While electronic music is not really all about the music industry anymore, it is still a hugely popular one that is why there are so many music producers and DJs who still perform around the world.
So, if you want to discover more about what goes on behind the scenes, why not look into the career of one of the most famous Italian DJ around today? Many people think that because the Italian pop group have won the MTV award, they were expected to win the Eurovision Song Contest the following year, but nothing could be further from the truth.
With a good performance at Eurovision, they were given another chance in the competition for the Grand Final. There is little doubt that David Guetta is an incredibly talented man and the fact that he managed to get his dream job with the award-winning group, La-Lax is testament to that. As well as being a great DJ, he is a great songwriter too.
He wrote many of the songs that were written by the band, as well as some of their hit tracks. He is also a talented music producer and he is not afraid to try his hand at different genres as he has worked on the music for movies and TV shows. He has a great love for mixing and creating beats and music with other musicians. All in all, it can be safely assumed that his music is a reflection of his life experience and passion for music and the arts.
As with any other kind of artist, electronic dance music has its ups and downs. Although sometimes, if he's doing a club night with his new hip-hop friends, there's extravagance there too. Hot girls, party, champagne — it's nice! If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
The second CD features vocal-free, hardcore ish electronic tunes, some in the style of his French compatriots Daft Punk and Justice.
He was well known on the French nightclub scene, which is where, 22 years ago, he met Cathy, a waitress and hostess at the time.
They put on their own nights and opened their own clubs. Then Will. The Black Eyed Peas' chief creative officer asked Guetta to work with him. Together they made "I Gotta Feeling". It became a global smash and Guetta was reborn as a pop-dance producer. Singers — mostly from the world of American R'n'B and hip-hop — started falling over themselves to guest on songs on his albums, or to hire the Frenchman to produce tracks for their own albums.
Now he's the biggest DJ-turned-producer in the world. And, via FMIF, he and Cathy preside over a club-cum-kinky-lifestyle marque that, during its summer residency at Ibiza, generates tens of thousands of euros every week.
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But Guetta insists his newfound fame hasn't changed him. The hotel penthouse suites and private planes are functional luxuries, facilitating his nonstop, jet-set, time zone-flouting work schedule. The high-rolling celebrity life isn't his bag. He recently had cause to chastise his production team for going all bling with his rider requests. Aware that his show "is becoming so big", they had begun to request "wine and chicken and cheese" from venue promoters, "and I wouldn't use it.
So I was very mad at them. Because I don't like to give that image. The big star that is asking for crazy shit — 'I want my wardrobe to be all pink' — and is not even using it I think it's terrible," he tuts.
At best, "They're always late But I'm not like that. I wanna be a nice guy. The year-old who started hosting parties in his parents' garage when he was 13 is both a music obsessive and good-time-Charlie. Over the summer months, he performs in a different country almost every night.
But he flies back to Ibiza by private jet each Thursday to meet his FMIF obligations, and to catch up with Cathy, son Elvis seven and daughter Angie four , who base themselves in their Ibizan villa during the school holidays. Wherever he goes he likes to create the party-heartiest club shows and concert events.
And in between all those commitments Guetta works — while on planes or in taxis or in his hotel rooms — on the songs that helped his last album, 's One Love, sell three million copies worldwide and that, on Nothing But the Beat, his fifth album, attracted a stellar roll call of vocal and songwriting collaborators.
Peering at his laptop, Guetta breaks down his FMIF playlist — a little spiel that gives some insight into his range. Half-an-hour into the Ibiza launch party, he played "Where Them Girls At", "but a different version".
After the song leaked online in May, Guetta announced that he was hiring a "security specialist who works with the Pentagon" to investigate the hacking of the unfinished track. No matter. It became too much of a format. A lurch back towards the drawn-out melodies of trance, and a slight shift away from the ADHD drop-filled EDM pop sound, has given Guetta a new lease of life for his big main stage sets. To keep my scene exciting.
It makes me very happy that people appreciated this, basically. It feels like those two moments of my life have had a cultural impact on our scene. And our scene is my life, since I was a teenager. So of course it matters more than anything to me. When Lockdown happened for many countries in the spring of , the music industry's live scene ground to a halt. With people locked down in their homes, some DJs started to lift spirits by doing live streams from their bedrooms.
Guetta, meanwhile, commandeered the pool deck on top of the trendy Icon Brickell tower in downtown Miami on April 18th to play a United At Home big production fundraising set. Even when I stopped playing in Miami, people kept screaming and making noise with saucepans or anything they had on their balconies. I received thousands and thousands of messages thanking me for this moment where they forgot about everything.
This shows how important our culture is. DJ Mag points out that his skills DJing with vinyl in clubs are well documented on film and such-like. Those moments are not easy — this is the most difficult thing — because to be only commercially successful is very hard, but not that hard. And to be very respected and credible is hard, but not that hard.
But to have it at the same time is the hardest thing — ever. I wish there was more solidarity between the different scenes.
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