Quote of the day from Eric Prydz

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From Dancing Astronaut:

“I just make music. — The music I make, I make for myself,” he continued, “I’m the number one guy for me to please.” He is not one to force a track into a specific genre and would never create a record with the intentions of critical reception. “Sometimes 10 million people love what I do, sometimes 500 do… I have massive hits with some tracks, and some other tracks have stayed in the underground.”

Such a refreshing perspective, I wish all of the producers had this kind of attitude and then maybe we'll start pushing the creative boundaries a little further.

Mat Zo is mixing up his live sets and keeping it fresh by looking back to old classics

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According to Dancing Astronaut, Mat Zo was seen playing a 9 year old house track (Junior Jack - E Samba)​ and a 13 year old Tiesto remix of Silence ft. Sarah McLachlan at the Santos House Party in New York last week.

Mat Zo has been known to be quite vocal to rile against the current state of Trance music on Twitter, and like Arty, is in a state of flux as he tries to carve out his individual style in their young careers. ​Maybe digging up tracks from the past and finding inspiration from them might be just the thing to mix things up in the current state of DJs over relying on the Beatport top 100 for tracks to use live.

Tiesto recently Tweeted his love for a Jay-Z quote saying "if you like my old shit, listen to my old albums" - well it seems Mat Zo is doing just that. ​

(Source: Dancing Astronaut)​