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Norwegian musician, producer and singer Lido, born Peder Losnegård, may have only released one single this year, Crazy, but that doesn’t mean he’s not one of the busiest people in music right now. As well as producing tracks on albums by Chance The Rapper and A$AP Ferg, he debuted his entire album Everything at Coachella, arguably the most notable festival in the entire world. It’s been a few months since that performance and we’re still waiting for the record but by all accounts it’s going to be entirely worth the wait.

Lido is due to play two shows in Australia this week, one as part of Splendour In The Grass and a pre-party in Brisbane with British trio Years & Years plus Aussie acts Moonbase Commander and Twinsy. He’s already teased that he’ll be playing some unreleased music in the set but for anybody who caught Lido when he was in the country back in 2014, it doesn’t matter what he does with his set, it’s always thrilling, experimental and full of passion.

We jumped on the phone with Lido from LA where he was preparing for the upcoming shows and talked about the moment he unleashed the album on Coachella, what we can expect from his shows here and who he would collaborate with if he had his pick of anyone in the world.

You’re doing Splendour and a sideshow here and you’re going to be debuting unheard music if I read your Twitter right?

Yeah well basically that was just me in rehearsals yesterday and I realised I’ve worked with so many incredible Australian musicians and we’ve made so much music that I never really get to play and I figured that this is such an incredible excuse to get to play some songs that usually don’t fit in my set or really don’t fit the vibe. Now, I’ve figured I’m gonna do some of those. I’m very excited about it. There is some unheard music in the set in terms of stuff from my album but what I was really excited about was playing some stuff that I made with Wave Racer, Alison Wonderland, Cosmo’s Midnight and…I’m even playing some remixes I’ve made of Australia artists. It’ll be fun.

Using this @SITG show in Australia next week as an excuse to play a bunch of music I've never played before. I'm STOKED. — Lido (@Lido) July 12, 2016

Is switching up the set like that something you do to keep yourself interested?

Yeah absolutely. I try to update my set and one of the things that is important to me is keeping improvisation a part of it. There’s a lot of gaps and holes and little parts of the set where I have a lot of freedom where I can go in different directions depending on how I feel that day. I get to play and have fun with some instruments.

One of the things that surprised me the first time I saw you is in Australia we expect a producer set to be a DJ set but yours was entirely live. Was there ever a temptation for you to do a standard producer set?

I think just from loving instruments so much, DJ sets are always a little bit frustrating for me because I don’t get to be as involved creatively as I could be if I had instruments with me. So, that was very important for me to do with this live set. When I have the opportunity to be creative and have fun with the sets then I need to do that because I’ve been in way too many situation where I’ve been frustrated with not being able to do that. I do like to keep it live and fresh and…I dunno, interesting for people to watch. There are so many DJs and artists that play the same set every single time. It’s a little boring to me just on a personal level. I’d be bored doing that.

Maybe the ultimate example of keeping it fresh is debuting your entire album at Coachella. I was there and it was amazing but how shit scared were you before you went on stage?

I’ve probably never been so nervous my entire life. That was intense. It was really intense. I was playing a set, in a very important setting where people hadn’t heard a note of any song before. Well, people had heard Crazy at that time but other than that they didn’t know any of the music. That’s scary because you don’t know how people are going to react or feel. You automatically know that it’s going to be kind of a listening party. It’s going to be people standing there and observing and experiencing for the first time. There’s nothing more scary than to dance to a song you’ve never heard before. That was really interesting for me but it was exactly what I wanted it to be. With that, people weren’t sitting there expecting bangers or expecting the parts of the songs that…I dunno, it did something to people’s attention that was really magic for me. My Dad was there and he was in the crowd and he said, “that was so weird because I’ve never heard a crowd that quiet and that active on an emotional level”. People were crying. There were so many people that were emotionally impacted by this and not just jumping up and down. It was an experience and a first impression for a lot of people. You’re completely right though. It’s the scariest shit I’ve ever done but also the coolest personal experience of my music that I’ve ever had.

So often the music listening process for someone is that they listen to it by themselves and devour it by themselves before taking it to their friends and experience it in the live setting. Was it good for you to be able to watch everyone’s immediate reactions to the music and reassure yourself that the last two and a half years for you have been worthwhile?

