When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven’t even seen that part of it that much.
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When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven’t even seen that part of it that much.
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I’m good at melody – I’ll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I’m not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing.
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I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.
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There’s always haters, no matter what you’re doing – whether they’re complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it’s too different.
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To me, I’m always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that’s the most important thing in making music for me.
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I travel with a bunch of battery packs because I don’t always have time to charge my phone at the hotel room when I’m traveling. I always change them, so I never run out of battery.
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House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
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I have always been mainstream. It’s so weird, because I don’t see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
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It’s hard – some people get inspired by a feeling, but I’m mostly inspired by melodies.
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I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.
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If I wanted to make a quick buck, there’s far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won’t be remembered the same way.
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I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
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I always just sit down at the piano and make the main hook—what I want the track to be about melodically—and then I’ll build everything else around that. But growing up, I did not play any instruments.
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All this time I was finding myself and I didn’t know I was lost.
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When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.
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