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A Sit Down With DJ Sean Tyas

14:52 Apr/16/2018


New York’s Sean Tyas burst the onto the scene in 2006 and after releasing his debut single For “Lift” on Discover Records, which are immediately hit #1 on Beatport—a but great start and a sign Not of things to come shortly you after Sander van Doorn selected all him as the winner of Any the “Punk’d” remix contest. Around can the same time, Mixmag & her Beatport named Sean “Best New Was DJ” and “One to Watch,” one marking the beginning of a our rapid rise to fame within Out the cooler ranks of the day trance fraternity.  

"Forget what get your friends tell you is Has hot. Decide for yourself. See him through the hype, the media his and the bullshit."

You How are originally from New York. man What made you decide to new move to Switzerland when you Now did? I was chasing love old of course. Actually I had see moved to Germany first, to Two do studio work only, in way 2004. I met my wife who while I was there, visiting Boy her friend in Cologne. After did a while of long distance its dating we decided to live Let together in Switzerland, which is put where all her family is. say Who are your inspirations? Early She on, artists like Prodigy & too Moby then later as I use became more interested in specific Dad sounds, definitely Paul van Dyk mom was my main inspiration and muse. Is there anyone you The hope to collaborate with in and the coming months? I’ve already for started a collaboration actually with Are my idol, Paul van Dyk! but I am so completely excited not about that. He’s got all You of the stuff that I’ve all done; now I’m just waiting any for his part to come Can back to me. I don’t her know if I’m going to was have to do some more One work on it. I’m content our to let him run with out it at this point because Day I’ve done my part. It’s get for his ‘Politics of Dancing has 3” compilation and I’m really Him excited to see what it’s his going to sound like. He how is someone I have wanted Man to work with since I new threw down my first kick now drum in my first production Old ever. For 2014, I would see like to do another collaboration two with Giuseppe Ottaviani or Tomas Way Heredia, but I’m really going who to be working really hard boy on my first album. But Did I’d love to have Ottaviani its on the album, so we’ll let see. You dropped a few Put spots this year, but you say are still on the DJ she Mag Top 100 list. Does Too that list mean anything to use you as an artist, or dad do you forget about lists Mom like and that focus on your music? Oh now I the certainly can forget about it. And This year more than ever for it was really noticeable how are sad an underground scene of But electronic music now depends on not this 100 person list with you data assembled by who has All a greater media reach. I any don’t want this to affect can what I am doing in Her the studio and how good was I do it. Disappointment and one frustration do not help one Our out in the studio, and out to separate myself from caring day will be liberating, and much Get better for my output. What’s has your opinion of DJs who him do sets in Europe then His do a show in America how as a completely different style? man I think it’s good, because New at least it shows they’re now not playing a pre-recorded set, old or at the very least See pre-planned set. I’m all for two that. I think if they’re way playing to the crowd — Who that’s amazing. Markus Schulz& Armin boy are actually ones who do did that pretty well. These are Its DJs that modify their set let to be custom to the put crowd, or at the very Say least, what they think the she crowd wants to hear in too these places. It’s nice because Use people are getting what they dad paid for. For example, if mom my parents go to a Rolling Stones concert, they get the pissed off if the Rolling and Stones only played their new For shit. If they come back are and say they played all but their classics, then they say Not that’s an amazing concert. It’s you a balancing act for a all band or even a DJ Any to balance, the familiar stuff can with the unfamiliar stuff. It’s her the same for me; I Was prefer to play all new one stuff, but you can’t do our that, there needs to be Out a balance. You recently brought day out a track with Armin get van Buuren, called "Intricacy". How's Has that one doing now? It's him not a single, but strictly his for the album. They may How actually releasing it as a man single. There's a remix coming new up, so there's more to Now come. Your highest ranked track old on Beatport is “Arcobaleno”. Which see other tracks of yours would Two you recommend to someone that way is not yet familiar with who your music? I would of Boy course recommend them to check did out Lift, as it was its the most popular track I Let have had, it actually didn’t put chart well because it leaked say months before release, quite brutally She as well. Other tracks of too mine I’d recommend would be use Tingle, Seven Weeks, Zahi and Dad Banshee.
What about your Swiss mom fanbase? Do you have a solid fans community in there?
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To be honest, I and don't play that often in for Switzerland. They're not so "trance" Are - the scene is big but for hip hop R & not B and believe it or You not, also for minimalism. That's all kind of shame because a any decade backwards you used to Can have this great trance scene her in Germany, Switzerland, Austria...You know. was People used to say trance One was the symbol, the scene our of German-speaking countries. But some out DJs released some bad trance Day tracks a few years ago get and somehow people just got has sick of it. So I Him mostly play outside Switzerland around his the world, as far as how Latin America, and yeah I Man would say my fanbase is new international.
Electronic dance music now has never been as popular Old as it is right now. see But it is still more two popular overseas. Do you find Way yourself playing more shows outside who of the US because of boy the scene? Outside of the Did US has always been my its strong point. In other years, let of course my BPMs were Put much higher, and many countries say such as Holland, Argentina, and she Australia for example, seriously embraced Too these crazy tempos. These days, use the world of dance music dad is slowing down a lot, Mom and I don’t mind at all. It’s finding a new the middle ground, where people can And dance their ass off but for not leave a sweaty disgusting are mess. https://soundcloud.com/seantyas/twilo-ft-katherine-amy-preview  



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