After manning the Dissident fort and being responsible for releasing a veritable slew of excellent releases on one sided vinyl, Andy Blake has secured a reputation as a no nonsense individual with an encyclopedic knowledge of electronic music, matched only by the massive array of vintage synths and analogue equipment housed in his South London studio.

The sadness felt amongst the vinyl buying community when Blake announced he was shutting down Dissident in December last year was palpable, though it was more than offset by his new venture, Cave Paintings, an imprint that acts as a conduit for his own stripped back house and techno productions. Despite Blake’s well documented reservations about the mp3 format, a recent decision to open  up the Dissident back catalogue in WAV format exclusively through Juno Download was met with golf claps by all. As a result Juno Plus writer Tony Poland decided to quiz Blake further on this, terrace funk and the future of Cave Paintings. We also coaxed out of him his top five Dissident releases.

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