April 18, 2024 • 25 mins
On this week's bonus episode of America's Dance 30: The Podcast, we get you more of the artist chats we had at the EDMAs during Miami Music Week, including: Markus Schulz, BONNIE X CLYDE, Nicky Romero, JES, KSHMR, & Armin van Buuren! Make sure you're following/subscribed on whatever platform you're listening so you get notified when these bonus episodes drop!!
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- Markus Schulz talks his latest schedule, the best way to survive Miami Music Week, the resurgence of uptempo dance music, and what's next for him
- BONNIE X CLYDE talk their latest songs "Weight Of The World" and "I Miss You, I Don't"
- Nicky Romero shares how he's been and how his return to Miami Music Week has been, and how "Desire" came together w TELYKast
- JES talks her return to Miami Music Week, her hybrid shows of DJ'ing and singing, and what's next for her
- KSHMR talks winning an EDMA, 10 years of 'KSHMR', looking back on his incredible career and how he felt after The Cataracs disbanded, and how "Tears On The Dancefloor" was born w Hannah Boleyn
- Armin van Buuren talks his insane schedule going from Tomorrowland: Winter directly to Miami Music Week, how "Forever (Stay Like This)" was born w Goodboys and why it took so long to be released, how his collab w Gryffin was born and the story behind the song, and shares about his 9th studio album
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Back again with another bonus episode ofAmerica's Dance thirty the podcast. It's Brian
Fink got more chats from Miami MusicWeek for you, including Marcus Schultz,
Body and Clyde, Nikki Romero,Jess Kashmere, and the incredible Armin Van
Buren. Ps. I notice thatI say incredible way too much when I'm
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introing these artists, but that's fora session with my therapist. Don't forget
to follow or subscribe to America's Dancethirty the podcast wherever you get your podcasts,
and you can count down the biggestdance songs every week on stations around
the world. Just tap over toAmerica's Dance thirty dot com for a listing
of all stations, days and timesto listen. And thank you so much
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for being a part of our adthirty fam. Without further ado, your
bonus episode of America's Dance thirty thepodcast, dance counting down the biggest dance
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songs in the country. This isAmerica's Dance thirty. We're alive at the
DMAs with the legend Marcus Shultz.How have you been good? Good?
And I don't know when I becamea legend because you will go from the
hot up and young coming guy.I didn't say that, right, but
to all of a sudden you blinkand you're a legend. It's like it
just happens, you know. Letme start that over. Then we are
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here at the DMAs with the upand coming Marcus Shultz. How have you
been. It's nice finally meeting youas an up and comer. Yeah right,
I've everything is so new here.I've never done this before. So
we were talking about how insane yourschedule it is. Is share with everybody
what's been going on with you lately? Yeah, well this past weekend I
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was in Asia, the weekend beforein Australia. I got home on Sunday,
a couple hours or a couple ofnights of good sleep, and here
we are in the middle of MiamiMusic Week. Ultra craziness. You know,
it's a yeah, it just keepsgoing and the summer is even gonna
is gonna be even crazier, whichis a good thing, a very good
thing. Now you are a prowith Miami Music Week. I mean you've
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been doing it for so long.How has it been for you? Good?
Good? You know you'd learn topace yourself. I think that's the
most important thing because people come inhere and then you just like they just
thrash through the whole thing and thenthey they're zombies by Sunday. The up
and comers, Yeah, the upand comers exactly. But if you want
to be a Miami Music Week legend, pace yourself. There's a lot of
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there's plenty of time where you canjust kind of rest recharge your batteries because
you don't want to miss out onand not only miss out, but like
you don't want to miss the feelingwhen when there's a special feeling that's happening.
You know, I was telling oneof my friends, when this is
all done, you're literally gonna sayto yourself, what just happened? Because
it's all a blur. It isa blur, and things will start coming
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back to you. But like it'slike if you get desensitized, it really
makes it harder to just kind oflike reminisce and be like wow, but
you know, it is, itreally is. There's special moments happening all
the time, and it's it's amazing. It's just magic in the air during
Miami Music Week because with all theartists, all of the fans. There's
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just such a great connection here.It truly is now something I got to
talk to you about because again,as a legend, you've been doing this
for a long time. Seeing theresurgence of the up tempo and trance making
its way back, and how doesthat feel for you? Well, first
of all, they're not calling ittrance right, it's like it's under a
new name. But it's amazing.It just goes to show you that these
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melodies, the melodies are timeless,you know, there there really are works
of art. And then as faras the up tempo, it's like,
you know, one twenty two,one twenty four bpm. Deep house was
like really dominant for many many years, but you saw it especially in your
these hard style festivals one hundred andfifty beats per minute. People were just
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losing their minds and going crazy,and it was only natural for it to
just kind of creep back into morethe mainstream. Do I say mainstream more
mainstream dance? You know, becausethis has been bubbling for years in Europe
and at these hard style festivals,and it's actually been regional because in Chicago,
for example, it's always hard stylehas always been a thing. Chicago
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hard house has always been a thingexactly. So it's just a matter of
everything's cycles, you know, andnow this is the spotlight is on this
and everybody kind of tries to takesomething and twist it into a new way,
and it's really kind of I mean, as an artist, it just
your creative mind just to gets getsreally worked up. You know. Anytime
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there's a new there's a new trendthat's coming, you're like, oh,
something new to try, you know, something to freshen up. So what
is next for Marcus Schultz. Well, we're still releasing some tracks from my
Rabbit Hole Circus album, some youknow, some singles that still need to
be released, remixes. But thenthis summer, uh spring, summer,
every month, I'm gonna be releasinga track instrumental, like proper club mainstage
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bangers. That's what I really wantto you know. I have so many
tracks that I produced that are thatI play in my sets that are not
out and people just go crazy forthem when I play them in my sets,
and DJ's have been you know,asking for them. So it's like
we're gonna prop you know, doproper releases on all these tracks that you
guys have been hearing at all thefestivals. Well, it was great chatting
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with you as an up and comer. It is awesome chatting with you as
a legend. Marcus Schultz, thankyou for your time with us at the
dm A Hey, thank you forhaving me. We're alive at the d
M as with the incredible Bonnie andClyde. Welcome to Miami Music Week.
