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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Malpee, I was actually going to ask you why in
the heck your management keeps scheduling us so early for
these chats, But thank god, it's actually a little later
for you this time.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
What time is it for you?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's ten thirty in the morning, should be right for you.
Know my brain is not moving yet. Forgive me in advance.
If at any point during this chat my brain just freezes,
I'll hop in I'll do the take over for me. Please, Malpie.
It is great seeing you again. Thank you so much
for your time. We're going to be chatting all about
your smash Tesla coming up. We're going to get to
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know you a little better again with Thinky's favorites and
ask you a question that you have possibly never been
asked before. Malpie. Welcome back to America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank you so much, dance counting down the biggest dance
songs in the country. This is America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Congratulations on Tesla going number one last week. Another number
one for you.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I keep going on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It's like, that's a good thing. That's a very good thing. Now.
I saw your quote that nobody believed in the song
until you dropped it at Coachella and it went viral.
How good does it feel it that it did becomes
such a big song for you?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I think it just tells me that I have a
I still have a good sort of air for like
what's what in the dance music industry. And there's a
lot of like labels or people that work at labels
that are maybe driven by something else or by things
that have been successful already. So I used to think
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it was really scary to do something or to like
make a song that that, like the outlines of the
song I hadn't heard before, so like there wasn't like
the blueprint hadn't been done yet, you know. So for me,
it was like Tesla almost felt like old school g
house with like auto tune vocals, but it's still like
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twenty twenty five somehow, So I had no guarantee for success.
I just liked the song a lot. But people and
like labels told me like, yeah, we don't really hear
the hit in this. I'm like, okay, well maybe you don't,
but maybe other people do. And there were a couple
other people at Coachella that were like, this song is awesome.
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Just a few so I mean, yeah, that got me excited.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well, congratulations on it. I can't wait to talk about
how the smash was born. But first let's get to
know Maupi a little better with Finkey's favorites.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
If you could remix any classic song in history without
any licensing issues or anything, what would be your favorite
song to remix?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Damn?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Probably Wow, that's a really hard question. Probably something Stevie wonder.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Wow, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I've always thought that Golden Lady would be a great
sample for like house music.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Well, we might be seeing it very soon.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Do you have the contact details.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
For let me call stev up?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Hold on?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Now, what's a favorite song of yours by another artist
that got you into producing?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
It's probably the whole album that Skrilex did, which was
Scary Monsters.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
And Nice Sprites. Yeah, I think that was the title. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Just listening to that still is like what are these noises?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
And that was like so cool to me because I
was playing video games and people would just make videos
with like those songs from that album, and I was like,
what kind of music is this? Like it sounds so
because he obviously came from like bands and singing and whatever.
So it had like a very cool combination between it
being super electronic but still you could hear his sort
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of musical sense, you know, and like his his actual
musical background.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
So to me, that was the first like I need
to investigate.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, it's still such a classic. Now you've been playing
at venues and festivals around the world. If you could
play at any venue anywhere, where would be your favorite
place to play?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I really like Argentina and I'm going back there soon.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But I also really like.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
This place called Brett and it's in Amsterdam, and it's
super small, the very like cozy and intimate. It sort
of feels like the Amsterdam version of Space.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Oh cool a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Yeah, And I went there during Amsterdam Dance event on
Sunday to see Joseph Capriazzi play for like eleven hours,
and it was just the vibe in there is so good.
I feel like he could play just a kick drum
and a clap and people would be like, you.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Know, speaking of Amsterdam, did I see that you did
a show inside at church during a.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, exactly, that's crazy. Yeah, it was super cool though.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That's so awesome. Now do you have a favorite song
to throw in your sets because of the way the
crowd reacts.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
If it's like.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
One of my own songs, I always like like I
like it, and even just playing the like the little
vote sample over another song already gets people so hyped,
and then playing the actual song is so satisfying because
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I'm always I always want to make music that I
would like to hear on the dance story, you know.
So now one of my favorite songs to play is
also a song by you know myself, And usually there's
so many other producers and people I look up to
that I'm like, I have to play this song because
it just always goes off and how did they do this?
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And you know, it gets me a little frustrated, And also,
of course I have a lot of respect for these guys,
but now I have like my own version of that
where it's like this one always goes off, even if
it's like an intimate setting, because like Drugs from Amsterdam
is like a big song you know in Tesla too,
But you could play like I like it for ten
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people and it would still make sense.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Now, have you ever been in the crowd watching another
DJ set when they've dropped one of your songs.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Uh yeah, many times.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And what's the feeling like.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Nowadays when people when that happens, everyone's just like oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
your song, And I just try to play cool and
just be like like I just start talking to someone
and act like I really don't care, but like, deep inside, it's.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Now, speaking of sets, what's your favorite part of a
set Stepping out on stage and starting your set, in
the middle of your set, or wrapping the set up.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The ending, I think because at the end you can
sort of depending on how you did and how much
you have the crowd in a choke hold, like, what
you do at the end of the set is like
dependent on that, you know. So if I did a
really great job and the crowd was amazing and we're
like really synchronized, then I can drop a really crazy
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song or something that I've maybe never played before and
like test it out or or like be a little
bit more experimental. So the beginning is cool too, when
but it feels easier, you know, the beginning when it's like,
oh I can I can play the like Murder, like
one of my big songs, and they're all.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Like Mouthpee's here. And blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
But it's like, once you put in work for hours
and hours and then you do something that's normally really
hard to do or you don't even know what it's
going to do, that's where it's That's where like the
cool part is for me.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I just love how you mentioned that you have the
crowd in a choke hold, because that's really what it is.
