Full Transcript for Amlex Finds His Voice Through Passion and Persistence on the Virtual Sessions 1/20/26

00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:51,760 well, so you know how many tracks do you end up producing a month and how many end up being 23 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:52,600 released? 24 00:02:53,540 --> 00:02:59,600 Per month I'm going to produce like one, two tracks, like for me it's essential 25 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:06,360 because you have to do like a lot of strategies to follow, I mean it's like you have to do a 26 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:15,520 radio show, you have to do Classifica, the charts on Beatport, you have to listen new music to take 27 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:25,500 inspiration and for example for me is my mind and my brain is like still like doing, working 28 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:34,160 like as a lab because when I sometimes I cannot sleep because my mind is full of 29 00:03:35,980 --> 00:03:44,220 ideas and I have to go back to the PC, to the computer and like yeah and write and write, 30 00:03:44,380 --> 00:03:51,260 write, write, okay I don't like it, okay redo it, okay we go, go, go, go, yeah it's like try, 31 00:03:51,260 --> 00:03:57,300 try hard and play hard because if you don't try hard and don't play hard for me is like you are 32 00:03:57,300 --> 00:03:58,340 wasting your time. 33 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,100 Absolutely, I know I can agree with that 100%, I was up till 3 a.m last night 34 00:04:04,660 --> 00:04:10,100 and ideas are still happening in my head because I got so many irons in the fire, so many things 35 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:15,720 going on in my bucket that if I don't keep my, if I don't put it down on my notes and I used to write 36 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:20,540 everything down manually on to-do list, now if I don't put it in here which is nice for the cloud 37 00:04:20,540 --> 00:04:24,320 so if I ever lose my phone, I don't lose my whole game plan because it's in the cloud. 38 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:26,940 Exactly, yes, you know it's a strategy, yeah. 39 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,160 Exactly, so but having those to-do lists and 40 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:33,760 they say that the one thing that's nice is you know if you try to go with the day and you try 41 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:38,940 to take on too many big tasks because time management is a very serious key thing and 42 00:04:39,380 --> 00:04:45,720 for overall health you know and making sure people stand, stay healthy, you know this leads right into 43 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:51,960 my next question that producing dance music or just music alone stands synonymous with spending 44 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:57,640 countless hours behind the computer sculpting your beats, making your beats, where do you 45 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,300 find your free time to stay fit? 46 00:05:01,690 --> 00:05:09,810 Well, that's a hard question to reply, I mean it's like 47 00:05:10,510 --> 00:05:20,330 when you are, in my opinion, I'm taking from myself, I'm talking for myself, when you are 48 00:05:20,330 --> 00:05:29,210 behind the computer you are like still like going ahead in something that you love it and it's 49 00:05:29,210 --> 00:05:39,230 impossible to like to get some distractions or whatever but I think that of course you have 50 00:05:39,230 --> 00:05:47,270 to eat and you have to go to shop something in the, to ship something in the shop or like 51 00:05:47,270 --> 00:05:53,250 quotidianity, you know, but when you are focused there and trust me like it's like super difficult 52 00:05:53,250 --> 00:06:01,870 for me to leave this chair, trust me, it's like I don't know, I don't know some to describe 53 00:06:01,870 --> 00:06:09,830 like in a few words but I think that is like a good thing, if not it's like waste time, I told 54 00:06:09,830 --> 00:06:14,390 you like I mean yeah for me it's like that. 55 00:06:14,970 --> 00:06:18,370 You know, I can relate, I've been telling this story 56 00:06:18,370 --> 00:06:25,790 for over a year now about in 2024 how I was just at a standpoint, I didn't know what to do with my 57 00:06:25,790 --> 00:06:31,270 show, my brand and I just took off what I thought was going to be two weeks, what I thought was going 58 00:06:31,270 --> 00:06:37,810 became two months, which became four months, which became ultimately eight and a half months where I 59 00:06:37,810 --> 00:06:45,310 did not sit in this chair and do anything for my show whatsoever, you know, and it was just after 60 00:06:45,310 --> 00:06:50,750 16 years of doing this I was on the go, I was on the go, it was yeah go, go, go, go, go, but I mean 61 00:06:50,750 --> 00:06:56,770 I know why things happened and what they did, I had to come back and regroup last May and get 62 00:06:56,770 --> 00:07:00,710 everything together and now I've been doing a lot of behind the scenes work and I ramped back up 63 00:07:00,710 --> 00:07:06,190 last year and sat in the chair and forced myself here, I mean I did 160 interviews last year 64 00:07:06,190 --> 00:07:13,010 between May and like October, you know, so that's a lot of interviews and we're getting ready to 65 00:07:13,010 --> 00:07:18,870 ramp up, I got a new PR guy coming on board, I'm super excited, everything's going well for 2026, 66 00:07:19,390 --> 00:07:24,630 you know, speaking of mental health though, you know, do you sometimes get fed up with making and 67 00:07:24,630 --> 00:07:27,270 playing music and how do you deal with that? 68 00:07:28,250 --> 00:07:43,590 Do you have a set, like I get up, I go jogging, I get up, I take a baseball bat to, you know, a stuffed animal, I scream out loud or do you have some mantra or something that you do that helps you kind of woosah and get back into the moment? 69 00:07:44,590 --> 00:08:14,750 I'm sometimes an overthinking person but I think that I'm also a last minute person, it's like when you do, when you try to do like something for yourself, whatever, every time is like last minute for me, it's like go to play football or go to play swimming in a swimming pool or go to play gym, whatever, I'm going to decide like last

minute, what I'm feeling in that moment. 70 00:08:16,230 --> 00:08:32,470 I mean, that's my behavior like from ages, I mean, my mom and my father, thanks so much to be alive, I mean, thank you but yeah, they hate me for that, I mean, yeah, a good way, in a good way, of course, of course. 71 00:08:33,370 --> 00:08:35,870 No, you know, being a multitasker, you know, 72 00:08:35,990 --> 00:08:41,750 is kind of, I've been, I've had people think that I have ADD or they have Asperger's or things like 73 00:08:41,750 --> 00:08:47,270 that or it's like, no, I just, I multitask really well, it sounds like I got a million things going 74 00:08:47,270 --> 00:08:52,310 on and when you get to know me, it's like, he has a plan going on, he knows what this, this, this and 75 00:08:52,310 --> 00:08:58,870 this all connect together, you know, to make something happen but you can get frizzle fried, 76 00:08:59,010 --> 00:09:03,450 you can get burnt out very easily and, you know, one of the things we like to address sometimes is, 77 00:09:03,590 --> 00:09:09,330 you know, the mental health of the electronic music industry, you know, talking about DJs, 78 00:09:09,330 --> 00:09:14,890 performers, even bands, you know, going on stage and, you know, here you are in front of 5,000 79 00:09:14,890 --> 00:09:20,830 people and then all of a sudden, then all of a sudden, you're at the airport three hours later 80 00:09:20,830 --> 00:09:27,110 and it's completely silent and that dopamine effect that goes up and down, like, and that 81 00:09:27,110 --> 00:09:30,870 could be Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, could have two gigs on 82 00:09:30,870 --> 00:09:34,690 Saturday and it's back to back and then you're at the hotel room, you got to get it all up and put 83 00:09:34,690 --> 00:09:39,730 it back all again and maybe you're running on jet lag and you're not getting enough sleep but, 84 00:09:40,610 --> 00:09:44,870 you know, it sounds like, you know, you got some, you got some good connections over there, 85 00:09:44,950 --> 00:09:49,390 you got it pretty down, I mean, do you have a residency anywhere now, are you touring or do 86 00:09:49,390 --> 00:09:53,250 you have anything put together and do you do something in Rome or all over Europe, what's 87 00:09:53,250 --> 00:09:53,850 that look like? 88 00:09:54,810 --> 00:10:01,550 Now, I'm, I'm based in Rome, I come from Sardinia basically, do you know Sardinia, right? 89 00:10:02,890 --> 00:10:07,330 It's like, it's like the little island next to Sicily. 