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DJ Sneak: "I've never done a line"

Author: Jonty Skrufff
Friday, May 5, 2006

“I’ve been going to Ibiza every year for ten years solid, playing at every single club, for every single promoter and over that ten years I’ve seen how many DJs have come and gone and how many are still left and how many years they got left in them. I can almost predict it, just by looking at them.”

Sitting in the bar of a luxury London hotel, Chicago house DJ Sneak chuckles as he outlines his theory on the effect cocaine use has on the lifespan of his fellow superstar DJs.

“When the All Gone Pete Tong movie came out I was laughing my ass off because I know the time frame that movie was based on, and at the time everybody on the scene were all fighting their coke masters,” he continues, “I’d be the only one who’d be completely not into that shit going ‘I can’t do this. I can’t be in this crowd’.”

Despite avoiding coke, he’s comfortable confessing to an earlier flirtation with ecstasy and equally outspoken about a genre he clearly loathes- trance.

“For me, I put trance and ecstasy and cocaine in the same category. To me, you have to be on cocaine to appreciate trance; or say cocaine or ecstasy or speed or crystal meth. You need all that stuff to try to even maybe feel like you are feeling something with the music,” he continues, “That’s the way I see it, anyway, trance doesn’t make sense to me. I can relate more to Herbie Hancock and James Brown music than trance.”
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