“In my circles, E-D-M quickly gets translated into T-E-D-I-U-M,” he proffers in our new Electric Picnic special issue. “If you mention those three letters together people will either switch off or sick up a little in their own mouth. I say, ‘Reclaim the rave!’ Maybe it took dressing it up as something else for the Americans to get it but for us it’s raving and it always will be.”

Then there’s his banging new tune ‘Eat Sleep Rave Repeat’, which has been remixed by new Guinness Book Of Records entrant – nine top 10 hits from the one album! – Calvin Harris.

“We were chatting one night about our mutual love of acid house and how one day we should make an acid house record together,” Cook reveals. “The next morning that turned into a discussion about how to make a slightly more commercial version of ‘Eat Sleep…’ Calvin wanted to shake off some of his pop sound and get back to being dirty again, so it ended up being ‘mission accomplished’ for both of us.”

Mr. Cook also gives us the skinny on his and David Byrne’s Imelda Marcos musical, the new Doctor Who, Giorgio Moroder, playing at the House Of Commons and how he ended up on top of a neon octopus at the Olympics.

Check out the full interview in the brand new special Electric Picnic preview issue of Hot Press, out now.