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Thank you some much for having us. We're so happy to see you.
So how has Miami Music Week beenfor you guys so far? I will
say that gummy bears in this placeare amazing. Wait this place that's right
here with Evolution in America's Dance thirty. Not this place, because where else?
So you get into Miami. Youknow the craziness of Miami Music Week?
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Is it overwhelming or are you ableto deal with it? This is
one of my favorite weeks of theyear because we typically have a song and
we just dropped a song last Fridaycalled I Miss You I Don't And it's
where we get to perform our newmusic, see all the people in dance
music, and catch up with everybody. So I love this week. So
we got to talk about that,because I know you just dropped the new
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song. But also Way to theWorld, which is still we talked about
this earlier, an amazing song.Somebody was talking with me earlier. They're
like, you gotta ask them howit feels when a song that is so
good just isn't catching like it should. As an artist, is that?
Is that how you feel about thesong? You don't think it's catching as
it should. I love it.I think it should be a number one
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song, so yes, I loveyou. Yes. So as an artist,
is it tough or do you justlike put the music out and let
go. I think when it's timefor the world to hear that song,
it'll go. So some songs takea week, some songs take a month,
some songs take six month. Itcould be two years from now.
We know what that song is,so just let it ride and that's all
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that matters. And it could betwenty years, like Sophiella Spexter, twenty
years from now, we could behaving this conversation again. Are we talking
about Way to the World more?Thank you? It means a lot because
I really love that song. Camefrom a very true place, and I
love you for that song. Literally, somebody was talking to you earlier,
showed me their playlist and they're like, it is number one on my playlist,
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So how did the new song comeabout? So the new song is
actually more of a ending of arelationship record type song. The lyrics actually
are the more that I miss you, the more that I don't. But
it's also a party track, soit's like it's a fun like if you're
single, love it, love yourself, enjoy life kind of song. And
it's a really good car jam.I jam out to it every morning.
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It's like I don't need nobody,I just need me and we got it.
It's all on me. Let's go. Is it a car bass jam?
It's a bass jam. I didn'teven get what I did there.
I'm here, buddy you Clyde.Thank you guys so much for being with
u. Thank you so much.Prowning us. We love you. We
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are live at the DMA's with theincredible Nicky Romero. Welcome back. It
is great seeing you man, sucha warm welcome. Thank you so much.
It has been a long time.How have you been. I'm doing
well, Actually I am. Yeah, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling happy.
I really found Beck my inspiration inhis studio, and yeah, everything
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is great other than the weather inMiami right now, so hopefully that's going
to change. Everything else is justperfect and being here with you, it's
a good start of being in Miami. Oh well, thank you. And
I kind of almost want to sayit's you with the weather because yesterday it
was beautiful and then you show upand all of a sudden that was for
the cats. Can be fast forwardthis moment. Please, let's rewind this
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moment. So let's talk Desire.It is amazing right now on radio.
How did it all come together withTelecast? Yeah, I'm thankful. There's
been a lot of reaction on thatrecord. And it's funny because I met
the Telecast guys on a show inMiami in Live a while ago and they
joined me on the show and wedecided to do a record, and Desires
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started as like an idea, likeyou know how every record starts just courts
and you know, some vocals.The Telecast guys had a really good idea
for the courts and I started workingon that and it kind of like fitted
great, and you know in thesound that I was developed being with night
Vision, with the show that wasback in Amsterdam last December, and it
just like it fit like a gloveand I was like, this is the
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sound that I wanted to do fornight Vision and they really agreed to,
you know, the direction that wetook with it, and desire was born.
And does that happen a lot whereyou're doing shows with other artists and
you'll start talking to them about doingsongs together. I think I would say
with every artist there is a differentroad, so sometimes you see each other
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you're like, you know, Ijust did a record with a guy from
the UK. His name is MarkMaitland. He's also a mixing engineer.
He works a lot with James Hypeand we did a record and it's called
The Night Train and I really youknow, got into the studio and worked
on that from you know, fromscratch. But there's also artists that have
an idea in their minds and sendme a setup and I start working on
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that, so it really, youknow, it depends. Sometimes you have
writing camps like All Night Long thatI wrote with the Space Primates from the
UK as well, and we didthat in the studio in a writing gm,
So you know, there is justmultiple ways to develop records, and
sometimes it goes like this, andsometimes it takes forever to finish one.
Sometimes it takes five years. Well, congratulations on all night long. Congratulations
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you're gonna be playing ultra. Welcomeback to Miami Music Week. It's always
great seeing you. Thank you verymuch for having me again. And yeah,
let's wait for the follow up onDesire and to give you another shell,
Brian, Wow, shots fired,and I will expect the new adopted
cat that you'll be sending me.You know, I have friends of mine.
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I have friends of mine. They'rein the industry. Maybe that's something
for you. The cat dealers,you know them, the cat dealers,
think you remember, it's always greatseeing you. Man likewise, Bro,
thank you so much for having me. We are at the Admas with the
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incredible legendary Jess and it has beenforever. How are you? I am
amazing, it has been forever.Thank you. You look the saye though,
and so do you. And wewere talking about how insane Miami Music
Week is. How has it beenfor you? It's been pretty good.
