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Martin Jensen on Music Innovation, Industry Shifts, and the Power of Resilience
Martin Jensen, the internationally acclaimed DJ and producer, joined The DJ Sessions to talk music, life on tour, and the shifting dynamics of the music industry. From his humble beginnings in a bedroom studio to topping global charts, Martin’s journey is one of creative reinvention and perseverance.
Coming off the challenges of COVID-19, which significantly affected his streaming numbers and touring income, Martin opened up about rebuilding momentum. He’s currently working on a full EP and considering an album for next year — with some unexpected collaborations possibly in the pipeline.
Martin has re-launched his independent label, aiming to provide new talent with the platform and support he wished he had. He stresses the importance of consistency and passion when building a label, reflecting on his own pause during the pandemic due to financial strain.
One of the most compelling parts of the conversation was his insight into AI and its disruptive potential in music production. His stance? Embrace the technology or risk being left behind.
Whether it’s working through burnout, dealing with failed collabs, or navigating an industry saturated with streaming content, Martin offers unfiltered wisdom for anyone chasing success in today’s music world.
Martin Jensen on the Virtual Session presented by The DJ Sessions 9/02/24
About Martin Jensen –
The megahit “Solo Dance” catapulted Martin Jensen to the international charts. The single reached a position as no. 25 on Spotify’s Global Top 50 chart, to no. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, and the Top 20 in 17 countries. At its peak, the track had over 1 million daily streams. The single has been certified platinum in countries like Canada, France, and Germany, 2x platinum in Italy and the UK, 3x platinum in Denmark, 4x platinum in Norway, and 8x platinum in Sweden.
The combination of Martin Jensen’s spectacular live shows, and his talent to create international hits was recognized by the world’s biggest club music magazine, DJ Mag, where he entered the annual top 100 DJ ranking. He first appeared on the list in 2016 as number 83, in 2017 he was number 70, in 2018 number 54, and in 2019 he reached his highest position so far as number 45.
Martin Jensen has released music with some of the biggest artists on the planet, such as Rita Ora, Ava Max, Sigala, Katy Perry, Cardi B, Jason Derulo, James Arthur, Timmy Trumpet, and Ed Sheeran. Martin’s songs has surpassed 3 billion streams in total on Spotify.
His popularity has led to performances at the world’s biggest electronic festivals and clubs such as Tomorrowland, Belgium and Ushuaïa, Ibiza. With big international shows about to be announced, as well as a bunch of a-list collabs on upcoming releases, 2024 looks like another big year for the Danish superstar.
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Transcript
Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the DJ Session, presents the Virtual Sessions. I’m your host, Darran, and right now I’m sitting in the virtual studios in Seattle, Washington, and coming in all the way from the other half around halfway around the world from Copenhagen. We have Martin Jensen here today on the show.
Martin, how’s it going?
It’s going very well, Darran. Thank you. Awesome. For having me today. Absolutely. And wanna give a shout out to all those viewers watching on Martin Jensen TV as well, and those tuning in on Instagram. Thanks for the shout out, Martin. Pleasure to have you today. No worries. We’re gonna have some fun.
Um, got you here.
It looks like you’re in a spaceship right now. Where are you at? It’s just in my home studio actually. Oh, your home studio? Uh, it’s my bedroom studio. Like I said, those chairs look like something outta like Elon, one of Elon Musk’s spaceships or something like, uh, you’re actually sitting super well, and I actually believe in escaping chairs, but is, but, uh, I had a very nice deal with, uh, razor.
I don’t have any longer, so, um.
Well, I, I have a deal with Mackey, but I’m not gonna take my shirt off, you know?
So, um, you recently just hit 4 million monthly listeners on Spotify, correct. Uh, was that, was that a month ago now? It’s probably 5 million, right? Uh, no, it’s, it is actually you, you get it to sound very super nice, but I have actually never been this low since it started in 2016. So, um, COVID have striked pretty hard for me.
So, but for the first time in a long time, the numbers have start going up again because they start releasing a lot more music. And that is also, I believe, why we are talking now.
’cause new music is coming out and. I’m finishing a full EP at the minute with, uh, six new tracks, a completely different lane, what I’ve done so far and how many mistakes have you made, and how many of them have been favorite?
