i love artistes like biddu bappi lahiri lata mangeshkar and ilaiyaraaja anything about india that you are really excited to explore you have acquired a reputation of being a sincere human with your involvement in a lot of causes well thats very nice to hear two films that i produced through my genre company spectrevision the boy and cooties are being released soon and another film we produced called the greasy strangler is currently in post production will you be mixing tunes from indian cinema in your india tour it was until six or so years ago that i felt legitimised when dj friends in la asked me to be a part of a small collective called the embassy i began to play music for more people and eventually moved to vinyl exclusively inspired by my friend and dj partner zach cowie whom ive learned a great deal from we couldnt play in india without representing the land and its music i kept it up for the years following as a hobby djing for friends at bars etc ive been djing in some capacity for 15 years but only taking it more seriously in the last five years tell us about your journey into and with music and artistes who are your biggest influences if you ask me to pick causes closest to me it has to be anything related to children such as art of elysium which brings the arts to children in hospital could you throw some light on the story behind your stage names the three of us fitz zach and i are so excited to visit india and play records for yall playing music that i loved on a loud sound system for people hit me with instant joy and satisfaction when i dj by myself i dont ever use a stage name except for when i used jamie starr once whilst djing at in la while his visit was enough to spark excitement across cities jaws dropped when fans heard the reason for his tour music those were preipod days and i carried hundreds of cds with me when i traveled and one night whilst at a friends bar i played with a cd mixer and started cross fading between songs weve all brought a few records of indian film music i also back anything related to pushing for clean and natural food production and support of local farmers last month when the news of the lord of the rings star elijah woods tour of india emerged it was a twofold surpise i suppose when people are familiar with one aspect of who you are its somewhat understandably assumed that it is all that you do how familiar are you with indian music in what is his first interview on his current tour hyderabad times discovered that wood is full of surprises from his passion for vinyls to his familiarity of retro bollywood music so heres the lowdown on woods journey into music