Oh absolutely. It was good to get that confirmation. Like you said, most people experience music for the first time by themselves in their bedroom. We had that connection, me and the crowd, together. It was magnified by how many people were there feeling the same thing at the same time but still it was a personal experience for everybody. It wasn’t the, sort of singing the words to eachother and…it wasn’t so much about expecting things and the community, it was 10,000 personal, emotional experiences happening at once and that was really powerful, dude. Emotionally powerful. This album is my baby, this is my heart. Seeing everybody experiencing it for the first time like that was crazy.

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It was really cool for me to see people looking at each other and giving a nod of approval or getting excited about different things. How much of the new album will we be hearing in the Aussie sets?

I’m playing a bunch of songs from the new album. Obviously nothing close to what we do with the Coachella set because there’s a lot of really cool stuff that I wanna play that’s not on the album. I’m playing like three, four songs that people haven’t heard yet that are from the album and then a bunch of remixes and some familiar stuff.

I know it’s probably impossible for you to answer but do you know when the album is being released?

It’s a struggle, dude. There’s a lot of very boring stuff that needs to happen before an album can come out. There’s a lot of paper work and lawyer stuff and clearing and, ugh, it’s just a mountain of stuff. The album is done, I’m ready. I’ve been so close to leaking it so many times. I’m so ready to get this music out but there’s work so that it can be experienced by as many people as possible in the right way. I’m chilling, I’m writing new music, the next album. But there’s a lot of work for the very talented people around me to get everything right. Hopefully, it’ll happen in not too long. As of right now I’m aiming for…it’s gonna be out before Christmas, in the next, I wanna say three months tops. I don’t know. I’m tryna get this shit out.

It might seems as Lido you’ve only had Crazy but the output from you has been incredible in terms of working on a track on Chance’s album and A$AP Ferg’s record. Does it feel like it’s been super busy even though Crazy has been the only Lido single?

Yeah, we’re keeping busy and we’re making a lot of music. I have a plan to drop more music before the album comes out but it’s hard to plan stuff in this music industry some times. A lot of times things just happen. Suddenly, Chance drops the album and suddenly Ferg drops the album and suddenly this remix is out. It’s hard to keep track of everything. A lot of this music has existed for a very long time and a lot of music is scheduled to come out very soon. I’ve definitely kept busy and have been making music the whole time and collaborating with talented people. In terms of more juice before the album comes out, there’s definitely going to be more music. I made a song two days ago that I’m so excited about I might just drop it next week and it has nothing to do with the album. I’m definitely still tryna throw music out there and have fun with it but in terms of this album I care so deeply about it and it’s put together in such a way that I’m having trouble separating songs from it. And that was the reason we did Coachella how we did it. There’s not singles, it’s a story. There’s a reason why this song is before this song and this song is after this song. The usual run of putting out an album was just crazy for me. I’m just trying to get the album out as soon as possible and then we’ll explain it after and do a lot of cool shit after but I want the album out. I’ll try to put out some new music before that but who knows, the music industry is a weird and unpredictable place.

Going back to collaborations, your list is lengthy and amazing but if you could ring anybody right now and ask them to jump on a track who would it be?

In terms of people that I really want to work with there are so many talented people right now and hip-hop and R&B and pop music is in such an interesting place right now that there’s a lot of things that I would love to explore. I would love to work with Bon Iver and I would love to work with Bryson Tiller. I would love to work with very small artists that I’m also excited about. I really wanna do a record with Craig David just because he was my favourite singer for so many years. There’s a lot of throwback stuff and a lot of things that are important to me that I would love to make happen. We’ve got a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline with that too but you never know when that is gonna come out. In general, to wrap this rant up I would still take a session with Chance over any artist anywhere. Chance is my favourite rapper and my favourite artists in the entire world.

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For anybody in Australia who is coming to see you for the first time, sum up in a couple of words the Lido live experience.

Let’s see. I mean you probably know this just as much as me, you’ve seen what it is. It’s not a DJ set, it’s not your average show. There’s a lot of instruments on stage, there’s a lot of fun stuff. I’m singing a lot, I’m playing the piano a lot, I’m playing the drums a lot. I don’t know, it’s really hard to explain. It’s electronic but it’s live and it’s fun and it’s positive and it’s, shit, I don’t know, dude. A lot of people say that it’s a cool show so I hope people are down to come check it out for themselves and hopefully somebody can explain it a little bit better than me.

Check out Lido at the Brisbane Splendour pre-party on Thursday. Tickets here.

