I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you. Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special. I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection.
If you put 80, people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other.
That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other. Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language. I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast.
And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to judge it, you know?
It was just me in my bedroom. It gave me freedom and made me happy. People always say, 'How is it to be so successful? Richard Branson is successful. That's successful. Michael Jackson was successful. U2 was successful. I'm just a guy, doing okay.
But I'm a happy guy doing okay. My debut album, 'Forget the World,' is all about not listening to the negativity around you and to continue to do what you love, no matter what people think. I love what I do. Dance music is my passion, my life. There is no greater feeling than being one with my fans, partying to the music we love.
Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music. When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like , 'Oh, that's my song.
When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. How would you describe your relationship with the young and flourishing duo?
This was our first real introduction actually. We just have the same life. We absolutely love it! Do you plan on performing the moving tune at other venues outside the festival ambiance? Afrojack: I sure hope so, I just have to come up with the right remix of it for the smaller venues first since the song has more of that large festival sound all-around.
But I definitely want to work on some sort of remix so I can play it everywhere! The Nocturnal Times: The track is full of upbeat, positive lyrics and a moving melody all throughout, did you intend for the song to instill a specific emotion or feeling in listeners as they hear the track for the first time?
Afrojack: Festival. Could you tell us more about what the project is all about and what your main vision for it is? Afrojack: Never Sleeps is an imprint built for festivals. A lot of artists produce all types of music but a lot of it never gets properly released because of all the pressure from labels and management so that artists can successfully perform streaming-wise. They just want us to create these happy and relatable streamable songs just so that they can make money, but this was becoming a problem, even for myself.
What message were you hoping to portray with this tune? I remember when I was at the last Tomorrowland, a lot of people asked what song I closed out my set with and it was with this record. How do you decide who you want to invite to release tunes on the imprint? Afrojack: Well, Never Sleeps is in collaboration with Tomorrowland so of course we have the whole Tomorrowland roster that we can always reach out to.
But mostly, I aspire to recruit those artists I constantly talk about this idea with and that just seem really interested and excited about it all you know? DJs first, producers second. They should feel happy knowing they are able to put out a song that they love and not worry so much about compensation or fame. Charlotte Hainning. Currently based in NYC, I hope to inspire others through my writing. Bringing you the best music news, covering everything you need to know.
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