We caught up with dubstep badman Emalkay  to talk about his album coming out on Dub Police in April.  But due to problems with writers we havent managed to publish the words until now. However here is the Emalkay interview now in all of it's glory...

Example:  First of all, what's your name? Where are you from and what do you do?

Emalkay: My name is Martin Knowles, I'm from Birmingham and I like bass.

Example: How long have you been making music for and why the name Emalkay?

Emalkay: I was messing around for years, all started in the bedroom when I was about 13 I think. I chose the name Emalkay because, at the time, about 10 years ago, I was stuck for a name so I just loooked at my initials: MLK, and spelt them out phonetically, pretty lame right? Ha.

Example: How did you get into music production?Any musical background or what were your influences?

Emalkay : Well, it all started when a friend had borrowed an old Atari and a keyboard from his school, and we would just mess about on it sometimes, I just found myself hooked instantly. It was a lot to take in though and found it hard to grasp so I started making music with this program that came out for the PlayStation and went from there. I have no musical background in that I had no training prior to making music, nothing stands out in the family either, it's a bit weird. I had always had a taste for the electronic sound though, always had a keyboard in my bedroom and would sit there for hours figuring this stuff out.

Example: I remember coming back from Outlook and "When I look at You" been the  tune of the festival. What has changed since that release?

Emalkay: Well I now have this album out for a start, which is the biggest thing. Honestly, it's all been a bit crazy since then, the shows have got wilder and wilder, it's relentless, and you know what, that tune gets just as bigger reaction now as it did back then when I first started playing it, madness!

Example: The new LP entitled Eclipse is out this Friday, what else is in the pipeline for you this year?

Emalkay: More music, really going to push the boat out this year creatively as well as with the shows. I may do some remixes too if the right work comes along but we'll see, I'm really fussy about doing those.

Example:  A lot of Dubstep producers moved their sound to a brighter sound and more House. Is this something you could see yourself doing in the future?

Emalkay: That's just one avenue some producers are going down, there are so many strains of this sound emerging these days I don't even know what dubstep is anymore, but this is a good thing, you won't find me going down a single path, I'll embrace anything. Maybe I'll drop a couple of housey numbers in the future who knows, but it's just as likely that I'll do, say, something on a hip hop or drum

Example: Finally, what is the tune you can not stop playing at the moment and is Bin Laden dead??

Emalkay: Can't stop playing Universal by Subscape, it's an amazing tune, the
melody gets me every time. It should be out this year I think.

And yes, of course he's dead!