May 26, 2025 • 19 mins
Celebrating the incredible success of his new take on the Florence + The Machine classic, Morgan Seatree joined us for the first time on America's Dance 30 to talk all things "Say My Name"! Morgan shared how the song was born, how long ago he made it, and how it became an official release!!
We also asked Morgan a question he had never been asked before, and got to know Morgan Seatree better w #FinkysFirsts!
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We also asked Morgan a question he had never been asked before, and got to know Morgan Seatree better w #FinkysFirsts!
Find out about:
- if music was the first thing he wanted to get into when he was growing up
- if 'Morgan Seatree' is his real name, and if it was his first choice for his artist project name
- the first time performing for a crowd
- the first dancer song that made him fall in love w EDM
- the first time hearing one of his songs on the radio
- the first thing that instantly makes him happy when he thinks about it
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!
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):
Morgan, I can't wait to chat about how your remix
of an absolute classic and its official release came together
with Florence in the Machine, and can't wait to get
to know you better. Morgan Seatree, welcome to America's Dance
thirty for the first time.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Thank you, Thank you for having me, and yes, it's
a pleasure to chat. And yeah, I can't wait to
get stuck into all.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Counting down the biggest dance songs in the country. This
is America's Dance thirty. Congratulations on the amazing success of
Say My Name with Florence in the Machine.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, it's been a bit of a whirlwind of the
lust sort of since the release, you know it's been.
I didn't really expect it to go as well as
it did. And yeah, I'm just riding the wave right now.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, I can't wait to talk about how this remix
came together, But first let's get to know Morgan Sea
Tree a little better with Thinkey's first Yep, let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I always love finding out the origin story of artists. Now, honestly,
I know nothing about you, so I can't wait to
learn when you were growing up was music the first
thing you wanted to get into or was there something
else you wanted to be when you were growing up.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, so it was it was kind of a bit
different for me.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I kind of got into music when I was around
about sixteen, so I'm twenty six now, So it was
kind of from when I was leaving school and we
all started going to like house parties and you know,
that's when we really started to get introduced to like
house music and things like that. But before that, you know,
I was actually like I used to be what I'd
(01:56):
be a magician.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I used to do like card tricks and things like that.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, I love cooking, so like there's been a bunch
of career things where like maybe I could be a chef,
maybe I could be a magician, and then here we
are and now now I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
A DJ in making music. So yeah, it's it kind
of took a bit of a week.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's definitely a crazy road. Now do you still practice magic?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So my mum actually always says like, because she I
used to do the card tricks like Christmas time and
things like that, and I'm like, I'm pretty sure I've
forgotten all the tricks now. But like if I watched
a couple of YouTube videos. I've still got all like
the cards and things that I had, so I think
I might have to bring that out at one of
the shows maybe, And you know a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And isn't it so funny how our parents always want
us to do the tricks that we did as kids.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like she says, I wish I wish
you still knew how to do those.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I used to love those. I'm like, well, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now what does she think of your career now?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, she loves it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
She she comes to like all of the big shows
that that I do that are kind of local to me.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
She's always there in the back dancing.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And yeah, it's good because it's been a it's been
kind of a ten year journey and seeing it go
from like the ground up and then you know, you're
then being able to do all these shows with thousands
of people and create those moments.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Now speaking of starting at the ground up, I mean,
you're performing all over the world. You just recently sold
out of the show at your first ever rave. Do
you remember the first time performing for a crowd?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, well it wasn't the biggest crowd, like The first
gig I did was actually in a bagel shop.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Believe it, my god.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, So we in Manchester here we had like a
bagel shop and it was like in the day it
was a bagel shop and then at night they'd like
turn it into like a venue and a bar, but
they'd like serve bagels, pastramis and things like that. So
it's kind of like a raver's paradise. You know, You've
got the tunes on and then they're whipping up like
ruben sandwiches and things. And it was like I was
(03:53):
there just like spinning my tunes and there was probably
about five or six people there and that was and
then you know, but to me at the time, I
was like this is amazing, Like this is so cool.
