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Pawsa’s Body Talk<\/h1>\n

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The tech-house superstar found global fame with a simple philosophy: If you make the people dance, you don\u2019t have to explain yourself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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by Jillian Giandurco<\/a><\/address>\n
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PAWSA is in it for the love of the game. In fact, that might be one of the few things you can actually discern about the internationally renowned tech-house producer in conversation. Ask him about his DJ sets, festival gigs, or even his appearance on the soundtrack for F1: The Movie<\/em>, and his response will almost always strike the same refrain: \u201cMy attention is on the music,\u201d he tells me. \u201cI\u2019m so focused on the music that everything else just fades into the background.\u201d<\/p>\n

To say PAWSA is elusive would be an understatement. When we chat over Zoom in March, the 34-year-old (born David Esekhile) is camera-off, speaking from his home in the United Kingdom. He just played a show in Paris a few days prior, though his propulsive spirit leaves no room for contemplation. \u201cI live day to day when it comes to how shows are, just living in the moment and not really reflecting too much on individual moments and trying to stay present,\u201d says PAWSA. OK, so he has no interest in reliving the past. What about his upcoming calendar \u2014 his return to Coachella this month, plus spring weekends in Ibiza, Monaco, and Brussels? \u201cI try not to have high expectations for one show over another,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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When your records are this fun \u2014 full of crisp beats, snappy hooks, and bass lines that unfurl with the force of a fire hose \u2014 you can get away with letting the music do the talking. But in order to understand how someone so private managed to become the poster child for modern tech-house music (not to mention an honoree on NYLON\u2019s inaugural Dance 100<\/a> list celebrating the DJs and producers ruling nightlife right now), he\u2019ll have to make an exception just this once. \u201cI was instinctively drawn to music early on, and just how it would change the atmosphere of a space, how sound could affect people so directly without needing to explain itself,\u201d he offers. \u201cThat still interests me now \u2014 how something can feel precise or emotional or immediate all at once.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHouse music is physical and direct. There\u2019s something powerful about repetition and rhythm. It has a particular relationship with the body.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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PAWSA who was raised in London by a Nigerian father and Irish mother, was single-minded in his pursuit of the DJ life. He bought his first decks in 2010, when he was still a teenager. Why not pick up a guitar or a set of drumsticks instead, as his peers were no doubt doing? \u201cI was fascinated by how the right track at the right moment could completely change the feeling in a room, and the joy of sharing moments with people and creating memories,\u201d he says. \u201cYou can shape energy in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n

And no genre fills this order better than house music. \u201cIt\u2019s physical and direct. There\u2019s something powerful about repetition and rhythm,\u201d he says. \u201cIt has a particular relationship with the body. If it\u2019s done properly, it can feel simple on the surface, but there\u2019s a lot going on underneath.\u201d<\/p>\n

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