With hardcore roots and a brash mix of electro, dubstep and bass music, US young gun producer Skrillex has found himself thrust into the spotlight with just two EPs under his belt. And as with any rise to prominence there’s also been a backlash against the producer otherwise known as Sonny Moore, with detractors piping up in dance communities across the internet – you might find a few right here on inthemix too.

Speaking to inthemix in the midst of a European tour, Skrillex addressed the biters taking shots at his work online, explaining that the “haters” don’t matter to him.

“I always get asked what’s up with all my haters but the thing is I’ve barely ever experienced it,” he said before his show in Nottingham. “I just don’t go looking for them and I don’t read them. I know that Dubstep Forum has whole threads dedicated to me, which is very flattering, but they don’t like anything that isn’t a square wave of filter and an 808 kick, y’know? And there was this thing on the Erol Alkan Forum where they said that I had all these ghost-producers, so I had to step in and post that time.”

Discussing the politics behind today’s backlash culture, Skrillex suggested that online communities can fickle in their praise for artists one day and their hatred for them the next.

“I see it happen on forums all the time, like on Dubstep Forum they fucking hate Rusko, Doctor P – all the best guys! At one point they were worshipped and then the minute they become successful everything flips,” he said. “I don’t really care, I just want to make music. That’s my thing; making music that I love and that pleases me. Whoever may naturally connect with the music is just a bonus.”

Skrillex will be out in Australia next month as a part of the Creamfields festival tour and its Planet Cream and Warehouse offshoots, where he’ll play alongside regular tour buddy Deadmau5, a producer who knows a thing or two about haters himself…