ron Hardy, easy listening, Manuel Go�ttsching, Peter Baumann, Can, Daniel Baledelli, all the cosmic music from the early Italian DJ’s. Moog records from the 60’s & 70’s etc… There is too many influences to mention.

And what about some contemporary artists, who are you listening to and dig at the moment?

I like some of the new artist’s like LCD Soundsystem, Rong Records, the young Frenchies (I can’t remember all their names), Soulwax, Glimmers. Some of the Norwegian disco dudes. Alex is mostly into the vintage stuff.

How is the club scene over in New York? It seems to have gone quiet since some of the big clubs closed down in the Eighties and Nineties, and the focus has now largely switched to European dance music. Is there a thriving underground scene we don�t know about!?

Yes it seems quiet, but in my opinion in Europe, people have caught up since the 90’s. I remember times when I was still living in Switzerland, most music people were doing there was so below standard, it was unplayable. But we all have learned well and there are so many reference points in history of dance music, so everything is more accessible plus New York is just one city. Journalist�s always compare NY to the rest of the world… or let’s say to the whole of UK and Europe.

I mean, a lot of artist’s still come to New York and get inspired. You see… New York always had its own thing (and you can make your thing). You can always find the place you like. It�s never about the latest hype… like in London for example. Unfortunately the crackdown on nightlife in the 90’s by the mayor of New York did a lot of damage. But even more, is the fact that life in New York has become so expensive that a lot of artist’s and musicians moved out or they have to work full time every day and not have the time to invest in what they really want to do.

Your label Codek, has been running for over 10 years now. That�s pretty good going for an independent dance label. Do you just use it as an outlet for your music or do you have any other artists recording for you?

We first started as a proper label, releasing different artists, mainly people we knew, friends etc from New York. There was zero budget. We pressed the first vinyl after we had made some money during a successful party. But both Alex and I were too extreme for most of the other guy’s and there were misunderstandings and we could not take care of them the way they expected. So around 2000 after the release of ‘Crossover’, they sold the album to Gigolo without telling us, which was Alex�s concept and I produced the whole album, we decided to stop all of that and focus on our own project. Which became In Flagranti.

�Wronger Than Anyone Else� was the title of your debut album in 2006. Have you got any plans to follow it up with another album or are you concentrating on releasing more singles and remixes right now?

Yes the 2nd album is in the works and should be released in September if all goes well.

Finally, what�s the wrong-est thing you�ve ever done?

Selling most of my record collection over the years, for cheap!
Catch In Flagranti at Polaroid on Friday March 7th

In Flagranti – Beats In Space Mix

So tell us a little bit about yourself for our readers, who are you and where you are from? I am Alex Ridha, born in Hamburg in 1982.

How did you get into DJ`ing and producing? In the early age my 10 years older brother played me music of the first house-acid and rap records in the middle of the 80�s. My parents put me in a piano school but I always wanted to play the drums. So I did when I got 10 years old. I played it for about four years and when I was 14 years I started to buy records to be different from all my friends. At the same time I had a shitty music program at home.

I was working my ass off to afford my first turntables and spent all my money for records. I bought a lot of old school-diso-rap records as well as house music like Force.inc or Roule.

I worked in a record shop for about five years and during that time I got the chance to play my very first gig in a club for 500 people when I was 16. It went quite well because after I got many DJ bookings which was cool to buy more records.I became a friend of Andi (D.I.M.)and we started to produce together.

I learned engeneering for about 6 years from him Andi and I built our studio togehter. In 2003 I moved to Berlin because of my girlfriend and I built my own studio and started to produce as Boys Noize. My first record was out on Gigolo Records and the second on Datapunk. After that I founded my own label in 2005.

Your debut album `Oi Oi Oi` is about to be released this month on your own label Boysnoize Records. What can we expect from that? 13 pure power-electronic-quality-party-techno tracks. Actually this record is made for DJ`s. You ll get a bonus track which is my Feist Remix. She allowed me to put it on.

Your remixes for Kaiser Cheifs and Bloc Party attracted a lot of attention last year. Was that the turning point for you? Did people really start to sit up and take notice at what you were doing after that? It was so weird because I did the Bloc Party remix in May 2004 right after they released their first ep on Witchita. I gave it to the band after their first gig in Berlin but I think they lost the CD. Nobody was interested in it, either until the big hype after their first album in 2005. One year later Kitsune got thier the hands of the mix and released it.

It was almost the same with my Kaiser Chiefs mix which was officially worldwide released in August 2005 on their single “I predict a Riot”. One year later people started to play that because it got more cool to play indie-electro which to me wasn�t new at all… Of course both mixes helped me grow and to get bookings but I would also say that Boys Noize Records has got many underground fans!

Have you turned down any remixes, and if so can you tell us who? Yes, many. Peter, Bj�rn & John”Young Folks” which I regret a bit and there were a lot of other indie bands I didn�t do a mix for because I thought it got boring because everyone seemed to start remixing those bands. It wouldn�t be nice if I name every single band/act… Too many indie bands and too many remixes for those made me say no. Feist was actually the first one after a long time where I thought it�s cool to do it.

Dance music seems to be getting fun again, with yourself and the likes of Justice, Digitalism and the Ed Banger crew amongst others making proper party rocking club music. Would you agree? Yes, in a way.

Why do you think Berlin is so productive for dance music at the moment? Because every students got music sofware to produce on their lap top. The “cool” minimal music plus so many artists move to Berlin.

