A Force of One

NT: According to a recent post on a Nevada raver's home page, though, you pulled off a sick set at Utopia [a Las Vegas rave club] about two months ago. True?

Inertia: Yeah--I went out to Vegas and played, and I was really pleased with myself. I'd never played to that crowd before, either, so I was nervous, but I went in there and focused, and I had some really good kids at the club that night. They gave me a lot of feedback with their body language.

I had this group of girls down in front of the booth who were fully energetic, and when I'd mix into some songs I'd hear them just scream. I'd drop in a new track and they'd be like, "Yeahhhh!" So I had my eye on them, and I had this Asian kid on the other side of the room who was on a riser, dancing in this cone of light from the ceiling, and he was dancing hard, so he was also a good energy gauge.

Whenever I finish a set, the first thing I usually do is go outside, and get some fresh air (by having a cigarette) and sort of reflect. And when I was done that night, I was outside the club smoking, and I was kneeling down because I was so spent, and one of the girls from the front walked by on her way out, and she just looked down and said, "Fuck yeah!" and walked off. That was her comment. And when I heard that, I was like, "Okay, I'm back.