Andy Blake launches World Unknown

Tell us about the World Unknown parties. What's the atmosphere like, what sets them apart? They are very free-spirited affairs and the music is pretty different to what you'll hear at other places, kind of wild and loose and genuinely psychedelic. It's the combination of the music and the general sonic aesthetic, our very cool and unique venue and the fact that it's well out of the way of any passing trade, the big old beast of a reggae sound system, the vintage projector-based lighting set-up we've been gradually putting together and experimenting with and, probably most importantly, our crowd of regulars. This is your third label so far, after Dissident and Cave Paintings. Is it hard to keep a label, a party and a DJ career going at the same time? I've actually had quite a few labels over the years, but I still find it a bit funny to think of what I do as a career, it's more just a case of getting on with what I'm interested in and inspired to do and doing it as well as I can. When I had Dissident, the insanely prolific release schedule definitely took over my life a bit too much, which is one of the reasons I shut the label down, but Joe and I will be keeping the release schedule for this label pretty steady. It'll be one every other month, and the idea is for me to release a Cave Paintings 12-inch on the opposite months. I'm sitting on tons of material and meant to have quite a few Cave Paintings 12-inches out by now, but I've been really busy DJing and running the party so it's kind of slipped down the priority list. I guess that in itself is some kind of answer to your question but it's not really that hard, maybe it's more that there aren't enough hours in the day to do all the things that I'd like to do.