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I haven't been here for a coupleof years, so I'm getting used to
it again. But I've been like, you know, going and going.
What do you have to do toprep yourself because you know how insane it's
gonna be. Well, I dostart packing early. I do, I
really do I have. You're analien. Yeah, I'm one of those
people that have to be ahead ofit all. I have to know what
my outfits are, what I'm doing, what my music is, and my
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shows are. You know where I'mgoing. So I like to be organized.
And I mean, We've talked aboutthis in the past about how incredible
your shows are because one of thefirst times I saw you perform, you
did like a forty five minute showsinging and djaying all by yourself. Is
it tough to keep that up?It's it's definitely challenge. I've been doing
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it now for a while. Youknow, you have to create a kind
of a journey with it because I'mplaying other tracks as well sometimes because I'll
play for two hours. Sometimes Icould sing my own songs for three.
But I think to string it togetherlike correctly and making it flow right keywise,
everything it is. It's challenging,and some stages you get to there's
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no stage or you're climbing over theDJ booth. You're jumping over here.
You know, it can be quitedangerous, but I'm getting I'm used to
it, and I definitely rehearse alot. Well, what is next for
jazz? Well, I've been workingon an acoustic album of a lot of
you know, some of the popularsongs, but I write so many songs,
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so I have been busy trying toget that out for the summer and
do an acoustic tour, like sortof a Downtemple tour. I did an
album called Into the Dawn, whichwas a Downtemble album right after my first
album, Disconnect, and I justreally love that music, and I sort
of my music sort of starts thatway and then gets remixed a lot,
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so I sort of wanted to dothat and show the people like how it
starts and as it should, becausethe sign of a good dance song is
if you can strip everything away andit's still an amazing song. Chess,
it is always great seeing you.Thank you for your time with us here
at the DMAs. Thank you somuch. Kashmir, are you really popping
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a starburst when we're about to chat? I'm so sorry, No, it's
actually Nicorette gum oh congratulations on quitting. Yeah, thank you. I actually
quit a long time ago. NowI'm addicted to the gum. That is
always how it works. Well,Cashmire, Welcome to the DMAs. How
are you? Thank you so much. I'm doing great. I just played
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a quick show and I won thisaward, and man, it just feels
great. Congratulations, this is anamazing award, best performance. Unbelievable.
How does it How does it feelto get recognition like that? Wow,
it feels amazing. You know.I I don't know if one hundred percent
deserve it, but but I'm youknow, I'm just choosing to let the
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happiness come in. You're so humbleand congratulations on ten years of Kashmir.
Thank you so much. Yeah,it's crazy. Time flies at ten years.
Yeah, I hopefully here's to anotherten. Maybe hopefully here's to another
one hundred. Can you think backto the beginning and looking forward to now?
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How has it been? Oh,it's really wild to think back to
the beginning because my old group,the Cataracts, had disbanded in I was
pretty lost, feeling like maybe itwas kind of just like the end for
my music career, Like everybody getslike one hot run and I did get
that with the cataracts, we hadsome you know, hits. And then
when it when it started fading,I was like, all right, well,
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maybe that's just it for me.And I didn't want it to be,
but I was starting to feel liketired, exhausted, and and then
you know, I this idea ofKashmir of doing something that was kind of
more related to my heritage, torepresenting that because we're Kashmiri Americans, and
I don't I don't know. Itwas just it's just an idea, a
very vague idea, idea that Ipresented to my managers, and I was
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just like, yeah, I thinkI want to do is cashmere thing.
And then to think that vague ideahas now I've called myself Kashmir probably one
million time. You know. Inthe beginning, I was like, when
people call me Kashmi, I waslike, that's weird, you know.
And so it's just it's wild tothink that you can totally invent something,
a new path, a new chapterfor yourself, no matter how exhausting it
seems, when you think about allthat's going to encompass, you can just
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invent it right now. And ifyou just do it. In five years
and even one year, it's areal thing and no one questions it and
no one thinks weird if you wantit to be like, uh, like
a hockey guy or something. Idon't know if you like, but if
you wear a hockey jur tomorrow,all your friends are gonna be like,
oh, that's that's kind of weird, you know, and you got to
deal with that. But like aweek or two later, you're just the
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hockey guy now. Like, soif you want to change anything about yourself,
you can really just do it anddon't be afraid of the growing pains
because they're just temporary, and justbe ready for possibly it taking nine hundred
thousand times to see yourself in thehockey jersey for it to clay. Yeah,
well it's probably less, but yeah, yeah, gotta tell you,
I love the song with Hannibal in. It turned out so amazing. How
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did that come together with you guys? So I was writing with her and
Sarah de Warren, who's also areally incredible writer who has been walking around
here. She's amazing. She's absolutebad. She is. She's right there
actually with the little tentacles sticking upantenna and you know, honestly, Hannah
came in that day and she hadthe rough idea, and I love when
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a top line sounds sort of timelessand classic, and it had just that
feeling too. It like Secrets alsogave me that feeling, and so I
love the vocal. And then anybodyknows me knows I go on to try
like a million variations of the production. So that's what I did with that
one, and then you know,the best one out of like the fifteen
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that I made is what made thecut. And I gotta tell you so
for Evolution, I actually combined twoversions of it to play, because there
was one where you started the vocalat the beginning, and then another one
that had amazing vocals with it.So I combined the two. Oh okay,
not telling you how to do yourjob, No, okay, okay,
but how long ago did you guysstart working on it? Yeah?
