Time & Perspective Quote by Tom Jenkinson

Jenkinson’s voice here is the sound of a producer refusing the myth of lightning-bolt genius while quietly insisting on it anyway. He frames his work as reactive: not a solitary invention, but something written with the radio bleeding through the walls. “Just the type of music that was around” is modest on the surface, an admission that scenes shape artists. It also plants him firmly in a specific late-90s/early-00s ecosystem: jungle, IDM, drill’n’bass, Warp-era experimentation, the sense that electronic music was splintering faster than critics could name it.

Then he twists the knife: “Some of it was wicked.” The compliment is real, but it’s also a diagnosis of saturation. If everything’s already “wicked,” the remaining currency is direction, not quality. That’s the subtext of the second half, where he stops sounding like a fan and starts sounding like an engineer staring at unused bandwidth. He isn’t saying others lacked talent; he’s saying the collective imagination had an unclaimed vector, a technical and aesthetic move nobody had bothered to overcommit to.

The phrasing is tellingly physical: “pushed.” Not “imagined,” not “expressed.” Pushed like a tempo until it breaks, a drum program until it jitters into new feeling. It reveals an intent that’s less about self-expression than about stress-testing a genre’s assumptions, treating music as a lab where innovation comes from insisting a little harder than taste, etiquette, or scene consensus says you should.