I'm like I'm playing music. These guys might be eating
the bagel, but they're like loving it. And then that
was like, you know, literally as ground up as it
gets from where it's going, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That is amazing. Can you imagine what those five or
six people think now.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I know, I don't even know. They were probably my friends.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I mean I think maybe I had like five or
six of my friends and then maybe a couple of
people who were just like in there. But yeah, that'd
be I mean if they if they was to see
what I'm doing now, they'd probably be in disbelief that
they probably didn't know that was my first ever show
that they were.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That is so amazing. Like I think back to I
met Britney Spears before she was Britney Spears, and she
was she was like fifteen or sixteen, and she was
in the hallway and I remember walking down the hallway
and one of our employees said, hey, Fink, this is
Brittany and I'm like, oh, hey, nice to meet you.
And that was it. And now I mean, come on.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You wish you got the signature now?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I wish Now is Morgan Sea Tree your real name?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah? I get asked this a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So it was funny because when I first started DJing,
I was like to my mum, like, do I need
to think of a DJ name? I'm like, and you know,
because you hear of these aliases you've got like you know, Fisher,
You've got all these guys and they've got all.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
These names, and I'm like, well, what can my name be?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And she was like, no, like, your name is quite
unique in itself, like Sea Tree is very weird in
a way, like people do ask me like that's you know,
how did you think of that? And I'm like, it's
just my name. I didn't choose it. Yeah, but I'm
kind I'm.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
So glad that I did stick with it, because you know,
you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's just who I am, and and people it's got
kind of a ring to it, and you know, even
the way it's laid out on when you see it
in writing, it's quite recognizable.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So yeah, now do you remember the first dance song
that made you fall in love with ed M?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I think, well, you know, I was.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I was a massive fun and I still am of
Disclosure and it wasn't really I mean, back back when
I was getting into it, it was more kind of
like deep house a lot slower and you know, disclosure.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Kind of at the time.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know, they have like the tracks like White Noise,
You and Me and and in the UK that they
were massive, massive tunes. I'm not too sure how they
traveled across to America, but like a lot of that
stuff and a lot of like you know, the old
piano house tracks, which is very prominent with Manchester and
the music in Manchester.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Now, like that's the stuff that kind of really got
me into it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And then you know, from there you kind of just
find your own taste and you kind of take all
those inspirations and then like as you're playing the music
and making the music, it is kind of a mash
up of all these different sounds from when I'm younger
put into my own little thing.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And then it's like that creates the Morgan c Tree sound.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I guess that's amazing. I mean, Disclosure is behind a
lot of people getting into EDM. I So I got
dragged to a Disclosure show. I only new Latch at
the time, and a girl that I was dating at
the time dragged me to the show. One of the
best shows I have ever been to.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Amazing, and they're incredible performers and like they you know,
the way that they like conduct themselves and things that's
been a massive inspiration for also my performances. And you know,
when you come from being in the crowd and like
you said, you go to that show and you witness
that and you're like you want to then take how
that made you feel so that when you're in that
(07:28):
position you can do the same thing for other people
who are coming to watch you.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's so incredible how music has that effect on us.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It's crazy because you think back and like, you know,
your cre like I always think, like you know, you
see these videos are like people getting like proposed to
in the crowd, like whilst your favorite art is displaying,
Like I've not had that happen to me yet, but
I'm like that would be the ultimate moment because they're
remembering that forever, like they've you know, you got engaged
to your favorite DJ and like that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well it may have happened in a crowd, you just
don't know yet. Now, speaking of music, do you remember
hearing one of your songs on the radio for the
first time?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So funny with the like the radio side of things
actually came because I've been making music, like I say,
for around ten years and the radio stuff actually came
quite late now in the UK for us, there's like
different levels to I would say radio, and like you've
got like you know, your top hit has, like your
radio ones and your capital dances. For me, like as
(08:26):
an artist, that's what I look at as like the
ultimate sort of stations to get plays on. But before that,
you know, I was getting tunes featured on stations like
Kiss FM and things like that, and I just remember, like,
you know, it comes on in the car and then
whoever's introduced it, you hear your name for the first time,
and I don't think you'll ever get bored of that feeling,
you know, hearing your voice like saying on this track
(08:47):
is by Morgan C.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Tree or whatever. It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's like such a surreal moment, you know, because you
make it like I'm hearing my home studio and you
just make it at home and then it travels all
across the world to and and then you seeing you know,
