May 12, 2025 • 17 mins
It's been WAY too long, but the amazing Arty joined us again on America's Dance 30! He shared how his three latest releases were born; "Lost In Loving You" w Louis III, "One More Thing" w Audien, and "Taking me Higher" w MRYN.
We also chatted about his latest collab w Pelaton, AND asked him a few questions that he has NEVER been asked before.
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Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
We also chatted about his latest collab w Pelaton, AND asked him a few questions that he has NEVER been asked before.
Follow: @AmericasDance30 on all socials!
Count down the biggest dance songs in the country every week with Brian Fink on America’s Dance 30; listen on stations around the world!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alartie.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We've got a lot to talk about, including lost in
loving you, including one more thing taking me Higher, and
we're possibly going to talk about some questions that you
have never been asked before.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What happened in Miami.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
No, what happens in Miami stays in Miami. Alartie, Welcome
back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Thank you for having me dance counting down the biggest
dance songs in the country.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I gotta apologize right up front because I went back
to see the last time that you were on eighty thirty,
and besides chatting at Miami Music Week.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's been over three years since you've been on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
For real, It's like it felt like it was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I know, Well that's because we just chatted in Miami.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah, because I you know, I keep seeing you in
Miami every single year, and it's, uh, it is so amazing,
you know, it's like seeing all your friends and it
feels like yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Absolutely, and it's always great chatting with you. So I
appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
How have you been I've been doing great. A lot
of stuff that doesn't works, but very very happy about
everything for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's so awesome to hear. I saw the collab that
you did with Peloton. How did that happen that you
were spinning in a Peloton class.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I was not spinning. I was spinning decks.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah yeah, I mean playing, I mean mixing.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I love that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Like that was amazing, the fact that I didn't have
to spin the bicycle and not doing you know, it
is like not doing the hard work. And I was
looking around like and all the people that it's like
they were really pushit, and I was like, oh my god,
my job is so easy. It was just like I'm
(02:11):
having a blast right now because it's the easiest thing
I could do right now, because those people actually do
card I hate cardio.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was so funny when you took a second to
say I have to take a drink, like you were
the one that had to be hydrated.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, that was the craziest part about it.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Here's the thing is like the Peloton studio in New
York we were filming it, it's like a proper nightclub.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'm not even joking. And it's like it's very loud.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The sound is amazing, the lights its like it can
stroke the hell out of you, and I was like.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This is this is the dream. This is the dream.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It's because the people actually bouncing up and down all
the time because like they have to do the peloton
class and it's like they competing against each other. So
it was like a very competitive you know space where
the people actually going into the rage mode like all
the time. I was like, this is actually this is
(03:13):
like one of the best crowds I've ever had in
my life.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It kind of I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It reminded me of And I don't know if you
played there or you saw it, but I was at
Tomorrow World one time when the festival in Atlanta that
got shut down. Yeah, yeah, and they had something for
the campers where in the morning they got up and
they had a DJ and they had bikes there for
(03:39):
people to do like peloton stuff. I was like, at
like ten o'clock in the morning, I'm like, what is
happening right now?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, I know, it was like ten of the morning, spry, brutal.
I think it was like I played a EDC.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I want to say it's like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen
at the where they put in the camp residents. Yeah,
the camp is like, yes, exactly, AGC Camp. Like I
played at nine in the morning and I was I
was on the stage that was very tiny and there
was like four friends of mine and then there was
(04:17):
the stage is is going to go down at any
given point and the people in front were still raging.