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I would guess it was like fivesix months ago. Yeah, I think,
I think. Yeah, I'm like, gotcha. Well, congratulations on
them, a congratulations on ten yearsof Kashmir. Thank you for your time
with us at the DMA. Yeah, thank you so much. It's an
honest thanks. We are live atthe DMAs with the incredible Armin van Buren.
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Welcome back, good sir, what'sup? How are you? So?
We are talking about this insane travelschedule for you. You're at Tomorrowland
and now you're here. What isthat light? Actually it was pretty easy
for me. The first part ofthis year. I was in the studio
a lot and just at home ingeneral. But yeah, Tomorrowland winters is
now and they asked me to comeagain. And it's really great because I
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love tomorrow Land winter. Not onlybecause it's Tomorrowland, but me and my
wife went together. We had threedays of skiing and I played this set.
It was unbelievable and on this stagecalled the Crystal Garden, and it
literally like twenty five hundred meters Idon't know how many feet that is,
but it was really high into snowand the sun came through and the fans
were there as like ten thousand fansstanding there and you're playing the set.
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And I told the crowd as well, I was about to play something completely
different, but then I was justso emotional and so grabbed by the atmosphere.
Last I got, guys, justlook where you are. You're like
we're on top of a mountain.There's snow everywhere as a beautiful sun.
It's like the most magical thing Icould ever imagine. So yeah, I'm
really really grateful that I was there. And then I played the main stage
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and it had to go straight toLeon Airport, so it's a two and
a half hour drive fly from Leonto Paris and then Paris to Miami and
then arrived yesterday here and then uhyeah, a little bit of relaxing and
now I'm sitting here with you though, and you go from freezing to beautiful,
well, rainy today, but Miamiweather. So let's talk about forever.
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How did it come together with samplingGuru Josh project in there, We
actually did that in the during theAmsterdam Dance event in twenty twenty two.
It took a while to clear thesample because we actually used the sample from
Guru Josh and we had to getkind permission for that, so that's why
I took a year to actually sign. But I'm super happy with the result
of the track. It's actually pickingup right now. It's a massive hit
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in Poland, and it's a massivehit in my country, in the Netherlands
and it's really starting to get sometraction. I'm really happy because I love
working with the good Boys on thattrack. The good Boys is a duo
from the UK who are doing extremelywell. They did vocals on, for
example, the Madusa track and uhyeah, I just love those guys.
It was so great to be workingwith them. And we only had a
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day and when we were at theAmscen dance event writing that song, but
the magic happened. You know,sometimes it doesn't, but in this case
it did, And I'm really gladthat we were able to clear the sample
and to release a track. Yeah, it's such an amazing track. And
not only that, you've got that, and then you go into your collab
with Griffin, which is an amazingtrack. How did that come together with
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you guys? Oh? To putthe long story short, it was the
result of a writing camp in laI was actually pretty stoked because I knew
Toby Gad already. Toby Gadd isa famous writer from for example, John
Lenon's All of Me and John.Toby Gad is one of the nicest guys
you'll ever meet. I actually metup with Toby Jake Tory, who you
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know from his work for Calvin Harrisand Madison Love, who's an amazing vocalist
and a super super writer. Andthen Griffin was there as well, and
I knew Griffin already a little bit, but we just hit it off in
the studio and I think we werethere for like only the afternoon, and
we wrote the song based on howI met my wife. It was actually
a really funny story because I metmy wife in a holiday in Greece in
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ninety nine and we sat down forthe first time and I had such a
it was a kind of a lovefor the first sight thing, and I
asked her, what took you solong, you know, because I was
like, I wasted all my timenot being with you. It's kind of
that romantic angle. And I toldthat story during the writing session to Jake
Tory and Toby Gad and Medisine Loveand Griffin, and they immediately, let's
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write a song about that. Sothey helped me kind of developing the lyrics,
and it was one of those songsI don't trust me. It doesn't
always happen. It seems like itdoes, but it doesn't. In this
case, is just the magic happened, you know. I'm always working on
a ton of songs. But thiswas literally written in like one day and
then one day of studio work andit was done. Yeah. Wow.
And did you tell your wife thatit's about her? Yeah? Yeah,
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yeah, of course I asked forpermission if I could share this story because
I'm not sure if it was loveat the first sight for her, oh
stop, but you have to askher. Hold on, let me call
her really quick. And but forme it was and we're still together,
you know. After that was ninetynine, so now it's twenty twenty four,
so it's like twenty five years.Let's great. Well, congratulations on
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that, because especially nowadays, that'sdefinitely hard to do. And congratulations.
Is it the ninth album that youjust dropped? Yep, ninth albums called
Breathe In, which is sort ofa testament to my new routine. Every
day. I meditate every day.I do a little prayer every day.
I know, gratitude lists, thatsort of thing, and it just brought
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me so much in life. Andinstead of like you know, taking alcohol
or drugs or whatever, I beforeI go on stage, I have anxiety,
but I'm always nervous. I usemy breath as an anchor. Which
is so much more powerful. AndI really find that as my new,
you know, comfort zone because alot of people ask me, how do
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you deal with the stress of performingor you know, when you go on
stage or whatever. I just breathebecause that's your anchor. You know that
that just takes me home. Andbecause I meditate every morning at least ten
minutes, I sit down with myself, I close my eyes for a little
bit and I breathe, and Ijust try to be in the moment.
