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Martin Garricks. It has been waytoo long. I think the last time
we had a chance to catch upwas in Vegas really quickly during the pandemic.
You are about to go on duringa pool party, and we got
the chance to catch up thanks toour good friend Carry Vance. So it's
good seeing you again. Good seeingit too. And Vegas was fun.
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I remember we're all behind me inthe boots. A good time. It
really was a good time. Nowmost importantly, though, how have you
been. I've been good. Beentouring like a maniac, spend a lot
of time in the studio working inmusic, and I'm good. I've three
days off now where I'm chilling.I'm snowboarding, skiing a bit, and
then I go back into the studiofor a week on Thursday. Well,
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welcome to America's Dance thirty for thefirst time. Thank you for spending some
time with us during your time off. Thank you for having me counting down
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the biggest dance songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty. Congratulations
on Real Love with Loye So Sogoing number one. It has been way
too long since we've seen Martin Garrick'sat the top of the charts. So
congratulations, thanks so much. I'mvery very grateful, very excited. Can't
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wait to talk all about real loveand find out how this song was born
with Loye So. But since thisis your first time on America's Dance thirty,
let's get to know Martin Garrick's alittle better with Finkey's first perfect So.
I always love finding out the originstory of artists. Now your origin
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story is well documented because you're ananomaly. You made it at such a
young age. But before you startedproducing at such a young age, do
you remember if music was the firstthing you wanted to get into or was
there something else. For me,it's always been music. But the reason
why I got into music was notbecause I had any idea I could turn
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into a career, but just simplybecause it gave me so much joy.
Like it was it was almost meditative. I started playing the guitar when I
was very young, and for meit was just fun like like playing existing
songs, messing around writing writing newstuff. And also it brought the family
together, like my sister played theviolin, my parents, my parents.
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My father played guitar, my motherplayed piano. We would sing songs together,
so like it was very very presentgrowing up. Well, thank god
you were able to turn it intoa career. Now do you remember the
first show you ever did. Iwould do like I had like a drive
in a type of thing where Iwould go to like weddings and like school
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parties, and it's not really show. I would do more like background music
or like some requests, but Iwould facilitate the music for for whatever party
slash events, and my DJ namewas DJ Marty is the slogan was party
with DJ Marty. Oh my god. Did you have a banner that you
would put up as well? Yeah, it's on, It's on, It's
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on Google. That is amazing.Oh my god. Now that's when you
were doing like hip hop and openformat right, every everything. Like I
was listening a lot to Hartstyle.I got into trends music because of Cesto
in two thousand and four he playedOlympics, which was for me like crazy
and I love the music I loveI love electron music. It's you don't
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need lyrics to feel it and tounderstand it. So for me it was
it was magic, like you couldn'tsee it, but everybody and it brought
people together, and I know,I just it got me very excited to
start messing around and having fun inthe studio or trying to make my own
stuff and also collaborating. I learneda lot from working with others. And
then I got signed very young toChester's label, which was crazy because I
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started listening to electronic music because ofhim. And he's been basically since I
was fifteen, he's been like mentoring, guiding me through this crazy world.
Do you remember the first time youtold Testo how important he was to you?
Yeah, I remember face time.Sorry it was not face it was
the Skype and I remember I waswalking through the house because I was too
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nervous to sit at one spot andmy hands are shaking while I was holding
the laptop. And he was actuallythe first person who I sent Animals to,
and he was like, Marty,this is crazy. Can I played
Life? I was like, pleaseplay Life? No, Tiesto, you
can't no. And he's been likemusic wise, career wise, but also
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like mentally, like he's been reallyjust guiding me for the last twelve years.
Well. Speaking of Animals, congratulationson the ten year anniversary of it.