people like are like, oh my god, this truck's amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And how far music travels is the best.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's so crazy. Now this is gonna be a little
geeky of a question, but did it sound as good
on the radio as it did when you were producing it?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Better? Yeah? I think it's it sounds better.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think they put it through like these compressors that
just make it sound beefy and don'tly and like the
because I went on the radio to do an interview
and I was like my voice to.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Night radio, you know what I mean, I feel like
a presenter is great.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's so funny how many times people come up to
me and they're like, wow, you don't sound like you
do on the radio. Now, finally, in honor of the
incredible success of Say My Name. You know, it has
the lyrics say my Name and every color illuminates. What's
the first thing that makes every color illuminate? For you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I mean for me, it's gonna be a bit of
a cheesy one.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But like my fiance Haley, she is like every for
everything that I do is like, you know, she's been
there for We've been together since school before I started DJing,
so we've been on this whole journey together. We're actually
getting married at the end of this year, and it's like,
you know, we've kind of seeing like the struggles that
we've been through, you know, when we were both younger,
(10:13):
and then building this life for us that is like,
you know, we can be proud of and like we
can be comfortable is like the best thing.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But that all comes from the team effort.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know, when I'm feeling down or whether I'm like
you know, there's days I go in the studio I'm like, oh,
it's not not quite working.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You know, you don't go in every day and write
I hit.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And then I'm like to her, I can't. I'm rubbish,
I can't do it anymore. And she's like, well you're not,
do you know what I mean? Just take a you know,
go back to it when the creativity comes. So yeah,
having her for me is, I know, is what's going
to get me to the top.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You know, that's not cheesy at all. That was a
perfect answer. And happy early congratulations on the wedding.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Let's talk about this smash. It is so crazy that
the original Florence in the Machine was like fifteen years ago.
How did this come together?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So and the best tracks, and I always say the
best tracks have a story behind them and there's always
something that happens, and with this one it was no different.
So I was in the gym working out, you know,
do my thing, and remember the like you said, the
original from I think twenty twelve maybe or whenever it
was came on in the gym, and you know it's
that moment, that light bulb moment, like wow, remember this
tune because I remember, like you know, how it made
(11:34):
me feel and I was like, I think the only
person who did and sort of a dance remix of
it was Calvin Harris and that was that was a
while back. So what I did is I had a
quick sort of look online just because whenever I do
these things, I like to make sure that I'm kind
of the only one giving it a fresh spin in
recent time. So like, if anyone's touched it in like
(11:54):
the last three years, I won't go near it. I'll
kind of leave it because I want it to be
like I think they don't do as good either.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Like you know, but this wasn't even made to come out.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
This was literally a case of I heard it and
I was like, this would be perfect for my shows.
And I was in the studio and I thought, right, okay,
I had to listen to Calvin's version. I was like, right, well,
I need to make sure it's it's nothing like that,
because sometimes you do have the temptations to kind of
see what he's done and maybe try and follow that, right,
And I kind of I kind of took took it
(12:24):
completely different and it came together so fast, and it
was one of those moments where you know you've got
something special when it clicks in like two hours and
the track was pretty much finished, and then and then
and then from there, I was like I kind of
sat on it for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I just kept listening to it at home.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I was like, this is I'd never had that feeling
with one of my productions before, like this is different.
This made the hair stand up, This made me feel
emotional almost, and I was like, I've not even played
it live yet, so yeah, that's when I knew, like,
this is going to be big.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And so how did it turn into an official release?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So then what happened was is I played it at
Creamfields and I did a clip on my TikTok and
then Marlon Hofstad and Maluji they both saw it and
played it in the boiler room. And it was from
then when the clips just started going viral. It started
spreading to Australia, America, all over the UK. I had
(13:15):
like a bunch of Americans in my inbox like dude,
when are you releasing this track?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Like what so?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And I was like and I was just getting followers
and follow us from all over the world. This is
while it was unreleased, and then we were like, damn, like,
we've got to try and get Florence to agree to
this now.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And then the label that owned it so Universal, they
owned the Florence album, so like if you if you
try and go through another label that don't own it,
you would have to get it resung, you wouldn't have
you wouldn't be able to use Florence's voice. So well,
I was like, no, we if this is going to happen,
if it's going to be official, I wanted to be
with Florence. You know, I don't want to we had
(13:52):
because we had a bunch of labels reaching out trying
to obviously get the track or wanted it, and then yeah,
I just left it with the label. And then luckily
kind of it just got that much that big that
I think they were just like, yeah, let's let's do it.
