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Duke Dumont Has Hits -- With His Debut Album, He Just Wants to Make Art

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"I've got six or seven top 40 U.K. records... And I'm saying, 'It does not make you a success.'" How many top 40 hits does a producer need before they can consider themselves a success?

Ask Duke Dumont, and he'll tell you none of that matters. The U.K. star has been a figurehead of the '90s house revival since storming his home country's mainstream with “Need U (100 %) in 2013, but he was a master of the club scene years before that.

He worked his way up from $100 gigs to the biggest festivals in the world, and though he's had loads of chart success, he's far from satisfied.

Duke wants quality and quantity, a real “body of work,” and he takes his first big step towards the big leagues with debut album Duality.

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