D-Styles: You can never get tired of drums. Having an endless library of drum samples would be dope. Just being able to drop the needle anywhere on the record and having some cool shit to fuck with. Im making records more for making music than for battle djs. It's more of a universal tool, not just for battle djs or turntable musicians but for producers who sample also. I've heard producers who've jacked sounds off of my break records. But I've jacked them from older records too. I just would have never thought that they would have my records.

DJ-Times: OK, now there will be some more questions about your album and the tour and after that we'll turn to the dumber part of the interview. Phantazmagorea is pretty dark - what inspires you to make such stuff? Is it only movies?
D-Styles: That was the concept behind Phantazmagorea. A dark,mysterious mood sounding LP. That's the kind of imagery that I wanted to paint. Movies is the first thing that comes to mind because I've always wanted to score film. So that's how I would've scored a dark thriller movie.

DJ-Times: You once said that Jazz is very inspiring - do you think that some Jazz artists might say that about Turntablism in the future or might those two styles even grow together someday?
D-Styles: Yeah. I've met and jammed with Jazz musicians who see the range of musicality that the turntable has. It doesn't really matter though. I'm not in this to try and win a classically trained musician or a jazz musicians approval of acceptance.
The turntable is a Bastard instrument and it probably always will be. We're not supposed to be making music with this block of metal and these pieces of plastic right?

DJ-Times: Does Turntablism (for you) still have anything to do with hip hop or what is your attitude towards the other elements in general?
D-Styles: Hip Hop introduced me to scratching. That will always be my roots. Even though my music might stray away from it, there will always be an influence of it. My taste in Hip Hop is a lot different than the next man though.