JC: When I got offstage, I happened to pass right by Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso, so I freaked out there also. What happened right after you got offstage? I saw them at EDC 2012, 2013, and their acoustic show at the Greek Theater. It could have been anybody, and they happened to choose me. JC: I canвЂ™t even find the words to describe how it felt being in front of all those people. For the rest of the day, I couldnвЂ™t speak because I had completely lost my voice. вЂњReally, you gotta be kidding me, this is really happening right now?вЂќ I was just singing my lungs out. TM: Or while theyвЂ™re pushing it, we could surreptitiously push play ourselves with the correct button without holding our finger on it like some people do to make it go вЂњdiga diga diga diga.вЂќ You could probably buy an вЂњEasyвЂќ button from Staples and have someone hot-wire it. We had one the other day at the beach party, and it made the CO2 come down, so you can obviously get those big buttons. Actually, having a fucking big, red button would be great. TM: On the mixer, the illuminated effect button and the button theyвЂ™ve got to push are quite close together.

SheвЂ™s there in the Olympic Stadium with 40,000 people going crazy, not having quite realized whatвЂ™s going to happen. I was like, вЂњCome, give us your hand, we need you to press play,вЂќ and sheвЂ™s like, вЂњWhat do you mean?вЂќ And IвЂ™m like, вЂњThere, that one. PS: I still love it when we get someone who doesnвЂ™t know what it is. It would be great to get more people if we could. We had a fairly coordinated five-hand push, and that was nice. The only time IвЂ™ve really pre-planned it was when a girl had a sign, вЂњPlease pick my mum to push the button.вЂќ I was like, вЂњAbsolutely.вЂќ There was a time at Avila Beach I managed to get four or five people up onstage. TM: If IвЂ™m going out to choose somebody, I try and make it as spontaneous as possible. How do you go about finding the person whoвЂ™s going to push the button? And if they choose not to, then we have to get a job somewhere else. We really try to make that moment with everybody in the room as powerful as it can be, and we play a part in that, but they do too. ItвЂ™s about their experience-singing along, coming up onstage, pushing the button, and interacting with each other. The whole thing with our show and our mentality has always been: ItвЂ™s about everybody in the audience, not just about us.

I think weвЂ™re lucky and privileged to be able to be on the stage instead of being in the audience. A lot of the guys who were big superstar DJs are still around, and I think the reason why is theyвЂ™re doing something that interests people, so the power really is in the hands of the people. WeвЂ™re up there trying to capture the imagination of the people in the audience, and they-not us-decide whether that process happens or not. WeвЂ™re not necessarily in a position of authority. I think we harness it in a judo-like fashion, but if they donвЂ™t like what we do, we ainвЂ™t got a job. TM: I think the fans are the ones with the power. The experience every night is different.Дo you think that element of fan empowerment is something thatвЂ™s getting lost the bigger EDM gets? Are those personal, intimate moments and that up-close connection to DJs getting lost? WeвЂ™ve had people crying, weвЂ™ve had people not knowing what to do, and thatвЂ™s the beauty of it. Paavo SiljamГ¤ki: ItвЂ™s the people as well. People put a lot of effort into making signs, and theyвЂ™re so excited about the idea of doing it, that IвЂ™m starting to feel a little bit guilty because thereвЂ™s so many more people that want to do it than can do it. Before you know it, people are holding up signs reading, вЂњPlease let me push the button.вЂќ It was one of those things that just birthed itself almost by accident, and now itвЂ™s become a real big deal. There was a guy onstage with a video camera somewhere-I canвЂ™t remember the show-and I was sort of doing a big, dramatic pause before he started up, so I grabbed his finger and made him do it. People would wait for it to go, and then weвЂ™d go, вЂњWaaaaaitвЂќ and made a big point of it. So we put this cue point, made a long reverb-y end, and for maybe two shows we were pushing the button ourselves. In order to spice it up a little bit, we put a gap in the middle of so we could make the drop whenever we wanted it. We had been playing вЂњSun & MoonвЂќ quite a lot, and obviously we hear it three times a week when we play, but most people only hear it maybe once a year. Tony McGuinness:В It sort of came about by accident, as most of the things weвЂ™ve ever done, really. What inspired you to create the вЂњpush the buttonвЂќ moment?

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