So how do you ensure that the actual Zedd ‘touch’ is
being applied to everything?
I control everything, I would never play a song that I don’t want my
audience to see or hear. Before I play them out I’ll discuss with my
guys doing the lasers, visuals and lighting, and I just make sure I
like it the way it is.
From a technical stand-point, is this pitched to you or
is it your creation?
We’ve been pretty much developing this visual concept of the tour
we are playing right now for months and months. Whenever there
is a new Zedd song that we like we get in touch with our people to
create the custom visuals. If the song is 130 bpm then there is a
movement that should be 130 bpm. It’s hard to describe it but as
soon as you see it you will understand exactly what I mean.
One of our staff got to experience the show earlier this week and was
telling me amazing things about the show.
It’s like a movie in itself. Normally you will have an artist
has his logo pumping, maybe changing in colour, but it’s
still just the same thing. Every single song I play, and
each and every part has one look. We try not to repeat
the looks or reveal too much. I think that if I’d be in the
audience... I mean I still get goose bumps every time!
I still think it is one of the most interesting shows to
watch out of the whole scene right now.
that
When you think of Zedd music is there
speci?c imagery you picture in your
head?
When we released ‘Clarity’ each song had a
separate release on Beatport and I tried to give
each song a colour. And those colours are what
we went with going live. So for example I felt
like ‘Fall Into The Sky’ felt yellow and purple.
So when we do it live there could be people
in the crowd who bought it on Beatport and
know what the actual colour is. Every one
of those songs will have the two colours.
Being lights or LED walls. it really depends
on what song it is. Clarity has always
sounded very green and blue.
In September and October you were
touring North America, and from
then on you are basically hitting up
?ve continents with the rest of the
tour. Is it daunting taking this project
worldwide?
It’s a dream of every artist to play in every continent.
I
remember playing in Australia for the ?rst time
and
people knew my song, which was ‘Spectrum’, my single at the time.
I remember that moment being really special because I was on
another continent so far away in the world but people still knew my
music. That’s an amazing thing! For me to be able to hit that many
continents on a tour is really inspiring.
Well that’s really powerful!
I was not really able to tour with my own production in a couple
countries just months ago because there was no demand. Now, not
only in America but in Asia a lot of other countries have connected.
I can play those shows, and it’s a lot more fun for me rather than
just doing a DJ set. After playing with this production it can’t be
the same to not have that with you anymore. I feel like I just don’t
represent everything that Zedd is all about. I can’t just go up there,
knowing I would be missing out on so much.
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