"I had another name before that was worse," says Brighton-based Will Holland, aka Quantic. "But I can't tell you what it was."

He pauses. "But it did begin with Q. I'd had all these logos done with Q all over them and I wanted to change my name.

"I was under pressure because I had my first record coming out. I looked in the dictionary and quantic was the word I liked the sound of best.

"It means homogeneous functional of two or more variables, which was slightly ironic, because at time I had failed an HND exam in maths."

Now 23, Will has been making records for roughly five years, his style a mix of hip hop and mid-tempo beats influenced by soul, jazz and funk.

He has released two albums as Quantic on Brighton label Tru Thoughts, as well as the more recent Stampede under his Quantic Soul Orchestra moniker. The main difference between this and his earlier work is that rather than using samplers, he concentrates on live musicians.

"There is so much more you can do with a live band, like slow the music down. I've always been a fan of funk music and they use live musicians and I wanted to see if I could emulate an old funk record."

Will was happy to allow the process to create something that moved the genre forward.

He finds the Quantic Soul Orchestra categorised as widely as trip-hop and chillout, hip hop and funk. "It's nice," says Will. "It means that people from lots of different scenes are discovering the music."

Will recorded Stampede at home in his bedroom, playing what instruments he could himself and bringing in one or two musicians when needed, including his sister Lucy Holland on saxophone.

"If I can do everything then it makes it easier," says Will. "Recording a lot of musicians is time consuming and the feeling for what I'm doing can go if I have to wait."

Even before Stampede was released people were trying to book the Quantic Soul Orchestra in as a band.

"I was like, what band?" says Will. So he rustled up ten other musicians to perform with him live as the orchestra.

"It's ten times more work than spinning records behind some decks but it's ten times more satisfying," he says.

The response has also been satisfying, with a Radio 1 live broadcast lined up for October. Will has also had a lot of interest from other record labels but he's planning on staying where he is.

"All the advice is that if you can make it with a small, independent label you can trust then you're in the best position. I also really like Brighton. There's a lot going on and a sense of community."

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