And then yeah, she agreed to it, and it was
just like from there, I'm glad that it's kind of
gone the way because I didn't want this to come
(14:14):
out and it, you know, not do as well if
she's got her name on something I wanted to do
well and stuff, and I'm so glad that it has.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And that's definitely taking a chance, because classics like that
a lot of times the original artist doesn't want to
green light it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And also and also the people are very precious about
you know, if you do such a classic, you've got
to do justice on it. And I believe that I've
done that, I think. But because by the reaction, I
think it's done.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, you definitely did.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It was one of those ones where I think all
the pieces of the puzzle just connected at the right time,
and I just I was just going. I was just
going with right, like I said, ride in the Wave.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Now. Something I love to find out about songs is
how many different versions there are from when you start
working on it, all the tweaking that goes on when
you finally put it out. Do you remember the final
v was of say my Name.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, like, I'll be honest, because it had so much
hype online, everyone was kind of happy with where it was.
We just kind of, you know, got a mastering engineer
just to bring it all together and get it sounding,
you know, as good as it could be. From me
making the track, that's the exact same version that I made.
The label didn't come back and asked me to tweak anything.
And even did Florence. It was that is the version
(15:24):
that came out of this studio here at home, and
that's the version that came.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Out that is amazing. So that probably answers my next question.
Florence didn't have to re record the vocals, right.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
No, Yeah, she was happy, she was happy with it.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, it was We used the a cappella from like
you said, from twenty twelve, and yeah, we just I
just kind of went along with it.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I think as well, you know, from from my point
of view, like I was just from the start being
super grateful because like to someone of her level, I'm
a nobody, So it's like, you know, she must have
liked it for one, and then you know for two.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I think it's just great that it's come out and
done well.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, congratulations on the incredible success. That is amazing, the
story behind it. What is next for Morgan ce Tree?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
So yeah, plenty, I mean right now, but we were
kind of like looking like some's coming up, like do
we put more music out? But this track is still
in it's climbing the khrs.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
So I'm like.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Anything that I put out now is like it's not
gonna I'd rather just you know, let this do its try.
Sometimes with certain records and certain hits, you do have
to give them breathing space and just let them people
enjoy it and do their thing. And until this starts
kind of going down, I've got plenty of music. We're
kind of discussing maybe what we think is going to
be next with me and the label, but like at
(16:40):
the moment, we're just kind of letting this keep growing
and it and it is like we went through a
fate because we're now like what December, so we're nearly
five Well, we're five months since this has been released,
and it's gone from like it kind of when it
obviously had the initial peak, then it kind of stagnated
and went down a tiny bit. And then now that
some's obviously beginning here in the UK and all the
(17:01):
parties are coming across the world, it's just climbing because
people are then you know, they're out with their friends
making memories to this truck. So yeah, I think we'll
probably maybe put something out around August time, I think,
or you know, maybe like June, yeah, like July, probably
July August, and yeah, just see what happens.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
From there.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Well, let me just say, as a radio programmer, I
can't thank you enough for that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, yeah, because a lot of times, you know, DJs
and producers they're just throwing everything out there to see
what's gonna hit, and then as a programmer, I'm like,
oh my god, how do I play all these?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, definitely I think and and like you say, I
think you want to do quality over quantity now, you know,
So yeah, I definitely think that's that's key.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, congratulations. Before I let you go, I've got a
new feature here on America's Dance thirty that I got
to test out with you. I asked chat ept to
give me a question that Morgan Seatree has never been
asked before. So I want to test this out and
see if it's real. All right, Okay, which one of
your unreleased songs do you think would resonate most with
(18:07):
someone living on Mars and why?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Wow? Okay, wow?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That is yeah, that is definitely a question that you've
never been asked before, and it's unreleased, right, so it's
a track that no one's hurt, right, Okay, So here's
my thinking. I've got a track that I wrote a
long time ago, and I make quite upbeat tempo, you know,
high energy music.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But I did make a track a while ago just
for funny. It will never come out and I can't.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't even think it's got a name right, but
the but it's it's quite a chilled track. So my
thinking is, if someone's living on Mars, they're gonna be
really hot, so they're.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Gonna need something.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
They're gonna need something that's gonna like chill them out
and cool them down. And yeah, so that's the track,
and for this sake, we're gonna call it hashtag ad
Mars track.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I love it, Morgan. It is so awesome chatting with
you and finally getting to meet you. Congratulations on the
incredible success of Say My Name.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And yeah, hopefully I'm actually going to be doing a
massive tour in America in November, visiting a bunch of places,
so yeah, hopefully not the last time that we chat
and maybe bump into each other.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Absolutely hopefully get to see you in real life. Thank
you so much for your time with us on America's
Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Thank you so much, appreciate it. America's Dancerty Counting down
the biggest dance songs in the country from America's Dance
thirty
Morgan, I can't wait to chat about how your remix
of an absolute classic and its official release came together
with Florence in the Machine, and can't wait to get
to know you better. Morgan Seatree, welcome to America's Dance
thirty for the first time.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Thank you, Thank you for having me, and yes, it's
a pleasure to chat. And yeah, I can't wait to
get stuck into all.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Counting down the biggest dance songs in the country. This
is America's Dance thirty. Congratulations on the amazing success of
Say My Name with Florence in the Machine.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah, it's been a bit of a whirlwind of the
lust sort of since the release, you know it's been.