90 00:10:07,370 --> 00:10:07,890 Oh, okay. 91 00:10:08,790 --> 00:10:09,930 I decided to move to Rome. 92 00:10:11,650 --> 00:10:20,870 I decided to move to Rome because the music industry can, can allow me to, to, to be like, 93 00:10:21,230 --> 00:10:27,970 at least in the middle, not on top, of course, always, always be, always be with the, with the 94 00:10:27,970 --> 00:10:34,750 floor, with their feet in the floor, of course, but I don't want to fly before it, it, it, it's 95 00:10:34,750 --> 00:10:44,390 going to, to happen but I think, I think that to collocate it to, to the speech, it's like, 96 00:10:44,690 --> 00:10:51,610 it's like super, super difficult when, for example, like someone doesn't believe in you, 97 00:10:51,610 --> 00:10:59,970 I mean, it's like, for, I want, I want to be like surrounded of like positive people that 98 00:10:59,970 --> 00:11:06,330 always believe in, believes in me and always like positive feelings, positive vibes because if not, 99 00:11:06,410 --> 00:11:14,690 you cannot go ahead and now I'm trying to, to, to go on with my, with my career, of course, like 100 00:11:15,330 --> 00:11:22,810 doing like connection collaboration and I'm like trying to, like as you, to create like a format, 101 00:11:23,410 --> 00:11:30,210 like I don't, I don't want to spoil, I mean, it's like, but like you, you can, you can, you can, 102 00:11:30,330 --> 00:11:36,670 you can see me on, on my, I can broadcast, of course, in my, in my Instagram and you can see me 103 00:11:36,670 --> 00:11:47,450 like performing in, on, on Instagram, of course, and I needed to get like all the tools to do that, 104 00:11:47,510 --> 00:11:53,830 like microphone, like a panel, like, you know, the ring guy, right? 105 00:11:54,850 --> 00:12:22,370 The TikTokers, the TikTokers, but it helps me to, to get like a good light, a good light and, of course, for me, it's going to be, it's going to be mad because I think and everyone says to me that I have the personality to do that and I want to jump basically, yeah, on that and I hope to, it's going to, yeah, it's going to be. 106 00:12:22,490 --> 00:12:35,470 You know, the thing is, is that I've been doing podcasting, I mean, I started in broadcast television back in 19, I started in public access television back in 1992 and that was our only way, that was basically YouTube. 107 00:12:35,730 --> 00:12:46,450 If you had a video camera, the only way you could put something on the TV screen was if you went to the public access station, they kind of said, okay, here's your time slot and you put your content there. 108 00:12:46,870 --> 00:12:56,530 Then I went into broadcast television and then I got into podcasting and then I got into live streaming and now I'm looking at VR and AR, those are two separate subjects. 109 00:12:56,690 --> 00:13:01,130 The thing is, is when 2020 hit and everybody in the world jumped online, I was 110 00:13:01,130 --> 00:13:06,370 the guy who was doing the DJ show for 10 years and had a lot of people on the show and all that 111 00:13:06,370 --> 00:13:10,810 fun stuff, so I had a lot of people hitting me up and I'll tell you, and I tell this to a lot of 112 00:13:10,810 --> 00:13:15,670 podcasters or live streamers out there, you kind of have the right, you're in the right zone but 113 00:13:15,670 --> 00:13:18,650 you don't have to spend a lot of money to do it, you know. 114 00:13:18,910 --> 00:13:26,890 You can

get a decent, you can get a decent, this light that I'm using right here for my studio, I think cost me $40 online. 115 00:13:27,230 --> 00:13:28,710 Yeah, probably cheaper now. 116 00:13:29,310 --> 00:13:33,750 It's a nice LED panel, it's color temperature controlled, won't go into the specs of that. 117 00:13:34,110 --> 00:13:38,350 My microphone, yeah, it's a $300 microphone but we're sponsored by Mackie so they gave us that. 118 00:13:38,630 --> 00:13:45,270 You don't need a $300 microphone, you can get a good $50 microphone nowadays. 119 00:13:45,470 --> 00:13:46,570 Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. 120 00:13:46,570 --> 00:13:53,630 Lighting and audio are two key things and the big thing is making sure your audio interface is going in and you're going right off the board. 121 00:13:53,790 --> 00:13:57,470 Usually if you're 122 00:13:57,470 --> 00:14:03,030 into podcasting and live streaming for a very small amount of money and the services that are 123 00:14:03,030 --> 00:14:08,370 out there that are already there like Twitch or YouTube if you want to go to or Instagram or 124 00:14:08,370 --> 00:14:13,670 TikTok, going to those services, it's very easy to get into that realm and I encourage so many 125 00:14:13,670 --> 00:14:19,350 artists to take advantage and do that because that's the platform and as everyone found out 126 00:14:19,350 --> 00:14:25,270 when pandemic hit, everyone jumped online and said, wow, this is a thing and I said, I've been 127 00:14:25,270 --> 00:14:30,490 trying to tell you this for 10 years and now you're both jumping online and everyone said, 128 00:14:30,550 --> 00:14:31,110 how do you do this? 129 00:14:31,870 --> 00:14:38,330 Yeah, you just started now, you know, but there was a lot of infrastructure that people didn't have in place. 130 00:14:38,370 --> 00:14:40,710 It's like putting the cart before the horse. 131 00:14:41,070 --> 00:14:45,170 It's like, yes, we're online but was I ready to go online? 132 00:14:45,670 --> 00:14:54,150 And some have had some success and some have not had success and I knew that was going to happen but we're still here and I'm always down to help an artist. 133 00:14:54,310 --> 00:15:08,790 If you want some back-end advice and we can talk off camera about that, how to get you set up and running, we can do that because I do know that you are producing a show that you put to your SoundCloud and when did you start that and how long are those shows? 134 00:15:09,990 --> 00:15:12,290 Vradio show is, 135 00:15:13,790 --> 00:15:20,270 basically, when it start everything with origami management that they want to 136 00:15:20,270 --> 00:15:29,610 say hello, of course, and it started and it started like to develop my radio shows too, 137 00:15:29,710 --> 00:15:39,090 to build my radio shows too in the meantime and sometimes it's very difficult to make it, 138 00:15:39,190 --> 00:15:50,110 to do it because sometimes the tracks, I mean, it's like doesn't match and you have to find another 139 00:15:50,270 --> 00:16:04,170 way to do that and so that's hard to do that but I think that if you persevere with the perseverance 140 00:16:04,170 --> 00:16:13,010 you can do everything, of course, and day by day I construct my, I develop my radio show 141 00:16:13,010 --> 00:16:18,950 like in a different way, like volumes, like frequencies because you have to take care 142 00:16:18,950 --> 00:16:25,870 about frequencies, whatever and like technique and, of course, the page of the radio show, 143 00:16:26,050 --> 00:16:35,450 the layout and that's super important to show to everybody else, that's the last thing to do but 144 00:16:35,450 --> 00:16:43,520 I think that it's not easy but it's not hard to do that, of course, and... 145 00:16:44,370 --> 00:16:45,670 Go ahead, go ahead. 146 00:16:45,670 --> 00:16:47,210 Yeah, go ahead, no, no, no, absolutely. 147 00:16:47,210 --> 00:16:50,490 I was gonna say one of the things that I find that people say is the hardest 148 00:16:50,890 --> 00:16:55,030 and this is the biggest rule that I give them and tell them about when they're doing a show, 149 00:16:55,550 --> 00:16:59,150 I know I need to slap my hand on this one because I haven't been doing it as of late but I've been 150 00:16:59,150 --> 00:17:05,210 working on a bunch of stuff in the back end is being consistent and making sure that if you're 151 00:17:05,210 --> 00:17:10,990 gonna publish, let people know every Thursday I'm dropping a new show or every Wednesday I'm 152 00:17:10,990 --> 00:17:16,030 dropping a new show, it's gonna be out by seven o'clock, my show goes on, this is when I go live, 153 00:17:16,030 --> 00:17:20,390 this is when my new show is coming up, so you can build that consistency and that people always 154 00:17:20,390 --> 00:17:25,650 know, oh, it's there, it's there, you can build that viewership trust which is so key in this 155 00:17:25,650 --> 00:17:32,370 game with so much noise going on out there, you could stop and you gotta start back up but 156 00:17:32,370 --> 00:17:37,550 everyone else has found new stuff to go listen to and they're like, oh, maybe I'm not in the mood 157 00:17:37,550 --> 00:17:41,850 today, they were happy when they were listening to you but then they maybe go through a breakup 158 00:17:41,850 --> 00:17:45,130 or they lose their job and if you're off the air and they come back and go, 159 00:17:45,530 --> 00:17:48,950 well, I'm not in a good mood right now so I'm not gonna give them good vibe energy, 160 00:17:49,170 --> 00:17:54,290 whereas if you were consistent, they might have said your consistency kept me happy 161 00:17:55,030 --> 00:18:00,890 through, you know, so consistency is a huge one and you did mention Origami in there, we're gonna 162 00:18:00,890 --> 00:18:05,690 talk a little bit about Origami and your relationship with Black Lizard, you seem to 163 00:18:05,690 --> 00:18:11,010 have a very good relationship with Black Lizard which has released most of your productions, 164

