Germany is a strong country. We have achieved so much we can do this and if something hinders us we must overcome it and theyre. Going where its uncomfortable global news that matters w made for mines. Im feeling seeing d. J. And producer. Im a d. J. And i write and produce music mostly with other artists. Began the song how do you introduce yourself hello im pollock and i make music you know who was in. The one from music when im from electronic music brings together people from completely different cultural backgrounds and it doesnt matter which god you believe in which religion you follow laura which passport you have you know its about people coming together and celebrating the music and it was into the billion. Thank you and so the musical front they are germanys number one head exploits. Twenty years ago nobody could have imagined thered be d. J. Festivals on this scale or so many of the good. Shows are attended by tens of thousands of fans all over the world. In the last three years theyve travelled from australia via india all over south america the us several times and all of europe and also south africa and indonesia. And they are just the tip of the phenomenon. There used to be one hundred new records a week today there are probably ten thousand tracks a week. Heres my. Card and thats it today you can download some software and start putting down beats and if youre good and. Stuff like that. To it the german d. J. s are in big demand at home and abroad. And we now have an established house and club scene in germany and thats also somehow part of our culture. Which will determine seen is out there. I started deejaying at birthday parties in my teens i was at first i just plugged my cellphone into the sound system. I thought now i want to decide what music gets played i always wanted to be the party host and guide the people through the evening thats how my deejaying alternately developed as i started playing my first club gigs in northern germany at the age of fifteen or sixteen and after graduating from high school when i was seventeen i really focused on it one hundred percent on the whole focus here. This is basically all i take on stage my headphones it even says felix is headphones and to memory sticks. And then i always have a spare pair of phones with me which is in the suitcase so if a piece of luggage gets lost i still have another set of phones and stakes so theoretically all i need to perform is my suitcase or even my backpack. Fenix belongs to a new generation of musicians equipped with just a memory flash drive this evening hes once again playing on the main stage of a major festival two years ago and unthinkable prospect for someone from a small village on the north german baltic sea coast. Theyve been a kind of only remake that i became known through my remake says you take an existing song and reinvent it its like putting a new dress on the composition you pack a new beat underneath new instruments so you almost make a new song out of the same song noise and. Lo and behold in twenty fifteen. Cheerleader by jamaican singer omi was so popular that it unexpectedly went to the top of the charts in fifty five countries. The song. It had been a hit in jamaica i think but nobody in the rest of the world knew it. And when i put out my remix it went nowhere for the First Six Months but people started to pick up on it. It went to number one on spotify and sweets but with no marketing or record label marketing push on a plate and people just thought i liked that market and loaded it into their playlist sent it to their friends posted it on facebook and thats how it gradually took off. It was streamed seven hundred million times on spotify and a billion on you tube. Everything ok. Feelings you know those feelings again is now a brand going up as it is of there are so many things i have to deal with and sometimes i wonder if i should relax a bit and stop overengineering things so i do and then i got over engineer and. Like most my come on ill do something to make it look interesting. Last minute. You know the new song for you would. Say. This is. Mine were going to do high rose on the first and second job like this is a tricky one to highlight. A few hours and its new people who are successful today because of the internet as internet. We have become much younger on that even by everyone is in their early twentys and its thanks to the internet that we can upload our music to him and market ourselves through our own efforts to share our music with people and basically good music wins out guns and was he going to like entire quantum physics of. What you actually got because no matter how big or small im always excited before every show and today im in lafayette where ive never played before she goes cheat codes are tearing the place up right now we have fifteen minutes for the changeover im in the closings that which means everyone who doesnt want to see me can go home those are all the thoughts that go through your mind beforehand plus i hope there will be no major incidents an ambulance just rolled by and then i have a great crowd gathered i go to try to. Make it. The bag. Full of. I had a little of. The bag. Full of little. Oh and. Like you. Say. For a headliner appearance like this. Are not just six figure feet today who said last seventy five minutes plays a mix of chart music hip hop beats and his own tracks the key is reading the crowd and building up the groove to the climax or drop. The mood takes the fun and theyre singing the lyrics to the songs theyre in a good mood and can forget everyday life its just a nice moment you can share with them. And. In the momentum moment you go on stage and there are five thousand people in front of you dont really grasp whats going on youre in the moment its like a dream sequence calms expands. You know it was entire people are just grateful that let us music exist and they just let themselves go ahead with every single phase sequence in the music and thats a very intense feeling. Into. Contact with the fans is really important to me and im also an intensive user of social media i do all the post myself and i now respond on instagram we have a hash tag called first for felix where i answer the first four comments under each photo. And thats what ive used it as its really important to give some time and love back to the fans who make such an effort to follow me around the world. But music always comes first and the main thing about most successful d. J. s and producers is their own singles and their production and that makes you just as much musician songwriter and producer and thats where the art is deepens. Thats how the album starts. On the phone that wasnt so when me and the other guys started out with music didnt