00:00Today has been a very big day for me.
00:02I woke up with some very nice reviews.
00:04You know, a lot of months and a lot of work went into this album.
00:07And I think as a team we're also really celebrating this moment together.
00:10So I think the show tonight will also be a bit of a celebratory moment.
00:14A big celebration.
00:15So yes, it does feel different.
00:30Well, honestly, this morning I noticed that there's a couple of magazines that really
00:36seem to understand that I want the album to be about club culture and that I wanted to
00:41go back to my essence as a clubber and in my love for techno music.
00:46And it's nice to see that also the more wide and more broad magazines are understanding
00:53this idea.
01:00And I wasn't really expecting everyone to just understand because when we released
01:04some singles, some people were saying that there's not really a big element of surprise
01:09in some of the tracks.
01:10So it is nice to see that after releasing the album as a whole, the concept is coming across
01:16a bit more clearly.
01:23Some people that I didn't hear from in a long time, they reached out to me and they're not
01:27in essence clubbers and they reached out to me saying how surprised that they were with
01:32tracks like Haier and Matière Noire, which are the the breakbeat track and the Amien track.
01:37So I think it was, it's been a good idea to include those tracks on the album for people
01:41to also hear something different than just techno for me.
01:44So that was nice to see.
01:50I think the difference will be that hopefully in the crowd, some people will already start
01:55recognizing the tracks and hopefully maybe some people will start singing along.
01:58That's, that's, that would be really great.
02:04What am I thinking about?
02:05Self-question, not much really.
02:07It can be very random things as well.
02:09Like what I, what I, what I ate during the day.
02:11Sometimes I really zone out and I go a bit on autopilot, but I'm just thinking to be technically
02:17as tight as possible and as correct with my beat matching as possible.
02:22Then I'm just looking around and I watch the, the faces of the people and I watch the interactions.
02:26And that's usually what keeps me very busy during a DJ set.
02:35There is not one song that I will always play, but the crowd pleaser of crowd pleasers of all
02:40crowd pleasers in my sets is a remix that I made together with my husband Enrico for the Age of Love.
02:45That's a, it's such an iconic track, the original mix.
02:48And we remixed it, I think 30 years after the original got released and it still resonates
02:54so well with so many people.
02:55So that will always be a special one.
03:02Well, my parents, they love every single track just as much, but I would say that the favorite
03:07track is probably The Age of Love because it's the one that always gets the biggest crowd reaction.
03:12It's the one that probably they also recognized from when they were younger.
03:16So it's probably The Age of Love remix.
03:23Usually when I make music, I already make it very dance floor approved.
03:28It actually works the opposite way.
03:29I would make a track, say now The Heads That Know got released, but then to have the release
03:34also on Spotify and other streaming platforms, I would make an edit, a shorter edit.
03:39So everything that I released is already very DJ approved, intro, outro, stuff like that.
03:50The last show that I attended that wasn't mine.
03:54Well, I very clearly remember a wonderful festival.
03:58I went to the summer in Portugal, Boom Festival.
04:00It's initially a trance festival, but they also have a techno stage.
04:03And I was playing there back to back with my husband unannounced.
04:06It was incredibly fun.
04:07But we also stayed at the festival and I felt free enough to just be in the crowd and dance in the crowd.
04:14And some people were approaching me and to ask, well, they didn't really ask for a picture even.
04:19They just approached me, they gave me a handshake or a hug.
04:21And it was very liberating to be in the crowd and to dance to music.
04:31I'm lucky also to be surrounded with a lot of artist friends.
04:35So there's always good music around if need be, if that's what I'm looking for.
04:40But this truly liberating feeling of dancing on a dance board together with other people and having that sense of being anonymous.
04:48Don't say it like that.
04:49And it's sometimes very difficult to find.
04:52It's very intense.
04:57You live through all the moments together.
04:59The good ones, the bad, and touring can be very, very intense.
05:02It's very high performative, lots of lights, not a lot of sleep, a lot of triggers to handle.
05:09So it can be challenging, but in the end I'm very happy to wake up next to someone that I love.
05:15So that's nice.
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