That is very nice to link it into that one, I must say. Um, so, uh, favorite mistake is my latest single, I just have out on the streets now. Mm-hmm. Uh, together with a guy called ko, a tennis guy, and then Vic Victoria. Nadine, uh, sweet. So sorry. And a region singer and, um, yeah, it’s just of the old catchman melody and I, I really like it.
I really, I really dig that tune and it’s going super well in China and the rest of the world as, as well. We just got the radio ads added in the States as well. Okay. So I’m really pleased with that.
And are you able, are you, are you have an upcoming tour coming up or anything? Are you, you playing? I know you were just, uh.
You were just in the Tomorrowland? Not, that was a while. I guess that was a while ago. I just got back from Berlin. I was at Rave the Planet a few weeks back. Oh, nice. Um, that was insane. I’ve never, I was on the, the, uh, Riverside Studios, um, had a, had a truck bus, super bus truck double decker with like, I mean, have you been to Rave, have you been to Rave Planet before or Flow Freight?
Nope. Oh my gosh. 300,000 people. Eight hours of just driving around on these mega. Like semi trailer party things with the nightclub sound systems on. It was just amazing. I haven’t heard about it. Yeah, it’s, uh, it, it just started up, this was its third year running. Uh, it used to be called Love Parade. Oh, I know that one.
Yeah. So Love Parade at a Dr. Ma Mote. Dr. Mote. He came back and then now it’s called Rave the Planet. It was just phenomenal. What’s, what’s your most difficult thing you have to deal with when you’re on tour, when you’re out there going around the world? Mm. So I would say sleep. Sleep. Yeah. Sleep, rain, rain never gets in the way.
Uh, no screw rain, rain doesn’t matter really. Um, modest sleep. This, like, this tough for me because, uh, you just have to play good enough music to get people staying in the rain. Yeah. And, and do you sometimes get fed up with playing and making music and how, how do you deal with that when you’re on tour?
Do you ever have a burnout moment like, oh, I just don’t want to get up today, or what, what gets you over that hump? I’m really doing a lot of sessions and, um, writing camps and stuff like that. Okay. So, uh, not long time ago, I think I’ve done four writing camps this summer. I. Uh, over a week of a period of each.
So it’s been really amazing and I have so much new music. 📍 It’s insane. So, as I said, that will become a EP very soon. And then I’m actually also looking into releasing an album, and then I’m looking into releasing another ep. Uh, but that’s gonna be in the summertime next year. And are you allowed to let us know or let our DJ Sessions fans know, or your fans know any of the A-list collaborations?
You’re any of the people you’re working with right now, or is that all still NBA? You know what, so I have been working with more or less every single one of, no, not every single one of them, but I’ve been working with a lot of the aas, um, and I’ve been working with way more than I have released with, because then you’re making a trek with.
Yada yada. And, uh, it’s gonna be, uh, it’s gonna be amazing. The management is like, wow, this is fucking great. The record label’s like, yeah, let’s just fly. And then at the point where you have to upload the track, certainly the management from the yada yada artist, it’s just out, oh, we can do the right now because we have something else to do.
So I’ve been disappointed so incredibly many times. So I really don’t wanna sit and think about. Who could possibly be on, who could not be on, and who will actually be on it? Yeah.
You know, it’s, uh, are you, are you working, do you have your own label or do you release on your own label, or do you Uh, so I recent, I recently just opened my own label again.
So I opened my label for the very first time in 2020. Just, uh, just before COVID. Just before COVID, I opened my label. But I was very certain that when I’m opening my own label, I want to have a continuing flowing of release of music. 📍 So I don’t want to just open a label and then release. Five, 10 singles and then died.
You have seen this so many times and I don’t wanna do that kind of stuff. When I do stuff. I do it fully in and, um, it was the touring that was founding the label. And 20 19, 18, whatever, 2020, it was like, uh, how it looked in my two calendar. Like I could open 10 record labels, whether the touring I did, because it could fund it all.