I didn't really expect it to go as well as
it did. And yeah, I'm just riding the wave right now.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, I can't wait to talk about how this remix
came together, But first let's get to know Morgan Sea
Tree a little better with Thinkey's first Yep, let's go.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
I always love finding out the origin story of artists. Now, honestly,
I know nothing about you, so I can't wait to
learn when you were growing up was music the first
thing you wanted to get into or was there something
else you wanted to be when you were growing up.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, so it was it was kind of a bit
different for me.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I kind of got into music when I was around
about sixteen, so I'm twenty six now, So it was
kind of from when I was leaving school and we
all started going to like house parties and you know,
that's when we really started to get introduced to like
house music and things like that. But before that, you know,
I was actually like I used to be what I'd
(01:56):
be a magician.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I used to do like card tricks and things like that.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, I love cooking, so like there's been a bunch
of career things where like maybe I could be a chef,
maybe I could be a magician, and then here we
are and now now I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
A DJ in making music. So yeah, it's it kind
of took a bit of a week.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That's definitely a crazy road. Now do you still practice magic?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
So my mum actually always says like, because she I
used to do the card tricks like Christmas time and
things like that, and I'm like, I'm pretty sure I've
forgotten all the tricks now. But like if I watched
a couple of YouTube videos. I've still got all like
the cards and things that I had, so I think
I might have to bring that out at one of
the shows maybe, And you know a little bit.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And isn't it so funny how our parents always want
us to do the tricks that we did as kids.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like she says, I wish I wish
you still knew how to do those.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I used to love those. I'm like, well, yeah, sorry.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now what does she think of your career now?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, she loves it.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
She she comes to like all of the big shows
that that I do that are kind of local to me.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
She's always there in the back dancing.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And yeah, it's good because it's been a it's been
kind of a ten year journey and seeing it go
from like the ground up and then you know, you're
then being able to do all these shows with thousands
of people and create those moments.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Now speaking of starting at the ground up, I mean,
you're performing all over the world. You just recently sold
out of the show at your first ever rave. Do
you remember the first time performing for a crowd?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, well it wasn't the biggest crowd, like The first
gig I did was actually in a bagel shop.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Believe it, my god.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, So we in Manchester here we had like a
bagel shop and it was like in the day it
was a bagel shop and then at night they'd like
turn it into like a venue and a bar, but
they'd like serve bagels, pastramis and things like that. So
it's kind of like a raver's paradise. You know, You've
got the tunes on and then they're whipping up like
ruben sandwiches and things. And it was like I was
(03:53):
there just like spinning my tunes and there was probably
about five or six people there and that was and
then you know, but to me at the time, I
was like this is amazing, Like this is so cool.
I'm like I'm playing music. These guys might be eating
the bagel, but they're like loving it. And then that
was like, you know, literally as ground up as it
gets from where it's going, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That is amazing. Can you imagine what those five or
six people think now.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I know, I don't even know. They were probably my friends.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I mean I think maybe I had like five or
six of my friends and then maybe a couple of
people who were just like in there. But yeah, that'd
be I mean if they if they was to see
what I'm doing now, they'd probably be in disbelief that
they probably didn't know that was my first ever show
that they were.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
That is so amazing. Like I think back to I
met Britney Spears before she was Britney Spears, and she
was she was like fifteen or sixteen, and she was
in the hallway and I remember walking down the hallway
and one of our employees said, hey, Fink, this is
Brittany and I'm like, oh, hey, nice to meet you.
