URB: Do you get much time for that?
FLG: It depends. Most of the time it’s like you get from the airport to the hotel, to the venue, back to the hotel, back to the airport so it’s not too much really. I mean for instance now we came yesterday and I just went to bed early. But today we actually went out and checked out the city a little bit.
URB: Where did you go?
FLG: Ah, it’s horrible. To a mall of all places but my manager needed new trousers so we needed to go.
URB: Aha, which one?
FLG: I have no clue. [Turns to his tour manager] Kai, which mall did we go to?
KAI: Beverly Center. [Everybody laughs]
URB: Ok, so back to music, how did you get into dance music in the first place?
FLG: Well, the thing was indirectly because of my parents. As a kid I was obligated to do three things – learn to play an instrument, learn to ballroom dance – at least one year, horrible. And to do sports. So I did that and I was not too bad at sports but then my father wanted me to go to the Olympics and train harder and all that. And that was the moment when you know you’re 12 or 13 you are getting interested in other things so I had to stop right away.
URB: Horrible, we could have lost you to sports and you might have turned out to be a jock instead of a disk jockey.
FLG: [Laughing] Yeah I think I like this better.
URB: And as far as the instrument, what did you play?
FLG: Keyboard, but I hated it to be honest. I thought it was so borring, like these really boring songs. But it was good because it gave me basic insight into music. And I was always interested in music, I think I was just too lazy to actually master an instrument like a violin or a saxophone. Until a friend of mine who was a little bit of a computer nerd introduced me to new ways to make music with software and stuff and it totally got me. I was up late and you know playing, twisting buttons. But it was very good and my interest grew and grew, my musical knowledge grew, I met more people.
URB: So eventually did that lead to you DJing at venues?
FLG: Yeah, I started out playing hip-hop actually. But, I don’t know how it is here but in Europe at a certain point it was only about like – look at my car, look at my girls, look at my chain. And like in the beginning I thought ok this is cool but after a while I realized it wasn’t even about the music so much anymore. I still like stuff like Black Sheep, De La Soul kind of like the more mellow stuff. I got fed up, and of course I don’t want to offend anyone, but with the real, real “gansta” stuff…There are artists I’ll always like like Dre and Snoop. But also the audience got into this ganster vibe and we got like a lot of fights and it was hard to even play.
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