00:18:11,010 --> 00:18:15,390 can you tell us how that relationship with Origami and Black Lizard started? 165 00:18:17,750 --> 00:18:28,010 I think that it's like before to start, I think that it started before Black Lizard 166 00:18:28,010 --> 00:18:41,790 than Origami and after that, Leandro, of course, go ahead to reach 167 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,130 what he wants to do in the life for real, I mean, it's like 168 00:18:52,530 --> 00:19:01,370 sending, not just sending feedback to the tracks that he gives but I think that to grow up, 169 00:19:01,730 --> 00:19:10,190 you have to take risks and Origami management is a risk but I think that is the best management 170 00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:24,950 in the world and Collegade with Black Lizard, almost all the artists going to produce for Black 171 00:19:24,950 --> 00:19:35,350 Lizard and Black Lizard now is becoming like a real, real, a reality like that is like breaking 172 00:19:35,350 --> 00:19:46,710 the charts, I mean, yeah, for me like producing for Black Lizard, it was like a very good thing 173 00:19:46,710 --> 00:19:54,950 because it was my first with No Sleep, my song was like the first song that I dropped on that 174 00:19:54,950 --> 00:20:01,350 and for me, the feeling when I know Leandro for the first time, when I was in the studio with 175 00:20:01,350 --> 00:20:05,170 Joy and Leandro for the first time, I was like, oh my god, are you real? 176 00:20:05,610 --> 00:20:37,550 Because I saw him just in there, he's my idol when I was like 18, 19, 20 and yeah and whatever but I think that I was like a kid when after Christmas, under Christmas is like, yeah, it's like breaking his open, his presence and I think that is doing like very well, he's my mentor and I'm so proud of that. 177 00:20:38,050 --> 00:20:44,010 Well, we're really excited because we are launching into 2026 that I can announce that here, our press 178 00:20:44,010 --> 00:20:49,490 release is about to go out, it's on our website that we have a sponsorship partnership 179 00:20:49,490 --> 00:20:54,390 with Origami management and we're super excited for that, like I said, we're going to be touring over 180 00:20:54,390 --> 00:20:57,730 there, hanging over there, doing something on the ground and definitely collaborating with 181 00:20:57,730 --> 00:21:03,290 all the artists with Origami and the labels as well, as well as Black Lizard, so super awesome 182 00:21:03,290 --> 00:21:03,750 with that. 183 00:21:04,170 --> 00:21:23,590 You mentioned that they do such a good job for you with Black Lizard and there's like, he's a mentor for you, what do you think the most important thing it is that record labels should be doing for their artists, not just Black Lizard but for their artists and in general, are labels doing a good job in that? 184 00:21:23,750 --> 00:21:44,050 I mean, you definitely love Black Lizard, we get that, they're doing a good job, like you said, they're climbing the charts, they're getting well known but what about other record labels, is there a really important thing you say, Black Lizard does this and I don't see others doing this or Black Lizard, this company does this and so does Black Lizard and that's why they are successful? 185 00:21:45,590 --> 00:21:47,250 Yes, of course, no, I was talking 186 00:21:47,250 --> 00:21:53,030 about in general, Darran, of course, I mentioned Black Lizard because 187 00:21:55,070 --> 00:22:04,470 now, I told you, it's becoming very, very strong and I think that a label in general has to 188 00:22:04,470 --> 00:22:21,970 consider, for example, when you publish on the record label, they have to consider 189 00:22:21,970 --> 00:22:37,490 as your career, your music career, if you are already a pro or if you are a beginner, 190 00:22:37,910 --> 00:22:45,110 for me, but I don't want to categorize the segment, the people, of course, but for me, 191 00:22:45,110 --> 00:22:54,790 it's important to select the people in what you want to do with the artist and 192 00:22:54,790 --> 00:23:05,550 how do you have to launch him and I think that the advertising is very, very important, 193 00:23:05,550 --> 00:23:15,110 the advertising for me is the fundamental thing to do from a label and of course, 194 00:23:15,730 --> 00:23:17,810 connections all over the world. 195 00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:21,810 You know, that's the two big things you said there, 196 00:23:21,910 --> 00:23:25,710 you know, one thing I want to touch on is we have been toying around with the idea 197 00:23:25,710 --> 00:23:30,650 a long time ago, it's still out there but opening up and doing our own label, 198 00:23:31,010 --> 00:23:37,550 then we got to figure out who are we going to release, what's our sound going to be like, 199 00:23:38,070 --> 00:23:43,490 who's going to listen to all the submissions if we take submissions and come in and, you know, 200 00:23:43,570 --> 00:23:49,670 who judges which is good or which is bad, you know, in coming in and I'm just like, 201 00:23:50,170 --> 00:23:54,070 that's why I kind of got away from that and said, I don't want to maybe do a label right now 202 00:23:54,550 --> 00:23:58,510 because there's already so many people doing labels, why don't I create this new music 203 00:23:58,510 --> 00:24:04,890 section on our site and we can just highlight the music of the guests that come on the show, 204 00:24:05,090 --> 00:24:09,930 we can make our own music and partner with labels and play their music and work with 205 00:24:09,930 --> 00:24:14,130 their artists and interview their artists and give them a lot more exposure and robustness 206 00:24:14,130 --> 00:24:18,930 on our site rather than trying to, I don't want to manage you and your label and bring you on and 207 00:24:18,930 --> 00:24:23,630 go through the contract negotiations of putting everything together, who owns what and master 208 00:24:23,630 --> 00:24:28,130 sync, use, slice, but I don't even want to go down that route, you know, I'd rather just say,

209 00:24:28,430 --> 00:24:33,710 hey, Mx, can I put your music on my site and cool, we'll push a link to your beat forwarder, 210 00:24:33,950 --> 00:24:38,010 push wherever you want people to buy to you, yep, all right, cool, boom, and you go, wow, 211 00:24:38,090 --> 00:24:42,390 that was pretty easy, wouldn't it be awesome if it was that easy for a label to put music 212 00:24:42,390 --> 00:24:47,490 out or collaborate with people, it'd be so awesome, but it's not, but I'm glad that you 213 00:24:47,490 --> 00:24:52,090 work with such a prominent label, I know I'm super excited to be working with Leandro, 214 00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:56,290 the origami management team and the labels, especially Black Lizard there, 215 00:24:56,770 --> 00:25:02,130 you know, your career spans over 20 years, you look like a pretty young guy, 216 00:25:03,130 --> 00:25:06,850 how old are you, were you DJing when you were two or three or something, 217 00:25:07,150 --> 00:25:13,870 you don't look like you're out of your mid-20s, 32, yes, 32, okay, okay, so you were actually, 218 00:25:13,970 --> 00:25:21,230 I don't show up, I know, I don't show up my age and I show 24, 25, 219 00:25:21,230 --> 00:25:26,750 yeah, they thought I was in my mid-30s, mid to late 30s the other day and I'm like, I'm 51, 220 00:25:27,610 --> 00:25:33,830 what, yeah, no, I can't believe it, sorry, but I'm refusing to believe it, 221 00:25:34,010 --> 00:25:37,470 it's the Italian blood, that's what it is, it's the Italian blood, 222 00:25:38,730 --> 00:25:43,190 but you know, you've been DJing for over 20 years, got your start at a very early age, 223 00:25:43,790 --> 00:25:49,410 what do you consider the biggest break that launched your DJ career, what was that biggest 224 00:25:49,410 --> 00:25:56,060 break that said, boom, I mean, what's your story, what's your take on that, what's your, 225 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:58,060 what's the magic behind Amelix? 226 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,600 I was playing like the guitar when, 227 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:12,920 since when I was a child, when I was like 14, 15, 16, then I decided to move, like to 228 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:21,060 to choose another way because I felt that was not mine and, 229 00:26:23,060 --> 00:26:32,680 okay, I was like producing like some electro music, electronic music with my band, 230 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:40,300 like rock music, rock electro, whatever and I decided to move because it was not my, 231 00:26:41,090 --> 00:26:47,120 the way that I want to pick it up and I said to myself, because 232 00:26:48,580 --> 00:26:55,320 I confront myself like in the mirror, like most of the time and it says like, 233 00:26:56,100 --> 00:27:05,130 it's what you want and it says like, no, the reply was no, where no, and I decided to move in the 234 00:27:05,930 --> 00:27:15,530 electro house music industry and because I saw a lot of like in carnival parties in my town 235 00:27:16,170 --> 00:27:24,710 and in a lot of discos, like a lot of DJs that were playing like, not in the age of mine, 236 00:27:24,770 --> 00:27:30,190 of course, but it was more big than, older than me and I was saying like, 237 00:27:30,190 --> 00:27:37,510 hmm, that's, that's, that's what I want, that's what I want and I follow, I follow, 238 00:27:37,910 --> 00:27:45,130 I follow something that, that, that, that comes from, from, from my heart and it says like to 239 00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:52,130 myself, okay, let's do pain, no pain, no gain and sacrifice, like I was like studying in the 240 00:27:52,130 --> 00:28:00,450 university and, and it says like, okay, I want to lose like a session, like the summer session 241 00:28:00,450 --> 00:28:07,830 to go like and work and to reach like some monies to, to get like the first consoles and the first, 242 00:28:07,890 --> 00:28:17,210 yeah, CDJs and I did that and now I freeze off myself, I mean, and after that, I moved in Rome, 243 00:28:17,210 --> 00:28:26,110 that when, that I told you and I know origami management from, from the social, social networks 244 00:28:26,110 --> 00:28:35,690 and I called them like in a, in a proper and diplomatic call and, and they, they asked me to 245 00:28:35,690 --> 00:28:41,810 go in the studio, blah, blah, blah, whatever and I met, I met them because you have to be like, 246 00:28:41,810 --> 00:28:47,790 of course, full of tracks to show them, if not, of course, they don't consider you 247 00:28:48,450 --> 00:28:54,930 and it was like, we used to say in Italiano, my colleagues in Italian can, can understand, 248 00:28:56,910 --> 00:29:03,250 like when you look like something and you fall in love and for me, origami like is a family, 249 00:29:03,750 --> 00:29:10,170 like as my family, I don't know how to explain but you, you, you know my effort right now 250 00:29:10,170 --> 00:29:20,810 and, yeah, and I, I think that I, I, I appreciate every single day what they do for me like 251 00:29:20,810 --> 00:29:27,610 in music career and over because after music career, like there are friends first. 252 00:29:29,010 --> 00:29:37,470 You know, that's a very important thing to have a very good tight-knit group of people, we work with our resident DJs very frequently, very closely. 253 00:29:37,730 --> 00:29:41,530 Speaking of, Axia is in the chat room, he's watching us on Twitch, by the way. 254 00:29:44,570 --> 00:29:50,410 You know, having that support structure is very, 255 00:29:50,610 --> 00:29:56,330 very key to being successful in this industry, you know, so many people wanted to pull you in 256 00:29:56,330 --> 00:30:00,490 so many different ways and having a group of people that you can go to, that you not only 257 00:30:00,490 --> 00:30:07,710 trust as business partners but also as friends, people that you can collaborate with or bounce 258 00:30:07,710 --> 00:30:13,310 ideas off of or even talk to, you know, can, can, can, you know, make or break somebody if they don't 259 00:30:13,310 --> 00:30:18,390 have a good