And that was it. And now I mean, come on.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
You wish you got the signature now?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
I wish Now is Morgan Sea Tree your real name?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah? I get asked this a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So it was funny because when I first started DJing,
I was like to my mum, like, do I need
to think of a DJ name? I'm like, and you know,
because you hear of these aliases you've got like you know, Fisher,
You've got all these guys and they've got all.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
These names, and I'm like, well, what can my name be?
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And she was like, no, like, your name is quite
unique in itself, like Sea Tree is very weird in
a way, like people do ask me like that's you know,
how did you think of that? And I'm like, it's
just my name. I didn't choose it. Yeah, but I'm
kind I'm.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
So glad that I did stick with it, because you know,
you don't have to.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's just who I am, and and people it's got
kind of a ring to it, and you know, even
the way it's laid out on when you see it
in writing, it's quite recognizable.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
So yeah, now do you remember the first dance song
that made you fall in love with ed M?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I think, well, you know, I was.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
I was a massive fun and I still am of
Disclosure and it wasn't really I mean, back back when
I was getting into it, it was more kind of
like deep house a lot slower and you know, disclosure.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Kind of at the time.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You know, they have like the tracks like White Noise,
You and Me and and in the UK that they
were massive, massive tunes. I'm not too sure how they
traveled across to America, but like a lot of that
stuff and a lot of like you know, the old
piano house tracks, which is very prominent with Manchester and
the music in Manchester.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Now, like that's the stuff that kind of really got
me into it.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
And then you know, from there you kind of just
find your own taste and you kind of take all
those inspirations and then like as you're playing the music
and making the music, it is kind of a mash
up of all these different sounds from when I'm younger
put into my own little thing.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And then it's like that creates the Morgan c Tree sound.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I guess that's amazing. I mean, Disclosure is behind a
lot of people getting into EDM. I So I got
dragged to a Disclosure show. I only new Latch at
the time, and a girl that I was dating at
the time dragged me to the show. One of the
best shows I have ever been to.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Amazing, and they're incredible performers and like they you know,
the way that they like conduct themselves and things that's
been a massive inspiration for also my performances. And you know,
when you come from being in the crowd and like
you said, you go to that show and you witness
that and you're like you want to then take how
that made you feel so that when you're in that
(07:28):
position you can do the same thing for other people
who are coming to watch you.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
It's so incredible how music has that effect on us.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
It's crazy because you think back and like, you know,
your cre like I always think, like you know, you
see these videos are like people getting like proposed to
in the crowd, like whilst your favorite art is displaying,
Like I've not had that happen to me yet, but
I'm like that would be the ultimate moment because they're
remembering that forever, like they've you know, you got engaged
to your favorite DJ and like that's incredible.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well it may have happened in a crowd, you just
don't know yet. Now, speaking of music, do you remember
hearing one of your songs on the radio for the
first time?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So funny with the like the radio side of things
actually came because I've been making music, like I say,
for around ten years and the radio stuff actually came
quite late now in the UK for us, there's like
different levels to I would say radio, and like you've
got like you know, your top hit has, like your
radio ones and your capital dances. For me, like as
(08:26):
an artist, that's what I look at as like the
ultimate sort of stations to get plays on. But before that,
you know, I was getting tunes featured on stations like
Kiss FM and things like that, and I just remember, like,
you know, it comes on in the car and then
whoever's introduced it, you hear your name for the first time,
and I don't think you'll ever get bored of that feeling,
you know, hearing your voice like saying on this track
(08:47):
is by Morgan C.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Tree or whatever. It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
It's like such a surreal moment, you know, because you
make it like I'm hearing my home studio and you
just make it at home and then it travels all
across the world to and and then you seeing you know,
people like are like, oh my god, this truck's amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
And how far music travels is the best.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's so crazy. Now this is gonna be a little
geeky of a question, but did it sound as good
on the radio as it did when you were producing it?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Better? Yeah? I think it's it sounds better.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
I think they put it through like these compressors that
just make it sound beefy and don'tly and like the
because I went on the radio to do an interview
and I was like my voice to.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Night radio, you know what I mean, I feel like
a presenter is great.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It's so funny how many times people come up to
me and they're like, wow, you don't sound like you
do on the radio. Now, finally, in honor of the
incredible success of Say My Name. You know, it has
the lyrics say my Name and every color illuminates. What's
the first thing that makes every color illuminate? For you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I mean for me, it's gonna be a bit of
a cheesy one.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
But like my fiance Haley, she is like every for
everything that I do is like, you know, she's been
there for We've been together since school before I started DJing,
so we've been on this whole journey together. We're actually
getting married at the end of this year, and it's like,
you know, we've kind of seeing like the struggles that
we've been through, you know, when we were both younger,
(10:13):
and then building this life for us that is like,
you know, we can be proud of and like we
can be comfortable is like the best thing.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But that all comes from the team effort.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
You know, when I'm feeling down or whether I'm like
you know, there's days I go in the studio I'm like, oh,
it's not not quite working.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You know, you don't go in every day and write
I hit.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And then I'm like to her, I can't. I'm rubbish,
I can't do it anymore. And she's like, well you're not,
do you know what I mean? Just take a you know,
go back to it when the creativity comes. So yeah,
having her for me is, I know, is what's going
to get me to the top.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
You know, that's not cheesy at all. That was a
perfect answer. And happy early congratulations on the wedding.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Let's talk about this smash. It is so crazy that
the original Florence in the Machine was like fifteen years ago.