Mm-hmm. Uh, just to like give new DDAs, give new talents, the opportunity to release music and actually to be seen. And actually I would play the tracks in my sets and stuff like that. Uh, but getting from. Uh, getting from, you know, having a good amount of money for touring. Like, let’s be real, you’re making good, good amount of money when you’re touring 120 shows a year.
Wow. To do zero shows with no income whatsoever. Then I didn’t wanna do the label because I couldn’t fund the label. I couldn’t like, push the money into the singles after we released to do the artworks, to do the visuals, to do the music videos, to do yada, yada, all this stuff. And so I pulled. I pulled back, so it’s like, oh, nothing is going out.
But recently, uh, with my management, we just decided to open the label again. And, uh, we haven’t released anything yet, but it’s getting there to like having. A good amount of tracks. And if somebody’s sitting out there with some tracks and stuff like that, they can always send the track to me and say, Hey, could it be something for the label?
That was gonna be my next question is, are you doing open submissions, uh, or is it just your own internal productions? Because we’ve toyed over here. I’ve, I, I keep talking about this on the DJ sessions over and over again. We’ve thought about launching our own label here at the DJ sessions. Yeah. And the question is, is, okay, well.
Do we do open submissions? Do we only work with our own producers? Do we only do internals? You know, and, and who’s gonna listen to all these tracks when they do start coming through the door? 📍 You know, how do you, how do you, and then, you know, how do you decide what, what’s our genre gonna be? What’s our sound gonna be like?
You know, what are we gonna want to be known for if we start a label and then, you know, have that come out and are we gonna just open it up to all different genres? I mean, our website is, is definitely positioned. It’s. A little trip, something on the backend. I’ve been wanting to release here for the longest time, um, to, it’s basically an online music store, the backend, like I had it built into the site.
It’s really awesome. Yeah, I just, I guess I haven’t activated that feature yet.
So when you’re working, you’re doing these writing camps, um, you said you’ve done four of them already this year. Is that an online or in person? No, this summer. Oh, just this summer. Just this summer. This summer? Yeah. Okay. And how long are those classes?
How long did those go for? So we, we normally start 10, 11 in the morning and then we go on till five, eight. Depends of the mood, depends of the studios. Like what are they up for? Like some, I went to Amsterdam for MA Studios when I one day went to riding camp with them and the studio closed down at, uh, I think it was five or six, and then we had to get out.
But when I did them here in Denmark, we were going to 2:00 AM So. Wow. It depends. And is this, does, does each student, I mean, are you working with students? I take this, correct? Yeah. It’s like you’re teaching or No, no, this is a complete, this writing camp’s for me. So this Oh, writing camp’s for you. Oh. Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay.
Wow. So this is actually for. Me like. Okay. So it is, uh, with a, like a one or two engineers, one or two songwriters and one or two singers. Depends on how the mood is and how we do it. Okay. Okay. Okay. Let’s see. I’m not all versed in the music industry like, like I should be, right? Yeah. So, you know, going back to the label thing, what’s the most important thing that labels should be doing for their artists?
And, and on the whole, do you see that they’re doing a good job at that? No. What, what aren’t they doing? They’re not doing a good job. They’re really not. So, um, the thing is, I understand the labels at the minute, but the issue is, the issue is like there’s probably release what, 50,000 tracks every Friday at least.
Uh, probably more so understand like how, how should they take, okay, this track Wein invest 100,000 euro into. Oh, it didn’t get any place. Buy, buy money. Like it’s, it’s like buying an NFT, you know? Uh, so when you’re getting a big artist, uh, you get big numbers. Um, me as an example, like they can be assured that at least the investment will come back more or less.
Depends on how much we spend. But let’s say one of your students, whatever, I don’t know what you have. So it’s like DJ keyboard, you want to release a track and, uh, the track is probably the best. In the world, uh, but nobody listens to it, and you invested tons of money into it, the money’s lost. So I kind of get the labels like, okay, we don’t really want to, you know, take all in and, and nowadays, uh, I, I don’t know the names of the ai, but you can legit get them to write the lyrics, single the lyrics, produce the track, copyright free.
Why should they give half of the public pub uh, publishing half of the royalties to me when they can get this cable to earn all the money? I understand it because it’s playlist. Go in and ask like the viewers right now. So like, how many of you guys actually know the name, the artist name of the tracks you’re listening to right now on your Spotify playlist?
