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what crowd your playing too, it depends where you're playing. We'll play Sankeys in Ibiza and just go completely different where you might not expect half the stuff that we play. And you'll think wow, I didn't know they could take it deep or dark in a big event. At a uni/freshers event it's a completely different market.
As a DJ, I see you've got the same love for the underground music. There's a lot of people on the outset, just because the tunes been released or they might hear you play on radio, they will give you this perception. Do you find it frustrating when you go to play something, that people expect that way?
It's a fine balance between underground and crossover. If you're making music and people that are involved in music, they need to understand the fact that the hard work has been done in the underground. If you want to take your brand to another level, you have to try and make music for a completely different generation because the generation that you're playing music to in the underground are 22/23/24, they'll do two or three more years of raving and then they're done. There'll come a point when you'll stop raving, you'll still appreciate music but a whole new genre of music will come through with new ravers. They'll be 18/19/20 year olds.
I've been on the scene for 10+ years, my uncle is MC Det. I literally said I don't want anything to do with the scene! But I was naturally drawn to music and raving, where I've been on the scene for so long, I've got to the point that all these kids are younger than me but at the same time, it's that love of music you still find yourself being here. Being an artist, you realise everyone you're playing to are your mates.
I've been DJ'ing 20 years, so I've gone through the Garage scene and House scene. I've gone through a lot of genres of music and seen everything go full circle. At the same time, you have to adapt and change your music style and make a career out of it. There's been occasions before Tough Love where we've had to play RnB/Hip Hop sets just to make money and make a living out of DJ'ing. If you love music, you'll do whatever it takes to make it as your career, you're not going to go and do a 9-to-5, for some people that's not for them. I think with the House scene, the way things are going, you've got to stay relevant with the underground and the commercial world. I find a lot of guys that've made their big record, which is fair enough, they've gone completely full circle and the people that have come to see them for what they know them for, they don't play that record.
I find that it's a bit of a shame, for instance we had an interview with Breach for Audiation Magazine and he said he got tossed into a world that had no interest to him. He prefers dark and underground, it's about finding that balance. As an artist you can't help the fact that you have the ability to make something that'll appeal to a lot of people. When you go to play, you can only play what you love playing