And that's you know. If youask me what do you do right before
an ultra set in Miami, Ijust breathe because I know that no matter
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what happens, if it's drentsial rainstorms, whatever, the stage collapse,
I know I'll be okay and I'lldo my best, you know, And
I've prepared myself. I couldn't haveprepared myself more than on what I have
for this year. So that's allyou can do. So breathe in and
focus on your anchor, which ish you know, your safety net.
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I absolutely love that, and Igotta tell you, you know, I've
been a fan of yours for along time. Not giving up on love
one of my favorite armand Van Burensongs, and I actually just got the
chance to catch up with Sophie EllaSpexter and talk with her about it,
and it was such a great story. Arman, thank you so much for
your time with us at the DMAs. Thank you so much, Thank you
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kind of Erica's Dancerties. Counting downthe biggest dance songs in the country from
America's Dance thirty
Back again with another bonus episode ofAmerica's Dance thirty the podcast. It's Brian
Fink got more chats from Miami MusicWeek for you, including Marcus Schultz,
Body and Clyde, Nikki Romero,Jess Kashmere, and the incredible Armin Van
Buren. Ps. I notice thatI say incredible way too much when I'm
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introing these artists, but that's fora session with my therapist. Don't forget
to follow or subscribe to America's Dancethirty the podcast wherever you get your podcasts,
and you can count down the biggestdance songs every week on stations around
the world. Just tap over toAmerica's Dance thirty dot com for a listing
of all stations, days and timesto listen. And thank you so much
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for being a part of our adthirty fam. Without further ado, your
bonus episode of America's Dance thirty thepodcast, dance counting down the biggest dance
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songs in the country. This isAmerica's Dance thirty. We're alive at the
DMAs with the legend Marcus Shultz.How have you been good? Good?
And I don't know when I becamea legend because you will go from the
hot up and young coming guy.I didn't say that, right, but
to all of a sudden you blinkand you're a legend. It's like it
just happens, you know. Letme start that over. Then we are
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here at the DMAs with the upand coming Marcus Shultz. How have you
been. It's nice finally meeting youas an up and comer. Yeah right,
I've everything is so new here.I've never done this before. So
we were talking about how insane yourschedule it is. Is share with everybody
what's been going on with you lately? Yeah, well this past weekend I
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was in Asia, the weekend beforein Australia. I got home on Sunday,
a couple hours or a couple ofnights of good sleep, and here
we are in the middle of MiamiMusic Week. Ultra craziness. You know,
it's a yeah, it just keepsgoing and the summer is even gonna
is gonna be even crazier, whichis a good thing, a very good
thing. Now you are a prowith Miami Music Week. I mean you've
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been doing it for so long.How has it been for you? Good?
Good? You know you'd learn topace yourself. I think that's the
most important thing because people come inhere and then you just like they just
thrash through the whole thing and thenthey they're zombies by Sunday. The up
and comers, Yeah, the upand comers exactly. But if you want
to be a Miami Music Week legend, pace yourself. There's a lot of
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there's plenty of time where you canjust kind of rest recharge your batteries because
you don't want to miss out onand not only miss out, but like
you don't want to miss the feelingwhen when there's a special feeling that's happening.
You know, I was telling oneof my friends, when this is
all done, you're literally gonna sayto yourself, what just happened? Because
it's all a blur. It isa blur, and things will start coming
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back to you. But like it'slike if you get desensitized, it really
makes it harder to just kind oflike reminisce and be like wow, but
you know, it is, itreally is. There's special moments happening all
the time, and it's it's amazing. It's just magic in the air during
Miami Music Week because with all theartists, all of the fans. There's
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just such a great connection here.It truly is now something I got to
talk to you about because again,as a legend, you've been doing this
for a long time. Seeing theresurgence of the up tempo and trance making
its way back, and how doesthat feel for you? Well, first
of all, they're not calling ittrance right, it's like it's under a
new name. But it's amazing.It just goes to show you that these
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melodies, the melodies are timeless,you know, there there really are works
of art. And then as faras the up tempo, it's like,
you know, one twenty two,one twenty four bpm. Deep house was
like really dominant for many many years, but you saw it especially in your
these hard style festivals one hundred andfifty beats per minute. People were just
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losing their minds and going crazy,and it was only natural for it to
just kind of creep back into morethe mainstream. Do I say mainstream more
mainstream dance? You know, becausethis has been bubbling for years in Europe
and at these hard style festivals,and it's actually been regional because in Chicago,
for example, it's always hard stylehas always been a thing. Chicago
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hard house has always been a thingexactly. So it's just a matter of
everything's cycles, you know, andnow this is the spotlight is on this
and everybody kind of tries to takesomething and twist it into a new way,
and it's really kind of I mean, as an artist, it just
your creative mind just to gets getsreally worked up. You know. Anytime
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there's a new there's a new trendthat's coming, you're like, oh,
something new to try, you know, something to freshen up. So what
is next for Marcus Schultz. Well, we're still releasing some tracks from my
Rabbit Hole Circus album, some youknow, some singles that still need to
be released, remixes. But thenthis summer, uh spring, summer,
every month, I'm gonna be releasinga track instrumental, like proper club mainstage
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bangers. That's what I really wantto you know. I have so many
tracks that I produced that are thatI play in my sets that are not
out and people just go crazy forthem when I play them in my sets,
and DJ's have been you know,asking for them. So it's like
we're gonna prop you know, doproper releases on all these tracks that you
guys have been hearing at all thefestivals. Well, it was great chatting
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with you as an up and comer. It is awesome chatting with you as
a legend. Marcus Schultz, thankyou for your time with us at the
dm A Hey, thank you forhaving me. We're alive at the d
M as with the incredible Bonnie andClyde. Welcome to Miami Music Week.
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Thank you some much for having us. We're so happy to see you.