I was like, this is nine in the morning. I'm like,
I'm dying. It's like in five hours, I have applight
to New York because it was like, I have another show,
like I think. It was like I was playing in
the ruge the day after that. It's like, how the
(04:38):
hell are people doing it? So you was like, I
absolutely love you for what you do because this is amazing,
Like that makes my morning. I played ADC is like
the night before, which was just like twelve to one
or something, so it was like we have to stay up,
(04:58):
Oh do I uh up until nine in the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It was I was definitely is like that. That's definitely
in the books of great memories.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That is insane. But those are the real ones right there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Now, Before we talk about your incredible music, I asked
chat gpt to give me some questions that Artie has
never been asked before.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So I want to test this out and see if
it's for real.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
All right, did chat GPT ask you who's already?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, it knew you were and it wanted to ask
you some questions.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Your synth presets could talk, what would your favorite lead
patch say about you?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Come again, chat GPT is way too high for us.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Do you actually ask ch and to god.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I asked chat GPT for some questions you have never
been asked, you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Know, like the the preset batches.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Usually it's like one name, So it was like, I
need to come up with one word. No, actually have
two words hell, yeah or yeah, whatever, whatever words.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
All right, If I'm sorry, you don't have to answer no.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
If NASA asked you to create the soundtrack for communicating
with aliens, what elements would you include?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And why? I gotta give chat ept credit on these.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
This is one of the best questions I've ever had
in my life, and the most complicated questions to actually answer,
because there is so good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Let me start this over.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I came up with these questions, not chatch epet.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It's a little bit too late for that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It it totally is. I can never come up with
quest is this good?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Right?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
So the aliens, if you were making communicate with the aliens,
what would you use and why?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh my god, my answer is going to be so boring.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
But I think it's like I would use the.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The world instruments.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know, it's like very specific Russian, Chinese, African, American,
like very old school instruments, like a dig for Australia
to yeah, in a way to just you know, it's like,
try to communicate the culture of the planet instead of
trying to go alien, because we don't have any idea
(07:40):
how they communicate, what's their language, so you probably just
want to sell them like our culture in the first place,
rather than going like, okay, it's like I'm going to
try to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Communicate with you on an alien language.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That was not a boring answer at all. That was
a very intelligent answer.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's what makes important stop.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Finally, if your music were a flavor, what would it
taste like?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So you're saying you've never been asked these questions before.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I spore to God that in my life that is insanity.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What would be the flavor of arty music?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Like I have a pretty easy answer for that, recently.
I mean, I'm want to say it like for the
past nine months, I've been in a hot chewies and
a can and he was like, eat it. And it
was like the smaller the chewi, the hotter it goes,
and you like it's like killing yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But here's the thing, uh you eat the chili.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
And it's an insane push for Dophomin and he was like.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh my god, I'm alive. I can go. Let's go.
So it's like that's exactly what.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I do with like at twelve, you know, it was
like in the midnight, it was like one in the morning,
like eat the chili. Just as like to go further
if like I need a little bit of a uh.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Push in the studio. So yeah, so it be chilly
chili chili. Somehow that just totally belittles artie music. But
it's such a great answer. Let's talk about your incredible music.
First of all, congratulations on the incredible success of Lost
(09:48):
and Loving You with Louis.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The third, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That truck I absolutely love.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
We're in London right in the truck back in I
want to say, August twenty twenty four, we made an
entire truck.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
In two hours.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
The entire thing.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
There was like entire thing in two hours.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Obviously it was like there was things that needed to
be fixed, but entire dy came up together in two hours.
I was in the studio prior that with the head
of a head of an r for Mota, very close
friend of mine, Harry, and I played on the idea,
(10:30):
the instrumental idea that had and it was like African
influenced vocals on that, and he said, I was like,
this is perfect, that's what we should play. Play instrumental
and see how it goes. So I played instrumental and
(10:51):
literally it was like in next fifteen minutes like we
had a.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hook, unbelievable and that was it.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That was it. Like after you have a hook, like
everything goes so easy.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Do you normally work by starting with an instrumental and
presenting that or.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
It really advances who you're working with and what is
the vibe in the first place. Sometimes it can be
instrumental sometimes like people need a little bit of influence
from or inspiration from. It's like where you want to
go with, you know, it was like with the song,
and sometimes it's much easier just to go from the
(11:29):
scratch and just like play a couple of chords on piano.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now, when you guys were done with the entire thing
in two hours, was there a lot of tweaking with
it afterwards or was that pretty much it?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well? Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, I love you laugh
at that. Oh yeah, I mean the record was finished.
I think it's like October November, so we're talking about
like two three.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Months, gotcha.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah, it's like the last teven percent on a record
takes the most.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Time, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, let's talk about another smash one more thing with
your good friend Audien. How was that song born with
Sarah Davis?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
That also took some time, Like a little bit of
a time for sure. We got this vocal that was
pitched to us also in twenty twenty four, like around summer,
and I was working on a production and in a
moment I thought it was like it would be perfect
track for me and Nate coming back together. And it's
(12:33):
like I'm having a coll oup because it's been a
minute since the last track came out. I think that
was like, I don't know, it was like six seven years.
And I sent it to Nate and I gave him
a call. It was like, hey, this is a perfect track.
We need to finish it. He's like, I love it.
I'll do my thing. So he took it to completely
(12:54):
next level. I mean it took a time for sure,
but here we are.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh, it's such a good song on the lid. Yeah,
it's got such a great sound to it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, and I think it's like I did a lead
melody that I thought it was.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So did the aliens No.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, it's like like I was trying to talk to
aliens at this point and I was like, Nat, I
don't think the smell it is good and he was like,
what are you talking about? Like the smell is great,
just like make it more, like make it more bump.
