If Nick van de Wall was to list his favourite pastimes, doing interviews would be unlikely to appear. Swigging Grey Goose, fratenising with your DJ buddies, hearing that resounding cheer every time you sidle up to the CDJs: all in the ‘fun’ column. Fielding questions from a succession of Australian journalists on the other end of the phone line: not so much. It’s one of the small snags that come with being Afrojack.

As van de Wall tells us with a sigh, he’s at his agent’s office in Holland for press duties and a photo shoot. “I’m doing my emails on my laptop now while I’m on this interview,” he adds. His distraction certainly shows – several of our questions are followed by a pause, then a sharp “What?” – but he can be excused for a wandering mind. After all, the guy’s got a few things on the go. “I don’t have any free time,” he says. “That’s how it goes. But I’m okay. I don’t need free time. My job is so much fun it feels like free time.”

That job of his involves a lot of flying. In October alone, he played a club every couple of days (and the odd festival), dividing his time between Europe and North America. Occasionally a private jet comes in handy. With a life in constant motion, van de Wall has had to reassess the music-making side of things. “I’ve only been producing on my laptop, so I don’t go into a studio anymore,” he says. “I’ve been producing for 13 years. I’ve restructured things so I can make tracks really quickly. When I have music in my head, I just want to get it into the computer as fast as possible, then after that I make a song out of it.”

You only need to visit the ever-expanding Afrojack Discogs page for proof of his work-rate. Some detractors claim van de Wall “makes tracks really quickly” at the expense of quality control, but he counters that it’s just the way he works. The prolificacy is certainly astounding for a producer yet to celebrate his 25th birthday. “I’ve got about ten tracks ready to be released,” he tells us, and you can be sure there are at least ten more in various stages of completion on that laptop.