Fedde le Grand, the Dutch mastermind behind, among other things, “Put Your Hands Up for Detroit” has just unsuspectingly played one of his biggest gigs in America to date (Electric Daisy Carnival) and is now watching over the 30,000 plus party people in front of the main stage below us. URB catches up with him before he goes off to play in San Diego and Las Vegas.
URB: How are you doing? How do you like L.A. so far?
FLG: Great. I played a few times in L.A., before but this time it exceeded my expectations in general. I know L.A. is good because every time I’ve been here it’s been great but this time it was bigger than I could imagine, actually. It’s huge. [Looking over the EDC main stage from the press box] I’m used to doing big stages but that’s mostly in Europe. The only big stage I did in America was actually in Miami during the Winter Music Conference so I was really, really surprised when we came here and entered this arena… it’s amazing.
URB: Did you test your new single “Scared of Me” tonight?
FLG: Yes I did, it was cool!
URB: I saw the video just recently – very fun and cheeky. What’s the story behind it? What was your idea?
FLG: Well two things actually. The first one is the album will be released in 64 countries.
URB: Have a release date yet?
FLG: Just around September. But the hard thing is that you kind of have to figure out a video that pleases people in 64 countries. Including countries like Japan and they have like a totally different idea of how a video should look like in terms of England or Europe or America. (For the video) we took a little bit from the song – it shouldn’t matter who you are, what you look like – it’s about your talent. That’s basically in a nutshell what the video is about. And it had to be a little bit funny because of the Japanese market.
URB: It’s a really fun video. And about your album, Output, what can we expect?
FLG: I think pretty much everything. The thing is, probably I shouldn’t say this, but I just really wanted to do an album from a producer’s point of view, so I did some like old school funk tracks, which has nothing to do with house actually. “Scared of Me” is in line with Ida Corr if you think about it. But I also did some deeper stuff, some really underground stuff.
URB: What do you mean by deeper – more progressive, darker…?
FLG: Just darker. Not so much harder but the athmosphere itself is a bit more dark. I did some break beat stuff …a little bit of everything because actually I do house 24/7 anyways which is great but I mean my musical interest is a bit bigger than only house because when I listen to music, of course, I don’t just listen to house music. So I wanted to do a bit of everything because I think that’s what makes an artist’s album interesting in general.
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