Seth Troxler speaks about the infamous robot heart Burning Man incident

Seth Troxler has spoken out about his experiences with Robot Heart at this year's Burning Man festival, with the DJ even going so far as to call the organisers "obnoxious assholes".

The incident became infamous after Skrillex and Diplo's Jack Ü outfit was hastily set-up to play in place of Troxler, who refused to go on after apparently being told by the organisers that he wasn't allowed to have his friends accompany him behind the decks.

Speaking to Pulse Radio he said: "I thought the vibe was horrible and I don't stand for anything that Robot Heart believes in and who they are. But it was Jamie [Jones] and his friends who weren't allowed on the bus, but he played anyway. Earlier in the night I got on the bus and the guy from Robot Heart was really rude to me…see they have a thousand DJs who want to play there, and Craig Richards and I were like, 'Yeah well we're the ones who don't.' And then we left, because they're obnoxious assholes and I don't have time for that."

Troxler goes on to elaborate on the statement that he made a couple of weeks ago in his keynote talk at ADE that EDM and underground dance music shouldn't be considered to be branches of the same genre of music.

"I do believe that our scenes are completely separate and should remain separate because our communities and end goals are completely different" he notes. "To be honest, I don't think any of us want to be involved with them, even though there's plenty of them who want to seem credible to us…but they never will be."

He goes on: "And please don't ever mention yourselves in the context of real dance music. It would be so much better if they could just come clean and call themselves a pop act – they're entertainers who make pop music. I didn't get into dance music to hear it on the radio. I fucking hate the radio. The pay to play system goes against everything I stand for."

[Via Pulse Radio]

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