Cazzette, a Swedish DJ duo consisting of Sebastian Furrer and Alexander Bjorklund, has found its way into the hearts of music lovers worldwide thanks to a little experimentation, a music video featuring an alien invasion, and a pioneering attitude.
Stepping into the unknown, Cazzette teamed up with Spotify in order to take its music to new heights. After their success with boosting the career of Kendrick Lamar, Spotify realized the influence their site had and wanted to use that to launch the career of new bands all over the world. Having always been a fan of streaming music, Furrer was proud to partner with the streaming titan, saying, “It was really cool. It was something different, of course. Like, we were the first ones to ever put out an album exclusively on a streaming service.”
The only hitch seemed to be when fans voiced their disappointment at not being able to download Cazzette’s music on iTunes.
“Of course it’s pretty sad to hear that people are disappointed,” says Furrer, “But I think we did have to do what we did in a way that we just put it out there to actually make people be a part of Spotify, and just experience it. That’s what we wanted to do, get people to love what we love, the streaming service. We wanted people to be a part of that and see that new world of music. I mean, everything you do when it comes to music and putting it out on different platforms is all a risk, and people are always going to be disappointed in some way, but you can’t make everyone happy. We did our best and now [we put] it on iTunes, so hopefully people think the wait was worth it.”
Getting EDM into the mainstream spotlight has not been an easy task, but Cazzette is not alone. With Daft Punk’s recent return with Random Access Memories, more people are looking at the music format in a whole new way.
“Obviously, people get more excited and everyone has been waiting for new tracks from them for forever,” says Furrer about Daft Punk. “What they did, they just went back to the ‘70s and re-did a little bit of that, and that’s really cool. I think it was necessary for electronic music because it’s been too much the same for a while. It’s always like that, you know. When there’s a certain kind of music that’s big for the moment, someone has to step up the game and make everyone think, ‘Oh, wow! They stepped up and now I have to step up mine.’ It makes everyone want to evolve and improve their sound and their music and their stage productions. That’s how people get better all the time. Daft Punk is a really big hit for everyone now and to follow those steps is hard, but it’s exciting in the same way.”
Taking EDM to a new level may be in the cards for Cazzette, but for right now this dynamic duo is more concerned with their own work and how to get their music out there. “It’s just disturbing to think about the scene, how everything sounds the same,” Furrer admits, “I personally would rather not think about it. I just think, ‘I do what I do. Other people do what they do. If they do it, good. If there are other people that like it, that’s cool. But I just want to do my stuff.’”
With Cazzette’s big single, “Beam Me Up,” causing dance fever everywhere, the DJs are looking forward to tour dates, an album release and getting new music on the scene.
“We’re working on so many tracks right now,” he reveals. “It’s a hectic time for sure.”
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