close network of friends, especially when you're an artist and you're up on stage and 260 00:30:18,390 --> 00:30:22,370 you have all the fans that are trying to just get your attention, get your attention, everyone's 261 00:30:22,370 --> 00:30:25,970 getting your attention, get your attention, get your attention, and you're like, I gotta tune this out 262 00:30:25,970 --> 00:30:31,510 and, you know, help them do that, you know, how would you define success as a DJ producer? 263 00:30:31,930 --> 00:30:38,510 Would it be a Beatport top 10 hit, a sold-out tour, you know, what are your thoughts on this? 264 00:30:39,410 --> 00:30:41,710 For me, you have to catch the feeling. 265 00:30:43,330 --> 00:30:47,570 In this period, for example, for me and Axia can agree, 266 00:30:48,550 --> 00:30:55,370 it's working like definitely the bus house, for example, bus tech house, bus house, whatever you 267 00:30:55,370 --> 00:31:02,190 want to call it, but I think that these row buses, these synth rows, I don't know why, like periods is 268 00:31:02,190 --> 00:31:10,850 like Latin, periods is like bus house, periods is like going to like the, I think that anyway the 269 00:31:10,850 --> 00:31:17,550 normal tech house, the standard tech house doesn't, doesn't, doesn't came, doesn't came, doesn't came 270 00:31:17,550 --> 00:31:19,070 anymore, doesn't come back anymore. 271 00:31:19,350 --> 00:31:50,970 I think like with the simple synths, now you have to be like or not, not a music or sound engineer, of course, to catch like a sound, but your sound, but if you have like an idea before helps you, of course, to, to, to develop and to build the track like properly and definitely house the market, market industry wants to, wants to get it. 272 00:31:52,050 --> 00:32:01,650 Yeah, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's so, with so many people out there now and the barrier to entry, being able to DJ, let alone being able to... 273 00:32:01,650 --> 00:32:02,270 It's so personal, Darran. 274 00:32:02,930 --> 00:32:03,110 What? 275 00:32:03,210 --> 00:32:05,010 It's so personal, it's so personal. 276 00:32:05,710 --> 00:32:21,130 Yeah, I mean, the barrier to entry, to DJing now, the access to music, the access to the equipment, to the software to make music, I think that, yes, behind, behind... 277 00:32:21,130 --> 00:32:43,610 And now, now, with AI coming out and people say, I'm a musician, to me being, I'm not knocking anyone for what they want to do, but back in the day, when you wanted to put a show on public access or you wanted to put a show on broadcast television, you had to meet standards to do that. 278 00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:50,410 Once YouTube opened the door, it let anyone put any video they wanted online and say, I'm, I'm doing a show. 279 00:32:51,030 --> 00:32:54,670 But where's the standards of, of where you compare? 280 00:32:54,830 --> 00:33:05,270 You might have a show here, somebody might have a show here, or a DJ might be really good here and they don't get enough gigs, but you have a DJ getting all the gigs here and are they really good? 281 00:33:05,790 --> 00:33:10,470 I mean, and you could have somebody who just wants to DJ for the love of... 282 00:33:10,470 --> 00:33:12,170 My friend, Ron, he's a vinyl DJ. 283 00:33:12,470 --> 00:33:21,070 He doesn't play out, but he has two techniques at his house and he spins wax and just does it by himself because he just loves mixing and doing that. 284 00:33:21,630 --> 00:33:23,910 Does that mean he's not a good DJ because he's not getting booked? 285 00:33:25,130 --> 00:33:31,470 Or, so it's very interesting to find out what people's level of what they determine success is as a DJ. 286 00:33:32,630 --> 00:33:46,290 The one thing that I personally, the one thing that I have noticed in the industry though, is the higher up get, the more famous people get, I find that a lot of them, the ego has gone away. 287 00:33:47,090 --> 00:33:48,130 They're very chill. 288 00:33:48,390 --> 00:33:48,570 Yeah. 289 00:33:48,650 --> 00:33:49,530 They're very calm. 290 00:33:49,710 --> 00:33:50,830 Like, how you doing? 291 00:33:51,290 --> 00:33:51,650 It's cool. 292 00:33:51,710 --> 00:33:55,070 You'd think they'd be like, maybe like, Oh my gosh, I better not go talk to that person. 293 00:33:55,170 --> 00:33:55,790 They're too famous. 294 00:33:56,050 --> 00:33:58,530 It's like, no, they're like, how you doing? 295 00:33:58,950 --> 00:33:59,490 What's up? 296 00:34:00,850 --> 00:34:04,710 I've seen a lot of ego tripping in the game though. 297 00:34:04,850 --> 00:34:07,510 And I get that you have to psych one's self up. 298 00:34:08,110 --> 00:34:11,850 You don't, you don't become a football player or a soccer ball, soccer for you, football for us. 299 00:34:11,989 --> 00:34:15,050 You don't become a football player and say, I'm going to miss the goal. 300 00:34:15,469 --> 00:34:17,610 I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to trip and fall. 301 00:34:17,770 --> 00:34:19,389 I'm going to lose this game. 302 00:34:19,630 --> 00:34:21,790 You got to psych yourself up and build yourself up. 303 00:34:21,870 --> 00:34:31,330 But when that ego becomes your outer personality and you start being offensive or rude to people or something, you know, that I think needs to be dealt with incurred. 304 00:34:31,350 --> 00:34:43,230 But a lot of people I've met in this industry, like yourself, like the, like the origami team, everyone I've interviewed from there and more, they've all been just really, really cool people, really outgoing, wanting to help people. 305 00:34:43,530 --> 00:34:53,190 And I think that's a key to their success overall, helping somebody out, you know, passing the baton, passing the torch, lifting up the next generation. 306 00:34:53,690 --> 00:34:57,130 You know, I think that's important as a, as a, as a goal. 307 00:34:57,210 --> 00:35:03,190 And I was going to ask what is one of your main, what is your ultimate goal as a DJ producer? 308 00:35:04,130

--> 00:35:12,270 I think that you have to, from, from the beginning as your, as your, as your speech began. 309 00:35:12,730 --> 00:35:19,890 I think that you have to split it up first, your character and your technique. 310 00:35:20,250 --> 00:35:21,010 You know what I mean? 311 00:35:21,510 --> 00:35:27,250 I mean, it's like, um, therefore you have to be simply yourself. 312 00:35:27,250 --> 00:35:29,250 For me, it's like that. 313 00:35:29,610 --> 00:35:29,990 That's it. 314 00:35:30,190 --> 00:35:30,290 Yeah. 315 00:35:30,290 --> 00:35:37,310 Cause if you are developed by someone else, by somebody else, the people felt it, the people feel it. 316 00:35:37,970 --> 00:35:44,030 And I mean, there, there is not, there is not, there is not like effort. 317 00:35:44,390 --> 00:35:49,450 There is not like, uh, there is not like nothing magic in what are you doing. 318 00:35:49,910 --> 00:35:59,590 And it's so easy to do that because you have like a stronger person, like a famous person that kicking you in the, in the best charts in the, on the top. 319 00:35:59,910 --> 00:36:13,490 But I mean, if, if you are, if you are like nobody with yourself first, it's, it's like, it's, it's, it's the worst, I think. 320 00:36:14,130 --> 00:36:25,950 And, uh, my, my, for example, in, in, in my, in, in my, um, in my opinion, uh, I want to be, I don't want to be like famous. 321 00:36:26,090 --> 00:36:28,970 I, I don't, I don't have really care. 322 00:36:29,130 --> 00:36:32,690 I mean, it's like, but I want to be for the music, Darran. 323 00:36:33,270 --> 00:36:34,130 I mean, okay. 324 00:36:34,150 --> 00:36:34,970 So general. 325 00:36:35,150 --> 00:36:35,490 Okay. 326 00:36:35,530 --> 00:36:41,730 So general, but sometimes better than being complicated, you know? 327 00:36:42,050 --> 00:36:42,490 Exactly. 328 00:36:43,050 --> 00:36:54,470 But now I'm telling, um, and I tell you something and, uh, I'm a little bit emotion and, uh, I'm a little bit emotional person, an emotional person. 329 00:36:54,730 --> 00:36:59,910 And, uh, uh, I love to, I love to my job to focus all my energies in the music. 330 00:37:00,390 --> 00:37:06,390 Like right now, I, I think that 2026, do you know what I mean? 331 00:37:06,530 --> 00:37:07,130 It's mine. 332 00:37:07,810 --> 00:37:08,730 Bernie down, bro. 333 00:37:10,850 --> 00:37:11,990 No, I feel that. 334 00:37:12,170 --> 00:37:13,530 I feel that that's coming back. 335 00:37:13,530 --> 00:37:21,550 I mean, after the hiccup of, of we had a lot of stuff getting ready for 2020, a lot of stuff was on the plate and I'm almost glad. 336 00:37:21,730 --> 00:37:25,830 I don't want to say it in that kind of way that glad the pandemic happened. 337 00:37:26,110 --> 00:37:32,850 That sounds like what the deck, but no, I mean, it, it, it kind of put a lot of pause on a lot of stuff that I'm doing. 338 00:37:32,930 --> 00:37:38,430 I got to learn a lot more in that downtime of where I wanted to go, the direction of what I wanted to do.