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Norwegian musician, producer and singer Lido, born Peder Losnegård, may have only released one single this year, Crazy, but that doesn’t mean he’s not one of the busiest people in music right now. As well as producing tracks on albums by Chance The Rapper and A$AP Ferg, he debuted his entire album Everything at Coachella, arguably the most notable festival in the entire world. It’s been a few months since that performance and we’re still waiting for the record but by all accounts it’s going to be entirely worth the wait.

Lido is due to play two shows in Australia this week, one as part of Splendour In The Grass and a pre-party in Brisbane with British trio Years & Years plus Aussie acts Moonbase Commander and Twinsy. He’s already teased that he’ll be playing some unreleased music in the set but for anybody who caught Lido when he was in the country back in 2014, it doesn’t matter what he does with his set, it’s always thrilling, experimental and full of passion.

We jumped on the phone with Lido from LA where he was preparing for the upcoming shows and talked about the moment he unleashed the album on Coachella, what we can expect from his shows here and who he would collaborate with if he had his pick of anyone in the world.

You’re doing Splendour and a sideshow here and you’re going to be debuting unheard music if I read your Twitter right?

Yeah well basically that was just me in rehearsals yesterday and I realised I’ve worked with so many incredible Australian musicians and we’ve made so much music that I never really get to play and I figured that this is such an incredible excuse to get to play some songs that usually don’t fit in my set or really don’t fit the vibe. Now, I’ve figured I’m gonna do some of those. I’m very excited about it. There is some unheard music in the set in terms of stuff from my album but what I was really excited about was playing some stuff that I made with Wave Racer, Alison Wonderland, Cosmo’s Midnight and…I’m even playing some remixes I’ve made of Australia artists. It’ll be fun.

Using this @SITG show in Australia next week as an excuse to play a bunch of music I've never played before. I'm STOKED. — Lido (@Lido) July 12, 2016

Is switching up the set like that something you do to keep yourself interested?

Yeah absolutely. I try to update my set and one of the things that is important to me is keeping improvisation a part of it. There’s a lot of gaps and holes and little parts of the set where I have a lot of freedom where I can go in different directions depending on how I feel that day. I get to play and have fun with some instruments.

One of the things that surprised me the first time I saw you is in Australia we expect a producer set to be a DJ set but yours was entirely live. Was there ever a temptation for you to do a standard producer set?

I think just from loving instruments so much, DJ sets are always a little bit frustrating for me because I don’t get to be as involved creatively as I could be if I had instruments with me. So, that was very important for me to do with this live set. When I have the opportunity to be creative and have fun with the sets then I need to do that because I’ve been in way too many situation where I’ve been frustrated with not being able to do that. I do like to keep it live and fresh and…I dunno, interesting for people to watch. There are so many DJs and artists that play the same set every single time. It’s a little boring to me just on a personal level. I’d be bored doing that.

Maybe the ultimate example of keeping it fresh is debuting your entire album at Coachella. I was there and it was amazing but how shit scared were you before you went on stage?

I’ve probably never been so nervous my entire life. That was intense. It was really intense. I was playing a set, in a very important setting where people hadn’t heard a note of any song before. Well, people had heard Crazy at that time but other than that they didn’t know any of the music. That’s scary because you don’t know how people are going to react or feel. You automatically know that it’s going to be kind of a listening party. It’s going to be people standing there and observing and experiencing for the first time. There’s nothing more scary than to dance to a song you’ve never heard before. That was really interesting for me but it was exactly what I wanted it to be. With that, people weren’t sitting there expecting bangers or expecting the parts of the songs that…I dunno, it did something to people’s attention that was really magic for me. My Dad was there and he was in the crowd and he said, “that was so weird because I’ve never heard a crowd that quiet and that active on an emotional level”. People were crying. There were so many people that were emotionally impacted by this and not just jumping up and down. It was an experience and a first impression for a lot of people. You’re completely right though. It’s the scariest shit I’ve ever done but also the coolest personal experience of my music that I’ve ever had.

So often the music listening process for someone is that they listen to it by themselves and devour it by themselves before taking it to their friends and experience it in the live setting. Was it good for you to be able to watch everyone’s immediate reactions to the music and reassure yourself that the last two and a half years for you have been worthwhile?

