Avicii: True Stories Page #2

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he kind of started being my manager.

And soon I found a project for us,

I-I found a remix.

The first big remix I got was from, uh...

uh... Roger Sanchez.

It was the first big remix I got to do

from a... for a big artist.

And then we did another remix,

and that went even better.

He made a remix for a Bob Sinclar record,

and I heard it,

I was like:
"Oh, my God.

This is so amazing!"

Uh, but he wasn't...

He wasn't, like, a big producer yet,

you know, and I was shocked,

and I, uh, I got in contact with him

and I think I've asked him

for a remix, too.

He was making amazing mash-ups.

Like, every week, he would send me a new

mash-up, and I really liked his style.

I really loved all his tracks. I started

playing them every week in my show.

[Avicii] My first Avicii show was in Miami

for, uh, Laidback Luke's

"Super You and Me" party.

It was then and there I, uh,

I met a... a very shy

and... and just a held-back type of a kid.

[Avicii] It's, like, a 200-people,

200-capacity club.

He was just so nervous.

He had prepped his set and everything,

and, um, in the end, he ended up

opening the night for three people.

[Avicii] Then, towards the end,

people started coming.

I didn't mess up, I-I survived.

Everything went okay.

I started doing small shows

here and there. It was single clubs.

It was, you know, whatever Ash

had been able to bring in.

At this time, it wasn't many, so he was

coming with me to most of the shows.

- Are you ready for Avicii?

- [cheering and whistling]

He's never managed anyone before.

He'd been a promoter, he loved the music.

He... He had a wife and kids.

You know, like, he knew that

he didn't really have the time

to pursue being a D.J.

I was doing one or two shows a month

at this point.

I was mainly still focusing on the music.

We spent a summer together in Ibiza.

He was staying in my house,

he was playing before me every week.

And, um, yeah, he was very

into... into, uh, to music and producing.

[Guetta]

He really developed his own sound,

and, uh, and then, a little later,

when we'd been to the studio together,

I was like:

"Wow, okay, this guy is very serious.

Like, he's really, really special."

[Avicii] My first track that really

started getting buzz was "Alcoholic",

and then "Bromance" came,

which was the first song that I think

got, like, commercial attention.

[blows]

["Something's Got a Hold on Me" sample

playing on laptop]

[speaking Swedish]

We'd found a clip, um,

of Etta James singing the hook...

And Tim tried to place it over different,

um, songs, and we couldn't really find

anything that sounded quite right,

and then Tim had this, um, loop.

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