Martin Garrix was recently interviewed by DJ Mag and in the 60 Seconds With Martin Garrix, Martin revealed that he had made a “ghost production for somebody else — I can’t tell you which track I made — but this track got signed to Spinnin’ Records and became really big. They found out that I made it, and so they invited me to their office and I played them my other stuff — and we signed.” Many had speculated that Martin Garrix originally had “Animals” ghost produced, but after uploading a video of him piecing together a track, these claims were discredited.
Martin Garrix continues on to say during the interview that “I was a little bit afraid that it went too fast, cos when I made ‘Animals’ and it became big so quickly I was like, ‘Oh shit, this has happened really fast’, and I didn’t have any other tracks ready to release yet. That was a really shitty feeling, thinking I had to come up with something that was on the same level as ‘Animals’. At that point I was like ‘Oh, shit, I don’t want to be like a one-hit dude’, but now I’ve got five or six new tracks ready. I have some really big collaborations with some of the biggest in the world… I can tell you one, it’s with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike“