URB: Do you like being in your studio more than DJing or vise versa?
FLG: Right now it’s about the switch back and forth. It’s just the coolest thing to finish something on Thursday for example and you know you have a gig Friday and you try it out. And it’s always the most scary thing ever because you feel so naked even though they have no clue what you are doing but you know. And you look for a response and your mind goes all over because no one heard it before except you. It’s also the best because that’s the most honest reaction you will ever get because you play it for the first time.
URB: Where do you work, as in where is your office/studio/record label?
FLG: Our office is in Oosterhout and it’s a place that no one can find [laughing], and it’s nice and quiet, so it’s great.
URB: So that’s more up your alley?
FLG: Yeah, that’s the reason why I don’t live in Amsterdam. My life is hectic already so it’s nice to just have nothing around you for a while.
URB: What are your favorite places to play?
FLG: Country wise, I would say America, Hungary and Australia.
URB: You mention playing in America vs. Europe a lot. For you what is the biggest difference between the two?
FLG: Well to be honest, in Holland if you are looking for producers there are a lot of good producers but if you are looking for a good night out there aren’t many. People have been so spoiled over the years and at the moment Dutch DJs are so afraid to take the next step, doesn’t matter left or right, and everybody is sitting with this one genre. I think now we are at a point where the producers get it already but the DJs don’t want to make the full step and everybody is waiting for somebody to take that step.
URB: And how is it here for you?
FLG: I think in general people are just more open here. I mean, I just played after a trance DJ which would not be possible in Holland. People pigeonhole too much.
URB: Lastly, any crazy fan stories?
FLG: Ah well, yes, but it’s kind of a heavy subject.
URB: Can you still mention it?
FLG: It was, there was a girl who wrote me who had cancer. She had such great memories from the “Put Your Hands Up For Detroit” song that she used to listen to it when she went in for chemotherapy treatments. And she was healed eventually, of course, not because of my song. But it’s just good to know what she was fine at the end.
URB: That’s beautiful. Did you meet her?
FLG: Yes, I had left her tickets for one of our gigs and she came to say hello. Three hours later at the end of the last show of the night.
URB: So how was your night at EDC?
FLG: Ok, we tried to find some trouble to get into but it didn’t work out. Looked to misbehave here, there, but it was nothing serious… actually nothing much at all…[laughing].
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