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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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