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You're listening to d M Venue, a podcast for all of the DM lovers

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and headbangers out there, and this podcast you will find interviews with your favorite

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artist. Here we go, this is Dom here one five. iHeartMedia,

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I heart radio, and I'm here at the legendary Hardwell how is it going.

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I'm really high. I'm excited back at the Ultra. This is like,

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I don't know, man, this is what I live for. Man, this whole Miami Music Week. I love it back on the Ultra.

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So many great faces here and yeah, enjoying live. Brother. Hey,

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you know I would consider you maybe the king of Ultra. Oh wow,

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that's the biggest compliment. Thank you, thank you so much. Yeah,

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that's a big honor. Well, you know, I know it's it's like,

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what, maybe at least your eighth time here least well, yeah,

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at least who I actually lost, Come to be honest, I think twelve,

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twenty fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen eighteen, it's gonna be my

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eighth time on the main stage. You're right, Yeah, there we go,

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And that's a fail being back after you know, I know last year

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you came back after a little hiatus. Yeah, how was that hiatus for

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you, that was great the performers last year, Like, I was really

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happy, But I've never been that nervous in my life before, like just

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going out there having playing for four years, only playing new music out there,

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you know, the Rebels never lie album. So it was like a yeah, like a big stuff for me to come up with, like something

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new, new sounds like basically a new hardwell And yeah, it's one of

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the best things I've done in my life. But don't ask me how nervous I was last year, Like I was crazy nervous, and this year,

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like I'm way more relaxed, more confident and just enjoying life. Brother,

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Hey, that's good to hear. That's good to hear. And uh,

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I know in that hiatus you took a little break and you were working on

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your record label, Revealed Recordings a little bit. Yeah, definitely. I'm

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really proud to say we have our own stakes today with Revealed Recording. So

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a lot of my Revealed producer and DJA friends are here and the whole Madox

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is here, Doctor Farcas, here's sick individuals. You have Tony Jr.

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The new upcoming guys A and g U even Joe goreus they're playing now today,

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so yeah and maybe maybe uh there's this surprise guest. I don't know

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who it is, surprised, but this is coming out and you know, like a week or so, it's okay, he's gonna be on a surprise

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set. This guy right here Hard Well, you know, I know you've

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you've been on a big world tour If Rebels Never Die. Yeah, that

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was amazing, like coming back with the show and not even the music,

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you know, like obviously it was an album, but then developing the whole

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show or your own stage to them around the world in dead way instead of

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playing the festivals. I really enjoyed it. I was so happy to be

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back on stage see the fans again. And yeah, that's that's basically where

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I live for, you know, like making three the album was like three

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years into making and that's just me by myself in the studio, like it

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was a complete solo album. And then I don't know, like you know

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what music. What music makes special in my opinion is that the moment you

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play a song, you create memories with your fans, like it feels like

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the songs are coming to life. You know. Now if I listened to

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one of my songs of my album, or play one of my songs. I still remember, Oh that one went off in New York, Oh that

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one went off in China or whatever. So like, you create memories with

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the music, and I think that wasn't what's make music so special. One

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of my favorite memories of you, honestly last year is you throw a Linking

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Park in your set and I love that just because you can't hear that anymore,

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so it's just I love that you throw that in there. I'm a

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use Linking Park fans, so yeah, I think my fans know that.

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But that's It's like sometimes I just like, I know, like a lot

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of other das just use like IDMA cappellas and make matchup. And I always

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like to, you know, go a little bit out of the box, use eminem or Linking Park or just you know the bands and the rep as

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I grew up with. And what are some of your music influences. It's

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a lot, actually I listened to. If it comes to dance music,

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I listened to every single genre. Can be a Dad Mouse record, can

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be a John Summer's record, it can be whatever you name. It can

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be allotted to do with everything. You know, I listened to every single genre. But besides that, I'm a really big hip hop guys. I

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like, I listened to a lot of hip hop, and if I make

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my music, the biggest inspiration, as I just mentioned a like basically the

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fans. You know, I make a track in the studio, I play

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it out for the first time, and I see the reaction of the people

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and the fans, and actually I use that reaction to adjust the track a

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little bit more and then release it or not. Sometimes I just play something

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out and I don't release it because I'm not satisfied with the idea I had

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or it didn't work out on the dance floor. Okay, okay. And

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I know you have a new song with Timmy Trumpet and Maddox Revolution. Yes,

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it's actually number one in the Beatports chart right now mainstage chart. Yes,

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really happy with that. And I did a couple of clips with Medics

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already. Actually I'm going to play the new clap with Madics tomorrow on the

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main stage, a new one again. So yeah, and Timmy Trumpet we

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did a couple of songs before as well, and great. It was like

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the three of us on one record. It had to be something different,

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and I don't know revolution that that trek works so well in my set.

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I'm gonna play it tomorrow as well. I can't wait to hear it. I can't wait to hear it. And uh, what else you have?

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What else you have going on? Any new announcements? Um? Well,

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actually, I'm gonna do a lot of festivals. I'm coming back in the

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States in May doing a small club tour, so no big festivals, just

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small clubs. I like how intimate, like I used to like how I

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used to DJ in the beginning, like twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, when

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I started coming to the United States, And I'm coming back to the clubs

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where I used to start out as DJ, just to give something back and

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do like really intimate shows. Some venues are like four hundred people, so

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it's like it's you know, it's like crazy intimate. That's really intimate.

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I love that. I love that. That's the best feeling as a DJ.

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And you could, like definitely, you could definitely relate with the crowd.

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Yeah, like it. You can look defense ride in the eyes that

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ride in front of you. That's the best feeling when you do club shows.

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And don't get me wrong, I love playing festivals, but that's like

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more like a showcase of what's coming up your new music and make a big

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show and big stage and lights and the whole she bang, you know,

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and being a club show is just you, the music and the fans.

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And I love that. Yeah, that's great. Here, I want to hold you out too much longer. We went through her an Now smiths,

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Now, my last question is going to be what does your artist writer include?

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Because I ask all the artists this, and this could be everyone's got

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something. Jaffer, the last guy asked, said Uncrustables. Oh yeah,

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I have a framed picture of my dog. Now how did they get that?

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I see my dog? She has her own Instagram, and we put

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the Instagram link in the in the writers. So they just took random pictures

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from their Instagram and then put it in the dressing room. That's so cute,

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you know. And the funniest thing is, you want to know why

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it's in the writer. Why if my two Minanjo walks into the dressing room

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and he sees a framed picture of my dog, if they took the effort

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to actually print a picture and frame. He knows that everything else is sept

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That's absolutely true. Wow wow, not like a fancy superstar thing. I

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won't have a frame picture of my dark noticed like a reason behind why it's

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there. Oh wow, that's funny to hear. Hey, Hardball, I

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want to thank you for your time. Thank you. And this is Dom

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