So how has Miami Music Week beenfor you guys so far? I will
say that gummy bears in this placeare amazing. Wait this place that's right
here with Evolution in America's Dance thirty. Not this place, because where else?
So you get into Miami. Youknow the craziness of Miami Music Week?
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Is it overwhelming or are you ableto deal with it? This is
one of my favorite weeks of theyear because we typically have a song and
we just dropped a song last Fridaycalled I Miss You I Don't And it's
where we get to perform our newmusic, see all the people in dance
music, and catch up with everybody. So I love this week. So
we got to talk about that,because I know you just dropped the new
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song. But also Way to theWorld, which is still we talked about
this earlier, an amazing song.Somebody was talking with me earlier. They're
like, you gotta ask them howit feels when a song that is so
good just isn't catching like it should. As an artist, is that?
Is that how you feel about thesong? You don't think it's catching as
it should. I love it.I think it should be a number one
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song, so yes, I loveyou. Yes. So as an artist,
is it tough or do you justlike put the music out and let
go. I think when it's timefor the world to hear that song,
it'll go. So some songs takea week, some songs take a month,
some songs take six month. Itcould be two years from now.
We know what that song is,so just let it ride and that's all
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that matters. And it could betwenty years, like Sophiella Spexter, twenty
years from now, we could behaving this conversation again. Are we talking
about Way to the World more?Thank you? It means a lot because
I really love that song. Camefrom a very true place, and I
love you for that song. Literally, somebody was talking to you earlier,
showed me their playlist and they're like, it is number one on my playlist,
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So how did the new song comeabout? So the new song is
actually more of a ending of arelationship record type song. The lyrics actually
are the more that I miss you, the more that I don't. But
it's also a party track, soit's like it's a fun like if you're
single, love it, love yourself, enjoy life kind of song. And
it's a really good car jam.I jam out to it every morning.
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It's like I don't need nobody,I just need me and we got it.
It's all on me. Let's go. Is it a car bass jam?
It's a bass jam. I didn'teven get what I did there.
I'm here, buddy you Clyde.Thank you guys so much for being with
u. Thank you so much.Prowning us. We love you. We
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are live at the DMA's with theincredible Nicky Romero. Welcome back. It
is great seeing you man, sucha warm welcome. Thank you so much.
It has been a long time.How have you been. I'm doing
well, Actually I am. Yeah, I'm feeling good. I'm feeling happy.
I really found Beck my inspiration inhis studio, and yeah, everything
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is great other than the weather inMiami right now, so hopefully that's going
to change. Everything else is justperfect and being here with you, it's
a good start of being in Miami. Oh well, thank you. And
I kind of almost want to sayit's you with the weather because yesterday it
was beautiful and then you show upand all of a sudden that was for
the cats. Can be fast forwardthis moment. Please, let's rewind this
(09:22):
moment. So let's talk Desire.It is amazing right now on radio.
How did it all come together withTelecast? Yeah, I'm thankful. There's
been a lot of reaction on thatrecord. And it's funny because I met
the Telecast guys on a show inMiami in Live a while ago and they
joined me on the show and wedecided to do a record, and Desires
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started as like an idea, likeyou know how every record starts just courts
and you know, some vocals.The Telecast guys had a really good idea
for the courts and I started workingon that and it kind of like fitted
great, and you know in thesound that I was developed being with night
Vision, with the show that wasback in Amsterdam last December, and it
just like it fit like a gloveand I was like, this is the
(10:07):
sound that I wanted to do fornight Vision and they really agreed to,
you know, the direction that wetook with it, and desire was born.
And does that happen a lot whereyou're doing shows with other artists and
you'll start talking to them about doingsongs together. I think I would say
with every artist there is a differentroad, so sometimes you see each other
(10:28):
you're like, you know, Ijust did a record with a guy from
the UK. His name is MarkMaitland. He's also a mixing engineer.
He works a lot with James Hypeand we did a record and it's called
The Night Train and I really youknow, got into the studio and worked
on that from you know, fromscratch. But there's also artists that have
an idea in their minds and sendme a setup and I start working on
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that, so it really, youknow, it depends. Sometimes you have
writing camps like All Night Long thatI wrote with the Space Primates from the
UK as well, and we didthat in the studio in a writing gm,
So you know, there is justmultiple ways to develop records, and
sometimes it goes like this, andsometimes it takes forever to finish one.
Sometimes it takes five years. Well, congratulations on all night long. Congratulations
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you're gonna be playing ultra. Welcomeback to Miami Music Week. It's always
great seeing you. Thank you verymuch for having me again. And yeah,
let's wait for the follow up onDesire and to give you another shell,
Brian, Wow, shots fired,and I will expect the new adopted
cat that you'll be sending me.You know, I have friends of mine.
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I have friends of mine. They'rein the industry. Maybe that's something
for you. The cat dealers,you know them, the cat dealers,
think you remember, it's always greatseeing you. Man likewise, Bro,
thank you so much for having me. We are at the Admas with the
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incredible legendary Jess and it has beenforever. How are you? I am
amazing, it has been forever.Thank you. You look the saye though,
and so do you. And wewere talking about how insane Miami Music
Week is. How has it beenfor you? It's been pretty good.
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I haven't been here for a coupleof years, so I'm getting used to
it again. But I've been like, you know, going and going.
What do you have to do toprep yourself because you know how insane it's
gonna be. Well, I dostart packing early. I do, I
really do I have. You're analien. Yeah, I'm one of those
people that have to be ahead ofit all. I have to know what
my outfits are, what I'm doing, what my music is, and my
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shows are. You know where I'mgoing. So I like to be organized.
