Willie The Motherfucking Gaslamp Killer has been tearing apart dancefloors the world over with his incendiary live sets for quite some time now. Infamous for playing out everything from Timbaland, to Jimi Hendrix, to Gonjasufi (who’s debut album for Warp – ‘A Sufi & A Killer’ – he produced), Brainer decided to call the Brainfeeder member for a quick natter.

What’s your favourite album of all time?
Operation Doomsday by MF Doom – that stayed in my CD player forever!

Biggie or 2Pac?
[Pause] Biggie.

What’s the craziest thing you’ve done on tour?
Oh man, trying to stay up all night for my flight. I know that might sound nerdy but trying to stay up all night using various methods and uh, not succeeding and missing my flight. That screwed up the whole day for me, getting lost on trains and airports – completely out of my mind with exhaustion and having to get to the next gig with no sleep.

What is the best city to play in the world?
Damn, that’s too hard. It has to be between Tel Aviv, Israel, and London. Amsterdam too. It’s definitely a top 3.

What’s your favourite film?
The Holy Mountain.

What is your signature dish?
It would have to be yellow curry. Or some tikka masala!

How attractive, on a scale of 1 -10, is FlyLo?
10!

What’s your favourite joke?
Ah that’s tough. OK you ready? If you publish it you publish it: how do you get a gay guy to fuck a woman? Shit in her c*nt. Ahahaha! [laughing maniacally]

If you were a muppet, which one would you be?
Animal.

How do you keep your hair so vitalised and voluminous?
Oooooh man, it’s called being Jewish.

What’s your favourite word?
Fuck.

The best thing about being The Gaslamp Killer?
Being able to be as crude and vulgar and crass as I want to be and still remain my other self: William Benjamin Bensussen the caring, loving son and boyfriend.

What was the first record you bought?
I think it was Miles Davis – ‘Sketches Of Spain’, but it could have been Miles Davis – ‘Bitches Brew’.

That’s quite a credible first buy.
Well, all the jazz records were flooding the record stores where I grew up – somebody told me “buy Blue Note man”. I was like OK.

Where do you think the music industry is headed?
Oh my God. I don’t even know. I think we’re fucked in a way, but I think we’re also blessed in a way. It’s going to be a very crazy 10 years from 2010 to 2020; there are going to be a lot of changes. I think there’ll be different ways to get paid for your music. They’ll find a better way to get artsits their money and their publishing, but I also think it’ll force people to do more tours and have better performances – to be more in demand for audiences around the world. Performance is going to be very important, and producers are going to have to learn to play their shit for people.

Willie’s new EP will be dropping soon. To keep up to date with what he’s up to, follow him over at Twitter, or head over to his Myspace.