339 00:37:38,530 --> 00:37:40,370 It gave me some time to think about things. 340 00:37:40,610 --> 00:37:51,350 And now after coming back after a couple of years and getting back in the swing of things, even taking that eight and a half month hiatus that I told you about, just taking the break, 2026 is going to be a great year for a lot of people. 341 00:37:51,730 --> 00:37:53,310 And I know it's going to be a great year for you. 342 00:37:53,750 --> 00:37:56,070 I know it's going to be a great year for black lizard. 343 00:37:56,330 --> 00:37:57,830 I know it's going to be a great year for origami. 344 00:37:58,070 --> 00:38:15,370 I know it's going to be a year for all of our partners and a lot of people in the world out there looking forward to an amazing 2026, you know, speaking of, of working with people, collaborating with people, uh, networking, is there an up and coming producer that you know, that you would like to put in the spotlight? 345 00:38:15,830 --> 00:38:22,370 Somebody that says, you know, they're up and coming, but they aren't just getting it yet, but I've been working with them over here, collaborating with them over here. 346 00:38:22,390 --> 00:38:24,810 I'd like to see them get in the spotlight. 347 00:38:24,930 --> 00:38:27,910 Isn't there one that comes to mind without getting you in trouble? 348 00:38:30,090 --> 00:38:35,910 I can, I can reply to you like, uh, under than a sec. 349 00:38:36,610 --> 00:38:48,390 The, the people is watching this, this, uh, this broadcast, of course, Axia, my brother, for me, it's like a super, like, I, I met him like just last year. 350 00:38:48,390 --> 00:39:07,850 And it's like, uh, it became for me like, uh, a very important person, uh, over, over the music who can share your, who can share your, your, your stuff, your private stuff, your, whatever you're, whatever you want. 351 00:39:07,970 --> 00:39:10,710 And in the music, we collaborate for Break It Down. 352 00:39:10,930 --> 00:39:14,670 And it was like fantastic because he has got like an exam. 353 00:39:14,670 --> 00:39:18,690 I was like working and, uh, it doesn't match. 354 00:39:19,110 --> 00:39:30,630 Uh, we, we had to find like a way to, to, uh, to stream because we are like me, I'm in Rome and Kim is in Milan or in, uh, in Florence when they come from home. 355 00:39:30,730 --> 00:39:33,490 And it's like, it was a bit difficult, but we did it. 356 00:39:33,750 --> 00:39:35,050 And I'm so proud of that. 357 00:39:35,250 --> 00:39:42,990 And, uh, for me is one in one, in, uh, in, uh, in, uh, on a million to, to produce with, with, uh, with him, of course. 358 00:39:43,310 --> 00:40:01,910 And I want to thanks Kim, uh, if you can, uh, uh, if you can allow me, Darran, I want to thanks Kim to my number one, uh, my number one fan that I hope that is listening to this, uh, this broadcast, the DJ session interview and is Nina Michelle Rice. 359 00:40:01,990 --> 00:40:11,890 And is, uh, I want to thanks Kim because it's my number one fan and, uh, allows me to, to, to living like a dream, like, like this. 360 00:40:12,490 --> 00:40:14,670 We love number one fans around here. 361 00:40:14,810 --> 00:40:18,010 We have a ton of them and that was a really awesome shout out. 362 00:40:18,210 --> 00:40:21,670 And yeah, I know we're going to have you both on the show in the future. 363 00:40:22,070 --> 00:40:27,030 You mentioned your last year is track that you pushed, pushed together with him called break it down. 364 00:40:27,530 --> 00:40:30,870 Um, you know, it seemed like it was very well-received, pretty awesome out there. 365 00:40:30,910 --> 00:40:33,050 I got a chance to listen to it before the show. 366 00:40:33,230 --> 00:40:38,170 What can we see from the future releases of Emlex coming out? 367 00:40:39,150 --> 00:40:42,030 Anything you can talk about or let us know. 368 00:40:42,610 --> 00:40:42,870 Yeah. 369 00:40:43,210 --> 00:40:53,550 Uh, I, I will, I will have to drop like already set up, uh, in this, uh, in February, uh, catch me if you can, it's going to be cool. 370 00:40:53,770 --> 00:41:07,950 And it's like a mix of, uh, uh, the cows and emotional, emotional, uh, part of the, of the vocal that, uh, that they choose it for and that fits perfectly for that song. 371 00:41:08,290 --> 00:41:11,490 And, uh, and, uh, get down tonight. 372 00:41:11,630 --> 00:41:18,890 It's like, uh, you know, get down tonight is like, I invented that like as a slang, like as a joke, get down tonight, bro. 373 00:41:19,110 --> 00:41:20,910 I mean, or get it burned, bro. 374 00:41:21,050 --> 00:41:35,230 I mean, I wasn't, I was not sure, um, um, in, um, uh, what's the, what's the name, but it's, it's the difficult is the most part difficult to choose, to, to choose like a name. 375 00:41:35,490 --> 00:41:43,330 And of course to, to, um, uh, to describe that like behind the scene, 376 00:41:43,390 --> 00:41:49,430 because when you produce and when you finish probably it's like, it's like finish, you reset 377 00:41:49,430 --> 00:41:57,210 your mind and you think of something else, you know, and to came back is like super, super 378 00:41:57,210 --> 00:42:07,070 difficult for, I think for everybody to everybody, but yeah, well, I'm, I'm so proud of, uh, of the 379 00:42:07,070 --> 00:42:13,610 people, uh, of the people that, uh, that is, uh, is like, uh, is like playing with me because we 380 00:42:13,610 --> 00:42:19,430 are like, uh, we are like a good, a good, um, a good, uh, closer friends first and then like 381 00:42:20,430 --> 00:42:20,870 artists. 382 00:42:20,870 --> 00:42:21,310 Wow. 383 00:42:21,510 --> 00:42:22,730 That's, that's magic. 384 00:42:22,870 --> 00:42:23,590 That's amazing. 385 00:42:23,690 --> 00:42:24,010 Awesome. 386 00:42:24,270 --> 00:42:24,490 Awesome. 387 00:42:24,830 --> 00:42:26,490 Now I have a question for you. 388 00:42:26,650 --> 00:42:28,910 What were you doing out at Hakkasan the other night? 389 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:31,760 What? 390

00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,100 No, I'm joking. 391 00:42:33,760 --> 00:43:06,760 I wasn't, uh, uh, I was with, uh, with Nina, my number one fan in, uh, New York and, uh, Las Vegas and, uh, San Francisco, like, uh, as a, uh, as a vacation and, uh, we did in Hakkasan and we watch, uh, we watch Steve Aoki and, uh, in Omnia club in Las Vegas, as you know, of course, for sure, uh, Fisher, one of my bestie, of course, in the, in the music tech house industry. 392 00:43:07,020 --> 00:43:11,060 And, uh, it was so simply amazing. 393 00:43:11,780 --> 00:43:32,220 I mean, if you're not there, you cannot understand, uh, what my, my, my heart was like eating cause, uh, I used to, um, I used to listen when I, when I was a child, uh, to like IDM electro dance music, like Steve Aoki, Artwell, uh, Nicky Romero, of course. 394 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:46,000 And, uh, yeah, it was like, uh, an emotion, a feeling that a vibe like he, he kick, like he's a very, like good performer. 395 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:59,580 Uh, and, uh, of course I didn't see just him, but I've been in, uh, in, in, uh, Bruno Mars stage in, uh, in the, in the, not in the sphere, but it was in Dolby in, uh, MGM part. 396 00:44:00,100 --> 00:44:06,520 And for me, if you are listening to me, Bruno Mars, you are the best performer in the world. 397 00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:07,240 That's it. 398 00:44:08,780 --> 00:44:32,120 Like as a properly an artist and, uh, and, uh, Omnia for me was like a bit, a bit better cause of course, not less, not, not less than, uh, than, than, uh, I don't want to compare the two stage of Steve Aoki and, uh, and Fisher, but I think that Fisher, of course, cause he's close to my, to my channel. 399 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,400 I, I, I preferred him. 400 00:44:34,660 --> 00:44:34,880 Of course. 401 00:44:35,060 --> 00:44:46,460 And Nina, Michelle does it, you know, that's Fisher does one of my favorite songs, um, moving up and down side to side, like a roller coaster. 