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I'm a big fan of Tiesto, and Swedish House Mafia are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

I love Disclosure. Dillon Francis. Bauuer. Flosstradamus. I listen to a lot of different genres.

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

I'm really into EDM music and the culture of that. I just love all that stuff.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

Now, the DJ becomes a star in itself because of the way he programs the songs with lows and then highs and then slowing it down. The big DJs, like Tiesto and Deadmau5 and all those guys, they are very, very creative.

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

There have been a lot of people involved in the growth of EDM's support in the U.S., from DJ/producers like David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Skrillex, to major festival organisers and pop artists of EDM integrating elements of dance music into their music.