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I've been getting mad calls from America. Every artist you can think of in America is on my case. He also revealed he's recently had dinner with Tinie Tempah and Adele at the restaurant he part-owns in north London. Labrinth eyes X Factor appearance. Singer Labrinth 'to sign sister'. BBC Music: Labrinth. Labrinth has revealed that Simon Cowell was "excited" about being name-checked in his latest single. It makes him urban, doesn't it? Labrinth also insisted that Cowell doesn't restrict his creativity and allows him to do what he thinks is best with his music.

He added: "I wouldn't call Simon my boss, he's more of an investor. Simon might tell some of his artists what to do, but he doesn't do that with me. I'm from Hackney and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money. I understand that they [the music companies] have to be careful where they invest their money and trust what has worked already. But writing a hit song is an imprecise science — you never know when it's going to come.

Labrinth spent the following year working with a multitude of artists writing many songs that were never released. I thought maybe I had to do what everyone else was doing," he says.

It also made him quite depressed. At the time, he was producing an artist called Bluey Robinson whom he also met through MySpace , and the labels' attention turned to Robinson instead. Suddenly, none of the labels returned his manager's phone calls. The phone remained quiet when Pass Out which was originally meant for Robinson, who passed on it as it was a bit "too gritty" for him was first released.

That all changed when the track shot to the top of the Shazam chart — a litmus test for dance music. As well as being excited about the success he's had since then, Labrinth says he's been feeling stressed by the pressures that come with it, He often refers back to the freedom he felt when he was just making music for the sake of it. I can shake hands with it and say, 'You don't bother me any more,'" he insists. So isn't he worried that his freedom will be even more stifled in the confinement of a label like Syco?