"I learned about this record from the Luaka Bop reissue in 2001, so I subconsciously include 'Strawberry Letter 23' on there, which isn't on the original record but is one of my all-time favourite songs. It's the same for lots of the classic soul records, but this album in particular has that sense of one person in a studio in this playground - this wonderland - and it's so euphoric and happy and positive, in that mode of somebody just exploring music and exploring sound. That's something that really connected with me, because that was very much my perspective of the music I was making at that time. It's like, "Oh wow, look at what you can do with this sound, with this technique or this piece of music or whatever.""

"This was the point where Steve Miller set up his own studio and started recording in his own time. He lost himself in that process. I love his take on music – it's his own brand of psychedelia. It's very blissful on one hand, very groovy on the other. He created his own musical world and almost ends up referencing himself rather than taking influences from other people. I love it when an artist has a feedback loop to their own music. The first track, 'Song For Our Ancestors', is the one for me. It's soundtrack-y, incredibly evocative. It starts with a giant foghorn and this beautiful tremolo guitar that seems to emerge from the mists. Again, it's taking you somewhere, imagining this other world, albeit rooted in history rather than just imagination."