I have played ‘Clarity’ every day for almost five years now, and I still get excited every time.” Justice For All I want to create music that everybody can enjoy, that I don’t get tired of, and that doesn’t only work at festivals. I want to feel something when I am listening. It’s great that there’s music like this, and I have also made it, but currently I’m focusing more on musicality and songwriting. We call them ‘DJ tools’, and if you’re in front of 40,000 people and the crowd doesn’t react, you pull up one of these ‘DJ tools’ and you know you’re going to get their attention. A lot of EDM songs aren’t there to enlighten you musically in any shape or form, they’re there because they work. “Sometimes EDM is less about the music and more about the functionality, of all the standard elements like risers and drops and breakdowns. But for me, a distorted kick with just four notes on top is not that exciting. When you have complex chord progressions with changing bass notes it won’t be as easy to mix or as punchy. If you don’t clutter your track with millions of things, each element will have more room. It will sound good, because generally speaking, the less elements you have the better. A distorted kick can carry all the low end and then all you need are a few single notes on top. I sometimes like to play these songs live, when I DJ, because they have a certain energy. But there also is a lot of EDM that is great-sounding, but boring. “There is a lot of amazing EDM out there, and there are many artists who create really interesting stuff with interesting chords and smart songwriting. German producer Zedd has become a star by bringing musicality to electronic dance music.
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