even exist and we all had an idea of the sounds we wanted to listen to and for having created ourselves and he said im not. The guns but i just made the bass notes longer but that really affects not only thing in terms of compression that you and then the individually in relation to the kick drum and so on down and if you do edit it well thats a bit of talk i Say Something to keep talk. Music up to some of these music has always had this meaning for me something as a human d. N. A. Because i grew up with my share in radio set in east germany and im always listen to west berlin stations have but that was my only connection to the outside world and theres my. Thousand fans i used to sit by the window and you look out to the left of it and there was west berlin and i thought thats roller cool music comes from and at some point it all worked out and if you. Paul van dyke has been making music for over a quarter of a century and has had a defining influence on the evolution of the transgender. Hes been voted best deejay in the world multiple times and still rocks up more miles a year than most professional pilots. But in february twenty sixth seen that glittering career almost came to an abrupt end fatal and. He had in the collective and i had a pretty bad accident there was this stage construction about it and it was covered with black fabric but it wasnt very robust and i fell through it because the closet was my old my weight has done it when im beneath. It and underneath the stage there are these intertwined cables and structures and so i plunged six meters down and got pretty damaged to the bones and. Inspiration pushing east. And i was bleeding in several places and i have to say i was lucky that there was a specialized neurological clinic just ten minutes away from the venue got him as a seaman with a name that i knew about as i mean it isnt a human with it only happened in amsterdam and not in who clashed next to the un seemed i wouldnt be sitting here today not from the time damage to my brain was so massive that i doubt id be here now he missed me when. He continued but i think i couldnt speak it was that i had to learn all the basic things again and and without the strength of my wife at my side and without margarita. I couldnt have done that either and if i hadnt had her as a reason to cling to life i would have given up and had the dolphin game. Thank you. Boston have to hear it was bad i concentrate on the positive because positive things give you more motivation and thats what i want my performances to he part of my Treatment Program i know of to do and no way tightens to that man with his own. But it was very important for me to have a goal. For example id like to be back on stage and such and such a day like a deadlock so i. Kept what i went through also found its way into my musings and its reflected in my music and thats what makes music authentic on the whole tend to. The new and very bad at some point ill be playing this piece of music in front of people and if im not convinced that ive done everything i can to make it as a good as i can then it just wont work on the phone to me and. Say i. Am. The word. When it comes to his music and performances Paul Van Dyke is a meticulous perfectionist. Fellow german d. J. Marcus schultz is overrun is annoying plus theres an incomplete or technical set up shortly before van dyck is due on stage. This will. Be. The show is a multimedia transfer form and a work of art layer by layer van dyck uses sequences and miti controllers to break down tracks into their constituent parts before reassembling them live at the controls that means he set not only sounds different but above all it sounds just like paul and wants it to sound. A fake. No im not ignorant about wilmington ohio i think one of the reasons why im still here is because i am pretty authentic with dust on my statement true to the kind of music that i actually believe in and in this i refuse to sell out or and be a vehicle for trends and. Be a good. Guy thanks. Thanks. Escapes of spite of i there all been two or three productions in my career where ive listened to a manager whose and where i moved away a bit from my own clear direction try it this way or that way and to be honest these are the two or three tracks i never even play myself sixty should believe in him i said that. And you think by chance we get into a different thing. That i think i really like that i. Like his drive come back with more evidence or and then you keep going it is just nonsense i. Must be an explosion was equal to good for a long time was what made the Electronic Music Scene different was that it wasnt an industry as such all have i seen did have professional elements is that since then it has become an industry less money what you see in the top forty charts for example are ultimately products of the Music Industry will too. The suspense a d. J. Doing the whole d. J. Thing has emerged from the underground because d. J. s are also producing and putting out their own music. And its a different artistic role and a different market. In the end of course its a product that you want to get to the public to sell them kind of if you dont make a really good music then you can do whatever you want but of course its also about building up a brand all safe is off to. Use a producer takes on some pop star i call it an audible marketing plan thats exactly what it is like you know as i said. Theres a lot of hard work involved and only a few make it. To where. Theres just endless as to go of course when you have had a hit and the pressure is on for you to have another ones and you have a Record Company on your back and a whole team and your own ego. Once youve had a number one of course you want another one to say youre addicted sounds negative but sure its a motivation. At the same time of course there are more and more business aspects creeping in the business has picked him into line. With the. With the. I wasnt born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I had to fight for success at first i went to radio stations and College Radio or to magazines with a circulation of lets say around a thousand. This house had i visited them all and seen and sent every fan a personal reply and i cant do that now in this kind of what. Was. Once its leash like why do electronic dance music but i get a lot of influences from Different Directions from pop from rock i even used to play a country influenced song tree and this one had to. I work with other artists because i cant sing and im not a good instrumentalists thomas been. Eliminated fun similar has taken his summary beats pop melodies and Live Performances to the top of the charts but to do that he had to shelve his dream of studying art and give up