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Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

All my friends are usually at festivals... I just have so much adrenaline running, I literally could run a marathon after my shows.

It can only sound one way with the Prodigy - vicious, banging and, yeah, incites a riot.

I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd never heard Tame Impala played somewhere with a dance floor or where people were dancing.

I've been going to Europe for some time on the festival circuit, and once you get in that element and see others reacting to it, it's easier to understand. You get trapped in the wave. The beats are driving and super-aggressive - like, so hard. I was curious.

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

We always got a strong response but I think in this day in age there is less of a marijuana fog at concerts and more of people just more naturally exuberant - it seems to me.

I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.

I listen to everything. I love The Chemical Brothers.

I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don't like. At certain theaters, people can't get up and dance.

Making dance music was one of the best things I did in my life. I traveled the world; I met the most amazing fans. I got a lot of respect from doing it.

I really love the festival circuit.

Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

Dance music will always be around. People around the world love to dance.

I wouldn't call myself 'into the DJ scene.' I have friends who are DJs, like James Murphy. I was really into the DJ scene at his wedding. But generally, I'm not at the clubs. I've never been to a rave.

I embraced EDM from the beginning.

I'm learning what I gotta do to get people hyped up. It doesn't matter even if they're not dancing, as long as they're bobbing their head and as long as it looks like a mosh pit down there.

I used to be a party monster, very into Acid House, which I saw as my weekend reward for working hard all week.

My music is designed to make a club go insane when it goes on.

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

Simian Mobile Disco changed my life. They put me onto the EDM world. Although they would hate that term, they're more techno.

I started as a rave promoter when I was 17 years old; then I started DJing at 19.

I go out pretty much every night, and when you spend time in those clubs, watching how the DJs make their mash-ups to heat up the room, you want to create that sound yourself.

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