elektro exclusive interview with Steve Powers

Steve Powers has been tearing down NYC hot spots for a while now, arguably a no brainer on a Thursday or Saturday night at Lavo NYC. Powers is always dropping the freshest and goosebump generating tracks. Chatting with Steve revealed his humble demeanor amidst his rising position in the EDM scene. Along with the interview, SP threw on his new track “Danger” and also gave us a sneak peak listen to other exciting productions in the works. Check out our talk with Steve Powers and his track “Danger."

How did your residency at Light Group in Vegas come about?

Steve: It’s been in talks for a long time and they basically told me from day one, and I said really? They said with our partners Circus Olay with a lot of people in talks are you interested? And I was like man if its like this then we really got to think about it. And once that was done and I saw everything was in the works and it was really happening I was like man I really need to go for it and it was insane because this was the official grand opening weekend for Memorial Day.

Tell us about The Daylight show.

Steve: Daylight is more like the dancers on the box type of thing because it’s also 100 degrees out there but they do stuff on stage it’s all covered. But the light show is insane because they always have something. You walk in and visually no matter where you are you see something going on. They have this one show where they bring this stripper pole out from the sky and it’s just floating in the middle of the air and then all of a sudden these 10 Samoan guys are carrying this body that looks like it’s dead and then it like touches the pole and she comes to life and she’s spinning in the air like crazy stuff.

You have been playing with the best pretty much for a while now, how do you think that benefited you?

Steve: Well there are a lot of things. I’ve always been a really confident dude I never really cared who I was playing with in a sense of like there are guys who some get a little timid around some of these big named dudes but when you’re play live its your show when you are on, who cares who is coming on next. A lot of these guys told me to do the best you can and who cares who’s coming on before or after. You just got to go on and kill it. There is a way to do it. When you open for somebody big or you are closing, there are unspoken rules.

Besides your tracks, what else have you been dropping in your sets?

Steve: There are a lot of dudes that people are playing but haven’t really blown up in the sense of more commercially but that’s okay. There is Albo Ramos I like a lot of his tracks. I like a lot of the Spanish stuff because it’s a lot more rhythmic and beat driven and as cool as some of the big EDM sounds are, when you play a lot of that all night it just sounds like noise after a while so I try to keep as many real musical elements in all the tracks I play because it gets to me.

Tell us about "Danger," and what else can we expect this summer from you.

Steve: Every time you are making a track there is always that moment that you get excited and you are like oh shit and everyone else in the studio is like this is good and then you work on that and that was the one that I was playing a lot and I found a way to work it in my sets well and you know everyone has that one track that is the big hard smash the room type track and that kind of set the tone because then I knew I had that one hard track that I can build everything else around. I’m working on the album there are a lot of tracks not that they are similar but I am noticing a pattern with this album this big long build ups but then a drop that really pays off that’s really where I am trying to go with it.