I could go out on a limb and say it's the best looking, by far
dance music live show ever. Ever ever ever.
We're here, we're here.
I think he's one of the greatest producers of the genre, but also one of the
biggest and most ambitious sounding producers of the genre.
I'm referring to the Chemical Brothers and I'm referring to the Daft Punks
and I'm referring to The Prodigys and The Underworlds
and he is one of the most consistent electronic music producers and artists of all time.
I don't follow trends like I don't listen to what someone else has come up with.
I need to, you know, do my own journey and tell my own story with the music I make.
I just sit down and I make something that I feel is missing in my life.
Either it be something that I would want to listen to, or something that I would like to play.
The EPIC that we are doing is by far the most superior show I've ever put on.
DJing is a musical thing, putting pieces of music together with all the aspects of
tension and rhythm and harmonies and melodies.
Because you can create new things that wasn't there before by
just using music tracks like bricks; and kind of like building stones.
I just wish that I could see the show, once.
Like I see these clips on YouTube and they look amazing,
but it's my show, I should be able to...
yea, it's a great looking show.
I should have seen it but I haven't
It's a great looking show
I heard last night was great, though
I think the biggest influence from my point of view for the shows look
is to constantly make it look like something you haven't seen before.
That's the brief, set to ourselves.
I think if you looked back at EPIC 1, 2, 3 and 4
you could confidently say there's not a show that looks like that.
Even at EPIC 1 I still remember nobody was doing a show like that.
In not just the dance world, but the rock'n'roll world.
It was an enormous feet.
It was awesome
Because I tour a lot I do a lot of the ideas for songs
and stuff like that on tour, just using a laptop and headphones.
When we did EPIC in New York now, we took the tour bus.
So we drove from LA to New York
That's like 50, 60 hours.
So that's just me, working, the whole time. Which I love to do, you know.
Growing up and listening to music, having it as a hobby and an interest,
I never listened to lyrics, for some reason I only listened to the melodic aspects of a vocal.
So whenever I use a vocal I see it more as an instrument.
80% of it for me is just the melodic aspect of it,
what it adds to the track as an element, as a melody.
Technology is crucial, it has a massive part in enabling us to do the visions that we had
I think the difference with all the EPIC's that we've done
is that we always try to improve the show by using the latest technologies that we can get our hands on.
When we came up with the cube idea
that's called the V-Through.
We're using a really quite transparent LED wall.
This cube and a hologram was kind of a different nut to crack.
Creating content for this show wouldn't be like creating a wallpaper, like a lot of content is,
it's now submerging Eric on multiple dimensions.
I wanted to be able to have complete control over every element of the show
and wherever Eric takes it.
We don't know what Eric's gonna play, we're really just feeding off the set he's playing in the present
and figuring out what looks are working in real time.
A lot of fans who come to multiple nights are gonna see a different show every time.
So it's so exciting to just go up there and not know at all what is going to get played.
Once you've done a show you're always going to have ideas on how to improve it,
or other things that you want to try out.
It's a lot of creative people just brainstorming, coming up with new ideas,
new ways of doing things.
Trust, is put in the creative elements of the production team from Eric himself.
I think he very much trusts decisions that are made and creative directs with the show.
Because the whole team has worked together for so long, everyone has a given space
to just get on with what we need to do.
I don't really know what else I'd want to do.
I live it and breathe it. It's not a job or something that is done for money.
All of us together are EPIC, you know, if you remove anyone of us then it's not the EPIC show.
I think everyone is so personally invested in this project
it's not even work like it's a passion project for everyone I think.
My plan is to have as much fun as possible and just do whatever I feel like doing, musically.
This is my goal just being able to make music and to see the world. It's the dream, really.
It's not like if you love it, right?