And how do you think the scene in Berlin compares to the U.K? It�s totally different because the UK scene is on the one hand that big big indie scene which always was a big part of Englands past as well.

It�s because the NME for example sells like 500 000 copies I think and Germany�s indie scene interests are so small. Our best selling music magazine is about 30,000. So that�s a big difference. And still UK has this big big impact of progressive comercial house which I hate.

Berlin is way more underground and cool-sometimes too cool and cold though. Minimal rules every club. Of course Berlin has great artists like Apparat, Modeselektor or Housemeister.

How has this summer been for you, have you been playing at any of the festivals? The summer has been crazy! I played a lot of festivals in Europe. I love it. It�s so much different than playing in the clubs. I play a different set on festivals as well but I wouldn t say it�s better than playing cool clubs.

Which has been your highlight? So far Pukkelpop in belgium was a killer, Creamfields in Spain, Ultra Music in Miami, Panorama in France and Global Gathering in UK was cool, too.

So are you going on tour to promote the album? Well, I�m playing my ass off right now. I�m curently playing 13 gigs in 14 days in USA. I�m gonna have release partys in France, Germany, Spain, Japan & UK. This year is so totally crazy!

Are you playing anywhere in the U.K? Yes I�m playing at Bugged out at the End, Wax:On Leeds, The Warehouse Projects and finally Fabric.

How is your label doing, what other releases have you got coming up? Well, it�s hard to sell vinyl these days because of the blog invasion and mp3�s etc.. But it�s doing good. I�m very excited about my last signing Shadow Dancer from Manchester. They produce quality electronic music for fans of Warp and there will be a new D.I.M. coming very soon. Para One, Proxy, Feadz, Shadow Dancer, Housemeister remixes of Boys Noize will be released in the fall,as well
as some surprise remixes.

I just signed another guy from France called Strip Steve. So, there will be some good stuff coming soon!

Who or what have been your main influences during your career? In electronic music early Felix Da Housecat, early Richie Hawtin, Thomas Bangalter, 2manydjs, Feadz , Juan Atkins, Dj Koze, Stuart Price, Theo Parrish early Armand Van Helden, Errorsmith, The Prodigy, early Westbam, Hell, Romanthony, Housemeister, Jackson & his Computerband, Warp Records, R&S Rec, Force Inc.

And which DJ`s and producers do you admire at the moment? Are there any up and coming talents we should know about!? I like Smith & Hack, SebastiAn, Housemeister, Surkin, Feadz, Jackson, Shadow Dancer, Brodinski, Justice, Greg Kaz, Siriusmo, Para One, Apparat, Roman Fl�gel It�s hard to find a DJ that excites me though!

What`s next for Boys Noize? World tour, remixes for Marilyn Manson and Justice, working for my label BNR and a big break in January & February `08. After that I�m going to produce other bands and acts as well as working on new stuff or new projects.

Tell us about the Infadels. Who are you? Where you from? We`re a five piece electronic rock n roll band from Hackney…but don`t hold that against us.

Where did you meet? We all used to work in an in an office where we were forced to listen to Virgin FM and watch MTV. Sounds ridiculous but it`s true. I think it`s fair to say we are a product of that horrible experience.

So which members of the group get behind the decks, and what instruments do they play in the band? Myself (Richie) and Matty are the DJ`s. I play keys and Matty is the guitarist.

Everyone seems to be jumping on the rock-stars-cum-DJ�s bandwagon nowadays, but you were DJ�ing before you formed the band weren�t you? Yeah – I used to live with Matt about ten years ago and we`d always be asked to DJ at house parties and things like that. It was loads of fun but then we started Infadels and all our free time evaporated. I wouldn`t normally quote Gary Glitter but it`s good to be back.

So what can we expect from an Infadels DJ set? The latest slamming electro, some old party classics and some special re-rubs of tunes cooked up by ourselves. It`s pretty mixed-up to say the very least!

The current dance press would have us believe that the lines between rock and rave are blurring, but it�s nothing new. Which bands and DJs are doing it for you at the minute? At the moment we�re loving the Ratatat album “Classics”. It`s proving to be a big influence on the whole Infadels sound. Metronomy also are mixing up guitars and dance music in a way never heard before. In terms of DJing, you can�t go wrong with Filthy Dukes.

What do you think of the �Nu Rave� scene? In the same way punk was the Sex Pistols and a load of other rubbish, nu rave is just the Klaxons. They`re brilliant – we just hope they aren`t left tarnished by the media hype.

So what�s happening with the second album? It`s all going sweet! We`ve got 20 tunes to pick from and we are about to head into the studio to lay them all down. There will be an EP later this year with the album arriving Jan 2008. No strings � more acid. We`re very excited.

What is the most memorable gig you�ve played? There have been so many! Coachella last year sticks out. Playing in the desert, surrounded by palm trees was a mind blower. Nearly died from heat exhaustion and all the electronics blew-up but it was a storming show.

Tell us a funny story from when you�ve been on tour… All our funny stories seem funnier now than at the time. We once ran out of petrol on the motorway somewhere in France on our way to headlining a massive Dutch festival. Everyone was blaming each other, the management had their phones switched off and we were hemorrhaging cash left right and centre. As with most things these days you can see it all on YouTube. The look on Bnann�s face when he hears about the amount of money we�ve wasted is classic.