COVER MIX ARTIST OF THE MONTH:
If 2012 was a whirlwind year for Jonas Fehr, then 2013 has been a tsunami thus far. Since New Years, the 26 year old Norwegian producer has already laid down an epic guest mix on Above & Beyond’s Group Therapy Radio, dropped two of his biggest releases yet on Pryda Friends, and completed his first North American tour which saw stops in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Toronto, Chicago and Ottawa among others. We’ve been eager to chat with Fehrplay since his Circus debut this February, where we learned that beyond his studio genius, the Pryda Friend is also a master selector who curates emotional mixes that can cross the spectrum from deep house and techno to hands- in-the-air progressive house with flawless precision. In addition to the exclusive mix he’s cooked up for our cover, we interviewed Jonas about his production style, playing in North America and his summer plans. This is what he said…
Tell us about your style. How do you craft your DJ sets, and what is the feeling you’re going for?
It’s quite progressive I would say, and also quite deep. I don’t think it’s a particularly commercial sound. You really need to start with the right track, you know. Sometimes the guy that warms up will be really good, and he’ll kind of take it down at the end, and then it’s easy for me to start with whatever I feel like. But sometimes they want to go full on, and then I have to jump straight into some really high energy stuff and then just build it from there. It’s cool because you can go kind of up and down with the energy, and that’s what I like. You can start pretty tough and pretty hard, and then go down and back up again. You just have to take it from the first track and then see what people respond to. I’ll sneak in a little bit of techno and see if people like that, and if they do then I know I can go pretty hard.
Tell us about your latest release Phantom, what inspired this track?
It’s a track I’ve been working on for quite a long time, so I’ve been able to make it better based on what it sounded like and how the crowd reacted. It’s been going on for a year almost now, so it feels good to get it out. There’s a lot of inspiration from Eric [Prydz] obviously, I’ve been listening to Eric’s stuff since I was really young and it’s kind of impossible not to be inspired by him. So I thought I’d make my own energetic piano anthem in my own way, and that’s how it ended up.
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