Only a couple of months after his first dispatch to these parts, techno’s golden boy Seth Troxler is back in June for We Love Sounds and Winter Sound System. The Detroit-bred, Berlin-based DJ is coming as part of Tiga’s Planet Turbo posse – a prospect he’s buzzing about. In fact, most things seems to excite Troxler, and there’s plenty to keep him occupied.

After a star-making 2009, the man has been recruited as a new resident for the upcoming Circo Loco season at DC-10 in Ibiza. It’s just one of many commitments over the European summer. Troxler’s production slate is also at capacity. In between remixes for the likes of Fever Ray and Tracey Thorn, he’s working alongside old buddies Ryan Crosson and Lee Curtiss as Visionquest.

When inthemix tracks down Troxler, he’s in typically effusive spirits, driving around Detroit in a van with friends in the lead-up to their annual party alongside the Movement festival.

Are you at home in Berlin at the moment?
I’m in Detroit actually for Movement, I always do a party with Ryan Crosson, Shaun Reeves and Lee Curtiss. We’re down setting up and getting the logistics together, hanging out, listening to some music, getting loose. Every year, we host an open-air that we don’t play at but just throw for our friends and other distinguished degenerates. It’s cool to be back home, chilling out, getting chat.

How do you feel about this year’s Movement programme?
I think it’s really amazing, I like how they got Carl Craig back involved. He’s the one who started everything and the line-up is perfect. It’s good for Detroit and Detroit’s legacy, but it’s not too commercial. It’s nice to see artists like that booked, so hopefully it makes the revenue, fingers crossed. It’s really great weather this weekend in Detroit. Last year, you had like Moby and Benny Benassi and this year that stuff is kinda cut out. It’s cool that Carl’s black. Ah, Carl’s back. Not Carl’s black [laughs]. It’s actually really exciting, so many of my friends are coming too. It’s Ricardo’s [Villalobos] first time in like nine years. It’ll be a lot of friends all together – a super weekend for me and all my friends to hang out.

How is it coming home after you’ve relocated to Europe?
There are a lot of things that are similar and some things that aren’t. My parents moved to Phoenix, so it’s not like I get to go to their house where I grew up and walk around the corner to my friend’s house. That kinda sucks. Overall, shops are still in the same places and people are really the same, I guess. I got to have my favourite barbeque sandwich the other day; I was pretty excited about that. All the things that really matter.

I saw you play the boat party in Sydney in April, and the vibe in the room was something special. It seemed like you were feeling it too.
Oh, the boat! That was good times on the boat with Paul Woolford. I was having a great time, it sucked I had to go like right after to a plane. I wanted to get – and I’m overusing this ‘cause I’m on the phone – get loose. What a term! So cool! So incredibly cool! I picked it up in Australia. I have this really crazy story about the boat. This guy gave me this captain’s hat and sunglasses and a ring box with a bow on it. He was like, ‘Wait a while till you open it!’ I waited a while but was really curious, and I see this piece of acid sticking out, like brightly coloured. Like a diamond ring! I was like, what a guy. What a present.

That’s how you get loose.
That’s how you get loose! Loose people in Australia are really nice. Sydney was a great party; Perth was really good as well. Everywhere was cool. Oh! We just drove past Steve’s Plus Produce Market and there’s a huge sign for watermelon sales in Obama type. That’s a little insight from Detroit.

You’ll be back here for the We Love Sounds and Winter Sound System festival tour. What enticed you to come back so quickly?
I don’t know actually. The other tour was booked way in advance, then Tiga and those guys were like, ‘Hey, come with us to Australia’. And I thought the first time was a good introduction and the second time you can hang out and see what’s going on. I don’t think I’ll be coming back till mid next year after that. Tiga is just a really cool guy. He likes to make jokes, and he found out I like to make jokes, and was like, ‘Let’s make some jokes together’. What a fantastic idea. We met at a festival and we were talking about Mentos and boat shoes, and we were like, ‘Man, you’re alright in my book!’ And he was like, ‘Maybe you can do some remixes for us’. Then we became friends. It’s like meeting someone at a bar and you’re like, ‘Man, that guy is fucking cool, I want to be his friend’. In like a non-homosexual way.