Oh absolutely. It was good to get that confirmation. Like you said, most people experience music for the first time by themselves in their bedroom. We had that connection, me and the crowd, together. It was magnified by how many people were there feeling the same thing at the same time but still it was a personal experience for everybody. It wasn’t the, sort of singing the words to eachother and…it wasn’t so much about expecting things and the community, it was 10,000 personal, emotional experiences happening at once and that was really powerful, dude. Emotionally powerful. This album is my baby, this is my heart. Seeing everybody experiencing it for the first time like that was crazy.

It was really cool for me to see people looking at each other and giving a nod of approval or getting excited about different things. How much of the new album will we be hearing in the Aussie sets?

I’m playing a bunch of songs from the new album. Obviously nothing close to what we do with the Coachella set because there’s a lot of really cool stuff that I wanna play that’s not on the album. I’m playing like three, four songs that people haven’t heard yet that are from the album and then a bunch of remixes and some familiar stuff.

I know it’s probably impossible for you to answer but do you know when the album is being released?

It’s a struggle, dude. There’s a lot of very boring stuff that needs to happen before an album can come out. There’s a lot of paper work and lawyer stuff and clearing and, ugh, it’s just a mountain of stuff. The album is done, I’m ready. I’ve been so close to leaking it so many times. I’m so ready to get this music out but there’s work so that it can be experienced by as many people as possible in the right way. I’m chilling, I’m writing new music, the next album. But there’s a lot of work for the very talented people around me to get everything right. Hopefully, it’ll happen in not too long. As of right now I’m aiming for…it’s gonna be out before Christmas, in the next, I wanna say three months tops. I don’t know. I’m tryna get this shit out.

It might seems as Lido you’ve only had Crazy but the output from you has been incredible in terms of working on a track on Chance’s album and A$AP Ferg’s record. Does it feel like it’s been super busy even though Crazy has been the only Lido single?

Yeah, we’re keeping busy and we’re making a lot of music. I have a plan to drop more music before the album comes out but it’s hard to plan stuff in this music industry some times. A lot of times things just happen. Suddenly, Chance drops the album and suddenly Ferg drops the album and suddenly this remix is out. It’s hard to keep track of everything. A lot of this music has existed for a very long time and a lot of music is scheduled to come out very soon. I’ve definitely kept busy and have been making music the whole time and collaborating with talented people. In terms of more juice before the album comes out, there’s definitely going to be more music. I made a song two days ago that I’m so excited about I might just drop it next week and it has nothing to do with the album. I’m definitely still tryna throw music out there and have fun with it but in terms of this album I care so deeply about it and it’s put together in such a way that I’m having trouble separating songs from it. And that was the reason we did Coachella how we did it. There’s not singles, it’s a story. There’s a reason why this song is before this song and this song is after this song. The usual run of putting out an album was just crazy for me. I’m just trying to get the album out as soon as possible and then we’ll explain it after and do a lot of cool shit after but I want the album out. I’ll try to put out some new music before that but who knows, the music industry is a weird and unpredictable place.

Going back to collaborations, your list is lengthy and amazing but if you could ring anybody right now and ask them to jump on a track who would it be?

In terms of people that I really want to work with there are so many talented people right now and hip-hop and R&B and pop music is in such an interesting place right now that there’s a lot of things that I would love to explore. I would love to work with Bon Iver and I would love to work with Bryson Tiller. I would love to work with very small artists that I’m also excited about. I really wanna do a record with Craig David just because he was my favourite singer for so many years. There’s a lot of throwback stuff and a lot of things that are important to me that I would love to make happen. We’ve got a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline with that too but you never know when that is gonna come out. In general, to wrap this rant up I would still take a session with Chance over any artist anywhere. Chance is my favourite rapper and my favourite artists in the entire world.

For anybody in Australia who is coming to see you for the first time, sum up in a couple of words the Lido live experience.

Let’s see. I mean you probably know this just as much as me, you’ve seen what it is. It’s not a DJ set, it’s not your average show. There’s a lot of instruments on stage, there’s a lot of fun stuff. I’m singing a lot, I’m playing the piano a lot, I’m playing the drums a lot. I don’t know, it’s really hard to explain. It’s electronic but it’s live and it’s fun and it’s positive and it’s, shit, I don’t know, dude. A lot of people say that it’s a cool show so I hope people are down to come check it out for themselves and hopefully somebody can explain it a little bit better than me.

Check out Lido at the Brisbane Splendour pre-party on Thursday. Tickets here.

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