This album title is a mantra to live and make music by. It certainly worked for Félix De Laet. Under his Lost Frequencies moniker he pulled away all the needless blast and bombast of arena-primed EDM and began making tracks with heart, soul and subtly.
Pulling from trap minimalism, indie guitar music, and even country ballads, his brand of deep melodic house would provide a welcome counterpoint to the dominant, bloated, dance music styles of the era. And, in doing so, spawn tracks that would go on to pull down staggering play counts online.
“I was in a completely different mood back then,” says the Bruxellois beat-maker. “There was a lot of ‘main stage music’ coming out. And everything had a big production to it with lots of sounds and a lot of different things happening. I had a more stripped down sound.
“I wanted to remove all the unnecessary things and keep it simple. I ended up getting more attention with these types of tracks. So, it really was, ‘less is more’. Which became a kind of vibe, and description of the sounds I was making with this album.”
Unstoppable juggernaut-in-waiting tracks like the appropriately entitled (currently bordering on 700,000,000 plays on Spotify) helped kickstart the project. It saw De Laet, still a relative unknown on the scene, resorting to lifting loops from a modern country track on SoundCloud for the meat of it.
