The album includes 30 original tracks by the duo themselves and amoungst the releases are colaborations with Wezz Devall, Mark Sixma, Leon Bolier, Ben Gold, Jonas Stenberg and Ummet Ozcan. Featuring vocals of Ana Criado, Bree and Emily. If you haven't checked out the album I recommend you put it on your list, in the meantime lets chat with Wardy and Willem.....here is a interview with the talented duo.

How did you two first meet?

We met at Trance Energy in 2007. Before that we only knew each other through a common friend. We start hanging out after and made our first track half a year later which became the first W&W track.

 

When you both first teamed up, did you instantly know that the duo would work well or did you have to ease into it?

 

The first time we were in the studio together we noticed that we cooperated very well, we supplement each other at the aspects we're not so good at so that was a good sign. Back then we didn't know that we would come so far as we came till now.

 

Wardt, do you think you will ever spin solo and produce again as Re-Ward or are you only focused on the W&W project at the moment?

 

No I don't think so for multiple reasons. I think with Willem as a team we're way better and more productive than solo, it's more fun in the studio and traveling together is also a lot easier than constantly being on your own.

 

….And the same question as above for Willem in regards to Dirty Dot?

 

I used to produce a lot of different stuff under different names but now the main focus is only W&W.

 

You guys are always having such a great time behind the decks and feeding off of each other’s energy as well as the crowd. Have you ever had a gig where you just weren’t in a good mood and had to go perform anyway? What would you do in that situation?

 

Sometimes when we're really jetlagged, haven't really slept for a few days and we're at the hotel waiting for our pickup to the venue, you would rather be in bed sleeping. But when you arrive at the venue and go on stage and see all those people screaming and dancing you get like a kick start of energy, no matter how bad you felt before.

 

Why do you personally think it’s important to interact with your fans?

 

Your fans make you to what you are, that's why you should never turn your back to them. We also like to know what they think about our new music, that's why we often post our new stuff on our social media and ask the people for their opinions.

 

Do you ever disagree on taste in music?

 

Yes sometimes we have a different taste but in the end we share the same vision so we always find our way through the disagreements.

 

What are the most dominant personality traits that you see in each other?

 

Ward: Willem has a really strong personality and vision about music, he knows what he wants and he'll do anything to get there.

Willem: Ward isn't really a dominant person, he's really easy to work with but sometimes he can be really stubborn.

 

What is your favorite piece or hardware of software at the moment?

 

Our favorite software would probably be the Sylenth1 by Lennar Digital, we use that synth in every track we make. The Virus TI is definitely our favorite hardware, it has a really fat sound and especially combined with the Sylenth1 you can get really big riffs.

 

 

What are your opinions about this genre people are calling “Trouse”?

 

Nowadays you can see that all genres grow closer to each other, which we think is great cause it combines the best out of all kinds of music. What we like about ''trouse'' is that it puts together the melodies of trance with the grooves from house, a really interesting combination which works great on the dance floors.

 

What are some of your future goals as artists?

 

Of course everybody has the dream to get as far as possible. But the most important thing for us is that we get our music heard by as much people as possible since we really believe in what we're doing.

 

Are you working on any other projects that you would like to share with us?

 

Well of course our debut album just hit the stores; we've been working on it for a year and a half so it's very exciting to see all the reactions coming in. We're already busy on new stuff to be released after the album and that sounds quite promising so far.

 

Do you have any other comments for our readers?

 

Thanks for reading this interview and hope to see you all somewhere around the world!