inthemix | International News | Lee Burridge weighs in on drugs

A firm favourite on these shores, Lee Burridge is always one to speak his mind. The DJ is still traveling the world on the back of his three-disc opus Balance 12, but he took time out to talk to electronic music website Beatfactor about his high-flying lifestyle.

When the question of drugs and drug traffic is put to him, Burridge voices a strong opinion.

“In the dance music scene, everybody thinks ‘oh my god, they all take drugs!’, which, one, they don’t, and two, it’s not a damaging thing; it’s just an illegal thing,” he says. “It’s sad, because alcohol does more damage than drugs. Without drugs, so much music wouldn’t have been make in the last 15 years; from rock & roll to disco, all this amazing music.

“Of course, dance music is the easy target, but you have lawyers that never go out, and listen to Alanis Morisette, doing cocaine, in bars and restaurants. And they’re not getting arrested, because they’re not as obvious. It’s a shame that none of the governments are brave enough to legalise something like ecstasy.

“It’s a shame, some people are going to jail for a long time for selling ecstasy; I understand why it’s illegal, but there’s other bigger crimes happening in the world right now than people happy on a dancefloor.”

Here’s a little taste of Burridge’s dancefloor alchemy, from a set on Kudos Beach in Romania.