Produced with love: Joey Negro is riding the recent disco revival

Which is the best: DJing or producing?

I get pleasure from the actual DJing. I don’t get pleasure from all the travelling. If I had to drop one, from a financial point of view, it would be producing. If I won the Lottery – which I never enter, so I won’t – but if I did I would probably cut down on the DJing quite a lot and do maybe ten gigs a year. Having said that, it’s a good time to be DJing at the moment because
of the disco revival. I’m playing music I really like.

Are you still collecting records as crazily as before?

I still buy old records. Not as many as before, because I suppose it’s harder to find things you want to buy. I’m not interested in going to those modern record shops where they’ve got loads of shrink-wrapped reissues in the racks. I want to go in one that’s got boxes all over the floor and hopefully the owner isn’t on the internet!

What’s the best thing about your job?

Doing exactly what I want, when I want.