.diplo discusses his new album, making classics, why he wishes he’d become friends with Avicii and why, 'in the end, the underground won.'
. It was chaos. We played rogue for anybody who would have us. Then this past year I did a Robot Heart sunrise set, and it was life-changing for me. It’s such a crazy medium — to program this on your own and do this perfect sunrise event. It really felt like an accomplishment for me, to make it perfect.
When I talk about how I came from a songwriting world — if you don’t like dance music or you don’t go to Tulum or Burning Man or Berghain or whatever — you can still listen to my album. You’re going to hearand go, “Oh this is comfortable for my ears and I understand this.” It’s a pretty straightforward house record, but you can listen to it and not be familiar with house. You can get through it and love it.
Yeah. I really spent time programming that before I got there, and I feel like it was probably my best set ever. I just felt such a vibe when I was there, and when you’re in tune with an audience, every track, you know what they want, or it’s what they’re going to want. I was playingin the middle of it and mixing in Afrobeats. That audience was on the ride with me. They trusted me. That’s the dream for a DJ, the communication. That’s what’s beautiful about being a DJ.
I wish I could do that every night, but I can’t — because I’m meandering through different scenes, and it’s still a business for me. I’m a different kind of DJ, where I might doone day and have to go do a Diplo deep house set another night. And I love that, because it makes it really fresh for me. I don’t ever get bored of playing, which a lot of DJs do. I feel lucky that I have a lot of different avenues.
I’ll play this gay party in L.A. called Evita. The guy before me does straight vogue music, the guy after me does straight techno. I see how the audience reacts. I’m like, “Oh, I’ll take a little bit of that from there, and that from there.” I’ll see Honey Dijon play atand think, “Whoa I should drop that.” I’ll go see Adam Port drop this cumbia record, and I’m like, “I can do that.” That’s what I do. I’m taking influences from as many places as possible.in 2004.
I don’t know. Maybe. For dance music, there’s people who are busier, but I’ve done a lot of other stuff. I don’t think any other dance guys have done country. Well, I guessHe just frickin’ had the songwriting, and his mixes are so good. It took me a lot longer to appreciate him more. He passed away so young and only had this window of like, four years — but he was really a big influence on me. He was just a sick songwriter, and mainstream as hell, but the songs are classics.
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