Eric Prydz: We're bringing our 'A game' to Belsonic
Dance music legend Eric Prydz has told Cool FM he plans to bring his ‘A game’ when he performs in Belfast this summer.
Last updated 5th Feb 2018
The Swedish DJ and producer will perform his live stage show HOLO in Ormeau Park on June, 30.
The former Swedish House Mafia member was cagey about the detail but promised a mind-blowing, futuristic stage production that compliments rather than compromises his music:
“I don’t really want to give that much away about HOLO," he said.
“As many of you guys know, we tend to put on an epic show every now and again, the last time we did it was in Victoria Park in London last summer.
“HOLO is another show that we do that is a bit more modern, more tour-able than EPIC.”
He told Cool FM’s Neal McClelland: “It’s obviously based around holograms and all the other stuff that we love to do but I really don’t want to give too much away, I want it to be a surprise but we’re super excited for this sow.
“Every time we do put a production show together, it’s always been even since the start when we decided that we want to do something that was as much visual as it was audio.
“It’s that sort of marriage between those two elements, HOLO is exactly that but it’s been years in perfection.
“It’s just a full experience where visual and music meet each other and you’ll have to come to the show to see it.”
Prydz also cleared up the ‘Pjanno/Piano’ uncertainty for our listeners, once and for all:
“I’ll tell you the story behind that…
“Whenever you sit down and you make a new piece of music and you’ve come a little bit along the way and you have to save your project, you have to type in a name and obviously I was in the mood of playing the piano that day so I just typed in piano like a little kid would do.
“But then the product name kind of got stuck to that track and then when it actually came to being released we couldn’t really put any other name on it because in-house like to me and my team that was the name on the track.”
“When it comes to track titles they don’t necessarily have to be something that people get, sometimes it’s like internal jokes or it’s something that means something to me.
“I didn’t really have a problem writing it like that but it’s called Piano.”
Naturally, we couldn’t speak to the superstar dance DJ without mentioning the notorious ‘Call on me’.
The track’s video caused a stir but Prydz remained tight-lipped about the record:
“To me it’s such a long time ago it doesn’t really represent what I do anymore” he said.
When asked what he has in store for the Northern Ireland audience he simply said; “expect the unexpected.” Sounds like dance fans are in for a treat.