That is so incredible. Do youremember back when you were producing it,
how many versions there were of itbefore you released it. It's actually
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crazy because the break melody it wasalready two years older than when Animals got
released. It was a it wasa it was an old idea on my
old computer. And then one dayI went through songs like stuff that I
made and I remember being that nightin my bed and the melody was stuck
in. I was like, Wow, it's catchy. I should do something
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with this. And then after anight of partying, I came home and
I came up with with the Drop. Not thinking anything of it, I
was just like, oh, I'mexcited to play this at like the weddings,
at the at the school parties.And then a lot of DJs started
playing it, and then it gotpicked up on radio also thanks to you
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guys. It really it was everywhere, you know, and it was crazy
because it was an instrumental song.So I made it for the clubs,
just for people to dance on andto play at my mini shows. And
then it did the whole crossover toradio, which was crazy because I was
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sixteen, and it's so crazy thatI remember our station here locally was playing
it during normal format, which isnuts because it is such an instrumental song.
It was crazy. They told methat it was close to like Sandstorm,
like how that was instrumental that wegot played on daytime radio, But
it was It was just weird.And then the one the crazy thing was
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like I was doing a lot ofinterviews and everyone's like, oh, so
when is the follow up? AndI don't have a follow up ready yet,
So it was a bit stressful,but it was. It was amazing,
And I can't believe it's been tenyears already and it's still so crazy
that like Sandstorm, it's still playedat pretty much every sporting event you go
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to the drop it. Yeah.Now, of course you do shows all
over the world. You know,last week you did Malaysia and Singapore.
But what's the first thing you liketo do on show days? And what's
the first thing you do after you'redone with your show. When I arrived
in like a country and I havethe day, the full day, and
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I'm not tired, I like toexplore. I like to see the city,
meet the locals, try local food. Because I'm very grateful I get
to be at all these incredible placesbut sometimes I'm only for a very short
time in a certain place. It'sall about the show, that's the most
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important thing. But if I havea little bit time off, I'd like
to explore and be a tourist aswell. And then when then after,
after, after the shows. It'scrazy. I've said it in a few
interviews, but there's so much adrenalineduring a show that even after show sometimes
I'm shaking and I can't fall asleepfor like a good two three hours after
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a show, which is is crazy, but it's such as it's very it's
very surrill being on stage and likeplaying songs to a crowd that actually knows
the songs. Well, I totallyunderstand that because for my radio show,
when I get done, my adrenalineis pumped up so high because I do
a mixed show on Saturday Night.You're wired. Yeah, And there's times
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after the show where I'll just haveto call my mom just because I'm decompressing
and my adrenaline is crashing so hard. Yeah, I'm the same. Well,
with the holidays coming up, whois the first person you normally text
Happy Holidays to? It's my familygroup chats, like my sister and my
parents, Like, we're really closeand I'm seeing them this week and we're
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doing We're doing every year as faras I remember, We've spent holidays together
during Christmas and I'll still do shows, but they join me wherever I am,
which is super nice. And thisyear we're gonna be in uh In
Bali. Oh wow, that's beautiful. Yeah, well, very excited.
Make sure to tell the family.I said hi. Now finally in Thinky's
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first in honor of Real Love goingnumber one. What is Martin Garrixs's first
real love music? I love it. Not that's obvious or anything. Let's
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talk about this smash. How wasit born with Loyiso? So it was
born rewind. I'm I'm on YouTubeand I find a cover of Loiso doing
an Adele cover. And to coverAdele you need courage, absolutely, like
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it's not like an easy artist tolike cover and I just remember being mind
blown and I stalked the guy.I sent him the MS Twitter, I
sent him an email, I senthis management an email. I had my
management reach out to his label.Them's everything. I was like, man,
we got to work, but hewas in South Africa and this was
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like still like a little bit leavingthe pandemic, so we couldn't get a
visa for him, and I was, I was, And I had this
song, the demo for Real Lovewritten and I heard his voice on it.
But I whenever an artist records something, I want to be there.
I want to vocal coach. Iwant to make sure I have all the
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right takes that make me happy.And then we were in New York.
