We asked darude about the making of the iconic Sandstorm track, and how it has had 25 years of being played everywhere on dancefloors, walkons & stadiums, games, remixes, across the web and more - "When it came to actually producing Sandstorm, the first thing people often think of is the lead sound,.the "dududu" if you will, and that I'd already started working on in around 1997. So the Sandstorm riff stayed on my hard drive for a couple of years, then in Summer '99 I just so happened to open the file again. I liked the melody, and at the time I was using a Cubase VST 24 which had a plugin called Quadrafuzz and once I distorted the sound with it, it because what is now known as the Sandstorm lead. After that, it took only a day or so for me to build the chords around the main melody, then a few sessions maybe over a week to develop it into a full track. It got played by a few local DJs in Finnish clubs, then JS16, Jaakko Salovaara, now a close friend, took me under his wing and at ...