Today I feel emotional. This journey has been insane. 4 years ago I filmed a DJ set for YouTube on the street right outside THIS venue, I posted on my Instagram story and only 3 people showed up.
Compare this to last night. The biggest thing me and the team have ever taken on, SOLD OUT
THIS IS SYNC. This is what it looks like when the whole team/family work on a vision for a year and it all comes together. Thank you to you who bought a ticket and thank you London. I honestly think you are the best city in the world to put on events like this. I took time after my set to meet as many people as I could before we all got kicked out and the people I met were incredible.
Which cities need this show now?
16 years ago I went to Ibiza for the first time. I partied at Space til 6 in the morning then slept on the beach cos I had no money for a hotel. Today, I’ve just finished my first season as a headliner at Hi Ibiza (formerly Space). I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t nerve wracking. Were 6000 people really going to show up to watch me every Monday for 16 weeks? Was my show really going to on par with the legends that grace the decks in Hi every night? But we did it. We pulled it off. It’s been the best, most rewarding experience. It’s wild what can be achieved with consistency over years of work. The yearbook said it and almost 20 years of work later it’s real 🙏🏻 Thank you to the incredible team at Hi, my team, Meduza, and of course everyone who bought tickets ❤️ you made my dreams reality. See you next season?!
In 2020 I met someone I never wanted to leave.
She used to come to London to see me and whenever she had to go I’d try and convince her to stay one more day.
You know that feeling when you meet someone and you want to know everything about them and never be apart!
Last November she went away for 5 weeks. The longest we’ve ever been apart.
I was in my studio every day writing songs and that distance took me right back to the beginning. The feeling of falling for someone before you fully understand it.
That’s what Seratonin is about.
“I’m already falling. Stay another moment”
That line came from a real experience.
Seratonin is out now ❤️
Some people get weirdly offended by the idea of DJs practicing.
Like a set only counts if every single second is completely freestyle.
I get where that comes from. There are definitely sets where I want to play freestyle and take the music where the crowd tells me. If I’m playing an extended club set somewhere like Space Miami, I’m not rehearsing every transition. That kind of set is about reading the room, moving with it, taking risks, going wherever the night goes.
But a Get Closer set is different.
That’s 60 minutes. It’s like a showcase for me. It’s technical. It’s me trying to show people what’s possible with the decks when they’re feet away from me.
So yeah, I practice!
I practice the transitions so I can get the timing right with my eyes closed. I practice the moments where one small mistake can mess everything up.
No one is born with the confidence to do this stuff in front of thousands of people.
You build that confidence on your own before anyone is watching.
I build it at sound checks. In empty rooms. In the boring repetitions. In the moments where there’s no crowd energy coming back at me.
Because when the crowd is there and the tension is on, you need something solid underneath you.
You’re only ever as good as your worst practice.
Nobody would go and watch their favourite band and think, “I hope they haven’t rehearsed this.”
Nobody would watch a football team walk out and think, “I hope they didn’t train too hard.”
But somehow with DJs, practice gets mistaken for faking it.
For me, it’s the opposite.
It means I care enough to prepare properly.
It means I respect the people who bought a ticket. I respect the music. I respect the idea that if I’m going to put myself in a position where I’m expected to perform with precision, I should do the work before I get there.
Not every DJ set needs to be rehearsed.
Not every moment should be planned.
But when the goal is to push the technical side as far as I can, I’m not leaving that to chance.
This is me trying to make sure my worst is still good enough when it matters.
“It’s called Seratonin.”
I wrote that title in my phone months ago.
I didn’t have the song yet, I just had the word.
But I knew there was something in it.
A few weeks later the lyrics started coming into my head.
I make hundreds of songs, hundreds of ideas, hundreds of versions that never see the light of day… and then one comes along with the feeling I actually want to chase.
It gave me that haunting feeling I always want from music.
I’ve been testing it in my sets, watching people react to it in real time, and since I first posted it on TikTok it’s been insane seeing how many people connect with it.
I spend all this time alone trying to turn an idea into something real, and then one day I’m on a microphone in front of a crowd saying the name out loud.
“It’s called Seratonin.”
And suddenly it’s not just mine anymore.
Seratonin comes out Friday.
I’m proud of this one.
I don’t think people understand how much DJing took from me before it gave me anything back.
And I mean that in the best way.
I remember syncing two records on vinyl for the first time and feeling like I’d just unlocked something wild. Nobody was clapping. My mum didn’t care. But it was life changing for me.
I remember being in BCM Mallorca when I was 15, the first big club I ever went to, and all my friends went to bed. I stayed on my own, right by the speaker, just watching the DJ. Completely obsessed. Not networking. Not trying to be seen. Just soaking up this new feeling I’d discovered.
DJing gave me an identity before it gave me success. It gave me a reason to be at the party. A way to exist in places where I didn’t always know who I was supposed to be.
So when I wear a “Real DJing” t-shirt, it’s not me saying I’m better than anyone.
It’s a standard of what’s important.
It’s a reminder that this culture was built by people who lived it, learned the music, understood the crowd, and took risks in real time to make rooms feel something fresh and exciting.
A few years ago, everyone wanted to say big-stage DJs were fake and pre-recorded.
And tbh, certain people in the culture didn’t help.
For me, this felt personal.
You might not know what I’m doing on the decks. You don’t need to. If it works, you’ll feel it. You’ll feel the timing. You’ll feel the result of years spent loving something before it ever looked impressive.
I went ten years without owning gear like this. And even when I finally did get it, it was financed.
So if you’re in your bedroom right now, playing to no one, learning records nobody else around you understands, keep going.
You’re building the foundation for rooms you haven’t even walked into yet.
One day you’ll be playing at Space Miami, and some track you discovered alone in your bedroom will suddenly make sense in front of thousands of people.
That’s real DJing to me.
Imposter syndrome is showing up at a club 5 hours before your set, just to make sure people actually show up.. The first night of my residency last year, my set time was 4am, I was at the club by 11pm. Main room Hi Ibiza, my name above the door. I couldn’t relax until I saw the queue with my own eyes..
I’ve spent my whole life feeling like the guy on the wrong side of the rope, banging on the door trying to get in. Now suddenly I’m in. My name is on the billboard and it doesn’t feel real. Feels kinda like a mistake, like someone’s gonna tap me on the shoulder and say you’re not meant to be here!
That feeling didn’t go away for the first 6 weeks of the season..
Then week 7 something switched. I finally let myself enjoy it! Hi was named the best club in the world for a reason and it was packed every single week.
Year 2 of my residency starts on May 27th.. a 19 week season this year 💪🏼 I’ll be there early
