Illenium Talks New Album 'ODYSSEY,' Sphere Shows, Ellie Goulding and Bring Me The Horizon
Zach Sang Show
Sangasong, LLC
4.6 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Electronic artist and super star DJ ILLENIUM returns to the studio to discuss his upcoming nine night residency at the Sphere in Vegas which he wrote an entire record for, his sixth LP: ODYSSEY.
Of course we have to get into how you prepare for a show like that, a creative challenge that’s both energizing, challenging and ‘spensey. Plus we discuss the art of the drop, going B2B DJing with his wife Lara at their wedding, their working relationship, and the ins and outs of his album full of heavy hitters including Ellie Goulding, Dabin, Bastille, Bring Me The Horizon, Kid Cudi, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Beautiful human. I'm Zach. That's Sam. We welcome back to the studio, an incredible human being, great artist. |
| 0:10.8 | Say hello to Lenium, everybody. |
| 0:13.0 | What up, fam. |
| 0:13.9 | We're talking about Odyssey. |
| 0:15.2 | 19 songs. 19. I count it. It's actually I kind of count it as 18 because I consider the first two tracks like one song because they're seamless. But I split them because like the first, the first song who actually my wife did the word on it. And it's so cool. She had such a cool like tone for it. And it flows perfectly into into the dark. And I love the, like, world building it is, yeah. |
| 0:39.1 | Okay. |
| 0:39.7 | Can we just talk about what it means to collaborate in any sense with the person you also |
| 0:45.4 | are deeply and madly in love with? |
| 0:47.4 | Yeah, it was fun. |
| 0:48.4 | I mean, Laura is, like, super quirky and has amazing, like, can do really good voice, like, different voices. She's, like, really should be a voice actor. She's so good at it. But she's also a DJ. She's a musician. She's your creative director. She's definitely, like, my, like, she helps me so much creatively, so much. She has such a good eye colors and for art and just, like good like stuff that I miss she really |
| 1:12.9 | we compliment each other really well can you like explain that to me a little |
| 1:15.9 | more like how do you actually balance each other out like when like for this |
| 1:20.5 | fear show for example when we were first getting our we have we had to get a |
| 1:24.3 | storyboard together so myself Laura and Sandy who's also my creative team, we were pretty much on a plane and we were like, we need to, you know, build this like no one has done it before and really do, I'm going to build an album for this. I'm going to play a ton of new music and we needed to create a story and like I'd have some ideas and |
| 1:44.9 | Laura would really help me like direct those ideas and like keep them not too cheesy really |
| 1:49.5 | serious and like bring in really good references and she has especially with with the sketches |
| 1:55.3 | and stuff when we started getting really like artistic her because she has such she's an artist |
| 1:59.9 | so she has a background of like |
| 2:01.3 | that style and like the uh using more more empty space and like really just good eye for stuff |
| 2:08.1 | so did you build this album odyssey with the sphere residency 100% in mind 100% yeah really super fun |
| 2:16.8 | yeah first kind of first person to do it and it's like |
| 2:19.8 | it was just if as soon as we went down the road it was meant to be it felt like that was what i |
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