Rob, thanks for joining us at Prehab HQ

So what’s new in Rob Mooney land? What's coming up in the near future
production, label & djing wise?

Well, over the past 6 months I've finished running my label Bass For
Breakfast, joined Tokio Recordings, and started a new, more techno based
alias.

As for the production side of things I've mainly been concentrating on
writing a lot of new material under my new Noreuil guise, in order to
get that off the ground. Next week sees my first release out on Tokio
Recordings, the promo for it has gone really well, and picked up support
from Hawtin, Sasha, Slam, John Selway, Anderson Noise & Guy J. So I'm
really pleased with that! I've also started writing some deeper, darker
house music with a good friend of mine, Junior Gee. We've finished a few
tracks already and have bits signed to Tokio and Evasive. We are
currently in the process of signing our new EP to a label but nothing is
confirmed yet so I'd better not jinx it, if that even means anything,haha.

DJ wise, I obviously have this gig for you guys, which I'm really
excited about as I havent played at Area before. Then I'm off to Russia
in a few weeks for a few dates out there and then next month I'm off to
Poland for a long weekend, which should be good, hopefully I wont be sick
out there this time!

In the past your style has encompassed a whole host of Genres from
Progressive house to techno. Where would you say you are at musically at
the moment?

I would say these days all my music is taking a more techno edge. I
grew up (musically) on melodic music and that never leaves me whether
I'm in the studio of playing in clubs, I guess its a first love kinda
thing.

Who & what influences you when it comes to producing & djing?

People like Magda, Marc Houle, Click Box, Loco Dice, Bader, D-Nox &
Beckers, Davis & May, Tim Green and Joey Beltram are the doing it for me
at the moment. However, I have all sort of stuff on my IPod that I
listen to regularly, some of them are real guilty pleasures that I'd
rather not tell people about,haha.

A geek & tech question... what is your studio set up at the moment? Is
there any bit of equipment from the past of present that you wish you
owned?

99.999% percent of everything I make is on Reason 4. Apart from that...
Ableton 7, Recycle, Audacity, Virus Ti, Propellerheads Record, Mac Book,
Dynaudio BM 5A monitors, M-Audio Fasttrack Pro soundcard and a Belkin
mouse that changes colour, swanky! I think that just abut covers it. /

You hail from Portsmouth, which seems to be a hot bed dance music wise
at the moment with the likes of Jon Gurd, Dave Robertson and labels such
a Tokio Recordings about and doing well. Is there something in the water
down there? Do you guys all know each other and work on bits together?

I must admit these days there are a lot of us doing different bits down
here which is great. Its always nice to run new ideas by your friends or
more often than not when you get stuck on something and need help./

What are your top 5 tracks atm? (Excluding your own of course!)

1. Click Box - Blue Box (Was after that tune for about a year and
found it last week!)
2. Mathew M - Reducto - DiaDema Remix
3. Reset Robot - Caminando
4. Stefan Goldmann - Under The Beam
5. Mistress Barbara - Dance Me To The End Of Love (Thomas Schumacher
Remix)

Out of all your track that you have produced, which one is your favourite?

Haha, ummmm... The most recent ones. At the moment it would have to be
Noreuil - Mondays Are Glass.

It must have been a good buzz when literally every dj & his dog were
playing 'Feelin Electro'?

It was amazing, I think at the time I probably didnt appreciate it but
its was brilliant to have everyone from
trance-to-house-to-techno-to-hardstyle playing it. Fingers crossed one
day I'll do it again.

The line up at Area this Saturday features a whole host of names &
styles. Will there be anyone else on the line up you may check out this
Saturday? A bit of trance maybe or a bit of dubstep in the 3rd room?

Its gotta be John Askew. Used to love trance (and still do a bit) and I
haven't seen a trance set in a while so I'll definitely be in there for
his set. Hopefully our set times wont clash!

You have been a bit of a Prehab crowd favourite after joining us when we
started at Turnmills. What have you enjoyed about playing for Prehab?
(Don't hold back with the nice comments!)

The favourite Prehab Ive played at was one of the ones just before
Turnmills closed for good. It had an awesome atmosphere in the room that
night and it was an honour to play for you guys there after attending
the club for years as a raver! You guys a;ways know how to throw a good
party and you always make sure everything goes to plan! Bring on the
weekend

Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions Rob. We look forward
to you rocking the Prehab room this saturday!