And I mean, We've talked aboutthis in the past about how incredible
your shows are because one of thefirst times I saw you perform, you
did like a forty five minute showsinging and djaying all by yourself. Is
it tough to keep that up?It's it's definitely challenge. I've been doing
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it now for a while. Youknow, you have to create a kind
of a journey with it because I'mplaying other tracks as well sometimes because I'll
play for two hours. Sometimes Icould sing my own songs for three.
But I think to string it togetherlike correctly and making it flow right keywise,
everything it is. It's challenging,and some stages you get to there's
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no stage or you're climbing over theDJ booth. You're jumping over here.
You know, it can be quitedangerous, but I'm getting I'm used to
it, and I definitely rehearse alot. Well, what is next for
jazz? Well, I've been workingon an acoustic album of a lot of
you know, some of the popularsongs, but I write so many songs,
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so I have been busy trying toget that out for the summer and
do an acoustic tour, like sortof a Downtemple tour. I did an
album called Into the Dawn, whichwas a Downtemble album right after my first
album, Disconnect, and I justreally love that music, and I sort
of my music sort of starts thatway and then gets remixed a lot,
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so I sort of wanted to dothat and show the people like how it
starts and as it should, becausethe sign of a good dance song is
if you can strip everything away andit's still an amazing song. Chess,
it is always great seeing you.Thank you for your time with us here
at the DMAs. Thank you somuch. Kashmir, are you really popping
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a starburst when we're about to chat? I'm so sorry, No, it's
actually Nicorette gum oh congratulations on quitting. Yeah, thank you. I actually
quit a long time ago. NowI'm addicted to the gum. That is
always how it works. Well,Cashmire, Welcome to the DMAs. How
are you? Thank you so much. I'm doing great. I just played
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a quick show and I won thisaward, and man, it just feels
great. Congratulations, this is anamazing award, best performance. Unbelievable.
How does it How does it feelto get recognition like that? Wow,
it feels amazing. You know.I I don't know if one hundred percent
deserve it, but but I'm youknow, I'm just choosing to let the
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happiness come in. You're so humbleand congratulations on ten years of Kashmir.
Thank you so much. Yeah,it's crazy. Time flies at ten years.
Yeah, I hopefully here's to anotherten. Maybe hopefully here's to another
one hundred. Can you think backto the beginning and looking forward to now?
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How has it been? Oh,it's really wild to think back to
the beginning because my old group,the Cataracts, had disbanded in I was
pretty lost, feeling like maybe itwas kind of just like the end for
my music career, Like everybody getslike one hot run and I did get
that with the cataracts, we hadsome you know, hits. And then
when it when it started fading,I was like, all right, well,
(16:03):
maybe that's just it for me.And I didn't want it to be,
but I was starting to feel liketired, exhausted, and and then
you know, I this idea ofKashmir of doing something that was kind of
more related to my heritage, torepresenting that because we're Kashmiri Americans, and
I don't I don't know. Itwas just it's just an idea, a
very vague idea, idea that Ipresented to my managers, and I was
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just like, yeah, I thinkI want to do is cashmere thing.
And then to think that vague ideahas now I've called myself Kashmir probably one
million time. You know. Inthe beginning, I was like, when
people call me Kashmi, I waslike, that's weird, you know.
And so it's just it's wild tothink that you can totally invent something,
a new path, a new chapterfor yourself, no matter how exhausting it
seems, when you think about allthat's going to encompass, you can just
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invent it right now. And ifyou just do it. In five years
and even one year, it's areal thing and no one questions it and
no one thinks weird if you wantit to be like, uh, like
a hockey guy or something. Idon't know if you like, but if
you wear a hockey jur tomorrow,all your friends are gonna be like,
oh, that's that's kind of weird, you know, and you got to
deal with that. But like aweek or two later, you're just the
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hockey guy now. Like, soif you want to change anything about yourself,
you can really just do it anddon't be afraid of the growing pains
because they're just temporary, and justbe ready for possibly it taking nine hundred
thousand times to see yourself in thehockey jersey for it to clay. Yeah,
well it's probably less, but yeah, yeah, gotta tell you,
I love the song with Hannibal in. It turned out so amazing. How
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did that come together with you guys? So I was writing with her and
Sarah de Warren, who's also areally incredible writer who has been walking around
here. She's amazing. She's absolutebad. She is. She's right there
actually with the little tentacles sticking upantenna and you know, honestly, Hannah
came in that day and she hadthe rough idea, and I love when
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a top line sounds sort of timelessand classic, and it had just that
feeling too. It like Secrets alsogave me that feeling, and so I
love the vocal. And then anybodyknows me knows I go on to try
like a million variations of the production. So that's what I did with that
one, and then you know,the best one out of like the fifteen
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that I made is what made thecut. And I gotta tell you so
for Evolution, I actually combined twoversions of it to play, because there
was one where you started the vocalat the beginning, and then another one
that had amazing vocals with it.So I combined the two. Oh okay,
not telling you how to do yourjob, No, okay, okay,
but how long ago did you guysstart working on it? Yeah?
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I would guess it was like fivesix months ago. Yeah, I think,
I think. Yeah, I'm like, gotcha. Well, congratulations on
them, a congratulations on ten yearsof Kashmir. Thank you for your time
with us at the DMA. Yeah, thank you so much. It's an
honest thanks. We are live atthe DMAs with the incredible Armin van Buren.
(19:11):
Welcome back, good sir, what'sup? How are you? So?