402 00:44:48,140 --> 00:44:48,580 Yeah. 403 00:44:48,860 --> 00:44:52,540 I remember the first time I heard of the dance floor here in Seattle, but I did see him in concert. 404 00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:53,520 He was at the Seattle set. 405 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:57,060 He was in Seattle and I was like, he dropped that track. 406 00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,180 I just lost my mind. 407 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,100 I lost my, I love that track so much. 408 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:00,660 Okay. 409 00:45:01,020 --> 00:45:01,320 Okay. 410 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,880 You, you lose, you lost your mind with, uh, with the roller coaster. 411 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:10,500 I lost, I lost my voice and my mind to Yaki Ding and, uh, he's dead. 412 00:45:11,020 --> 00:45:11,120 Damn. 413 00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:19,460 Oh my God. 414 00:45:19,540 --> 00:45:21,820 I was like, I got crazy. 415 00:45:22,060 --> 00:45:31,020 I mean, I was like close to, to, to go down the, the, the mirror of the, of the disco, but it doesn't happen. 416 00:45:31,420 --> 00:45:44,460 When you're a DJ and would you prefer, I'm sorry to cut you off, but when you're a DJ, would you prefer to DJ large scale festivals, or would you rather do more kind of intimate nightclub style settings? 417 00:45:45,380 --> 00:45:47,460 Both, both, both. 418 00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,400 I can express all of myself. 419 00:45:49,900 --> 00:46:00,900 I can show I'm Lex in a different, in different ways, like, like performing, of course, moving the hands, like, uh, saying, uh, some, some shares. 420 00:46:01,020 --> 00:46:20,990 I mean, it's like, but I think that, uh, main stage, like as a, I don't want to say let's say like Coachella or like Time Warp or, uh, Lulapalooza. 421 00:46:21,890 --> 00:46:22,470 No, I'm joking. 422 00:46:22,930 --> 00:46:36,850 But like main stage like that, I think that are more, more eating, hitting that like intimate nightclubs, just that, but nightclubs of course, love it because you are so close to the people. 423 00:46:38,150 --> 00:46:38,590 Yeah. 424 00:46:38,590 --> 00:46:39,030 Yeah. 425 00:46:39,190 --> 00:46:42,630 You know, there is, there was a nightclub here, a lot of nightclubs in Seattle. 426 00:46:42,770 --> 00:46:44,570 You can get pretty close to the DJ. 427 00:46:45,170 --> 00:46:46,310 Um, and that's what I like. 428 00:46:46,370 --> 00:46:51,130 I love the nightclubs here, but I've been nightclubbing for 35 years, uh, here in Seattle. 429 00:46:51,130 --> 00:47:03,330 So I know every single nightclub, you know, here, but I love going to New York and going to, you know, um, or, or going to Amsterdam and going to like bigger, bigger clubs and, and seeing that. 430 00:47:03,390 --> 00:47:11,350 And that's I'm really excited to even more so to be going, you know, the plan is to be more in Berlin and, and Amsterdam and Ibiza and Italy. 431 00:47:11,610 --> 00:47:16,370 And, um, you know, it being out a little bit more around Europe and planning to do that someplace. 432 00:47:16,610 --> 00:47:20,770 Some got a ties with MN2S in the UK, which is really awesome as well. 433 00:47:20,930 --> 00:47:26,170 And then some ties Stateside here with a lot of, um, with a lot of shows with the Relentless Beats. 434 00:47:26,270 --> 00:47:31,330 That being said, you know, I saw something online recently, just a few weeks ago. 435 00:47:31,670 --> 00:47:46,950 And I commented on it about, somebody said, we should be moving the DJ off the stage and back up into the booth and let it be about the dancing and not about the fireworks, the pyrotechnics, the show, because that's the show that everyone's paying for now. 436 00:47:47,210 --> 00:47:56,150 But the DJ is they're DJing, but it's not like when I grew up, you would do a club called the underground. 437 00:47:56,150 --> 00:47:57,950 You were on the dance floor. 438 00:47:58,110 --> 00:47:59,030 You had the stage. 439 00:47:59,390 --> 00:48:05,750 The dancers were on the stage, not dancers like go-go dancers, or we, the

audience was on the stage dancing. 440 00:48:06,070 --> 00:48:08,910 And the DJ was up in a booth with a glass window in front of it. 441 00:48:08,930 --> 00:48:15,010 Usually they could maybe slide open so they could talk to the crowd and all the records and everything were stored up there. 442 00:48:15,070 --> 00:48:20,590 And they were kind of off to the side and I would get my way up into this DJ booth somehow. 443 00:48:20,790 --> 00:48:21,150 I don't know. 444 00:48:21,190 --> 00:48:22,450 I just had balls or something. 445 00:48:22,790 --> 00:48:25,210 I'd go walk by the door and be like, can I go up? 446 00:48:25,270 --> 00:48:27,890 I'd like the bouncer to be standing by the DJ door, big, huge guy. 447 00:48:27,930 --> 00:48:34,270 And I'm like 18 years old and I'm like 130 pounds, maybe 130, you know, skinny kid. 448 00:48:34,570 --> 00:48:36,790 When I woke up and say, can I say hi to the DJ? 449 00:48:37,170 --> 00:48:38,930 And the bouncer would be like, sure. 450 00:48:39,190 --> 00:48:43,450 And I'd get up there and I'd hang out up in the DJ booth, just rocking it. 451 00:48:45,170 --> 00:48:54,550 It became a huge trend for me that I would go to the club and then my friends would go out dancing immediately. 452 00:48:54,830 --> 00:48:56,090 I wanted to feel the wave. 453 00:48:56,250 --> 00:48:57,310 I wanted to feel the motion. 454 00:48:57,450 --> 00:48:59,790 I wanted to get into the vibe of the floor. 455 00:49:00,250 --> 00:49:04,850 But then one of my things I would go do is I would go up to the DJ booth and say, hi, you're doing a great set. 456 00:49:04,930 --> 00:49:06,890 And I would make zero requests. 457 00:49:06,890 --> 00:49:08,630 I never made any requests. 458 00:49:09,150 --> 00:49:11,090 I would just be like, dude, this is awesome. 459 00:49:11,270 --> 00:49:12,390 What you do is phenomenal. 460 00:49:12,830 --> 00:49:23,750 I'm so impressed and just kind of found my way over the years, not necessarily getting backstage, but up in that DJ booth area, you know, and being comfortable and people would get to know my face and be like, come up here. 461 00:49:23,950 --> 00:49:25,250 I mean, I was in the States. 462 00:49:25,890 --> 00:49:28,390 You have to be 21 to drink. 463 00:49:28,650 --> 00:49:34,970 And I was getting into nightclubs at 19 years old, getting up in the DJ booth and getting to kick it in the DJ booth. 464 00:49:35,110 --> 00:49:38,090 And the club people that worked the club, they thought I worked there. 465 00:49:38,810 --> 00:49:40,450 I just be kicking the DJ booth. 466 00:49:40,510 --> 00:49:44,450 I started working lighting and doing stuff at 19 years old. 467 00:49:44,650 --> 00:49:51,270 And then it just became like, I'd walk up and the bouncers would see me, the management would see me, the DJs would see me and I could just walk right into the club. 468 00:49:51,650 --> 00:49:53,010 They didn't even know my name. 469 00:49:53,430 --> 00:49:54,510 They're just like, he works here. 470 00:49:54,990 --> 00:49:56,630 He's the lighting guy here. 471 00:49:57,030 --> 00:49:59,450 And that's a good thing too. 472 00:49:59,650 --> 00:50:12,290 When a DJ allows you to be part of, for a few minutes or whatever, of his show. 473 00:50:12,490 --> 00:50:14,990 I mean, it's so impressive for you. 474 00:50:14,990 --> 00:50:41,070 And of course, maybe for him it's not too much, but I think that when you are followed by a million, million, million people, I don't want to be one from picking up from a ship, a ship, a ship. 475 00:50:41,410 --> 00:50:41,630 Yeah. 476 00:50:43,090 --> 00:50:43,770 Range. 477 00:50:44,410 --> 00:50:44,950 Ranch. 478 00:50:45,190 --> 00:50:45,530 Sorry. 479 00:50:45,970 --> 00:50:48,750 But I want to be like Yonick. 