The Planet Turbo thing seems like a different kind of line-up from what you’d usually play on.
I guess so, but it’s cool to switch it up a bit, play a bit for everybody. I play a lot of different music, keep ‘em guessing. It’s going to work ‘cause we’ll all be having a blast together. You know, you can’t make a dollar with a quarter.

You came here straight from the Miami Winter Music Conference, how was that experience for you?
Miami was super-cool this year, we had a lot of fun. It kind of shifted away from the proggy and tribal and deep house, and was a big thing for our kind of dance music scene; techno, tech-house and stuff. I was like, ‘Alright, cool!’ Those were the parties that were going off and it was a chance to have all your friends in one place which was really special. As a travelling DJ, you never get to see your friends. How special is that. There’s some food for thought.

And you’re a new resident of Circo Loco at DC-10 in Ibiza this summer.
Yeah, I think I play like eight times. I’ve never been to the club, but I’ve been to Ibiza like two or three times. I get to go to this island, man, play some records for some people! I’m really excited to be adding some sex, some coitus, to the whole vibe. [Sings] “I want to sex it up!” That’s going to be the feeling in the club, and that can get crazy with that many people. It could turn into everybody getting laid. That’s what Circo Loco’s new name should be: ‘Everybody Gets Laid’. Actually, don’t quote me on that. Do not quote me on that, I might get in trouble. Have you ever written that before, ‘Everybody Gets Laid’?

That could be my headline – Seth Troxler: Everybody Gets Laid.
I have to say I stole that from this movie PCU with – what’s his name – Jeremy Piven from Entourage. It’s a college movie. It’s amazing, if you haven’t seen it. They’re at their frat party and P-Funk shows up and they call this party ‘Everybody Gets Laid’. Because everyone did get laid because P-Funk was playing, you know what I’m saying? You’ve got P-Funk at a house party. Wow. Legend. I’m in the back of a truck right now, cold-chilling, just driving through the hood. And they’re listening to me talk.

Are you still happy being based in Berlin?
Yeah, it’s okay. I’m really into London right now. I’ve only been in my house for three weeks this year, so it’s kind of a home away from home anyway. It’s really easy and a cool place in the summer. At the same time, the scene isn’t what it used to be and I’m only home a couple of days a year. You know – I really enjoy ordering pizza off the internet, you can do that in London, you can’t do that in Berlin.

Aside from online pizza, what else are you into about London?
Right now there’s a really great scene happening in London, people are really excited about dance music. In Berlin, you’ve got great people playing every weekend, so it’s not like when something really amazing happens, people freak out. When you’re in places like London or New York, when the party goes off, the party is going off. I really dig that. They speak English in London, you know? These are the things that make me excited. There’s also a hussle in London that I get from coming from America. It helps you get things done. In Berlin, everything’s always Sunday [laughs].

You’ve done a bit of collaborating with other producers recently. Do you enjoy the process of collaborating?
Yeah, actually right now we’re working on our Visionquest project ‘cause we’re starting a label. Not a dance label particularly, but a music label. Real songs. Maybe some rock, some pop. I’m working on a remix now for Tracey Thorn and then I was just in Lyon doing vocals with Agoria for a new single. I’m holding off on the solo stuff, ‘cause I put out much stuff last year, so I’m putting a lot of my efforts into the Visionquest project at the moment. Everything’s perfect, you know. Just hanging out, chilling, vibing.

For the rest of the year, I’m also doing Cocoon in Ibiza, then coming to America to do Burning Man, then an American tour, then UK festivals like Bestival. The year is pretty hectic, so I’ll take some time off early next year – you know, chill on the beach in Brazil or something.

And finally, anything in particular you’re planning for the festivals here in winter?
I plan…I plan on having a lot of laughs. Laughing as much as physically possible. Actually, number one: playing some really cool music. Then laughing. Constantly. Hanging out with people, trying to go to every after-hours. How deep can I get into the festival? That is my plan.

Seth Troxler plays the Planet Turbo arena at We Love Sounds and Winter Sound System this June.