Clearly quite taken by the fact he is having a sudden surge of energy, Cazyer continues in a similar vein. “I was trying out this new system yesterday that people were talking about. You starve yourself over night, then you eat breakfast first thing the next day, at the right time, and that supposedly resets your body clock. I tried to do that and I ended up sleeping through till lunchtime, so I was back to where I started and I hadn’t eaten for 24 hours. It was pretty stupid.” With every intent of getting him back on subject, the subject closer of “so it didn’t work then” finally puts his travel tips to bed with the admission “at the end of the day there is no system that works with jetlag. You just have to put up with the fact that you are going to feel a bit weird for a few days.”
Having learnt very little in terms of travel survival, the attention finally turns to the kitchen studio and his current output. While the latestAnjunadeep compilation has been mixed by Jaytech and James Grant, Cayzer’s current focus is the follow-up to his 2008 debut Everything Is Ok. Rather clinically Cayzer confirms, “Today I have been working on a selection of brand new original tracks for my forthcoming album, which will be hitting stores in July or August at this stage. There is still a lot of work to go with that and I’ve been travelling back and forth a lot lately, so it is kind of nice to get some time in the middle of the week to actually sit down and focus on it for a little while.”
Unperturbed by his methodical responses, the clever salesman is allowed to continue his pitch. Without pretence or distinction, Cayzer has clearly grown accustomed to a barrage of questions and has all his answers pre-worked into neat responses. So for the follow-up album, he informs “it is going to be an expansion of the sound from the first album. My aim is to make it all a little darker and to make it bigger and cleaner sounding. It is going to a similar message to first one. I want to make it as colourful as it can be. I want it to be more intelligent than a lot of the dance music that you hear.” With his goal clear and concise, Cayzer suddenly loses the mechanical approach as he softly affirms, “It will be bigger and darker basically, but there will also be more vocal tracks on this one.”
With the man behind the music suddenly on show, it seems apt to ask about his origins. A classically trained pianist, Cayzer has rarely spoken of his thoughts towards approach to his sound. Off his formal background he states, “It helps with all the melodic music but it makes it very hard for me to write a techno or tech house record. My idea of music and my understanding of making music are so thoroughly routed in the way of doing things. The way that electronic music is moving nowadays is doing away with those ground rules all together.”
