Can you describe yourself in 1–2 sentences?
I'm a music lover from the west coast of Norway with an ever-growing record collection.
I also have some synths and drum machines, and many more musical ideas in my head than I can let come to life.

What is your relationship to DGS, and what has the platform meant to you?
I've been friends with the founders since before DGS was started, and has always been very important to me, both as a resident and for friendship. Many amazing gigs and countless hours on the dancefloor connecting over music has formed bonds that have kept growing stronger over time.

How would you describe your expression as a DJ/producer today compared to when you first started?
Very different, but still quite a few key drivers in me remain the same. The curiosity for discovering music, the wish to blend seamlessly, and to get people moving to tracks I wanted to show them has always been there, but as I had my first paid gig in the year 2000, it's safe to say it has been a journey of many legs. When I was starting out, I was fascinated by the euro trance wave and everything that came with it, before leaning more towards house in the years to come. The feeling I got from the grooves melting together and one track supporting the next was quite mind-blowing to me, and was something I wanted to recreate - Somehow.

While I had a preference to get the dancefloor moving to this kind of music, I also did blend this with a more open-format approach needed for local residencies, teaching me how to read a floor - which could be particularly important when trying to lure someone hungry for chart hits to dance to something unknown to them. After moving away from anything chart/mainstream-related in the late 00s, I've obviously approached which places to play completely different - while reading a floor remains so important to me, still to this day.

For me, it's about trying to create the best possible moment for my tracks to shine, so the people on the floor can ride the energy waves with me, while I do my best to keep everything in beat and preferably in key. As I always play on-the-fly, I just do my best to know my tracks in and out, so that when I get to share my collection I can do my best to take the listener on a journey with me, as cheesy as it may sound.

Style wise, I've gone through a lot of different stuff over the years, and realised that there is gold in so many (sub)genres, and today I blend (tech/deep/acid/progressive) house, techno, electro, EBM, breakbeat, (progressive/goa/acid) trance, UK hardcore, bleep&bass (the list goes on) and have a collection of 1800+records spanning over the last four decades.

For the production side of things, that has kind of always followed my current DJ inspirations, from trying to make trance in DOS-based FastTracker2 in the late 90s, housier things in Reason in the 00s, to starting to produce things I was "happy with" from 2010 and on after finally learning Ableton Live and slowly building a studio setup with some hardware, which is still a learning curve today. Although I feel that now I know it well enough to harness my creative ideas of the day.

What kind of story or atmosphere did you want to convey with this mix?
This mix is recorded on the fly with an audience at home, the way quite a few of my available mixes are recorded. I struggle to plan stuff and make it real, but if I can capture a mood and just let it flow, sometimes something special comes out.

Which 2–3 tracks from the mix would you like to highlight, and why?

“Beyond - Breathless [Sun Music]” - If I'm asked what I mean when I say "morning track" this might be one of the examples I put on. The mood this one can bring on a good sound system when the sun comes up…

“Dawl - A1 System Outmode” - Dawl is one of my favorite producers in the electro/bleep & bass genre, and he has loads of real and emotional groovers in between his more "functional" ones. This one I've only played out on a few occasions, but seeing how it impacted a packed floor at Kafe Hærverk in Oslo for Elektro Romantik a while back, is something that stuck with me.

You recently released a record on DGS. What was the inspiration behind the release, and how has the response been?

My approach is just to make tracks, and see what comes out, based on how I feel in the moment. Terje is a great A&R so he actually picked tracks spanning over a number of years, and we went back and forth a little bit to make sure there was a good balance between track variation and cohesiveness, fitting for DGS.

The response has been really good, and it's ended up in the bags of the likes of Enzo Siragusa and Junki Inoue so I'm really happy. I also had the pleasure of doing my first live-set on a boat trip for DGS this summer, and could see the response first-hand when performing some of them, which is such an amazing feeling.

There is a lot of talk about negative trends in the underground scene and how everything was better before. What positive trends to you see in the club scene and underground right now?
I really like the fact that some party series are now experimenting with ways of getting people to connect more with music and each other again. I highly welcome trends of moving away from a party scene with a sea of phones and little-to-no dancing to something giving freedom and getting lost in music - while the lighting comes from the venue's lights, not the camera light of someone oblivious to the fact that it takes away from the dancefloor experience for the others.

That being said, I'm not sure a complete phone/camera ban is the way to go, as a video might be good for promotion. But I am very positive to the fact that there is more focus towards telling people to think about others, so everyone can enjoy the party together as far as possible.

Are there any new artists or talents you think people should keep an eye on?
Tom Carruthers! Sick bleep inspired productions sounding old and new at the same time.
And perhaps not so new, but check out everything under the Mood Waves and Tanzform umbrellas by DJ Tjizza, Shaque and the gang, there is so much good stuff cooking there.