If it’s not, uh, Charlie X six, if it’s not, uh, Bruno MAs. If it’s not, uh, David Cueta. If it’s not TJ Snake, you know, nobody knows. Yeah.
I mean, um, it is interesting you bring up the topic of AI and, and what is your take on AI in the, in the, in coming, looking at it from a music perspective? Do you see it being a disruption to the industry or a an a add-on?
Yeah, but I think, I think we have to go, now I’m the young generation in this kind of, uh, for what I’m like gonna mention now, so we can go back and say like, when the computer came. So now suddenly you could get the Ableton, you can get logic, you can get fl, you can whatever you fucking want. You can produce music like with a finger snip.
You can even do in garage band. Some tracks even produced in that one as actually uploaded and been great tracks. Yeah. Yeah. That thing from the old school, the old people. Sorry. Uh, but hey, I’m one of those old people now. I turned 50 last weekend. Yep. Oh, I’m so sorry. You look younger. Thank you. No, but like, they were swearing to hell for like getting these programs when they were like, start doing, everybody could start doing course, not even, they didn’t have to play.
They can just like type them in, in, in uh, uh, what do you call it? I forgot the name in English now. Um, where you actually just draw the keys. You draw the notes. Uhhuh sequence. Uh, you don’t even have to to play the keys. Yeah, exactly. You don’t even have to play the keys. Yep. Uh, that was cheating.
Everything is cheating. But no, I, I remember being in, uh, seventh grade choir and I, the music teacher, the school, he, I mean, obviously this is in the eighties. He goes, I could hear the difference between a synthesized drum and a real drum. And he was kind of completely antis, synthesization, uh, or electronic music at that point.
But now with it getting so, you know, over 34 Oh, you can’t hear the difference. You can’t hear the difference. I don’t think it’s possible a person could. Yeah, you couldn’t, you couldn’t at all. Um, you know, but the, but the case, I want to say with the ai, I, I was coming to that part. I’m sorry, I’m interrupting Darran.
But the thing is like, so either you can be a mad and an old person and like, oh, you can hear us AI now, or you can just jump on it. Hmm. And just use it because AI would be better and will be better than any of us because it will legit take the whole freaking Max Martin, the whole back catalog he have ever made, and write the best freaking song ever written.
In less than one second, you know, in less than one second. Yeah. And, and you can e you can even, you can either take it or you can be a dinosaur and die. Yeah. That, that, that’s my take on ai. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I’ve not been confident myself yet to actually using AI in it and releasing a track produced by ai.
I’m not there yet, but, um, personally I’m using AI for everything else in my life. Like everything. Yeah, no, I mean I just started getting into a few of them ’cause um, you know, we like to, I like to transcode my shows so that way when people go to our website, they can translate it into like 50 different languages.
And just using AI to do something like that and not have to pay somebody, it’s not that I’m not anti paying somebody, you know, I’m against paying somebody or human being to do this job, these tasks, but it just simplifies things so much easier. It makes things so much easier. Um, no, but you have a business running, why should you pay somebody?
That AI can actually take over. And then, and then, so. It will be the exact same thing as when the computer came. It was like, oh, but then we don’t need a drama. No, but then your drama need to learn to produce and actually do it and, and you see now what you can get video generating now with the runway rate and people are like, oh yeah, but then, but then you don’t need animators any longer.
No. Your animator just need to use runway faster than you are. And then you’re good. Everyone have a phone nowadays, so everyone, you could film something right. And it’s like, oh yeah, but like, uh, then you cannot use a professional, uh, videographer because you have a phone. No, but you still pay a professional one.
So it just depends how you master your craft to use AI because the world would still do it anyway. Yeah. And it’s funny you bring up the fact the phone, the videographer. ’cause that kinda leads me right into another topic I wanted to talk with you about.
What is your take about seeing the app? Well, um, when did, when did you, when did you start your career?
Um, professionally 2015. 15. Okay. So you’ve been around since the advent of the cell phone and, and seeing it in the, in the, in the, in the marketplace. So I came across a story recently where people, the, the band, they had their main song they were playing, but no, they weren’t feeling the audience because everyone was.
