It’s early evening at Stereosonic Sydney and Sebastian Ingrosso is up next on the mainstage. The Swedish House Mafioso is certainly a DJ whose reputation precedes him. Despite the party boy persona, though, Ingrosso is keeping a low profile as he waits backstage. With some time to burn before his set, he takes a seat on the inthemix couch with the calm and collected demeanour of a true professional.Last we heard, you were looking for a fan with a sizeable Sebastian Ingrosso tattoo on his arm. How’d the search go?
-We found him, he’s in Melbourne. We’re going to meet and greet backstage, and I’m looking forward to that. It’s an amazing thing. It’s crazy. Is it sometimes surprising what fans will do?
-Yeah, you get surprised every day at how fans react to your music and to your DJ gigs. I still think of myself as a living room DJ. It’s amazing, you know, but you need to keep your head clear and respect everything that happens around you.
So, what can you tell us about the Take One documentary?
-Basically it’s a documentary about the Swedish House Mafia. We filmed 253 gigs, it took years. It’s about our lives, not so much our private lives, but in the studio, when we tour, when we are depressed alone in our hotel rooms not knowing what the fuck to do. Basically, either you’ll like it or you won’t.
-We’ve been filming so much with Christian Larson, and he just started to hang around the gigs and suggested we do a documentary. He’s an amazing editor. It’s very funny. It’s hard to see myself for 45 minutes, but it’s very funny and raw. Who we are, what we say.
-We’re quite down to earth people. In the documentary when we’re doing One in the studio, it’s quite cool ‘cause we didn’t even know [Larson] was filming. We’d just been hanging around the studio playing video games and bang, we had the idea for One.
What is it about working with Steve and Axwell that always clicks?
-I’ve worked with lots of people in the studio, but when I work with them and Dirty South for example, we are very sure of what we want and we’re honest with each other. It’s not at the point where you think, “Oh I don’t like that bit, but I can’t say it, ‘cause he likes that”. We’re honest from the beginning. We make the music that we want to play. We always want to peak the one before. For example, with One, the next track we play after that has to be even bigger. You know what I mean? It’s hard.
The Northern summer looked action-packed for you guys…
-It was great. Ibiza was amazing. We had Kylie Minogue as our guest, loads of DJs like Benny Benassi, Felix Da Housecat, Dirty South, everyone we love and respect. The room was filled with great music and energy. All the other festivals and Sensation White was crazy.
The scale of the dance music festivals in Australia continue to grow, as you can see today. Do you think that’s happening everywhere?
-Absolutely. David Guetta opened the door with that mix of pop, R&B and dance music. But if I listen to the music that David Guetta and we did six, seven years ago, it still sounds the same almost. Ten years ago in America if you said you did dance music it was, “Oh, you’re gay”. It was gay music. Rave music was for gays.
-Now you have everyone from Rihanna to rappers like Flo Rida on it. I see it as positive. A lot of fans say, “How can you have a rapper on your track?” And it’s like, Who cares? If it’s still good music you can play in a club and people go mental, then…[shrugs].
You’ve certainly struck up a real relationship with Australia…
-I’m not saying this because I’m in Australia, but this is the best country in the world. I love coming here and playing. The crowd is so amazing. I know that Axwell and Steve were so jealous of me coming here now. I’m just so excited about this tour. This is one of my peak things in the whole year.
How are you feeling about today’s set? Any plans?
-I did my tweaks and edits of our own tracks and others. I have a new remix from Axwell which just arrived two hours ago in my mailbox. I’m working on my new single so I’ll play that in Melbourne, ‘cause it’s not finished yet. I wanted to play it tonight but it’s not mixed. I don’t trust my headphones! So this tour there’s definitely new music.
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