That's so awesome.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You don't or you don't and then you know you
need to go back to the decks.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Absolutely. Now. Finally, in Finky's Favorites in honor of Tesla,
what was your favorite part about producing it? Getting the
idea of a spark, being in the studio producing it,
or dropping it for the first time.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I think dropping it for the first time because there
was such a loud crowd reaction. But also, if we're
talking about producing, there's this one moment when you're producing
a song where like you've gone so far that everything
starts to work and you get to like the fun
parts and you can do the details and you could
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just make it, you know, feel like your song, and
like now you are making the song instead of the
song is still trying to find its way So once
you get to that point where you're really like satisfied
about the sounds and the and the and like the
style or the concept of the song, that's where, to me,
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you go into the really like the tweaking phase and everything.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
And that's that's the I think the most fun part.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, because before or it's to me, it's just really
frustrating making a song because I'm such an overthinker and
I'm like, oh, I can do a little bit like
this and a little bit like this, or no, it's
not like that enough, and maybe they like this or maybe.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
They like that, and.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Just once you found that pocket, you're like like in
the driver's seat, you.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Know, the way you describe that. It's kind of like
a runner's high where you're starting to run and it's
really annoying and hard, but then you get to like
six miles in and you're just in this high.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Yeah, well let's talk about this smash. How was Tesla Borne.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
It was a loop first that I made, and it
was sort of like Kanye West inspired with the way
that baseline was and it was like in a hip
hop tempo too, or like a wrap tempo and then
I slowed it down because I wanted to make a
house song, but then it just sounded really slow. Had
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to add like notes to it to create like a rhythm,
so you had like that don't don't, don't do don't
do do do doo doo, and before it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Was boomed boom boom.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Oh wow boom, you know uh, And then I already
had that vocal like that little hook, like the eye
just popped a test. I no need to charge, but
that was it, and I just left it for I
think weeks or maybe months even, and then I do
this thing where I go back into like old projects
that I, you know, played around with for a little
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bit but never made an actual song too, and I
found this one. And sometimes you immediately hear like, oh,
it's supposed to be like that, because then it feels
like a different version of you worked on that idea before,
and now you maybe have experienced different stuff where you
have like a fresh pair of ears to listen to
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it and and and and set it in a certain direction.
So that's what happened, and it went pretty fast afterwards,
I think because I was like, oh, did that idea
and no, I did it all wrong and it's supposed
to be that, you know, so I think, yeah, that's
that's pretty much how it how it went and did
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the I did more vocals to it as well, to
make it more of like like a full sort of song.
It sort of had like verses and then the chorus
just was I just popped the test.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
I know me to charge.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Now you say you add vocals? Did you do the
vocals for it? No, crap, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I tried to do that on like all of the
songs like I did, like I like it as well,
like the voice in between the sample, like that's me.
I even tried to do Drugs from Amsterdam at first,
but my friends told me then that like my voice sucked,
and they were right. It wasn't good enough for the
rest of the song. So I needed like more of
a like also for the concept of that song, like
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more of a holy good sort of UK voice match that,
like because I got my drugs from Amsterdam.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Like that worked well.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Now that Tesla has worked with your vocals, you could
tell your friends to, you know, go kick rocks. Now,
how long ago do you start working on it?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
I can tell you I'm on my computer right Now
if I go into my folder and I look up Tesla,
Harry Go, the first time was the fourteenth of November
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Oh wow, was so almost a year ago. Wow? Now
something I love to find out. And it's great that
you've got the project. There is how many different vs
there are from when you start working twenty one twenty
one versions of Tesla. That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
It's not so much like completely different versions. It's just
that I save and call it a new version every time.
I do a lot of new stuff, so I if
I do want something that I deleted, I can go back.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Well, congratulations on this smatch. Congratulations on another number one
for you.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now, before I let you go, I asked chat ept
to give me a question that Maupee has never been
asked before, So I got to test this out. Okay,
all right, if Maulpee was a brand of cereal, what
would your cereal be called? And what would the toy
inside be?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Um the cereal the cereal would be called maul Pizzles
and the toy inside would be.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Maybe a USB. Oh, I love it. That's actually pretty good.
We should we should do that.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That really is, although you're gonna have to put choking
hazard on the box.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
That's the reason why we don't have the here in
the Netherlands. Like, oh no, crap, I never got no
toys in my.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I wonder if we still have them. I don't really
eat like children's cereal anymore, so I don't know if
toys are inside anymore. Well, Malpi, it's great seeing you again.
Congratulations on everything going on for you. Thank you so
much for your time with us on America's Dance thirty.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Oh, of course, thank you for having me. America's Dance thirty.
Counting down the biggest dance songs in the country. AM
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