That energy.

It’s about feeling

like you’re flying.

People go out to dance, they want to have a good time.

Symbolized by...

Fist in the air, just pumping.

It’s music for me. It’s my life.

I practice it. I sleep it. It means everything to me.

I consider this the music of today.

The new dance style, it is a big part, no question.

It just stems from, I guess, the first feeling.

People have to respect what dance music is about.

Doesn’t matter if you make rap, if you make hip-hop,

if you make house music,

we all share the same passion.

To your left please.

Something

I’ve been working on during the holidays.

So I’m really excited I can play tonight for the first time.

It’s a really exciting night,

cos I love Glasgow.

I don’t know why,

I always had kind of a special relationship with people here.

This tour is really important to me,

because it’s my first serious UK tour.

Of course I’ve played many, many times in the UK,

but this time it’s like, every day in a concert hall,

only me headlining,

so it’s important.

Do you have a name for this track?

No, it’s not the final name. Right now it’s called Midas Touch.

Very often,

we kind of pick random names at the beginning

and turn it into something.

Like I have a sort of track called like,

Budapest,

London,

like the place where I am, where I make the track.

You alright?

Are you ready? That’s the question.

I’m always ready.

Part of the history of house music,

there was this moment when they were burning the disco records

in stadiums.

And it was the end of disco,

but it was also a very racist act.

They were, in a way, burning black music.

And then, a few guys started

to sample old disco records,

especially B-sides,

and create their own disco records, because there was no more productions.

It was just poor black kids

with no money

who discovered all these electronic machines,

and they would make this weird, strange music.

Strange, dark,

sparse, minimal stuff.

So the DJs that wanted to keep on making this music

would program drum machines

and add little pieces of records

that they would loop.

And this is how, actually, house music was born,

by recycling disco into something new.

There’s something really special here.

When the party’s good,

the cheer, and it go like,

‘here we, here we,

here we f***ing go!’

And at the beginning of that,

the whole room was singing this, and I was like, what?

Especially with the accent.

And then I understood,

so let’s see if tonight they go

‘here we f***ing go.’

That’s a good sign when they do this.

What David Guetta symbolises is like,

translation.

To people that might not know house culture, or dance music culture,

David Guetta translates it to those other people.

What he’s done is bring awareness

to dance music in a big way.

I’m not really sure exactly

what motivates David,

but I would say his passion

for the music,

his love of the music and the power that music has to transform your life,

and your energy, and your spirit.

I mean you can put a song on a radio,

and you come to a club and you may be down,

and you get immersed in this music,

in the beat, and your life is changed.

And this beat that I just finished today,

you’re the first people on the planet to hear it.

And I promise you something.

When I’m going to put out this record,

the name of the record

will be

Glasgow!

Dance music in America,

is kind of came with the rave sound in the early nineties.

But that kind of came in

with a witch hunt,

so it got squashed.

So it never really took off, electronic music.

And then what happened was

all the guys that were making electronic music,

like house music from Chicago, house music from New York,

techno from Detroit,

everybody kind of picked up and went to where we were appreciated.

It was England where it really first took grip,

and you had that kind of whole idea of

rave culture, club culture, and people living for the weekend,

and that whole scenario,

and tribes, and clubs, and following the DJ. That really kicked off in England.

That was fun.

And I love that new beat, it’s cool, huh?

The last beat I played, like the new beat?

I have to call it Glasgow now.

I said it.

Now it’s got to be called Glasgow.

In the early days

it was very, very different to how it is now,

in some respects. In many respects it’s exactly the same.

It still is going from A to B,

sleeping in a hotel,

getting up,

traveling to somewhere else the next day.

But what was different then

is we did gigs for no money.

It was about the quality of the show.

Who did David want to alight himself with?

Which DJs did he want to perform

alongside?

But at this time he was bottom of the bill.

We have got David Guetta coming in the studio

Can you please

call Akon and see if he could do those vocals?