We are talking about this insane travelschedule for you. You're at Tomorrowland
and now you're here. What isthat light? Actually it was pretty easy
for me. The first part ofthis year. I was in the studio
a lot and just at home ingeneral. But yeah, Tomorrowland winters is
now and they asked me to comeagain. And it's really great because I
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love tomorrow Land winter. Not onlybecause it's Tomorrowland, but me and my
wife went together. We had threedays of skiing and I played this set.
It was unbelievable and on this stagecalled the Crystal Garden, and it
literally like twenty five hundred meters Idon't know how many feet that is,
but it was really high into snowand the sun came through and the fans
were there as like ten thousand fansstanding there and you're playing the set.
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And I told the crowd as well, I was about to play something completely
different, but then I was justso emotional and so grabbed by the atmosphere.
Last I got, guys, justlook where you are. You're like
we're on top of a mountain.There's snow everywhere as a beautiful sun.
It's like the most magical thing Icould ever imagine. So yeah, I'm
really really grateful that I was there. And then I played the main stage
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and it had to go straight toLeon Airport, so it's a two and
a half hour drive fly from Leonto Paris and then Paris to Miami and
then arrived yesterday here and then uhyeah, a little bit of relaxing and
now I'm sitting here with you though, and you go from freezing to beautiful,
well, rainy today, but Miamiweather. So let's talk about forever.
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How did it come together with samplingGuru Josh project in there, We
actually did that in the during theAmsterdam Dance event in twenty twenty two.
It took a while to clear thesample because we actually used the sample from
Guru Josh and we had to getkind permission for that, so that's why
I took a year to actually sign. But I'm super happy with the result
of the track. It's actually pickingup right now. It's a massive hit
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in Poland, and it's a massivehit in my country, in the Netherlands
and it's really starting to get sometraction. I'm really happy because I love
working with the good Boys on thattrack. The good Boys is a duo
from the UK who are doing extremelywell. They did vocals on, for
example, the Madusa track and uhyeah, I just love those guys.
It was so great to be workingwith them. And we only had a
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day and when we were at theAmscen dance event writing that song, but
the magic happened. You know,sometimes it doesn't, but in this case
it did, And I'm really gladthat we were able to clear the sample
and to release a track. Yeah, it's such an amazing track. And
not only that, you've got that, and then you go into your collab
with Griffin, which is an amazingtrack. How did that come together with
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you guys? Oh? To putthe long story short, it was the
result of a writing camp in laI was actually pretty stoked because I knew
Toby Gad already. Toby Gadd isa famous writer from for example, John
Lenon's All of Me and John.Toby Gad is one of the nicest guys
you'll ever meet. I actually metup with Toby Jake Tory, who you
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know from his work for Calvin Harrisand Madison Love, who's an amazing vocalist
and a super super writer. Andthen Griffin was there as well, and
I knew Griffin already a little bit, but we just hit it off in
the studio and I think we werethere for like only the afternoon, and
we wrote the song based on howI met my wife. It was actually
a really funny story because I metmy wife in a holiday in Greece in
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ninety nine and we sat down forthe first time and I had such a
it was a kind of a lovefor the first sight thing, and I
asked her, what took you solong, you know, because I was
like, I wasted all my timenot being with you. It's kind of
that romantic angle. And I toldthat story during the writing session to Jake
Tory and Toby Gad and Medisine Loveand Griffin, and they immediately, let's
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write a song about that. Sothey helped me kind of developing the lyrics,
and it was one of those songsI don't trust me. It doesn't
always happen. It seems like itdoes, but it doesn't. In this
case, is just the magic happened, you know. I'm always working on
a ton of songs. But thiswas literally written in like one day and
then one day of studio work andit was done. Yeah. Wow.
And did you tell your wife thatit's about her? Yeah? Yeah,
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yeah, of course I asked forpermission if I could share this story because
I'm not sure if it was loveat the first sight for her, oh
stop, but you have to askher. Hold on, let me call
her really quick. And but forme it was and we're still together,
you know. After that was ninetynine, so now it's twenty twenty four,
so it's like twenty five years.Let's great. Well, congratulations on
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that, because especially nowadays, that'sdefinitely hard to do. And congratulations.
Is it the ninth album that youjust dropped? Yep, ninth albums called
Breathe In, which is sort ofa testament to my new routine. Every
day. I meditate every day.I do a little prayer every day.
I know, gratitude lists, thatsort of thing, and it just brought
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me so much in life. Andinstead of like you know, taking alcohol
or drugs or whatever, I beforeI go on stage, I have anxiety,
but I'm always nervous. I usemy breath as an anchor. Which
is so much more powerful. AndI really find that as my new,
you know, comfort zone because alot of people ask me, how do
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you deal with the stress of performingor you know, when you go on
stage or whatever. I just breathebecause that's your anchor. You know that
that just takes me home. Andbecause I meditate every morning at least ten
minutes, I sit down with myself, I close my eyes for a little
bit and I breathe, and Ijust try to be in the moment.
And that's you know. If youask me what do you do right before
an ultra set in Miami, Ijust breathe because I know that no matter
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what happens, if it's drentsial rainstorms, whatever, the stage collapse,
I know I'll be okay and I'lldo my best, you know, And
I've prepared myself. I couldn't haveprepared myself more than on what I have
for this year. So that's allyou can do. So breathe in and
focus on your anchor, which ish you know, your safety net.
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I absolutely love that, and Igotta tell you, you know, I've
been a fan of yours for along time. Not giving up on love
one of my favorite armand Van Burensongs, and I actually just got the
chance to catch up with Sophie EllaSpexter and talk with her about it,
and it was such a great story. Arman, thank you so much for
your time with us at the DMAs. Thank you so much, Thank you
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