Thom Yorke on BBC Radio 1

Thom Yorke co-presents Benji B's show on Radio 1 and 1Xtra, playing records back to back, and he opens with Burial's “Truant”, his favourite tune of the moment. Yorke sang on a track with Burial and Kieran Hebden, then added loads of keyboards to mess with them, and they kept most of it. On another, Hebden told him the vocal was too dark. “Really? Too dark? Even for me?”

At college he took over a Friday-night DJ slot from a sweet man and was paid in free drinks. Benji plays “Idioteque”, and Yorke remembers sitting at the sampler cutting up a DAT that Jonny Greenwood had made alone in the studio over a weekend, while Ed O'Brien made a noise in the next room that they simply put a microphone in front of.

He talks about Tomorrow's Modern Boxes, his solo album put out through BitTorrent. Atoms for Peace began as a way to play The Eraser live, with Mauro Refosco, Joey Waronker on drums and Flea on bass. After the tour they jammed in a studio for three days, midday to midnight, and he and Nigel Godrich made the album from it. Of Godrich he says, “If I'm on my own, I flail around and flail around and I can waste so much time.”