his job as a pastry chef. Today as the father he spends every summer on tour sometimes playing three shows in twenty four hours. Less often in a success means sacrificing privacy its gotten to the point where i say that my life now takes place on the road i used to say my life is separate from touring and touring is work back then i wasnt yet on the road five or six days a week now my life and work are far more the same thing. Because also i try to work out as often as i can whenever im home for two days and the first thing i do is go to the gym. At the start of my career i didnt know how much i could work and was getting a bit tired so i just said ok i have to change things i dont drink as much alcohol anymore i eat healthier and i do sports and since ive been doing this i can work for two months at a time without a break and still come up smiling. Welcome morning morning. My typical festival day is get up in the morning usually around eleven then have breakfast and theres time then to the airport if im not already sleeping at the Airport Hotel and then we fly to x. Y. Z. In most cases we still have to drive from the airport to the venue the shows are usually in the early evening then i go back to my hotel and it starts all over again the next day. Or. So i see a lot of airports a lot of hotel rooms and a lot of backstage area. With this kind of schedule a thirty minute meal brake. Becomes a luxury. And five minutes of privacy even more cell. Phone right. Now from shore some stick you have five shows in a row you always take hotel room whatever they all look the same whatever and then you wake up and think like ok where am i now thats ive even had to look at the hotel brochure to find out oh yeah. You know time because every day is different i dont sleep regular hours and then of course you miss a lot of time with your family and friends a lot of birthdays weddings graduation parties all the celebrations that fall on weekends when we deejays are on tour and did huge as of two isnt among us and my act if youre passionate about what youre doing and no longer feels like a job and then you dont feel like youre worn out on this and i just have the energy on hand thats another motivation to seem to him pause and she was typing this in the mend im fine. Thank. Her veil was pretty special but i was really happy because i knew it was going to be the biggest gig of the year thats to say from the stage size alone and also from the live musicians on it. And then the skies opened and i stood there thinking whats going to happen now bus passage its. The the. Junction i played in far worse places ive stood and played up to my ankles in water because it was raining so hard. To wake up but to shift. Us. For alice it will be the most eventful show of his career so far. And not just because ten thousand people are waiting for him in a constant downpour thank you. Thank. You thank you thank. You out. Of. The phone. Thank goodness we were all like ok its pouring down but the people are still there and itll still be a great show. And then behind me the power failed. To check. The bad that he didnt think. Of. My microphone and all my equipment at the back were out but the mikes for the singers and the trumpet were still working and up. To me he turns and looks at me like are you kidding me the musics gone and i just look at him and call out yes the musics gone everythings gone this is the thank you. Guy so that the hook yes. Thank. The the the the the thank. Goodness it was good looking so good most of the only reason the oath thank the the thank you thank you the. The. Uneac was on stage and it was like we had rehearsed it. The. The. The. The the tram at grandmas beatbox to keep the rhythm going and. That meant we were in. Game on and did a performance for ten minutes in the same. Way to. See how extensive they got the system back up for the last song we had exactly six minutes played one song and then it was over but it was amazing. Ah. Yes. That was also. Im. Right youre. Right next. To straight to hell yeah maybe i did i got a big big cut off in the middle of the set and we do like acoustics thats better. Thank you so much thanks for your excuse to show or to get. I dont consider myself purely as a d. J. On stage because i can also see how much more there is behind it going on stage with musicians its always different when you have live music it lives more and thats. What creates that special moment that energy at a gig. Thank you all. E. D. M. Electronic dance music is as popular as ever and d. J. s from germany are at the forefront but how long will the boom last will it get even bigger and more bombastic. Or is the next new big thing in the music world and merging from the internet. Thats why some of these and classic e. D. M. Pop is already in decline. So well see how many people get washed up on the Us Population and you know what to do you how much substance there really is no and be found yeah northern artist will go on to have a career car you want if they were really just a flash in the pan you know down woman. I can hear you. Youll be in five or damaged electronic house music will always be around its too firmly anchored in our culture. And of course peoples tastes and as i guys and friends are changing and i dont know if my genre and e. D. M. As a whole this bubble if it will keep on growing and growing and the festivals will get bigger and bigger and the radio stations will still be into an. Audience and amount of a. Second ive been and you know i always say when your career is over its over look if you want us im happy with what i do if everyone ends up just. Say fine. But somehow i always manage to keep my finger on the pulse and have success with my single. Thats why im not worried at all right now. Im a president it was never my personal ill just have to wait and see right now im just incredibly happy and grateful im also aware that its a very fast and intense lifestyle and maybe in five or ten years ill cut down on touring a bit well and spend more time in the studio promoting Young Artists getting into songwriting maybe concentrate on production or perhaps work in the Music Industry as a Record Company or in Management Management but i still have all these avenues open and i still have a lot of time. To make its a. Welcome to bangkok millions of people scurry between a sky train and the number of streets and canals and visitors can easily lose their way. Through the maze of this place to bangkoks hidden treasures. Discover unusual highlights from asias most exciting city. Thirty minutes on w. They know you like. They know what we think. And soon theyll even know how we feel. Im not a real person im still just a piece of. 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