I was like, what are you thinking This smellod is terrible.
He's like, no, no, it is great. And then I
(13:37):
listened to it. It was like as a you know,
final version was like when they went into his face
and he was like he did.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Just like the audience drop.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I was like on the top of it, like what
I did before that, And I was like, okay, that
makes sense.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No, we can't talk to the aliens.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well it definitely came together.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, I'm glad you kept it in And finally, let's
talk about your latest smash, Taking Me Higher with Maren.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
How did that song come out?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Maren? That's how you pronounced it. It's like I was.
I was trying to figure out. I was like, how
are I supposed to pronounce it?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't know if that's right. I just went onto
o Instagram.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It was Maren or writ but oh my god, she
is so goddamn good it's insane.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So the top line was pitched to me from Amada.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And I listened to it and I was like, oh
my god, this gives me so many good old time
memories about like when it started to make music in
the first place, like I want to do something that
represents me as an artist. When I started to making music,
(14:48):
it was like I want to you know, it was
like I want to feel the joy of me being
eighteen nineteen years old. I was like sitting in my
uh you know, like in my bedroom next to my bed,
sort of like one feet away, working on music with
no proper speakers as I'm pretty sure I didn't have
(15:10):
any speakers at that time. I was like, I want
to replicate the moment. I want to get myself into
the moment what actually made me an artist who I
am today. That's how Taking Me Hire came out.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
So in terms of production, like it's very diabolical back
in the day, production that has been made in a
few hours in one day.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And when you were done with it, did you say
to yourself, Yes, this gives me the feeling of arty
back in the day.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, absolutely, because then it was like I made another
three or four tracks. Oh my god, because Taking Me
Higher just only a start of something that I cannot
talk about it yet.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So what you're saying is twenty twenty five is going
to be the year of Arty.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Oh yeah, I mean every year is a year, yes,
of me trying to talk to Alien.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Well, I can't wait to talk to you the next
time to talk more about some chili and chili. Alretie,
congratulations on everything that's been going on for you. It
is always great chatting with you. Thank you for your
time with us on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Thank you, brother, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I swear to god, those were the good there were.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It was like ten questions and I just took the
three best ones.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I'm I'm glad you like them.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Whatever whatever prompt you use for JP for the questions.
Please keep using it for other interviews with other artists.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Because answer counting down the biggest dance songs in the
country Americas Dance thirty
Alartie.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
We've got a lot to talk about, including lost in
loving you, including one more thing taking me Higher, and
we're possibly going to talk about some questions that you
have never been asked before.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
What happened in Miami.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
No, what happens in Miami stays in Miami. Alartie, Welcome
back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Thank you for having me dance counting down the biggest
dance songs in the country.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I gotta apologize right up front because I went back
to see the last time that you were on eighty thirty,
and besides chatting at Miami Music Week.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
It's been over three years since you've been on the show.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
For real, It's like it felt like it was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I know, Well that's because we just chatted in Miami.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah, because I you know, I keep seeing you in
Miami every single year, and it's, uh, it is so amazing,
you know, it's like seeing all your friends and it
feels like yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Absolutely, and it's always great chatting with you. So I
appreciate your time.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
How have you been I've been doing great. A lot
of stuff that doesn't works, but very very happy about
everything for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
That's so awesome to hear. I saw the collab that
you did with Peloton. How did that happen that you
were spinning in a Peloton class.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I was not spinning. I was spinning decks.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah yeah, I mean playing, I mean mixing.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I love that.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Like that was amazing, the fact that I didn't have
to spin the bicycle and not doing you know, it
is like not doing the hard work. And I was
looking around like and all the people that it's like
they were really pushit, and I was like, oh my god,
my job is so easy. It was just like I'm
(02:11):
having a blast right now because it's the easiest thing
I could do right now, because those people actually do
card I hate cardio.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
It was so funny when you took a second to
say I have to take a drink, like you were
the one that had to be hydrated.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, that was the craziest part about it.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Here's the thing is like the Peloton studio in New
York we were filming it, it's like a proper nightclub.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'm not even joking. And it's like it's very loud.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The sound is amazing, the lights its like it can
stroke the hell out of you, and I was like.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
This is this is the dream. This is the dream.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
It's because the people actually bouncing up and down all
the time because like they have to do the peloton
class and it's like they competing against each other. So
it was like a very competitive you know space where
the people actually going into the rage mode like all
the time. I was like, this is actually this is
(03:13):
like one of the best crowds I've ever had in
my life.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It kind of I'm not joking.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
It reminded me of And I don't know if you
played there or you saw it, but I was at
Tomorrow World one time when the festival in Atlanta that
got shut down. Yeah, yeah, and they had something for
the campers where in the morning they got up and
they had a DJ and they had bikes there for
(03:39):
people to do like peloton stuff. I was like, at
like ten o'clock in the morning, I'm like, what is
happening right now?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah, I know, it was like ten of the morning, spry, brutal.
