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COVER INTERVIEW > ‘20 YEARS: PIG&DAN’ - AN ALBUM, A STORY AND A BRILLIANT CAREER

Hi Igor (Pig) and Dan! Thanks for taking a moment out of
touring to talk to us for a bit.
First of all, congratulations on your 20-year career! Tell
us how you met, why you decided to form the duo and, of
course, the reason behind your alias.
Thanks so much, we see it as a real milestone! Well, we met
on a plane by chance when talking about music. After the
second meeting, we felt it was fate and needed to check
out if we had synergy in the studio. Two decades later here
we are, feeling more creative than ever. The name came as
a sort of joke and stuck. Igor (Pig) was known for his passion
for food and we decided to use his nickname.

Looking back over these twenty years, how would you
describe your journey?
Dynamic, lucky, hard-flipping work! Lots of love, tears and
sweat have gone into this journey and we are so damn
grateful to have succeeded in what is a very hard industry.
We started at a time when there was no social media, or
anyone taking videos (bliss), so spreading the word was
solely through music and doing what you do, without it
being about perception. We’ve been so fortunate to have
been supported by label bosses like Sven Väth and Adam
Beyer, plus some promoters who believed in us and brought
us on board even when we were just starting. This helped us
elevate our name internationally, something that’s hard to
even comprehend on so many levels. We wake up grateful
every day.

To portray each of those 20 years of your incredible career,
you’ve just released the album ‘20 Years: Pig&Dan’ on your
ELEVATE. How was the process of creating the album and
choosing a track to represent each year?
It wasn’t that hard, shockingly. We just, as per usual, went
with the flow. We think that’s the biggest advantage of
being a duo and having someone to bounce ideas off. We
picked out some tracks we really felt could have an updated
version and added tracks that were fresh and pushed the
boundaries of genre. This is very much a collection of all
sorts of cross-genre dancefloor tunes.

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