Definitely, you know, and it’s like you’re supposed to be watching the concert, not doing this and Yeah. You know, recently when I was in Berlin, the nightclubs there, they’ll put stickers over your, over your phone. Yeah. And, um, it’s kinda like, yeah, well if you want photos, go get a photo by our professional photographer that we have running around the club, or you want video, but we want you to have this enjoyed experience.
We had a party here called No Signal, a few of ’em, and it was like you had to leave your cell phone to the door. Um, and I know that there’s some clubs in the.
And, and out that are out there, they put ’em in these magnetic sealed bags. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Um, and then you could take it out once you get to the bar.
You could undo it and take it out and put it back in the bag, but you couldn’t go into the venue area. Um, and what’s your take on that, like having the cell phone experience? Or, or, or do you feel that it takes away from your performance in any way, shape, or form? So, um, there’s a few takes on that one. So, uh, first of all, uh, if people don’t have your phone, uh, they, they don’t have the phone, I can film it.
There’s like, the concert didn’t happen, right? So, uh, for me personally, when people are filming me, uh, it is free magazine. So if people don’t film it, then no marketing, you know? Um, and then I would say another thing and that, that, that, that would probably, uh, would take it a little bit apart. ’cause if the whole crowd is filming what you’re doing.
And no one else is standing and listening to the music. Uh, first of all, you’re having a freaking amazing track and you should be very pleased with that. Uh, second, uh, you are not a good enough performer,
okay? If you’re a good enough performer, you could take people away the phone and just be there. If you can bring as much energy into the crowd, so people start forgetting about, Hey, we have to film this and just go on with bangers, bangers, bangers, your own, mix them mashups, bootlegs, whatever. If you can do that, then you’re doing a craft.
If you can’t, yeah, you could be ashamed over you didn’t feel the crowd, but hey, you at least get something out of it on social media. But. If you’re good enough, you can get people actually to enjoy the party and actually be there to listen to the music. That is, that is, that is my point of view on it. I,
I think I saw something recently, uh, two different videos online.
One I think was bad Boy Bill. And he was getting ready right in the middle of his drop, and somebody took their phone and got thrown on the stage, hit the, hit the button almost like perfectly and stopped the whole show with the phone, you know? And then, uh, there was somebody else, they were in the crowd.
I think somebody grabbed their phone and threw it on the stage and there was like a hip hop artist or some big, big artist, and they picked the phone up on the stage and just went, went back into the audience. Yes, that phone was gone, you know? Um, have, have you ever had something like that happen where you’ve had some.
Some major screw up happened that you had to re recover from during a, a major show? 📍 Mm. Not by myself. I had a mixer going out twice at a, the same show. I just died and then woke up again and died. Yeah, that was pretty annoying. But that, that’s, that’s it. I’ve not really have anything. Uh, no, I, I wouldn’t say no.
No, not, not that that comes to mind. Well, that’s fingers crossed, right? Yeah, fingers crossed. So, so how is, oh, I thought somebody was knocking on your door. That was you. Yeah, exactly. Knocking wood, right? Gotcha.
How often do you get to actually sit and read the news? I was on your Instagram the other day, and I saw you actually took some time.
You were reading the newspaper. Is that like a, a pastime hobby of yours or was it just a candid photo? That one was just a photo, but I’m actually, I’m actually watching the news every night. Um, from, uh, I’m all always watching the news. I like to know what’s happening outside in the world. Yeah. What’s your favorite go-to source for news?
Like, oh, the Danish news. Danish news. Danish News. Danish News. Okay. Awesome. Not, not, not any international ones. And, and when you’re not entertaining others, what, what do you do to entertain yourself? Entertain myself? Yeah. That’s a whole nother question. Uh, I don’t think we can bring that on this channel, can we?
No, you can if you want. It’s on your channel too, so. Oh, shit. Okay. Um, what do I actually do? What do I do? I like watching. What the fuck do I do? I don’t know. I don’t really have any much spare time alone. I dunno. I will. I go to the sauna. I go to the sauna. I go to the sauna very often. Yes. All right. There you go.