480 00:50:48,930 --> 00:51:10,750 Maybe if, for example, it happens to me, like in a Paradiso, when I went in Amsterdam for the first time with Antonio, one of the best friends from Oristano in Sardinia, that I want to say hello. 481 00:51:11,310 --> 00:51:19,910 We went there and there were like the 20 years of spinning records and they were like, oh my God, I was like in the event properly. 482 00:51:21,050 --> 00:51:22,710 The disco is called Paradiso. 483 00:51:22,710 --> 00:51:24,190 Do you know Paradiso in Amsterdam, right? 484 00:51:24,710 --> 00:51:25,350 Yeah. 485 00:51:25,810 --> 00:51:32,610 And I've been jumped without no permissions in the main stage to see Mesto. 486 00:51:33,150 --> 00:51:33,910 You know Mesto. 487 00:51:34,470 --> 00:51:41,030 I saw Mesto just that time and I want to be like super close on it. 488 00:51:41,570 --> 00:51:52,750 And all the bodyguards, all the bodyguards, yeah, hold me and yeah, kicked me out of the disco. 489 00:51:53,310 --> 00:52:00,090 Nowadays, back when I was doing this, back when I was doing this stuff and up until, I mean, gosh, almost 2007. 490 00:52:00,650 --> 00:52:03,070 So remember I was nightclubbing back in 1992. 491 00:52:03,810 --> 00:52:08,670 So almost 15 years of going to nightclubs without this. 492 00:52:09,650 --> 00:52:10,510 Yeah, exactly. 493 00:52:10,690 --> 00:52:10,910 Yes. 494 00:52:11,410 --> 00:52:18,650 And so, you know, and nobody, I mean, if you got up to go say hi to the DJ in the DJ booth, you pretty much knew them. 495 00:52:18,870 --> 00:52:23,490 There was etiquette, but now everyone's trying to get up there and be like, yeah, see the selfie. 496 00:52:24,290 --> 00:52:25,190 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 497 00:52:26,790 --> 00:52:34,530 Even with our nights that we're getting ready to do here, I just put together a new series that we're looking to produce here. 498 00:52:34,650 --> 00:52:38,510 I'll definitely be reaching out to Origami and the whole team over there to be part of this. 499 00:52:38,610 --> 00:52:48,110 It's like top of the line, top of mind with this project I'm working on, but we're doing a complete no cell phone in the event space. 500 00:52:48,690 --> 00:52:52,790 I know how we're accomplishing it. 501

00:52:52,890 --> 00:52:55,930 I can let other people go out there and research it and figure it out. 502 00:52:56,070 --> 00:53:04,730 But we have a really cool way that allow people to basically keep their phone, use their phone, but they won't be able to record or take pictures with them. 503 00:53:05,610 --> 00:53:27,610 You can't say how we're going to do that because it's our proprietary stuff, but basically, you know, removing that essence and getting people back to the dance floor, back to focus on the music, back to socializing, you know, instead of, or watching the show like this, you know, it's like, if you want to watch the show, go watch our live stream. 504 00:53:27,610 --> 00:53:30,130 If you want to watch the show, we're recording it. 505 00:53:30,310 --> 00:53:36,090 Go watch it when you're at home or stay home, pay-per-view this, you know, and watch it from home. 506 00:53:37,310 --> 00:53:38,050 Those kinds of things. 507 00:53:38,150 --> 00:53:39,550 We want the interaction back. 508 00:53:39,710 --> 00:53:52,550 And I think there is, it's not blowback, but it's definitely coming back, you know, in adverse to the big, big production, $300 a day, you know, to go for a ticket to a show. 509 00:53:52,610 --> 00:54:00,370 I mean, I think I'm not knocking any show out of the park, but I think Electric Forest here in the States, I saw somebody for two people for two days or something. 510 00:54:00,470 --> 00:54:01,830 It was like 2,500 bucks. 511 00:54:02,610 --> 00:54:04,670 I'm like, what? 512 00:54:06,330 --> 00:54:07,690 I mean, okay. 513 00:54:07,910 --> 00:54:10,910 I mean, granted they were getting camping passes. 514 00:54:11,110 --> 00:54:13,370 Granted they were getting this level of passes. 515 00:54:13,670 --> 00:54:35,630 And I'm just like, I could go to Europe for probably a week and a half, two weeks and see a bunch of nightclubs and a bunch of phenomenal artists and a bunch of arts and culture and be spending it at this festival in this amount of space for this amount of time for that amount of money. 516 00:54:35,930 --> 00:54:36,550 I get it. 517 00:54:36,630 --> 00:54:37,970 It's an awesome experience. 518 00:54:38,050 --> 00:54:43,950 I would love to go to Electric Forest, don't get me wrong, but maybe that's just the 51-year-old year in me. 519 00:54:44,030 --> 00:54:53,530 And I just want to go see more of the world than, you know, than the big, or go see big festivals around the world, you know, like do something like that. 520 00:54:54,070 --> 00:54:56,490 You know, we got invited by Leo. 521 00:54:56,770 --> 00:54:57,530 Oh, Leo. 522 00:54:57,690 --> 00:54:57,930 Gosh. 523 00:54:57,970 --> 00:54:59,010 He was just on the show recently. 524 00:54:59,790 --> 00:55:01,110 Thank you, Leo Oliver. 525 00:55:01,290 --> 00:55:04,490 He invited us to come down to Miami for Ultra, you know? 526 00:55:05,250 --> 00:55:10,870 So I was possibly looking at doing that and tapping Leo for Ultra and the whole conference and everything. 527 00:55:11,050 --> 00:55:13,270 And just like, oh, I got so much going on. 528 00:55:13,350 --> 00:55:16,830 I'm going to hit him up here in about a week or two and be like, Leo, what's the plan? 529 00:55:17,230 --> 00:55:19,190 And he's like, I will take you everywhere. 530 00:55:19,330 --> 00:55:20,450 I will show you everything. 531 00:55:20,450 --> 00:55:23,330 You've never seen like Miami, like I know Miami. 532 00:55:23,650 --> 00:55:25,230 And I'm like, all right, cool. 533 00:55:25,310 --> 00:55:26,130 Let's do this, Leo. 534 00:55:26,530 --> 00:55:30,250 So, you know, and that's just meeting people on the show and you meet people. 535 00:55:30,570 --> 00:55:34,610 The virtual sessions, like what we're doing, like I said, I'm planning to go to Italy and all that fun stuff. 536 00:55:34,670 --> 00:55:44,330 But talking about people, who's the most inspiring person you've ever met backstage and why was that such an inspiration to you? 537 00:55:45,510 --> 00:55:46,450 Leandro Da Silva. 538 00:55:48,250 --> 00:55:49,490 Give it to the man. 539 00:55:50,190 --> 00:55:51,410 Give it to the man. 540 00:55:51,790 --> 00:55:53,270 Do you remember the first time you met him? 541 00:55:53,370 --> 00:55:56,790 Was it backstage at an event or how did you meet up with him? 542 00:55:57,530 --> 00:56:02,750 I met up for the first time, I told you, in his studio. 543 00:56:03,850 --> 00:56:15,210 Always seen in YouTube, Instagram, whatever in the world, but behind a screen. 544 00:56:16,850 --> 00:56:21,630 And wow, I was like super, super, super, super impressed. 545 00:56:22,970 --> 00:56:32,110 You know, like I said, in building those long-term relationships with people, that's something that I've always strived to do with people in the industry. 546 00:56:32,310 --> 00:56:47,810 And now when our press release comes out, the people that I've been working with, even though I've been working with them for like the last year and putting stuff together over the last six, seven months, to then put it all together in a pot, I didn't want to say, here we are today and here's this person today. 547 00:56:48,070 --> 00:56:50,630 I want to say, boom, here we go. 548 00:56:50,690 --> 00:56:54,230 And everyone's going, what the crap did Darran just do? 549 00:56:55,410 --> 00:56:59,690 I've had to shake hands and talk with these people, online, emails, back and forth. 550 00:56:59,770 --> 00:57:03,630 It wasn't just like, I walked into the studio, I walked in and said, let's work together. 551 00:57:03,710 --> 00:57:04,230 They said, yes. 552 00:57:04,610 --> 00:57:14,150 I had to show them what we're doing, show them what our angles are, show them what our direction is, see if there are brands that they want to collaborate with and say, we're going to build a long-term partnership here. 553 00:57:15,110 --> 00:57:23,510 And yeah, again, it's super exciting because Leandro also worked with MN2S, which is one of our sponsored partners right now.

