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

In twenty years, the industry has changed enormously,
especially after the digital revolution. Do you think the change
has brought more challenges or more opportunities?
Wow, that’s a question. We think that we are seeing some
events booking artists based on social media numbers and not
“The relevant players now are the musical skills, which we of course feel is rather tragic because
it’s not really what this scene was built on. It was always very
ones who are true to what they do, like much about a global family of artists and promoters who were

building something from the heart. We also feel that having a
Truncate, Mark Broom, and Ben Sims” phone whilst at an event creates a barrier and sometimes people
are more concerned about showing they’re at the event than
actually being at the event, if that makes sense. As we mentioned
previously, we are not in the world of perception. We try to stay
the real deal and be as authentic as we can, both musically and
also in how we portray ourselves on social media and behind
the decks. We are ravers at heart who are lucky enough to be
the conductors at events we play at. We think sometimes people
don’t understand there’s plenty of psychology when you need
to read a crowd. It’s not just playing tunes, and that’s where the
number of followers doesn’t count.

Over your 20-year career, you have succeeded in holding on to
your signature sound. How do you manage to stay so faithful
to your own sound without being carried away by waves of
influences?

Living in Mallorca is a blessing because it’s not really influenced
by trends. Also, we tend to make what we feel we would like to
play, that’s not an ego thing, it’s just because we believe we
should be true to ourselves and try to be unique within a rather
saturated industry.

Your approach to music has always been through an ultra-
modern prism. How do you define modern techno, is it very
different from what you heard at the beginning of your career?
Who are the most relevant players in the genre right now (apart
from yourselves)?
Well, music is good and bad like any art form. We are rather
anti-genre in a weird way. We think that if it gets under your skin,
that’s what matters. The lines of techno have been so blurred
that we are in a moment where people think they’re listening to
techno when hearing an EDM track. The relevant players now
are the ones who are true to what they do, like Truncate, Mark
Broom, and Ben Sims, who are all still very much on the same
line being themselves without being influenced by trends. There
are plenty of new names, of course, but it’s hard to know if they
even produce their own records these days. We believe in this
scene deeply, however, because of the pop investors getting
involved and buying mainstage sets and bringing in ghost
producers, it’s hard to know who’s actually real at
this moment. This is both tragic and exciting.

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