In case you missed him dominating Shore Thing on NYE last year or in one of the hundred stories we’ve written on his ever-exploding star, French house DJ David Guetta has become a pretty big deal with his tunes and collaborations scaling the upper reaches of every pop chart around the world. While that pop edge has scrunched a few noses out of joint long time fans will be pleased to hear that with the release of his new album Nothing But The Beat, the smiling Frenchman will be balancing his mainstream leanings and house pedigree over two discs split unofficially split between the radio ready tunes and the dancefloor bangers.

“The main challenge of this album was that I made a double album,” Guetta explained to inthemix when we secured an exclusive interview with the high flying DJ. “One disc is 100% vocal and the other one is 100% electronic with no vocals. That was even more challenging from a creative point of view for me than to just go in and try to make one more hit.”

With Guetta’s motley crew of collaborators like Chris Brown, Ludacris, Nicki Minaj and Sia resigned to their own disc on Nothing But The Beat and the more club-directed tunes making up disc two, Guetta refuted the suggestion that the decision to split the two apart was to prove a point that he still had authentic house in his arsenal.

“The people that have been following me for years – the house music fans – they know that I can still make that real house music,” Guetta contended. “I mean, while I was having these big records on the radio I was still making all these records that were still house music, y’know? [The idea] was more like using my success and the fact that now I’m crossing over outside my community to, I don’t want to say ‘educate’, but to just play these pure 100% electronic beats to people that maybe wouldn’t usually listen to this.”

We’ll wait to see how that turns out when Nothing But The Beat is revealed in its double-disc entirety this August, but for now you can check out the vocal end of the Guetta spectrum with the video for his single Where Dem Girls At as well as the trailer for the like titled Nothing But The Beat documentary.