little mad girl
they're back
imagine only
magic what
this is the one year anniversary of the
album nothing but the beat and of course
I'm always nervous when I release an
album and you don't know if it's gonna
be successful or not but I felt it was a
very strong album originally EMI asked
me to do a repack and it was gonna be
like one or two tracks and then I got
caught in the game and I got so excited
about making new music that finally
stopping seven new records so I could
have done a new album actually was what
I did I liked the idea of making the
perfect problem well you know every
record is like really really amazing
the first single is a she-wolf with SIA
while the way we met with SIA is kind of
strange because we were working as a
producers and songwriters and this way
get titanium was gonna be for different
artists then and I fell in love so much
with it that I wanted to keep it for me
and I didn't think that anybody could
beat her voice on this record I'm really
happy that we keep on working together
and yes of course she wolf I think is at
least as good as titanium the video of
she-wolf is is more of an aesthetic
camera video is the hunter chasing a
wolf it was shot in Iceland
which is very very beautiful country
since she is I wanted to shoot a video
and Isis everything you see there is
looks like a different planet it's
really really incredible and beautiful
it's not that it's easier or more
difficult to work with someone famous or
not famous not like that the reason why
famous people are famous is most of the
time because they're talented
so what's difficult is to find an artist
that is not famous that is as talented
as an artist that is famous that's what
that's the challenge but when do you in
the studio
talent is talent I think the experience
we see that was probably the less famous
artists on the album it's very
encouraging you know and it makes me
want to work even more with people that
are not necessarily super famous but I
just have to find them and that takes
time and on the album does this record
cool just one last time and it's
featuring a taped and ride and rise the
singer is his first record his voice is
incredible that song is very very strong
I think it's a huge hit play heart is
also very big record I think it's
definitely gonna be a single between you
and a con
Neil is I think one of the most
incredible writer I've seen it's like
he's so fast
I was shocked the first time we worked
we actually worked for the first time
here years ago and icon is one of my
dear dear friends since we Johnny
sexy together we always kept on
riding together in that lane of our
standing I was doing combining urban
music and electro
so just a big big party record if my
head is a collaboration with and that is
groove really exciting new producers
from Italy from Naples and my girls
nerville we already work together
because they wrote this caterwaulin and
when love takes over I'm really happy
for them beginning
really nice career as a DJ now like
crazy twin sisters really amazing
positive energy like I'm happy down my
record every chance we get we run is
totally different from I think anything
I've done before it's those two artists
I really really kind of left field and
then is tagging and Sara and I produced
that record news and ISO is also one of
the most exciting new producer in the
moment it was really different from
anything else so it was making it even
more special for me that's how I feel
about this record it's really I cannot
put it in any box it's not in the format
of anything I've done before
even though good feel it's a little bit
of that without you that chain kind of
line but more India would say and yeah I
I'm in love with this record it's so
emotional I would love to make a video
maybe for this record because you know
it's so special to me so maybe I would
do like a
like a small budget experimental video I
think it you know deserves a video
I'm sure
I'm here
I'm sure huh
the fact that I did a double album was
different things at the same time first
I wanted to say to our original fans I'm
still a DJ I'm still with you and this
is still important for me I wanted to
use that opportunity huge opportunity
that success is to introduce a little
more electronic sound to people that
maybe are not so familiar with I wanted
to respect that concept even under new
version of the album
metropolis Nicky Romero and myself we
collaborated like I could it's been a
very big club success like almost every
DJ play that record with a combination
of very melodic house music was the
first release of my label drag back the
label is not really a next step for me
it's more like a like a hobby like
having fun I just used a label to put
out some of my releases like that are
purely electronic also sometimes I fall
in love is in a record that someone a
producer you know made and I put it out
like a daddy's move there was this
record that I I really liked I'm about
to bees now something for me Spencer
held it there more like underground
records really and I just do this for
the love to be
I think it would be difficult for me to
be only a producer because all my
inspiration comes from the clubs and
from my concept so actually I see myself
as a DJ first and then as a producer
because I want to make the music that is
missing for my DJ set as a producer and
a DJ even though I have to reinvent
myself all the time but I think I just
did it you know my sound was really like
the Sun that kind of created you know
that was really a combination between
dance and urban music and that was the
big thing where I got famous
internationally
actually I'm totally from the laptop
generation i I never produced in an
old-school studio what's amazing is that
with the laptops you can produce
anywhere in the world and probably my
favorite places on the plane this is so
quiet no phone no internet no one speaks
so yeah it's a moment where I get lots
of ideas and yes you know it makes music
more democratic like everybody can make
music now because it's cheap but it
doesn't mean that everybody has
creativity inside of him you know and
and also knowledge because this is a
takes a long time to make a record sound
phat takes a lot of experience and it
actually became very difficult for
someone that doesn't have a real musical
background to produce something that it
goes to the top because the competition
now is crazy in terms of quality I think
if we compare the beginning of the 90s
and now yes it's totally different it
became mainstream music it comes with a
show it comes with production comes with
a marketing plan it comes with a bracket
company so it's like rock bands on tour
it's the same formula really in the
beginning of the 90s it was just like a
bunch of guys away like having fun this
became so big that repetition is also
important and you need to be
professional in order to deliver the
best show possible
every time I come on stage and I see the
reaction of the people I'm like wow it's
incredible it's magic I'm sick I'm a
chicken if I'm sad I'm not sad anymore
you know it really carries me high the
thing I have was the was my fans and
when I when I played the connection I'm
getting is very unique and the social
medias I'm making my job much easier and
I don't think I would be here if it was
not you know like laptops and and
Internet and one of the reasons why DJ's
were so in advance when it comes to that
is that for so many years we were
repressed and we could not play our
music so we had to be in direct contact
with our people like sending text
messages and you know there was at the
time with the raves like the secret
addresses at the phone number is you
know being directly in contact with the
people was always part of our culture I
don't feel like okay I'm delivering the
show it's me and the other people I come
to party with them that's that's what I
do that's what I love and I think they
can feel it I'm very happy of where I
stand it's just that it took me a long
time to get a sense of priorities and
that's the thing that is it's very
difficult I think to know who you are as
a person as an artist I never expected
it to be at such a big level of success
and it's
it's a blessing and I play thank you to
life every day for bringing me that
success you know and that's also why I
work so hard because I want to respect
the opportunity that life gave me by
giving 100% of myself to what I'm doing