Loco Dice has set out the thinking behind a career that moved from hip-hop into house and techno, in an interview with Dancing Astronaut. The Dusseldorf-born DJ and producer said the shift came once hip-hop stopped offering him room to explore, describing a period after the deaths of Biggie and Tupac in which he felt the genre had turned to recycling older records. Electronic music, which he came to through friends and parties, carried fewer formal limits. He was clear that he has not left hip-hop culture behind.

What keeps him in clubs, he said, is energy rather than the records themselves. He described himself as a DJ who needs a room to respond to, which is why he does not put out radio-style sets, and said the reaction he gets on a night feeds directly into what he makes afterward.

Dice traced part of his sound to the drum-driven Tunisian folk music he grew up with, alongside a household mix that ran from Julio Iglesias to Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and Michael Jackson.

On younger crowds, he said every generation presents a fresh problem to solve, and that the internet has replaced record shops and magazines as the route listeners take into a scene. He said he actively seeks out unknown producers for his lineups and his label, though he described the process as scattered: demos now arrive across too many channels to track, and he sometimes returns to a months-old message to ask whether a track is still available.

He also spoke about the role of routine and training, including Muay Thai, in stepping outside nightlife entirely, and about fashion as an extension of the same restlessness. His single "Eyes On Me" is out now.