SHOWTEK: HE METRONOME
e us the need to express ourselves. ids, we made music in the studio. I n why we [began collaborating] as wn qualities and find a way to put ) really the melody guy, he’s like the m more of the editing but we each weaknesses.
ted with electro, progressive, n you tell us about your and why chose each new genre?
ple reason, I don’t want to brag but e want in the studio. When we were dstyle was really big and we were eren’t really doing anything else, lets just make music and just make
was a bit hard for some people to get ame if you were Michael Jordan, the all time and then suddenly he went d as a baseball player but I still loved hink [it works like that] in every the Tek came from ‘techno’). Now it’s moombahton, hard progressive shit… hing. But I think if you listen to all hear the Showtek touch, there’s tracks.
Wouter: We didn’t really get bored; it was more like hitting a ceiling and wanting to do something else. Then we started working with Tiesto two years ago on Maximal Crazy and were like, ‘this is pretty cool, we should make more stuff like this.’
Sjoerd: The big moment of that was we met Tiesto like three years ago and then we began co-producing some of his tracks. Then we went to EDC Las Vegas 2011 where he played Maximal Crazy on the main stage and I saw how nuts everybody went. I thought to myself, ‘okay, make sure the next Showtek song is going to be a mixture of what we do behind the scenes and what people know us for.’ Our latest track Get Loose lets you hear all the different stuff we do and that’s the reason why it’s picked up so well. I think we’ve been growing really fast in the last year; it has been going really well.
There was a lot of buzz surrounding you guys at Ultra this year…
Sjoerd: We got a ton of tweets about our songs being played… it was crazy. We had 32 of our tracks played on the main stage. We were like, ‘what the hell?’ That’s three hours of Showtek, more than we’ve played ourselves!
Obviously when you play the main stage at a huge festival like Ultra, you’re going to play a big room electro set, but when you play a smaller club what kind of style do you like to spin?
Sjoerd: We generally have like 10 Showtek tracks in every set but it really depends on the crowd.
Wouter: When we came in tonight (Bounce Music Festival) it was more of a ‘rage-y’ crowd who just wanted to go crazy. Once we entered a club in Monaco, France and they were playing Jennifer Lopez’s Jenny on the block and we were like ‘what the fuck are we going to do now?’ We started slow and then built up the night into our tracks like Cannonball.
Speaking of Cannonball, you guys just received a Gold Record for that track, how does that feel as an artist?
Wouter: It’s crazy; we’ve gone Gold in Belgium as well now. It’s really cool since we’ve made a transition to another genre and then the third track we make [from that genre] goes gold. We felt so honored because we’re just human; we’re not insecure but do really care what our fans think about every change. We didn’t really know what was about to happen but the free-fall was just amazing; ending in a gold record and working with artists like Tiesto and Hardwell.
Sjoerd: I think the whole year was like a basketball game for us, and Cannonball was a big slam-dunk in your face. To get a gold record really serves as validation for us and is a great sign for our career.
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