I think it was like I played a EDC.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
I want to say it's like twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen
at the where they put in the camp residents. Yeah,
the camp is like, yes, exactly, AGC Camp. Like I
played at nine in the morning and I was I
was on the stage that was very tiny and there
was like four friends of mine and then there was
(04:17):
the stage is is going to go down at any
given point and the people in front were still raging.
I was like, this is nine in the morning. I'm like,
I'm dying. It's like in five hours, I have applight
to New York because it was like, I have another show,
like I think. It was like I was playing in
the ruge the day after that. It's like, how the
(04:38):
hell are people doing it? So you was like, I
absolutely love you for what you do because this is amazing,
Like that makes my morning. I played ADC is like
the night before, which was just like twelve to one
or something, so it was like we have to stay up,
(04:58):
Oh do I uh up until nine in the morning.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It was I was definitely is like that. That's definitely
in the books of great memories.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
That is insane. But those are the real ones right there.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Now, Before we talk about your incredible music, I asked
chat gpt to give me some questions that Artie has
never been asked before.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So I want to test this out and see if
it's for real.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
All right, did chat GPT ask you who's already?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No, it knew you were and it wanted to ask
you some questions.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh yeah, if.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Your synth presets could talk, what would your favorite lead
patch say about you?
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Come again, chat GPT is way too high for us.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Do you actually ask ch and to god.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I asked chat GPT for some questions you have never
been asked, you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Know, like the the preset batches.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Usually it's like one name, So it was like, I
need to come up with one word. No, actually have
two words hell, yeah or yeah, whatever, whatever words.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
All right, If I'm sorry, you don't have to answer no.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
If NASA asked you to create the soundtrack for communicating
with aliens, what elements would you include?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And why? I gotta give chat ept credit on these.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
This is one of the best questions I've ever had
in my life, and the most complicated questions to actually answer,
because there is so good.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Let me start this over.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I came up with these questions, not chatch epet.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It's a little bit too late for that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
It it totally is. I can never come up with
quest is this good?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Right?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
So the aliens, if you were making communicate with the aliens,
what would you use and why?
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh my god, my answer is going to be so boring.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
But I think it's like I would use the.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
The world instruments.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You know, it's like very specific Russian, Chinese, African, American,
like very old school instruments, like a dig for Australia
to yeah, in a way to just you know, it's like,
try to communicate the culture of the planet instead of
trying to go alien, because we don't have any idea
(07:40):
how they communicate, what's their language, so you probably just
want to sell them like our culture in the first place,
rather than going like, okay, it's like I'm going to
try to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Communicate with you on an alien language.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That was not a boring answer at all. That was
a very intelligent answer.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
That's what makes important stop.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Finally, if your music were a flavor, what would it
taste like?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
So you're saying you've never been asked these questions before.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I spore to God that in my life that is insanity.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
What would be the flavor of arty music?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Like I have a pretty easy answer for that, recently.
I mean, I'm want to say it like for the
past nine months, I've been in a hot chewies and
a can and he was like, eat it. And it
was like the smaller the chewi, the hotter it goes,
and you like it's like killing yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
But here's the thing, uh you eat the chili.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
And it's an insane push for Dophomin and he was like.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh my god, I'm alive. I can go. Let's go.
So it's like that's exactly what.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
I do with like at twelve, you know, it was
like in the midnight, it was like one in the morning,
like eat the chili. Just as like to go further
if like I need a little bit of a uh.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Push in the studio. So yeah, so it be chilly
chili chili. Somehow that just totally belittles artie music. But
it's such a great answer. Let's talk about your incredible music.
First of all, congratulations on the incredible success of Lost
(09:48):
and Loving You with Louis.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
The third, thank you.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
That truck I absolutely love.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
We're in London right in the truck back in I
want to say, August twenty twenty four, we made an
entire truck.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
In two hours.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
The entire thing.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
There was like entire thing in two hours.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Obviously it was like there was things that needed to
be fixed, but entire dy came up together in two hours.
