"Pop Stars Are Being Even Braver Than The House Acts" - MTV Meets Duke Dumont

Have you heard Duke Dumont's new single? It's really good. No, really. 

A departure from his previous, more club-leaning singles like 'Need U (100%)' and 'The Giver (Reprise)' , 'Ocean Drive' is a more laid back affair and we've had it, quite literally, on repeat for weeks. You might say we're a little obsessed.

Ahead of the release of his new EP, Blasé Boys Club Part 1, we caught up with Dumont - aka Adam Dyment - about his "proudest single to date" and that this might be the way forward for him…for now.

"My mindset does change about every three months as to what I’m into. The thing with ‘Ocean Drive’ is that I actually made it about a year ago and it was still sounding really good up until two months ago when I decided to release it - that’s always a good thing. Essentially, I’m getting into more musical based stuff as opposed to pounding club beats."

Having taken that step into the more commercial space, Dyment also praised pop acts such as Nick Jonas for being "braver" than some house music at the moment:

"The music I’m into at the moment is more pop music. It’s kind of weird that some pop music is more experimental than club music. You look at the Top 40 now and a lot of the house tracks in there are very similar, and it’s strange that nowadays you get someone like Nick Jonas coming out with a really brave pop record, even braver than some of the club music that’s in the charts."

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"I like the way that it’s all changing," he added. "Three or four years ago there were the likes of Disclosure, myself, Route 94, or MK who were changing the pop scene and now some of the pop stars are being even braver than the house acts."

He's also now "completely over" 'Won't Look Back' being beating to the No.1 spot by Robin Schulz after audio streaming was introduced to the UK Official Singles Charts last year. "It shows how quick things change with that kind of world," he said.

"I don’t necessarily have to be the biggest selling DJ or the biggest selling act in the world, I’m very fortunate to be in a really good position. However, I do want to be one of the best record producers in the world and I have for the last 12 years of my life [been] working on that. [I'm] not quite there yet but I’m getting there slowly. I’m enjoying things at the moment - two No.1's still isn’t a bad achievement."

Can he make it three with 'Ocean Drive'? 

Duke's Blasé Boys Club EP Part 1 EP is released on 2nd October and he takes his live show on the road tomorrow in Aberdeen before playing his biggest UK headline show to date at London's KOKO on 30th September.