I’ve always listened to a little bit of techno, going back to Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk, but I never listened to more than a few songs by the biggest artists. Even later, when Skrillex first blew up, I knew just a few tracks that friends and coworkers were enthusiastic about. That all changed in 2015 when he and Diplo collaborated on their album Jack Ü. I was working at an MTV award show when they debuted “Where Are Ü Now,” featuring Justin Bieber. It was a great performance that led me to the rest of the album, which is definitely my most played EDM album. This was also the second year that I worked at Coachella, where I saw Jack Ü, followed by a lot of other discoveries that I am now a fan of. It really makes me wonder about all of the great music that I was not open to seeing when I was younger. So many missed opportunities that I did not become aware of for many years afterwards. Such is the folly of youth.
New Album A Day 