Alex Pall

That's maybe like...

five percent of chain smoker songs but a lock brought that song to us and we like let's make this like a big sounding donk 140 bpm record which also doesn't sound is an hardcore sound it's like an opportunity for us to go and make something that doesn't fit in the typical chain smokers bucket so

I just went to Carnival with him, with Blast and Bahia.

It was crazy.

He played for two million people on a bus that drives through the street for five hours.

Yeah, there's definitely something to that.

I was like $150,000 in debt.

You had a way to our world.

Because it's just Avicii, but not Avicii.

The beginning of our career, we were like trying to emulate people like that.

Zedd and Avicii and Skrillex and Calvin Harris and David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia.

There's so much exciting things happening in dance music.

I was a novice producer.

You were just getting into it.

We DJ gigs around the city and we grew up on indie music.

And so we would go on this website called Hype Machine.

I don't know if you ever were aware of that.

Yeah, of course, yeah.

It's like the first viral chart of the internet.

And it was all music that wasn't being officially released.