Dance veteran and soon to be Future Music Festival reveller Guy Gerber has earned his place in the electronic world with over a decade of involvement in the scene as a producer, DJ and personality and knows a thing or two about meandering through the murky waters of ‘EDM’.

With such an extensive background in acoustic and electronic as well as the current superstar status of todays DJs, it was a question in an exclusive interview with Stoney Roads regarding the legitimacy of each that set Guy off to really detail the different processes as to why electronic just doesn’t stack up sometimes;

I think there is a lot of shit in it! I mean, I can’t understand how DJ’s can have groupies. I get it with David Bowie or Jimmy Hendrix, but DJ’s? With electronic music it can be hard to create emotions, but it’s not as difficult as playing in a band. Of course there is some music made on a computer that is amazing, much more amazing than normal music. But it is easier to make. You have to have the talent, but it’s easier. Because when you’re in a band even the recording process is a challenge. Just to get something to sound out loud they way you hear it in your head. In electronic music, the sounds are already in the shape of how you want them to be listened to. But emotionally, you can’t compare touching something and feeling something and moving what you feel into a recording by sequencing to playing it yourself. Of course, a lot of emotions can be created when it’s been sequenced, I’m not against that. I’m just saying it’s easier to create it when you can actually play it.

You’d have to follow Guy on Facebook to understand just how unique he is; its not always about his music but his rants and his fans that all play into the whirlpool of a guy (ha!) that claims to be the most interesting man in dance… that is aside from constant tripper Seth Troxler, who decided to freak out a little during one of Gerbers freakishly long studio sessions;

Besides myself? Um, because most of the time I was somewhere and I was the most interesting guy, that’s the problem. But next to me, and then maybe 10 empty rows… (Guy laughs) But seriously, I always enjoy working with Seth Troxler. Once he came to visit me in Tel Aviv while I was working on the 11:11 project with Puff and even though it was his first time there, he stayed in the studio with me for a few days. But he wasn’t used to such intense studio time, I never leave. He ended up having a little freak out on the piano in the recording room… He doesn’t play, but it was a great moment between us.

Facebook stalking, ‘The Floating Messiah’ and the future of WOTG, read it all in the full interview here before Guy plays Future Music Festival kicking off March 1st in Brisbane – rest of dates and lineup here.