

Nicky Romero: Well, back in the day I made my records in my own bedroom at my parents’ house for the first three to four years, and then I moved to a studio called White Villa.

Same for “Toulouse." When you create something like that, you’re so close to the record that you don’t realize what it means to other people, not to speak about what it means to the industry.ĮDM.com: Talk to us a bit about Instigate Studios. It kinda is a surprise to me-as much as it is probably to you-to see how that record became so iconic. Back in the day, we would never have thought that it would become such an iconic track. I just flew to Stockholm and we were hanging out in the studio. It wasn’t necessarily like, “Hey let’s officially collaborate.” Nicky Romero: “I Could Be The One” started as a track that we made for fun. What's it like to have a generational anthem that people are going to remember forever, and how does Avicii continue to inspire you to this day? Without them, we wouldn’t be able to get a single to certain places, and then without us they wouldn’t have the content that they have right now, so it’s a really great collaboration.ĮDM.com: “I Could Be The One” is reaching its ten-year anniversary. At the same time, we also do singles with Universal and we learn a lot from them-you can have amazing results through collaboration. So I’m happy that Protocol is where it is right now.
