Eric Prydz: “We’re not trying to recreate a DJ set – we’re building something entirely new”

Originally destroyed between Tomorrowland weekends in 2019 due to a stage collapse, the first Holosphere became legend overnight. Prydz and his team debated whether to rebuild the original or start from scratch. Ultimately, they chose progress. “It didn’t really feel like us or what we want to do,” Prydz tells Billboard. “We want to push forward.”

Eric Prydz on moving forward:
“It got to a point where it felt that going back and building something we started in 2017 didn’t really feel like us.”

This new version, housed in a 26-foot transparent LED sphere, projects holograms and space-inspired visuals that fully surround Prydz—who, for the first time, is completely sealed inside. “They lock me in,” he jokes. “It’s quite claustrophobic.” The custom rig required millimeter-level adjustments to fit the venue, with engineers literally shaving parts off days before opening night.

Eric Prydz on the new structure:
“You could probably put a deck of cards between the structure and the floor.”

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urprisingly, he recently played Call on Me—his 2004 mega-hit—for the first time in 20 years during a set in Austin. The moment came without any planning.

Eric Prydz on playing ‘Call on Me’:
“It was almost like a joke… I was like, ‘Well, it’s in the same key as the track I’m playing now,’ so I just played it.”

Despite the visual spectacle, Prydz insists this isn’t just an amplified DJ set. It’s an entirely separate artistic format. A larger, 10-meter version of the sphere is already in the works for an international arena tour.

Eric Prydz on the bigger picture:
“We’ve got an arena-level show going into a nightclub every week.”

Holosphere 2.0 proves once again: Prydz doesn’t just perform electronic music—he engineers the future of how we experience it.

Read the full interview with Eric Prydz via Billboard.