I was in the studio prior that with the head
of a head of an r for Mota, very close
friend of mine, Harry, and I played on the idea,
(10:30):
the instrumental idea that had and it was like African
influenced vocals on that, and he said, I was like,
this is perfect, that's what we should play. Play instrumental
and see how it goes. So I played instrumental and
(10:51):
literally it was like in next fifteen minutes like we
had a.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Hook, unbelievable and that was it.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
That was it. Like after you have a hook, like
everything goes so easy.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Do you normally work by starting with an instrumental and
presenting that or.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
It really advances who you're working with and what is
the vibe in the first place. Sometimes it can be
instrumental sometimes like people need a little bit of influence
from or inspiration from. It's like where you want to
go with, you know, it was like with the song,
and sometimes it's much easier just to go from the
(11:29):
scratch and just like play a couple of chords on piano.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Now, when you guys were done with the entire thing
in two hours, was there a lot of tweaking with
it afterwards or was that pretty much it?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Well? Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, I love you laugh
at that. Oh yeah, I mean the record was finished.
I think it's like October November, so we're talking about
like two three.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Months, gotcha.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah, it's like the last teven percent on a record
takes the most.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Time, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, let's talk about another smash one more thing with
your good friend Audien. How was that song born with
Sarah Davis?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
That also took some time, Like a little bit of
a time for sure. We got this vocal that was
pitched to us also in twenty twenty four, like around summer,
and I was working on a production and in a
moment I thought it was like it would be perfect
track for me and Nate coming back together. And it's
(12:33):
like I'm having a coll oup because it's been a
minute since the last track came out. I think that
was like, I don't know, it was like six seven years.
And I sent it to Nate and I gave him
a call. It was like, hey, this is a perfect track.
We need to finish it. He's like, I love it.
I'll do my thing. So he took it to completely
(12:54):
next level. I mean it took a time for sure,
but here we are.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Oh, it's such a good song on the lid. Yeah,
it's got such a great sound to it.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, and I think it's like I did a lead
melody that I thought it was.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
So did the aliens No.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, it's like like I was trying to talk to
aliens at this point and I was like, Nat, I
don't think the smell it is good and he was like,
what are you talking about? Like the smell is great,
just like make it more, like make it more bump.
I was like, what are you thinking This smellod is terrible.
He's like, no, no, it is great. And then I
(13:37):
listened to it. It was like as a you know,
final version was like when they went into his face
and he was like he did.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Just like the audience drop.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I was like on the top of it, like what
I did before that, And I was like, okay, that
makes sense.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
No, we can't talk to the aliens.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Well it definitely came together.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, I'm glad you kept it in And finally, let's
talk about your latest smash, Taking Me Higher with Maren.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
How did that song come out?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Maren? That's how you pronounced it. It's like I was.
I was trying to figure out. I was like, how
are I supposed to pronounce it?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I don't know if that's right. I just went onto
o Instagram.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
It was Maren or writ but oh my god, she
is so goddamn good it's insane.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
So the top line was pitched to me from Amada.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
And I listened to it and I was like, oh
my god, this gives me so many good old time
memories about like when it started to make music in
the first place, like I want to do something that
represents me as an artist. When I started to making music,
(14:48):
it was like I want to you know, it was
like I want to feel the joy of me being
eighteen nineteen years old. I was like sitting in my
uh you know, like in my bedroom next to my bed,
sort of like one feet away, working on music with
no proper speakers as I'm pretty sure I didn't have
(15:10):
any speakers at that time. I was like, I want
to replicate the moment. I want to get myself into
the moment what actually made me an artist who I
am today. That's how Taking Me Hire came out.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
So in terms of production, like it's very diabolical back
in the day, production that has been made in a
few hours in one day.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
And when you were done with it, did you say
to yourself, Yes, this gives me the feeling of arty
back in the day.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, absolutely, because then it was like I made another
three or four tracks. Oh my god, because Taking Me
Higher just only a start of something that I cannot
talk about it yet.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
But yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
So what you're saying is twenty twenty five is going
to be the year of Arty.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Oh yeah, I mean every year is a year, yes,
of me trying to talk to Alien.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Well, I can't wait to talk to you the next
time to talk more about some chili and chili. Alretie,
congratulations on everything that's been going on for you. It
is always great chatting with you. Thank you for your
time with us on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Thank you, brother, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I swear to god, those were the good there were.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
It was like ten questions and I just took the
three best ones.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I'm I'm glad you like them.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Whatever whatever prompt you use for JP for the questions.
Please keep using it for other interviews with other artists.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Because answer counting down the biggest dance songs in the
country Americas Dance thirty
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