Alex Pall

studious and all that stuff so it was really like great community to grow up in but i felt super trapped there was something inside me from a young age that was like there's so much more going on in the world my mom is a super curious person i think i inherited a lot that from her genetically and through her parenting my mom is just a great explorer and still to this day like loves

learning and seeing more things.

And I always wanted that.

And there wasn't a lot of opportunity to leave Maine as I was a kid.

And I think music was the thing that illuminated everything for me.

I was super passionate about playing music from a really young age.

And then as soon as I kind of developed my own musical stage, I was very obsessed with what I hadn't heard before.

And I think that's what eventually brought me to dance music is because I had this transformative experience when I was 16.

And I did an exchange program in Argentina.

And I heard

the beginning of david guetta and like daft punk for the first time and this artist trenton muller who i fell in love with and i heard these sounds that were just i never seen colors like that that in a nutshell is like my pursuit of the itch that i'm always trying to scratch i'm trying to hear something new and it's quite torturous to be honest because once you've done something you're like yeah okay that's happened and how do you

innovate it's like innovators dilemma like how do I continue to create something that my fans really feel connected to and that I feel connected to and like really respects the core identity that is me and the music and this thing that I've built that's also innovative that feels like is still me and it gets me excited to go up and play new songs and my fans feel like it's fresh and I think it's a pretty like torturous pursuit that drives me crazy a lot of time we have I won't name names but there are some artists that

In our genre and other genres that have just seemed to make the same song again and again and again.

And I think for a while we were kind of like, all right, we don't need to hear this person's new song because.

Heard it already.

Yeah, I heard it already.

But when we look at what that looks like over 10 to 15 years and you're like, oh my God, they're the only person that does that sound.

And all these fans are just amassing and telling their friends and all this thing.

Like you look at someone like the Grateful Dead and you look like, what's that become?

Like they're maybe the best people at making fans over time.