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Jason Bentley: Next, we turn to my friend and producer Bomb The Bass, hello Tim Simenon, welcome to KCRW.
Tim Simenon: How, how are you doing.
Jason: Looking back on an extensive career that has involved Neneh Cherry , and Sinead O'Connor , and Depeche Mode, and David Bowie, and many others, was there any one point where it clicked for you and said "This is my career . I'm gonna be here as a producer , making records, and..."?
Tim: Y es, with Depeche Mode especially , because, as a teenager , I was a big fan, so me working with them now has kind of hit home.
Jason: Just to fill people in, you are currently producing Depeche Mode's record, which is due out and to be finished at the end of the year?
Tim: That's right. Well, it probably won't be out till the spring of next year , April/May [for] the album, and the single probably [in] January or February .
Jason: I wanna talk about the creative process with you. How do you address this? Y ou walk in the room, okay , and there's Depeche Mode, and it's 10AM, or maybe it's later ...
Tim: Much later .
Jason: Much later . And you say , "Okay , now, let's go." Does it work out to be something? Like, do you walk away from these situations with lifelong friends? Or is it very business-like, like "Okay , we've gotta finish this, let's do it", and then it's over?
Tim: No, it's really not, like, business-like at all. I mean, obviously there's always gonna be a schedule. But fortunately I'm in a position to being able to work with people I wanna work with. So it's always like a fairly relaxing atmosphere. And also, I think the actual partnership starts really in me hearing the songs first, and actually feeling that I can actually contribute something towards them. If that's not the case, I'll definitely pass on it. So everything I've worked on is something I was into.
