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We caught up with Charlotte de Witte at her sold out show on Naud St. in LA, and she shares how she feels fans are receiving her new album, ‘Charlotte de Witte,’ what her favorite track is to play for fans, her time in Portugal and more!

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00:00Today has been a very big day for me.

00:02I woke up with some very nice reviews.

00:04You know, a lot of months and a lot of work went into this album.

00:07And I think as a team we're also really celebrating this moment together.

00:10So I think the show tonight will also be a bit of a celebratory moment.

00:14A big celebration.

00:15So yes, it does feel different.

00:30Well, honestly, this morning I noticed that there's a couple of magazines that really

00:36seem to understand that I want the album to be about club culture and that I wanted to

00:41go back to my essence as a clubber and in my love for techno music.

00:46And it's nice to see that also the more wide and more broad magazines are understanding

00:53this idea.

01:00And I wasn't really expecting everyone to just understand because when we released

01:04some singles, some people were saying that there's not really a big element of surprise

01:09in some of the tracks.

01:10So it is nice to see that after releasing the album as a whole, the concept is coming across

01:16a bit more clearly.

01:23Some people that I didn't hear from in a long time, they reached out to me and they're not

01:27in essence clubbers and they reached out to me saying how surprised that they were with

01:32tracks like Haier and Matière Noire, which are the the breakbeat track and the Amien track.

01:37So I think it was, it's been a good idea to include those tracks on the album for people

01:41to also hear something different than just techno for me.

01:44So that was nice to see.

01:50I think the difference will be that hopefully in the crowd, some people will already start

01:55recognizing the tracks and hopefully maybe some people will start singing along.

01:58That's, that's, that would be really great.

02:04What am I thinking about?

02:05Self-question, not much really.

02:07It can be very random things as well.

02:09Like what I, what I, what I ate during the day.

02:11Sometimes I really zone out and I go a bit on autopilot, but I'm just thinking to be technically

02:17as tight as possible and as correct with my beat matching as possible.

02:22Then I'm just looking around and I watch the, the faces of the people and I watch the interactions.

02:26And that's usually what keeps me very busy during a DJ set.

02:35There is not one song that I will always play, but the crowd pleaser of crowd pleasers of all

02:40crowd pleasers in my sets is a remix that I made together with my husband Enrico for the Age of Love.

02:45That's a, it's such an iconic track, the original mix.

02:48And we remixed it, I think 30 years after the original got released and it still resonates

02:54so well with so many people.

02:55So that will always be a special one.

03:02Well, my parents, they love every single track just as much, but I would say that the favorite

03:07track is probably The Age of Love because it's the one that always gets the biggest crowd reaction.

03:12It's the one that probably they also recognized from when they were younger.

03:16So it's probably The Age of Love remix.

03:23Usually when I make music, I already make it very dance floor approved.

03:28It actually works the opposite way.

03:29I would make a track, say now The Heads That Know got released, but then to have the release

03:34also on Spotify and other streaming platforms, I would make an edit, a shorter edit.

03:39So everything that I released is already very DJ approved, intro, outro, stuff like that.

03:50The last show that I attended that wasn't mine.

03:54Well, I very clearly remember a wonderful festival.

03:58I went to the summer in Portugal, Boom Festival.

04:00It's initially a trance festival, but they also have a techno stage.

04:03And I was playing there back to back with my husband unannounced.

04:06It was incredibly fun.

04:07But we also stayed at the festival and I felt free enough to just be in the crowd and dance in the crowd.

04:14And some people were approaching me and to ask, well, they didn't really ask for a picture even.

04:19They just approached me, they gave me a handshake or a hug.

04:21And it was very liberating to be in the crowd and to dance to music.

04:31I'm lucky also to be surrounded with a lot of artist friends.

04:35So there's always good music around if need be, if that's what I'm looking for.

04:40But this truly liberating feeling of dancing on a dance board together with other people and having that sense of being anonymous.

04:48Don't say it like that.

04:49And it's sometimes very difficult to find.

04:52It's very intense.

04:57You live through all the moments together.

04:59The good ones, the bad, and touring can be very, very intense.

05:02It's very high performative, lots of lights, not a lot of sleep, a lot of triggers to handle.

05:09So it can be challenging, but in the end I'm very happy to wake up next to someone that I love.

05:15So that's nice.

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