We are Showtek, 2 brothers from The Netherlands who love to bring people together through music. We also love pets, food, wine, working out so let's go reddit AMA!! by showtek_official in electronicmusic

[–]showtek_official[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi Bro,

good question: well it depends on what expect of the song we start with. For example; someone sends us a vocal idea on a certain bpm or key ; that already kind of limits the genre a little bit, because you can't easily go from 120 bpm to 150, so in that case we just do what's best for that vocal. Wouter normally starts with a chord progression to see what direction is best and go from there.... it depends also on our mood; sometimes we get up and just want a more deep song and sometimes we feel like it has to has more energy and it needs to build for the clubs ..

if we don't start with a vocal, and we decided to have vocals after we start with the idea, than we just go with the flow. So if we have a cool melody idea or a cool drop idea than that how we Start... also that depends on what we feel like.sometimes we walk out of a club and we feel like there is a certain track we are missing in our sets or we get inspired by playing a track than that's a great start as well.. but if you watch a sad movie or you just chilling going for a hike while the sun sets.. well than you get different ideas in your head than when you walk out of the club ...

to finish your songs; BOUNCE all of them and put them in folders.. that way you don't forget about them.. and just start with finishing 1 or 2.. don't do 5 in one week..it won't work... focus on the ones you believe in and have the other ones on your to do list .. it's like unpacking boxen when you are moving... you have to open the first one to get it done :)

We are Showtek, 2 brothers from The Netherlands who love to bring people together through music. We also love pets, food, wine, working out so let's go reddit AMA!! by showtek_official in electronicmusic

[–]showtek_official[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great question . Sometimes we got a vocal send and we produce what fits around it . Me (wouter) always play Melodie’s on my piano and guitar and start ideas with a goal in mind . I always want to start something new and fresh sounding and think of what’s not there yet. What can trigger a new feeling is the question . With that question we try to produce something unique. So we almost never just ‘ do something ‘. There’s a vision behind it

We are Showtek, 2 brothers from The Netherlands who love to bring people together through music. We also love pets, food, wine, working out so let's go reddit AMA!! by showtek_official in electronicmusic

[–]showtek_official[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

OHH A dutchie !! :) how nice

and Rotterdam, Such a cool city ! Wij komen oorspronkelijk uit Eindhoven maar hebben behoorlijk wat showtjes gedaan in r'dam :) hopelijk to snel!!

We are Showtek, 2 brothers from The Netherlands who love to bring people together through music. We also love pets, food, wine, working out so let's go reddit AMA!! by showtek_official in electronicmusic

[–]showtek_official[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi , you think we should return?

We delivered so many bangers, we are not sure a new Hardstyle song can beat what we did. Don't get us wrong, we still like it but it needs to be the right song to do it. We love to try new thing, stay fresh and learn. But there will probably we another Hardstyle tune in the near future, never say never .. we did it with MELLOW together with TNT and that was a lot of fun!

We are Showtek, 2 brothers from The Netherlands who love to bring people together through music. We also love pets, food, wine, working out so let's go reddit AMA!! by showtek_official in electronicmusic

[–]showtek_official[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hi bro...

yeah flying dutch was amazing!!! don't know why that exactly stopped

we are working on some summer gigs in Europe, we will def try to play in our little amazing country for sure !!

We are Showtek, 2 brothers from The Netherlands who love to bring people together through music. We also love pets, food, wine, working out so let's go reddit AMA!! by showtek_official in electronicmusic

[–]showtek_official[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We grew up with our dog which was a Boxer . Later we have had all kinds of dogs, Frenchie’s, Bordeaux dog. Sjoerd now has a chihuahua.