Tomorrowland adventure
PM: We are doing the most extended EDM tour in Europe. We have 10 shows including four other festivals, apart from Tomorrowland.
RJ: Shaan will also be performing here. Names that we have dreamt of playing with will be at these shows. For Tomorrowland, we are working on a sound from 2008-9, with a lot of Indian-ness to it. To us, Indian sounds are not only about Bollywood. For example, if you remove the instrumentation from a Bollywood track, the a cappella can’t be classified as Bollywood just because it’s sung in Hindi. For a new track that we are doing with Jetfire from Israel, we sampled a track from Monsoon Wedding, by Sukhwinder Singh. Universal Music gave us a sample, and now it’s a track that Tiesto drops.
PM: It could be any element — vocals, sitar, drum or tabla, depending on the collaboration.

Today’s scene
PM: When we started, the EDM community was sparse in India but today there are so many fests. It is one of the world’s biggest Dance music communities. Every big EDM artiste has played in India. The scene has improved in five years.
RJ: The attention span of kids is much shorter now. There’s so much music coming out, so there’s more competition.
Mumbai’s music landscape
RJ: Mumbai’s crowds have a quality, when it comes to Dance music. We have played all over India, and still prefer Mumbai. Our biggest shows including the one we played with Tiesto, were in Mumbai where 10,000 people showed up.
PM: Mumbai has a great EDM community. When an agency is booking an artiste, Mumbai is the first city they look at, after which they schedule the rest of the dates.

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Favourite Indian musicians.
PM: AR Rahman and Amit Trivedi are great inspiration. Mikey McCleary is doing some great work, I love his project, The Bartenders, they have their take on Bollywood music, and it is not typical.
RJ: Kavita Seth is great. We are currently working on a track with her.