My music is designed to make a club go insane when it goes on.
When playing big festivals, I tend to play big, over the top techno tracks, like hands in the air songs that make sense being played in front of 30,000 people. I steer away from subtlety in the interests of big bombastic dance music.
I think people were looking for something new in the EDM scene and found it in my music.
Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.
Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd
I've never understood the point of ecstasy. I think if I wanted to get dehydrated and jump about with a load of people I've never met before I could go to a Methodist barn dance.
I guess fusion would be the best way to describe my music. I think it also goes into the spectrum of electronic and dance with inspiration from Indian folk songs.
I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.
Everybody's all up on the EDM bandwagon now, because it's, like, another viable conduit for traditional pop music to ride for a bit so they can get out of their little stagnant pool and make a dance hit.
Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.
Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.
The Florida sound would probably be best defined as heavy bass with high energy dance records. There's a strong Caribbean heritage in Florida which features a lot of uptempo music, and the music accents the sexy, body-oriented sound.
When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.
I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.
I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.
Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.
I am associated with techno epics.
When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.
If you like energy, if you like attitude, if you like tough beats with black rhythms with a bit of soul and a bit of realness, come and check out the Prodigy.
I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.
I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.
Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.
Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.
I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.