Go to the sauna. Chill. Yeah. Watch the news. Exactly. Training, running. Go to the sauna, get some lunch, take a nap. Wake up, do some work. 📍 That’s basically my everyday. It’s very nice. Now, wait, isn’t Copenhagen known for its ski resorts? Am I right on that? You’re gonna be very sad if you’re coming to Coha for ski.
Very sad. I need to get out more. I need more stamps in my passport. That’s one of my new things to do. I’ll let Yeah, you, you gonna be very disappointed. I promise you. If somebody were to write a biography about you, what, what do you think the title should be? Mm, we can ask. We can go for it. Here we go. I actually dunno.
Let’s, let’s, let’s do it. Let’s do it right now. We’ll pull it up. I got Are you, are you working on it? Who’s the fastest? Are you working on it? Yeah, I’m working on it right now. Oh God. A Jenen DJ bio title. Oh,
this is the first. Uh, suitable title for Martin Jenssen’s DJ biography. Could be Martin Jensen, the Danish DJ Refining Global Dance Floor. So, okay. Thanks Chad. GBT No, no, I, I can’t get that to work on my end for whatever reason. You get the fireworks, you get the heart emoji. That’s amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I, I, I totally agree with chat tipt right now. Hmm. This title emphasizes his nationality, his role as a dj, and his impact on the global music scene. Okay. Hey, I’m a publisher now, right? We’re gonna go publish this book. Okay. Oh, that, that sounds even better than what I have.
Is there anything else you’d like to let our DJ Sessions fans know before we let you go?
Um, yeah, I think it’s a bit like it’s a common session session because I can’t see it on what I’m in now. Uh, I have them on my chat end if we want to go ahead and here, let’s, let’s watch this may maybe ’cause I did it full screen. Maybe I got it. Ah, I got it there. Uh, so sorry I made full screen. Um, lemme get some shout outs to some people.
No, we’ll just see if somebody texted, uh, and what the text. So guys, I’m really happy. Yeah, so there’s people that said I should stream more often. I know I really loved, I would love to, but, um, yeah, you, you actually see the DD booth is right behind me and I used to stream from it as well, uh, in COVID times.
Um, now, so like I would just say like if you’re sitting out there and you really wanna become a dj, um, I believe it’s harder now than ever. I. Because, um, everyone can legit make a trek from ai. So you have to stand out and, um. If you stand out enough, then you will be coming. One of the best ideas in the world.
That’s, that’s my best thing to say at the minute. It’s so funny. It happens quite frequently on the show. You don’t know the questions. I did not send you these questions in advance. No. My question I was just gonna ask you was, is there something you’d like to say in new and up and coming producers to watch out for when it comes to making their career successful?
It’s not my first interview.
God, I was just like, I, let me just try to answer some of the comments because I actually saw ’em now. Uh, somebody won a sauna. A stream. Yeah. Sauna Streams. I Oh, saw an Android. I remember. I actually remember these guys. And Tim Doland. I will see you, you in the chat too. Uh, black Swan is there too. Like these are my old, uh, these are my old guys I used to stream to.
I actually remember that and talk. Ah, yeah, same. Wow, that’s great. That’s actually really great. Um, no, I’m not gonna do any more Danish music guys. I’m so sorry. Like I, I did a Danish track on Danish, um, but. Uh, yeah, no, just, no, I’m not gonna do that anymore. I’m, I’m back to focus on, on like, the world and that, that’s the thing I’ve always done.
Like, since I started professionally, I didn’t go from local, I just went for the internationally ones. Um, and I’ve been here now for almost 10 years, so I believe something is done. Okay. Awesome. Well, you know, gotta check out that song. Favorite Mistakes Out There Now go get it. Go listen to it, download it, add to more of those 4 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
Congratulations on that, Martin. Appreciate it. Where’s the best place people can find out information about you? Yeah,
I wish I was more present on social medias. Um, I really wish, but, um, it’s because I’m re, I’m redoing a lot of stuff. I’m rebranding a lot of stuff right now, and I need to figure out a way where I.
