 My name is Awate. I'm a rapper, I'm a producer, right of the current and first artist in residence at the British Library for their Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project. The first time I went into the basement I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks afterwards. Yeah I couldn't get over the fact that there was so much. There was just so much from the world on the four floors underneath a building in King's Cross. I've been lucky enough to be able to work with, to see, feel, touch and hear things from from like 1895 to today. Wax cylinders, shellac and lacquer discs which now we use vinyl. So many different types of tapes, different sizes of magnetic tapes and that and real to real and 8 tracks and CDs and mini discs. They all have their own signatures. I didn't want to limit what I could listen to or what I could work with. I really hope that me doing this makes more musicians come in here, makes more young people come in here. I still can't get over the treasure trove that is here. Everything here has an incredible story and that's what you can take away from it. Come early into the British Library and leave as late as possible because you might get what you wanted done but you're definitely going to see some stuff that you weren't expecting.