Zedd, the Grammy-winning DJ, was burned out. PC gaming was the fix.

I had a very particular idea of what I wanted the sound to feel like. And then the big question was: How do I push my skin to feel different without it being technically better? How can you get creative with -- these are random things but -- a gunshot? I used, as a base layer, a snare drum and a kick drum together -- something that I use in my world a lot, and it gives you a similar punch, like a shot would. But that was the base layer, and I built on that and just experimented.