First off. Is it Pj the viking or just plain Viking?
It started out as PJtheVIKING but I decided to shorten it to straight up VIKING after dealing with countless amounts of confusion and formatting issues.

And what started Vikings electro dance spree?
I’ve always been in bands forever and before I took this on as my main focus, I was in a dance-punk band called The Drugstore Cowboys. We had toured with and played a lot of shows with many other electronic acts and I saw what they were doing and really took a liking to it. I had always made electronic based tracks, but I started to tighten up the sound and get serious with it.

Your remixes has grown quite popular world wide, everybody loves a viking remix! How do you choose what to work with? Favourite tunes of yours? or is it some genius hit-sensation-instinct talking?
Haha, well honestly, the Kid Cudi track was luck. I was checking some acapella blogs that I do frequently, and saw the acapella for Dat New New, and honestly just went into auto-pilot mode and got the remix done in about 3 days. When I was listening to the final version, I was extremely excited, but never thought it would blow up the way it did. I’m just really thankful to everyone that has been so receptive to it and the amount of videos for it on youtube now is pretty mind blowing.

Any acts or producers in the same scene that inspires you?
At the moment, I’m blown away by Mustard Pimp, LAZRTAG, DiscoTech/Sr. Stereo, and Barletta. They are all definitely huge inspirations to me. As far as bands go, I’m still stuck on all the stuff I listened to pre-dance music; Keepsake, Jawbreaker, Mineral, etc.

You’re quite new on the scene, but all ready have you grown a reputation, other than new remixes what can we expect from viking in the future?
I’m currently working on releasing a single with Subdrive which is slated for late summer/early fall, and I just finished up two remixes for The Sounds, and Cazals, which I’m excited about. I’m just trying to play out as much as possible and spread the word. I’m graduating college this year which makes it a little more tricky to prioritize everything, but i’ve been able to keep a handle on things so far.

Your bassline sound is just impressive massiveness. What is the secret ingredient? Is it the hammer of Thor?
It’s the sound from Trogdor’s muscular arm extending from the back of his neck slamming on a midi controller harder than any peasant he’s ever burninated.

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mp3 The Sounds - No One Sleeps When Im Awake (VIKING Remix)

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