How did this come together?
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So and the best tracks, and I always say the
best tracks have a story behind them and there's always
something that happens, and with this one it was no different.
So I was in the gym working out, you know,
do my thing, and remember the like you said, the
original from I think twenty twelve maybe or whenever it
was came on in the gym, and you know it's
that moment, that light bulb moment, like wow, remember this
tune because I remember, like you know, how it made
(11:34):
me feel and I was like, I think the only
person who did and sort of a dance remix of
it was Calvin Harris and that was that was a
while back. So what I did is I had a
quick sort of look online just because whenever I do
these things, I like to make sure that I'm kind
of the only one giving it a fresh spin in
recent time. So like, if anyone's touched it in like
(11:54):
the last three years, I won't go near it. I'll
kind of leave it because I want it to be
like I think they don't do as good either.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Like you know, but this wasn't even made to come out.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
This was literally a case of I heard it and
I was like, this would be perfect for my shows.
And I was in the studio and I thought, right, okay,
I had to listen to Calvin's version. I was like, right, well,
I need to make sure it's it's nothing like that,
because sometimes you do have the temptations to kind of
see what he's done and maybe try and follow that, right,
And I kind of I kind of took took it
(12:24):
completely different and it came together so fast, and it
was one of those moments where you know you've got
something special when it clicks in like two hours and
the track was pretty much finished, and then and then
and then from there, I was like I kind of
sat on it for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I just kept listening to it at home.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I was like, this is I'd never had that feeling
with one of my productions before, like this is different.
This made the hair stand up, This made me feel
emotional almost, and I was like, I've not even played
it live yet, so yeah, that's when I knew, like,
this is going to be big.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And so how did it turn into an official release?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
So then what happened was is I played it at
Creamfields and I did a clip on my TikTok and
then Marlon Hofstad and Maluji they both saw it and
played it in the boiler room. And it was from
then when the clips just started going viral. It started
spreading to Australia, America, all over the UK. I had
(13:15):
like a bunch of Americans in my inbox like dude,
when are you releasing this track?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Like what so?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
And I was like and I was just getting followers
and follow us from all over the world. This is
while it was unreleased, and then we were like, damn, like,
we've got to try and get Florence to agree to
this now.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
And then the label that owned it so Universal, they
owned the Florence album, so like if you if you
try and go through another label that don't own it,
you would have to get it resung, you wouldn't have
you wouldn't be able to use Florence's voice. So well,
I was like, no, we if this is going to happen,
if it's going to be official, I wanted to be
with Florence. You know, I don't want to we had
(13:52):
because we had a bunch of labels reaching out trying
to obviously get the track or wanted it, and then yeah,
I just left it with the label. And then luckily
kind of it just got that much that big that
I think they were just like, yeah, let's let's do it.
And then yeah, she agreed to it, and it was
just like from there, I'm glad that it's kind of
gone the way because I didn't want this to come
(14:14):
out and it, you know, not do as well if
she's got her name on something I wanted to do
well and stuff, and I'm so glad that it has.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And that's definitely taking a chance, because classics like that
a lot of times the original artist doesn't want to
green light it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And also and also the people are very precious about
you know, if you do such a classic, you've got
to do justice on it. And I believe that I've
done that, I think. But because by the reaction, I
think it's done.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah, you definitely did.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
It was one of those ones where I think all
the pieces of the puzzle just connected at the right time,
and I just I was just going. I was just
going with right, like I said, ride in the Wave.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Now. Something I love to find out about songs is
how many different versions there are from when you start
working on it, all the tweaking that goes on when
you finally put it out. Do you remember the final
v was of say my Name.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, like, I'll be honest, because it had so much
hype online, everyone was kind of happy with where it was.
