1.Growing Up

Growing up in the UK I was surrounded by music – my brother was a DJ as were many of my male friends in school. We were all obsessed with music and the club scene. We used to host our dance parties just so we could spin at them. A lot of us have gone on to do cool things in music and the industry, including a guy called Eats Everything, who was actually the first person to introduce to me to a set of decks around the age of 14. I went on to professionally running large-scale events in the UK and Ibiza to eventually letting my passion take centre stage and made the switch into professionally DJing.

2.Inspirations

Daft Punk were a big inspiration when I first started playing – I remember hearing ‘Around The World’ for the first time seeing them live at a festival and it being a turning point in my life that got me hooked into dance music. I went out and bought their album immediately! I can’t say I’m really inspired by one particular act – lots of other acts inspire me for different reasons and different things. Whether it be sounds, mixing styles [or] performance, I like to take a bit of inspiration from lots of different places.

3.Your Crew

I’m lucky to be surrounded by and work with the best crew. My manager Jon Hanlon has been there since near the start of my professional career; we have been building to something we both set our sights on. I won’t pretend it’s been easy and I’m still a way off where I want to be, but we are incredibly focused and we work hard as a team. There is a lot to come from me still but I am also very proud of where I am at right now and what I have achieved – it’s been quite the journey.

4.The Music You Make And Play

I am playing a lot more trap in my sets at the moment, and my production style, although it has been somewhat varied, is now starting to head towards electro/trap – I guess the bridging sound between EDM and trap; maybe I need to coin my own word for it? ‘Electrap’ perhaps [laughs]. My live sets have always been genre-crossing high-energy; I play a mix of electro, trap, progressive and house.

5.Music, Right Here, Right Now

It’s an interesting time in the scene at the moment. There has been a big musical shift, especially in the US, and artists have been diversifying their sound and styles. This happens all the time in music over the years, though trends come and go of what’s hot, and now, you just need to move with it and adapt to your surroundings whilst staying true to what you love.

Helena Legend playsThe Argyle, with Minx and Glover, on Saturday May 14.

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