

Away from the decks Zedd is busy producing his second album – even though the first – Clarity – is still performing well in the itunes chart (Clarity the single is at #11 at time of writing).

Then usually 2 hours before the set I get together with my lighting engineer and talk about what we plan on doing.”Īnd it’s not just show days that are busy. I think about what I do, where am I, what club, what sort of environment, what kind of people do I expect and then I plan something. When asked about his DJ ‘style’, Zedd the perfectionist surfaces: “I’m not the type of DJ who goes in and completely wings it.

The dj is basically a little dot in a gigantic space of LED walls and projections and it’s just looking really impressive”. “I’m a big fan of not just having the music speak but also the visuals and the lighting and I don’t think anyone has ever seen a bigger production in a club. We’ve seen the gigantic billboards on the journey from LA and know the club is associated with the formidable Cirque Du Soleil so the reasoning behind his bold quote is unsurprising: It’s gonna be awesome, the most impressive club I’ve seen.” People are allowed to swim which is kinda cool. There’s LIGHT which is the nightclub then there’s Daylight which is a pool party and Eclipse which is the same spot at night. “I’m playing LIGHT tonight which is my residency here in Vegas. Let’s start with the DJing as MTV News are in his Mandalay Bay hotel suite way above the Las Vegas strip, where in under 2 hours he must entertain over 3000 revellers 58 floors below him, here to see what the fuss is all about. He tours as a club DJ but plays several instruments he has a big sound and yet is understated in person, and at just 23 is the go-to producer for some of the biggest artists in the world.
