Martin Jensen has spent the past few years refining how he balances crowd energy, personal instinct, and large-scale creative concepts within his DJ sets. While his club and festival performances remain rooted in direct audience interaction, his broader work has increasingly explored how context, location, and format can reshape what a set communicates.
That curiosity recently resurfaced through the return of Me, Myself, Online, Jensen’s livestream series that first gained global attention during the pandemic. Revived in 2025 through a collaboration with Spinnin’ Records and Mærsk, the project reached a new scale with a performance filmed aboard the Mary Mærsk at Aarhus Port. The set removed the physical crowd entirely and replaced it with a location-driven sense of tension, movement, and spectacle.
In this interview, Jensen discusses how he navigates planning versus spontaneity, why confidence plays a central role in trusting his instincts, and how projects like Me, Myself, Online have shifted his understanding of energy, pressure, and creative flow in the booth.
Interview With Martin Jensen
When you’re deep into a set, do you feel more like you’re controlling the energy or riding it?
When I’m playing in front of crowds, either at festivals or club shows, I really like to tap into the crowd’s energy and feed off that. I always want to bring my signature Martin Jensen sound, but also show every facet of it, from my more bass and club-focused tracks like the ones on my HYPEBEAST EP earlier this year, to the more house and pop-leaning tracks fans already know.
The interesting thing with my recent Me, Myself, Online project, which we revived with a special set alongside Spinnin’ Records and Mærsk, is that there is no audience present. The energy comes from the unusual locations instead. That allows fans to tune in from anywhere in the world, and in those performances I usually start with a clear idea of direction and then improvise so the set can flow naturally.
How much of your set is usually planned versus improvised, and has that balance shifted over time?
Sometimes it is necessary to plan an outline of where I want the set to go. There are moments where I know I want to drop certain tracks at very specific times, like during sunset to capture that golden-hour feeling, before taking things darker later into the night.
That said, I always want room for spontaneity. Riding that wave keeps things organic and prevents the set from feeling locked in or mechanical.
Have you ever had a moment where you let go of the plan and everything clicked in a new way?
Yes, many times. Early on, I had a very surface-level idea of what becoming a DJ and producer would be like, but the reality is far more business-focused than most people expect. Contracts and big labels do not always have your best interests at heart, and you have to learn when to fight for your corner and when to let go.
Having a strong team that understands what I am trying to achieve makes it easier to surrender control in the right moments. Finding that balance has been part of my growth, and I am genuinely excited about what is coming in 2026.
What does it take for you to trust your instincts in the booth, even when it involves risk?
It comes down to confidence in my music and in my skill level. I have been doing this since I was very young, and while my life has changed a lot over the years, I have stayed grounded through it all.
I feel like I am in the strongest creative flow of my career right now, and that makes it easier to embrace risk and trust my instincts fully.
Do you think trying to control every moment can get in the way of connection with the crowd?
Yes, absolutely. Going into a set with a rigid structure leaves no space for spontaneity. Even when mistakes happen, they should be treated as lessons rather than failures.
Feeding off the crowd is essential for building real connection. I never want to stay fixed in one approach. Developing my style and improving for my fans means staying flexible.
What helps you stay open to the moment when the pressure to deliver feels intense?
Trust in my ability, appreciation for my fans, and giving everything I have in that moment. Producing and performing are my passion, and that mindset keeps me focused and open.
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