554 00:57:24,550 --> 00:57:25,470 Really awesome. 555 00:57:25,790 --> 00:57:27,790 So it's really cool having... 556 00:57:27,790 --> 00:57:34,430 I think I met Leandro through MN2S, or maybe I had an interview with him before. 557 00:57:34,590 --> 00:57:44,290 I do so many interviews and so much stuff, hard to keep track of this sometimes, but yeah, managed to get a really good partnership with MN2S and super excited to be working with Origami. 558 00:57:44,670 --> 00:57:46,310 Now you were at ADE last year. 559 00:57:46,310 --> 00:57:47,650 Was that your first ADE? 560 00:57:48,330 --> 00:57:49,490 No, it was my second. 561 00:57:49,570 --> 00:57:50,250 My second. 562 00:57:50,750 --> 00:57:51,710 Your second ADE. 563 00:57:52,010 --> 00:57:52,190 Yeah. 564 00:57:52,670 --> 00:57:53,070 Yeah. 565 00:57:53,190 --> 00:57:55,450 That can be an overwhelming conference to go to. 566 00:57:55,550 --> 00:57:59,790 We had spoken earlier about you saying, I think you said about networking and collaborating. 567 00:58:00,570 --> 00:58:04,970 I tell so many people, I believe that that is one of the key... 568 00:58:04,970 --> 00:58:16,950 I don't tell people you're not going to make it if you don't go to ADE, but go to ADE if you want to make it because you're going to meet so many people, collaborate with so many people, get so much stuff going on. 569 00:58:17,130 --> 00:58:19,450 Don't worry, that's just Doja the Disco Cat. 570 00:58:20,910 --> 00:58:21,510 You want to say hi? 571 00:58:21,870 --> 00:58:22,670 You want to say hi? 572 00:58:23,710 --> 00:58:32,590 And so get there, collaborate, at least get your foot in the ground, or if you're stateside, get to Ultra, get to Winter Music Conference. 573 00:58:33,030 --> 00:58:41,350 I don't think they call it Winter Music Conference anymore, or get to some of the bigger networking conferences, even South by Southwest, you know, in Austin, Texas. 574 00:58:42,550 --> 00:58:57,330 Get yourself out to those conferences, get yourself outside of your bubble, of your normal networking, because you're going to meet people that are really traveling because they want to up their game, they want to get bigger, they want to network, and you can meet those collaborations and meet with those people. 575 00:58:57,410 --> 00:59:10,110 It may just be something like where you met Leandra at a studio, I met so-and-so at their booth, or so-and-so was standing next to this booth, I recognized them, and I said, hey, my name's so-and-so, and networked that way. 576 00:59:10,330 --> 00:59:14,730 Do you find ADE to be a very excellent, a good experience for you when you've been going? 577 00:59:16,210 --> 00:59:18,790 Yes, yes, buddy, yes, of course. 578 00:59:19,770 --> 00:59:34,050 The first time was for me like an approach, a different approach, because I never and ever been in ADE, like in Amsterdam, to play, definitely. 579 00:59:34,970 --> 01:00:00,510 And I was not shy, of course, because it's not stuck in my personality, but I think that I was like, this last year, in 2020, 2025, I was like a little bit like, without no pressure, but like elastic, you know, like, yeah, like a little bit elastic. 580 01:00:01,450 --> 01:00:02,670 Yeah, that's the best word. 581 01:00:03,430 --> 01:00:05,330 I would say this, yeah, go ahead. 582 01:00:05,990 --> 01:00:07,190 Go, go, go, go, go. 583 01:00:07,510 --> 01:00:11,290 I was gonna say the second time, I had never traveled to Europe before. 584 01:00:11,750 --> 01:00:21,070 My first time I went was in 2020, 2022, and definitely coming back in 2023, I was much more like, oh, I know we're stopping off. 585 01:00:21,210 --> 01:00:23,870 Oh, we didn't stop at Iceland this time, we stopped at Heathrow. 586 01:00:24,350 --> 01:00:25,630 Okay, we're getting here. 587 01:00:25,790 --> 01:00:26,890 Oh, we're gonna get on the train. 588 01:00:27,050 --> 01:00:28,290 Oh, we're gonna get to our houseboat. 589 01:00:28,410 --> 01:00:29,950 Oh, we know that riding this. 590 01:00:30,070 --> 01:00:31,250 Oh, we know where the restaurants are. 591 01:00:31,470 --> 01:00:35,850 We kind of know, and it was very fluid, and that's how we like to keep going. 592 01:00:36,450 --> 01:00:37,910 Not so much rigidness. 593 01:00:38,490 --> 01:00:43,050 I do have a hard work schedule when I hit, it's land on Tuesday, get our bearings. 594 01:00:43,290 --> 01:00:47,470 We leave on a Monday, get there on Tuesday, and then rest. 595 01:00:47,870 --> 01:00:55,430 Yeah, and then have Tuesday to rest, and then it's work Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and then Friday night, go out to the events and go see the city. 596 01:00:55,610 --> 01:01:02,650 That's fun, you know, and having media badges helps because it gets you in everywhere for ADE, which is nice. 597 01:01:03,310 --> 01:01:04,030 That's why I love it. 598 01:01:04,030 --> 01:01:07,910 Yeah, I definitely am looking forward to doing something with Origami there this year. 599 01:01:08,010 --> 01:01:11,290 We will be back at ADE, super excited for that. 600 01:01:12,070 --> 01:01:19,870 Out of all of this, we've been talking about you, and your music, and your career, and your label, and your releases, and your partnerships, all that fun stuff. 601 01:01:20,350 --> 01:01:23,570 What do you prefer doing when you're taking a break from all of this stuff? 602 01:01:28,870 --> 01:01:42,410 Walking like around, for example, we have Villa Borghese, it's called Villa Borghese, like a good park, like in the center of is the Palmen of Rome. 603 01:01:42,790 --> 01:01:56,070 Like go around there, or like distract myself with some with some like with some friends, talk about like other things, take beers, take a beer, or yeah. 604 01:01:57,170 --> 01:01:59,590 This is Enzo the Disco Dog, by the way. 605 01:02:01,370 --> 01:02:08,310 Or doing like home stuff, like this is another one, he is another one, right? 606 01:02:08,650 --> 01:02:09,690 He's another one. 607 01:02:09,950 --> 01:02:10,810 Yeah,

he's another one. 608 01:02:10,950 --> 01:02:13,350 This is Enzo the Disco Dog. 609 01:02:14,170 --> 01:02:15,530 Enzo the Disco Dog. 610 01:02:18,950 --> 01:02:20,370 How is his name? 611 01:02:21,350 --> 01:02:22,810 Enzo, like Enzo Ferrari. 612 01:02:23,970 --> 01:02:24,410 Enzo. 613 01:02:24,410 --> 01:02:24,850 Enzo. 614 01:02:24,910 --> 01:02:26,290 Enzo Ferrari, yeah. 615 01:02:26,390 --> 01:02:29,510 Enzo, the fastest one-year-old dog in the world. 616 01:02:30,910 --> 01:02:31,350 Sorry. 617 01:02:31,550 --> 01:02:33,090 Yeah, like, no worries. 618 01:02:34,190 --> 01:02:38,190 But yeah, I mean, it's definitely good to get out and take a break. 619 01:02:38,290 --> 01:02:39,990 I like to sometimes cook. 620 01:02:40,070 --> 01:02:41,630 I have a park not too far. 621 01:02:42,150 --> 01:02:44,770 I got out and played some pickleball the other day. 622 01:02:45,290 --> 01:02:52,090 I haven't played that for a while, but trying to get a little bit more athletic and get out of this chair is, I think, the main goal. 623 01:02:52,250 --> 01:03:01,850 As long as I can get up and be moving around and doing something, I think that's a break from video production and production and PR and all that fun stuff. 624 01:03:02,530 --> 01:03:02,750 Awesome. 625 01:03:03,070 --> 01:03:07,650 Well, you mentioned earlier that you do have your show that you're putting out on SoundCloud. 626 01:03:07,930 --> 01:03:09,550 How often are you releasing that show? 627 01:03:11,750 --> 01:03:13,850 At least two per month. 628 01:03:14,370 --> 01:03:15,050 Two per month, okay. 629 01:03:15,390 --> 01:03:15,670 Awesome. 630 01:03:16,550 --> 01:03:16,830 Awesome. 631 01:03:16,970 --> 01:03:23,990 And we'll talk about, after the show, about possibly getting that syndicated on the DJ Sessions new internet station as well. 632 01:03:24,270 --> 01:03:28,030 Is there anything else you want to let our DJ Sessions fans know before we let you go? 633 01:03:29,230 --> 01:03:35,650 I want to thank you, Darran, to DJ Sessions, of course. 634 01:03:36,710 --> 01:03:41,170 And I hope to keep in touch super, super very soon. 635 01:03:41,690 --> 01:03:45,610 And, of course, follow the page and the website. 636 01:03:46,010 --> 01:03:53,130 Follow the page first on Instagram, the DJ Session, and follow the website, the DJ Session.com. 637 01:03:53,570 --> 01:03:58,790 And, of course, Amlex Music behind here on my Instagram page. 638 01:03:59,210 --> 01:04:03,650 And, yeah, a lot of news coming up very soon. 639 01:04:04,070 --> 01:04:14,150 And that is A-M-L-E-X underscore music, M-U-S-I-C, Amlex underscore music on Instagram. 640 01:04:14,750 --> 01:04:16,170 Well, again, Amlex, thank you for being on the show. 641 01:04:16,250 --> 01:04:23,750 We know we're going to be following up with you and staying in touch with you, getting some of that music maybe up in our new music section as well. 642 01:04:24,090 --> 01:04:25,530 And thank you for being on the show today. 643 01:04:25,610 --> 01:04:26,650 It was a pleasure having you. 644 01:04:27,030 --> 01:04:28,010 Thank you so much. 645 01:04:28,130 --> 01:04:28,670 Thanks, Darran. 646 01:04:28,830 --> 01:04:29,470 Thank you so much. 647 01:04:29,530 --> 01:04:30,710 All the best for you, of course. 648 01:04:30,930 --> 01:04:31,610 You're welcome. 649 01:04:32,010 --> 01:04:36,450 On that note, don't forget to go to our website, the DJ Sessions.com. 650 01:04:36,830 --> 01:04:39,050 Find us on all the socials out there. 651 01:04:39,210 --> 01:04:39,670 We're there. 652 01:04:39,770 --> 01:04:44,310 But everything and more, we have over 700 news stories a month to get published to our site. 653 01:04:44,450 --> 01:04:48,310 Our new interviews section, live interview section are going to be coming back up. 654 01:04:48,330 --> 01:04:52,870 Our new music section, our new internet station, our VR nightclub is back under redevelopment. 655 01:04:52,970 --> 01:04:56,590 Our new app, our version 1.2 of the app is coming out. 656 01:04:56,930 --> 01:05:03,530 But all that and more and merch, you can get some cool DJ Sessions gear merch at our website, the DJ Sessions.com. 657 01:05:03,730 --> 01:05:06,250 That's Amlex, and I'm coming in from Rome. 658 01:05:06,590 --> 01:05:10,070 I'm Darran coming in from Seattle, Washington for the DJ Sessions. 659 01:05:10,310 --> 01:05:14,770 And remember, on the DJ Sessions, the music never stops. 660 01:05:15,390 --> 01:05:16,190 Check it out.