"When I love something, I love hard": Hot Since 82 names his fourth album "Obsessions" and explains why he stopped drinking

Hot Since 82 — real name Daley Adam Padley — will release his fourth solo album Obsessions on 4 September via his own label Knee Deep In Sound. The title explains both his character and the way he makes music.

He told Beatportal about it.

Padley grew up in Leeds. While his friends went off to play football, he listened to the radio and made mixtapes; DJing came out of that, and producing out of DJing. He has performed as Hot Since 82 for fifteen years, having worked under his birth name before that.

"If I'm interested in something, I go all the way. I have to complete it, but some things just cannot be completed… I don't know what it is, but I am a very obsessive person. When I love something or someone, I love hard," he said.

Science fiction at the base of the sound

His grooves are deep but heavy, with a distinctive mid-range: pads laced with static, vocals that carry force without smothering the song, tempos that are never too fast or too slow. For the album he added another long-standing interest to that.

"I took inspiration from the science fiction movies that I love and channeled that. I was always obsessed with these amazing arpeggiators, pads, synthesizers, and all this mad stuff," Padley explained.

Nine months and two drinks

The most personal part of the conversation is not about music. Padley has two children, and he has reconsidered his relationship with alcohol: in the nine months before the interview he drank twice, never enough to get drunk. Instead of recovering from hangovers he keeps in shape — for the stamina touring demands, for another record, and to be a better father. He turns 44 in September and, by his own account, his body no longer bounces back the way it used to.

The work has not slowed for it: since finishing Obsessions he has made thirty more tracks. The conversation took place before his set at Lightning in a Bottle — and the thing he says pleases him most is a small one: four decks are set up in the booth, and all four say Hot Since 82.

As reported earlier by ONE//FM, Purple Disco Machine also spoke this summer about the limits of his own body — he halted his tour over tinnitus.