Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, you are certainly older but probably not wiser of music news and criticism. I'm your host John Caramonica. Oh, So if you're feeling the serotonin pumping that is because you were listening to

levels which is the 2011 breakthrough hit of the dance music producer of Vichy.

A Vichy died last month and we wanted to talk about Vichy's influence and

both his sort of high points but also the way that his career unfolded and so on this week's

podcast we've convened a dance music dream team to sit here and explain a

ViG's career to everybody so starting at my left I've got Matt Med, actually no I'm not going to start.

Pedro you can keep this part. We're going to finish with Matt. Okay starting to my right I've

got Alexandra Blair. Hey what's up? Hello, Popcasters.

Alexander is the editor-in-chief of Dancing astronaut.com, which is a website and news

resource that covers Dance Music Community. Across from me, I've got Nick Murray.

What's up, Nick? What's going going on Nick is a freelance writer a former

editor at the voice in Rolling Stone who wrote an avicht tribute for spin on this go-round to my

left Matt I mean I you know I don't want to belabor this, Matt. But Matt's got a hell of the title.

So Matt Medved is the Director of Dance and Electronic Programming and Cross Department strategy for all you strategizers, and also the founder of Billboard Dance.

Hey Matt.

Hey, glad to be here.

Each of you has covered Evichie both in career and also over the last couple of weeks.

So Avichy was 28 when he died.

We still don't totally know the cause of death.

I want to talk about Avichy's beginnings.

So a thing that in my reading that I kept coming across were the

production forums kind of in the late 2000s and so I want to talk a little bit

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