Well, I can like express myself better, kind of, uh, while daily stuff’s not gonna be become boring stuff, which is also another thing for DDAs nowadays. What are you gonna post? Like, oh, I’m driving in my car now, now I’m making breakfast, now I’m making lunch. It’s, it’s so much things you have to do. You have to compare with tiktoks, you have to compare with YouTubers.
That’s, that’s a thing. That that’s a thing. That’s a, apparently I saw a festival the other day that had YouTubers on the line. I was like, what the fuck are they gonna do? Are they gonna make a video on stage? I don’t know. It’s weird. Um, so I was, I was very confused that I must say, um, what, what was your question again?
Now you knocked me out. I can’t actually remember what it was. I’m so sorry. Um, but no, where’s the best place, where’s the best place people can find out information about you? That’s true. The best place would be, uh, Instagram. Okay. It would be like I’m posting now that, and I also actually just, uh, posted a very interesting video today on my, uh, on my story today.
You should, you should actually check it out. It’s, it’s very weird, but it’s also weird.
I did my very first workout called EMS, um, where you’re getting a body suit on where it’s like electricity in it, and then there’s electricity in your body and you train. That is really fucked up. What you’re doing a 90 minutes workout in 20 minutes.
This is amazing. You guys should try it. And if you hate somebody, give a gift card to it because it hurts a lot. Okay, well, oh, I see you. Okay. Sometimes you need to try new things. What is, what’s going on here? Now that party suit is full of electricity. Hang on a second here. Let’s, let’s, let’s, let’s, let’s screen share this right now.
We’re gonna screen share. This, this, hang on. We gotta, we gotta re re go back in the video. Hang on here. Before I, before I screen share. Oh my God. What are you doing? Hang on. There we go. There we go. So you’re doing this full body workout thingy? Um, yeah. Yeah. It’s, it’s, it’s also a very sexy suit, I must say.
Hey, that’s, uh, the commercial for the channel. Woo. Yeah. Um, oh, I’m big now. Oh, I’m,
no, that, that was an interesting workout. That, that really was. Is it, is it like one of those, uh, the shock him suits? Like it like. Pulsates. And is that what that suit does? Uh, they just, they, they just give you electricity. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s like, it’s just power into your muscles. So every you, you cramp kind of Yeah.
But then you have to work against it. Um, and that is very, very interesting. Wow. That, that would be the word for me. That’s very interesting. Almost like something you’d wear if you were in virtual reality or something. Like, like, like the movie Ready Player one, where you’re gonna not like that. Nope, nope, nope.
No, I don’t think so. You would wear that? I have. I, and even in weird German, um, sex games, I wouldn’t wear it either. Like, that’s weird. Nice.
Speaking of virtual reality, we’re gonna wrap up here, but have you done anything in VR or looking to do anything in vr? No, no. Good talk. Virtual. Nope. No, I’ve, no, I’ve not, I have not.
No, I have not. I, no, no. Yeah. I think it has still a little ways to go. Um, yeah. So, no. Like if some DJs have done it and it don’t, I don’t really believe it’s work. Uh, and yeah, I dunno. No, not for me. Not yet. I ne never say never, but, uh, for me. So Fortnite comes to you and knocking on the door after this interview, you’re gonna say, nah, nah, I’m cool.
I’m not gonna do it. No, but like, depends, you know? I, I’m not gonna make my own world to do it, that’s for sure. And then I’ve, I’ve not really understood, uh, Maida yet, and I should probably get started on it. I’m really aware of that. But, um, yeah, it’s, uh, it’s not my thing yet. Awesome, Martin.
Well thank you for coming on the DJ sessions.
It was a pleasure to have you again, that Instagram is right down there. Dj. I love you. Martin Jensen at Instagram. Go check him out. Yeah, check out. Also favorite mistakes coming out now. Alright, on that note though, uh, we are gonna say goodbye. Thank you for coming in, Martin, it was a pleasure having you.
We’ll follow back up with you here in the future. Are you gonna be at a DE this year? Uh, I am gonna play at Sam, uh, Fels, uh, party Thursday. Okay. And that’s gonna hit, I’m just gonna fly in and out. Um, okay. Because I have so much work to do, uh, back home. I have to finish up. So unfortunately I’m only there for the, on Thursday for the show.
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