Avus, Scott Edwards, released his new single, Real, today on James Holden's Border Community. He comes from a little village in Buckinghamshire England. At just 26, he has been obsessed with music from day one. Currently living in Wanaka, New Zealand, Scott is spending a lot of time on the ski slopes but will be back in England in a few months. He has been DJing about ten years and producing for about four. "Oh, I'm about 6 ft 5 tall, that's usually the first thing people notice!" Scott added.

Bing: Your deep, tripped out track Real is the fourth release for Border Community, what can you tell us about where your ideas for Real came from and the process of recording it?

A: The track came from one of my many sessions tweaking 303s in rebirth (my favourite hobby), I was trying to get a really rounded bass noise and once I got the sound together the idea for the real bassline popped into my head. Once I had the bassline down I just tried to build the rest of the track around it. I was trying to keep enough interest and trippyness in the tune without getting in the way of the bass.

B: Producer on the rise Nathan Fake has completed the flip side remix. How does his version differ to your own?

A: Nathan has given the track a more driving dance floor friendly feel. I'm a deep house/techno head at heart so I don’t always aim for that big club vibe. Nathan has taken my tune and taken it up a level and added an Aphex Twin style tech edge to it to keep things interesting.

B: So far each BC release has had an ambient mix, beat tool or in the case of the MFA, a drum & bass reworking, what have you got in store for the more creative DJs?

A: Actually its just the two mixes, its been nine months since I was within 12,000 miles of my studio so I haven’t been around to sort out any beat tools. I think the tune is screaming out for a tech breaks mix so maybe that’ll be the next project on my return.

B: Will you be doing any BC related touring to help promote the release or does Mr Holden prefer to let the music speak for itself?

A: There is nothing organized yet but once Im back in the UK and reunited with my record collection ill get back out there DJing.

B: You also had Your Body feature on Balance 005, will this one also see a release this year?

A: Yes, it has just come out on Poodlechaos in the USA with quite a phat remix package. There is also a follow up to that called Breeder of Physcosis which should come out later in the year.

B: Do you have any other projects on the side lines waiting to get a run?

A: Well, I’ve made over 50 tracks quite a few of which probably should get a release. I’m crap at marketing myself so most of them still sit on my pc and haven’t made it further into the public than that. Most of the tracks I make are pretty twisted or too deep for most labels and its not easy getting that sort of stuff put out unless you are established or you have your own label.

B: Your yet to be finished website has the words deep, dark, smooth, epic, enhanced, weird, squelchy, acid, techno, house music written across the top. Is this a fair description of what your music is all about or something completely different?

A: I'd like to think so, one day we’ll get round to finishing that site. The guy who was going to be building the site asked me to give him some words that I though summed up what I was trying to do with my tunes and he just included them to add some interest to the holding page. One day he’¸ll do some clever subversive animation with those words just popping up at intervals or something. They are the words I use most when describing other people’¸s music that I like so it makes sense that they are also what I am aiming at with my stuff. I make music for fun so the most important thing is to make stuff I get a kick from, if other people like it then that’¸s a nice bonus.

B: What is the best and worst thing about being Avus today?

A: I don’t know about today but the worst thing about being Avus has been the crap I have been through with record labels over the past few years. I've had all sorts of trouble largely from coked up label managers who are just in it for their own glory and don’t know shit. That’s why I ended up with BC, Poodle and Ali Percs new Perctrax label cos they are sound people who have the right chilled attitude to it all. The best bit is the mates I’ve met through it and there has been some great partying.

B: What do you make of the culture-of-fame that seems so prevalent in dance music these days (with DJs being heralded as superstars - champagne, cocaine, obsessive groupies etc’_)?

A: It's kind of a necessary evil, the glory laid on DJs isn’t always justified but it keeps people aspiring to get to that level which keeps people interested and can push the scene along. I’ve known a few people that are in it just for that though and that’s when the music suffers. For me, it's always been about just playing phat tunes and getting that kick from it, and if there’s some money or kicks on the side then that’s all good to but I haven’t got any groupies yet. It's funny having been mates with James since before Horizons kicked things off for him you can see how it develops. I can remember being at Bedrock explaining to a bunch of guys that the reason we had been going nuts was because James had just heard his track being played there for the first time. No one knew who he was then and a few months later he couldn’t move at Bedrock for people asking him for advice on how to finish their tracks or sucking up to him under the delusion that it would mean he would be their friend.

B: You mentioned the other day that you were snowboarding around New Zealand at the minute, what else are you passionate about away from music?

A: I'm a bit a car fiend as well, that’s where the Avus name comes from. The Avus is a race track in Germany. My wallpaper on my computer at work was a picture of a guy racing an auto union there in the 1930’¸s and I had to think of a name quick. I liked the word and the whole technology vibe that went with it. I probably should have spotted that it's only one letter from anus cause I haven’t lived that one down yet.

B: If you could be anybody for just one day, who would you trade places with and why?

A: I would love to have been Ron Hardy for a day(or a night) in the eighties when he was playing at the music box. To be the first guy anywhere breaking acid house to a jackin’¸ crowd like that must have been the ultimate dj experience.

B: What does the remainder of 2004 have in store for you?

A: I have a few people who want to work with me so I’ve got that to look forward to, I haven’t pretty much always worked alone so it’ll be good to mix my ideas up with someone else. I've got an acid track with a James Holden remix called fancy arse coming out on Perctrax soon and some more stuff coming out on Poodle later in the year, plus it's time I got behind the decks again but the main focus is just get back in my studio and get tweaking again!