09/30/2026
Nick Warren (Nick Warren) has been around long enough to know that careers are rarely built by music alone.
Records matter, taste matters, and a DJ still has to be able to stand in front of a room and make the hours feel like they belong together. But behind that public version of a career are the people who keep it moving when the record is finished, the flight is booked, the party needs building, the label needs attention, and life outside the booth refuses to stay separate from the work.
Warren names Petra first, the person beside him for the past two decades, who runs The Soundgarden events, handles his social media, and helps with everything around the project. He also points back to Massive Attack at the beginning of his career, where friendship and creative proximity opened doors that even good music might not have reached on its own.
For an artist as tied to progressive house history as Warren, those admissions matter because they push back against the lonely-genius version of DJ culture that still gets sold far too often.
Waves, his first release for Through Gods Own Eyes, gives the conversation a fitting backdrop. The four-track EP includes Warren’s original alongside remixes from Paul James Nolan, Richard Norris, and Simon Sheldon, each version pulling a different side out of the same melodic idea. Warren’s original sits close to Ibizan dusk, breakbeat movement, dreamy pads, fluttering synth-flutes, and deep bass, while the remixes push the record toward progressive house, hypnotic electronics, and late-’90s club memory.
In the interview below, he talks about Petra, Massive Attack, enthusiasm, help, status, and why newer electronic artists should stop pretending they have to do everything alone.