Everything

sounds just crazy. Everything sounds the same.

It’s just unbelievable.

Please welcome to the show multi-Grammy award winning,

world’s best DJ, world’s best producer, David Guetta!

How are you finding time to be here? Cos you’re like the busiest man in the world!

Yeah, but I’m happy to be here.

- You’ve got a smile on your face, - Of course!

I’ve looked at the iTunes charts, it’s put me in such a good mood.

Number one on Sunday?

Number one everywhere in the world.

Almost, there’s a few country where I’m only number two.

All my life I wanted

this music to be as respected as hip-hop,

and rock and pop.

But it wasn’t.

We were like, the remixes, you know? It was like, not even the music itself.

For so many years, we’ve been a *** child of the business.

And finally now everybody wants a dance record.

It’s not only on the internet, you can hear it everywhere,

and get commercials and ads,

and it’s unbelievable how it’s kind of crossed from being one thing into this,

big pop monster.

Tonight, I’m playing the Brixton Academy.

It’s a big deal.

It makes me very nervous, it makes my heart beat.

Which doesn’t happen so much time, with experience you get confident.

But every time there is something really new

then I feel like I’m 17 again

and it’s my first gig in a club.

And that’s how I feel tonight.

I discovered house

because I was working in a gay club.

Not that I was gay, but the only job I found

was in that club, and I so wanted to be a DJ,

I was obsessed.

And it was like, it was like a drug.

I was working in a gay club, so I started to study

what was going on in the gay clubs in the US

and in the UK.

It was like, 87,

I heard what was going on in Chicago,

in the black gay clubs,

and in New York.

I discovered, followed Jackmaster Funk, these kind of records,

and they totally blew my mind,

I spoke to the owner of the club,

I told him,

"this music is crazy, this is going to change the world."

It’s acid house.

Best f***ing –

World class DJ. World class beats.

I need to understand if Chris Willis

is supposed to play during my set,

or if he has his own set and he wants me to stay on stage?

There he is.

Do you know what’s happening?

I think I’m playing during your set.

In 2001, I met

a guy called Chris Willis

and it changed my life. He was a gospel singer.

He had nothing to do with dance music,

he knew nothing about this world.

And I was explaining to him

what house music was about,

And he was like, ‘yeah, but you know, I’m a gospel singer,

I might go to hell for this!

I’m like,

‘man, just see this as a church.

You’re just preaching to different kind of people.’

The record for me that changed things

was probably Love Don’t Let Me Go.

This was very much an eighties-esque kind of inspiration,

and actually a hybrid version was created later

that featured a group called The Egg.

And that was a breakthrough in the UK market

and that really pushed things open.

UK was the reference, you know?

When it comes to this kind of music.

So for me to have a successful record there,

that was definitely the beginning.

What many people don’t know

is that David is not just some fly by night DJ

that just arrived on the scene out of nowhere.

Not at all.

David and Cathy had both been dedicated to the scene

for many, many years.

David and I,

our passion is people,

music,

and nightlife.

David one day ask me,

‘Cathy, you need to start our own club now.

You need to find a location

to do some parties,

and I was afraid.

And he take my hand and he say ‘we try to do,

and we see after, you know?’

But it was hard work.

And he was really running a couple of amazing parties in Paris

that everyone wanted to play,

and he was also very ahead

in inviting guest DJs and stuff like that,

which was really new to everyone at the time. at the time.

People like DJ Pierre

and Little Louie Vega,

David Morales, Frankie Knuckles,

all those guys.

It was like a gift

to my clientele,

so they understand what this music was about.

And it was a gift to myself,

because for me it was an opportunity to understand how they were doing it.

I didn’t even know what making music was

until I heard house music.

And that sort of, totally, took me to, like, a different level.

Just love the feeling

of just forgetting everything, being on the dancefloor

with hands up in the air.

The feeling of being able to take on the whole world.

This record is really special for me.