I was a music teacher at a school and a DJ working six nights a week in a local club. We all had daytime jobs and made records for extra cash to build our little studio, which was in a disused garage.

I was playing with an Akai S900 sampler and started messing with acapella, sampling here and there. I took a few samples: ‘Right on time’ [from Loleatta Holloway’s Love Sensation], a piano loop from another record ...