We just kind of, you know, got a mastering engineer
just to bring it all together and get it sounding,
you know, as good as it could be. From me
making the track, that's the exact same version that I made.
The label didn't come back and asked me to tweak anything.
And even did Florence. It was that is the version
(15:24):
that came out of this studio here at home, and
that's the version that came.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Out that is amazing. So that probably answers my next question.
Florence didn't have to re record the vocals, right.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
No, Yeah, she was happy, she was happy with it.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Yeah, it was We used the a cappella from like
you said, from twenty twelve, and yeah, we just I
just kind of went along with it.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
So, yeah, it was great.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I think as well, you know, from from my point
of view, like I was just from the start being
super grateful because like to someone of her level, I'm
a nobody, So it's like, you know, she must have
liked it for one, and then you know for two.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
I think it's just great that it's come out and
done well.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Well, congratulations on the incredible success. That is amazing, the
story behind it. What is next for Morgan ce Tree?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
So yeah, plenty, I mean right now, but we were
kind of like looking like some's coming up, like do
we put more music out? But this track is still
in it's climbing the khrs.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
So I'm like.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Anything that I put out now is like it's not
gonna I'd rather just you know, let this do its try.
Sometimes with certain records and certain hits, you do have
to give them breathing space and just let them people
enjoy it and do their thing. And until this starts
kind of going down, I've got plenty of music. We're
kind of discussing maybe what we think is going to
be next with me and the label, but like at
(16:40):
the moment, we're just kind of letting this keep growing
and it and it is like we went through a
fate because we're now like what December, so we're nearly
five Well, we're five months since this has been released,
and it's gone from like it kind of when it
obviously had the initial peak, then it kind of stagnated
and went down a tiny bit. And then now that
some's obviously beginning here in the UK and all the
(17:01):
parties are coming across the world, it's just climbing because
people are then you know, they're out with their friends
making memories to this truck. So yeah, I think we'll
probably maybe put something out around August time, I think,
or you know, maybe like June, yeah, like July, probably
July August, and yeah, just see what happens.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
From there.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Well, let me just say, as a radio programmer, I
can't thank you enough for that.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Yeah, yeah, because a lot of times, you know, DJs
and producers they're just throwing everything out there to see
what's gonna hit, and then as a programmer, I'm like,
oh my god, how do I play all these?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
No, definitely I think and and like you say, I
think you want to do quality over quantity now, you know,
So yeah, I definitely think that's that's key.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Well, congratulations. Before I let you go, I've got a
new feature here on America's Dance thirty that I got
to test out with you. I asked chat ept to
give me a question that Morgan Seatree has never been
asked before. So I want to test this out and
see if it's real. All right, Okay, which one of
your unreleased songs do you think would resonate most with
(18:07):
someone living on Mars and why?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Wow? Okay, wow?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
That is yeah, that is definitely a question that you've
never been asked before, and it's unreleased, right, so it's
a track that no one's hurt, right, Okay, So here's
my thinking. I've got a track that I wrote a
long time ago, and I make quite upbeat tempo, you know,
high energy music.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But I did make a track a while ago just
for funny. It will never come out and I can't.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I don't even think it's got a name right, but
the but it's it's quite a chilled track. So my
thinking is, if someone's living on Mars, they're gonna be
really hot, so they're.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Gonna need something.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
They're gonna need something that's gonna like chill them out
and cool them down. And yeah, so that's the track,
and for this sake, we're gonna call it hashtag ad
Mars track.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
I love it, Morgan. It is so awesome chatting with
you and finally getting to meet you. Congratulations on the
incredible success of Say My Name.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And yeah, hopefully I'm actually going to be doing a
massive tour in America in November, visiting a bunch of places,
so yeah, hopefully not the last time that we chat
and maybe bump into each other.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Absolutely hopefully get to see you in real life. Thank
you so much for your time with us on America's
Dance thirty.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Thank you so much, appreciate it. America's Dancerty Counting down
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