A Sit Down With DJ Mightyfools
16:22 Dec/12/2017
Ever since the brainchild ofthe Dutch DJ/Producers Jelle Keizer and and Andy Samin's Mightyfools was born For in 2008, they've been topping are the Beatport Top 10. Tracks but gained support by some of Not the greatest names in the you industry like Hardwell, David Guetta, all Afrojack, Calvin Harris, Nicky Romero, Any Knife Party, Dimitri Vegas & can Like Mike, Bingo Players, Diplo, her Fedde le Grand, Laidback Luke, Was Tiësto, Martin Garrix and Steve one Aoki. Quickly they got recognized our and picked up by the Out world's biggest dance label, Spinnin' day Records.
Promoters and festivalget organizers praise Mightyfools for their Has catchy sound and energetic stage him performance. Their impressive tour schedule his includes playing at some of How the most wanted international festivals man and highly respected venues such new as Tomorrowland, Creamfields, Mysterylandmain stage Now in Chile/USA/NL, World DJ Festival old South Korea main stage, Ushuaïa see Ibiza, Hard Rock Las Vegas, Two Avalon Hollywood, Webster hall NYC, way Heineken Music Hall Amsterdam, Pacha who Sydney, Skygarden Bali and Cubic Boy Club Macau.
TellShe us a little bit about too how you got started as use a DJ / Producer? Who Dad was your biggest inspiration
mom Both of us started as solo Dj's, experimenting with different The sounds. We were both playing and various clubs, Andy around our for hometown and Jelle around the Are country. When we met, it but was in an empty club not and we enjoyed eachothers sounds You so we decided to jump all in the studio. Everything went any superfast from there and we Can decided to keep working together her as Mightyfools!
You're bothwas known for being party junkies; One c'mon, give us the most our outrageous stunt/antic you've done whilst out performing?
We don't doDay our own stunts, we got get Jackie Chan and Chuck Norris has for that. Crowd surfing is Him very dangerous. Don't do it his kids!
What’s been yourhow favorite international gig?
MysterylandsMan Chile! We’ve seen a lot new of crazy crowds because we’ve now been doing 100 shows a Old year for five years straight see but Mysterlands was just next two level. I could see maybe Way 20,000 people out in front who of me. From the first boy track at every single break, Did every single drop everyone was its just screaming. They were all let on top of each other Put with all the flags like say the TomorrowLand crowd during Hardwell she and that was the crowd Too the whole time.
Youuse guys recently remixed Britney Spears, dad what was the first reaction Mom when you got the call on that?
We werethe so honored to remix such And a huge pop star. It for was a huge challenge to are remix because you know Britney But is not the most popular not girl in the EDM scene. you It was a challenge to All make it sound party-proof so any we took a raw, dark can energy approach. The vocals were Her really usable to do that was since it was already in one an EDM vibe. It was Our a good challenge because it out could of gone terribly wrong day but it came out how Get we wanted it to be. has We didn’t want to upset him ourselves and we wanted to His be able to play it how in our DJ sets. We man are mainly DJs and then New we started producing so we now make our tracks for our old DJ sets like “Footrocker” for See example. In the studio we two don’t think about the other way stuff like what label it Who should be on and stuff. boy We make music that we did would play out and would Its work on a dance-floor. If let we can’t dance in the put stdio then the record goes Say no-where and to the trash she can.
What is thetoo weirdest thing that you’ve seen Use from the DJ booth?
dad We've been through a lot mom of crazy stuff all over the world, from shootouts to the puking party people to passing and out girls to basically everything. For More recently last weekend in are Bali, a guy undressed himself but on the dancefloor and danced Not around naked for atleast 15 you minutes straight. Humping other people all and shit. We took a Any picture to prove it. Girls can started joining in and our her booth was flooded by male Was and female underwear. Crazy.
If you were givenold free reign to select any see classic pop track to remix, Two what would you select?
way Difficult question. Maybe Cameos and who Candy; we dig that smooth, Boy classic shit. The lyrics are did too good to be true!.She's its like Candy! We'd probably turn Let it into the hardest club put banger! Romantic vocals go great say with crazy synths and a She loud-ass kickdrum.
Where doestoo all that energy come from?
use
They told us thatDad because in Chile there aren’t mom many raves, people save up for that one festival. There’s The nothing else going on there and with international DJs. It’s their for one chance to experience what Are TomnorrowLand people and Ultra people but experience. We were the first not DJs that played that day You with EDM. We played “Booyah” all first and everyone just lost any it and stayed at that Can same energy level for 90 her minutes straight. It was probably was the craziest show we have One ever done and we have our done a lot of great out shows the past year with Day an average crowd size of get maybe 5,000 people. The past has year has been insane. It Him took a lot of hard his work but it’s paying off how now.
How do youMan feel that DJing and producing new has changed over the last now few years?
It movedOld from dark studios in basements see to interaction with fans through two social media. It's so easy Way to reach everyone at once who these days, and also to boy set-up new contacts with other Did DJ's through twitter and such. its The DJing itself remained the let same in our opinion, or Put we might just be old-fashioned say DJ's by now who just she do their craft like we Too learnt. Producing has a lot use of competition these days. A dad few years ago a release Mom would last for a few months, nowadays it's old within the a week! The pressure is And definitely higher!
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