I was in New York for Idid a few shows at Brooklyn Mirage and
I found out he was in NewYork and I was like, man,
please please please come by the studentyou know, and and we ended up
recording Real Love, which is uh, it was cool. When we recorded
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it, it was just geno.It was like a ballot. It had
no no drop, no party,no nothing electronic, nothing dance. But
that's how I like to to writethe songs. I wanted to be super
powerful melody wise, chord progression wise, vocal wise. I don't. I
don't want to rely on production andonce it's like it's solid, then I'll
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dive into the production process. Well, I've always said that you know what
what really makes a good dance songis when you can strip away everything,
and it's still an amazing song.And I mean, real Love is such
an incredible song. Now really quicklydid he see your d ms before your
management reached out to him or didit just stay on unread? No,
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No, he was full, hewas really quick. He's he's super super
nice. He's really sweet. Itwas incredible. I saw him lost week
we were in LA. We wereactually the studio together, just playing,
trying around new stuff. Doesn't haveto be Gary, it could be for
his album. We're just having funmessing around. He's just he's just a
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beauty, like good energy. Andfor me, whenever I connect, I
click with someone like the music goesautomatic. I could never ever work with
someone who I don't feel like I'mon the same frequency or the same mindset.
And it definitely helps that he's insanelytalented. It's kind of scary because
we we wrote two more songs,and the thing is, he's got such
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a good voice that even if it'sa okay melody or okay lyric, when
he sings it, it sounds likea ten out of ten lyrics, ten
out of ten melody. So it'sit's it's tricky to work with someone who's
got such a powerhouse voice. ButI'm very I'm very grateful, And it
was it was the whole process becausewe were in New York together. We
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have still session on on the Saturday, and he was going to an open
mic on Wednesday. This was inJune this year, and I was like,
I don't want to meet him forthe first time in the studio.
I'm gonna surprise him at the openmic events. So I went there.
Yeah, and he was like whatthe He was like, what are you
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doing here? And we ended uphaving such a fun night, some drinks
running around New York. He endedup seeing it the open night, so
then going into the studio session onSaturday, it was it was just it
was like we knew each other readyfor a long time, the whole introduction
thing, like we realily could startoff vibing and recording real love. That
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was definitely smart of you because thatdefinitely broke the ice a lot better.
Now. Yeah, it was fun. Something I love to find out about
songs is how many different v's thereare from when you start working on it,
all the tweaking to when you finallymaster it and put it out.
Do you remember what the final Vwas of Real Love. It was forty
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eight. But the worst thing wasI spent a full day on finalizing it
and I was I thought it wasimproving the mix and master like crazy like
I was like, oh, thisis something so much better than before.
I spent the whole day on it, and then I slept, and then
morning after I woke up and Ilistened back to the old version and the
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version I did today before, andI was like, oh, the old
version sounds better. But it's ithappens, and sometimes sometimes you want to
overdo things you think you're improving.But I think V forty eight was a
good driver. That was the one. Well congratulations on it going number one.
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It is such an amazing song.What's next for you? In twenty
twenty four? Crazy amount of music. I can't describe in words how many
songs I have on my computer thatare not really yet Oh crap. Yeah,
but it's it's it's exciting. There'sthere's a lot of I'm experimenting a
lot. I'm having a lot offun in the studio. I have the
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I have the follow up for RealReal Love Ready, which is which is
nice. And then in in general, like I take December and January pretty
slow, like slow. I stilldo. I still do like five shows
a month, but it's not ashectic as the summer, so I have
a lot of time to be inthe studio to work on new material,
so I'm very excited. Well again, thank you so much for taking time
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on your time off. It isalways great catching up with you. Martin
Garrix, thank you so much foryour time on America's Dance thirty. Thank
you, good to see you,and thanks so much. I'm very,
very grateful, very happy dancer.Counting down the biggest dance songs in the
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