After notching two No.1 singles in recent years - including the Rita Ora collaboration 'Hot Right Now' - DJ Fresh is one of dance music's top names.

The Brit is unleashing his new single 'Make U Bounce' on June 29 ahead of a new album later in the year and Pressparty caught up with the music maestro to find out more.

Is it fair to say your new single 'Make U Bounce' is a summer anthem?

It would be great if it is. It's definitely something that's getting a great reaction in my DJ set - I've been playing versions of it for quite a long time. I remember playing it in Majorca last year and I sent a video of it to [collaborator] TC because they were going nuts. Over the last couple of years, a lot of people know the words to a lot of stuff I've done and it gets a great reaction when you play it, but if they don't know it, it doesn't immediately go down so well - some of the more instrumental stuff, for example. The great thing about 'Bounce' is that it has always got that amazing reaction even before people knew what it is, so I'm excited about it.

Do you think it will replicate your recent chart success or are you not too bothered about that?

I've got no idea really. I guess it depends on whether people like or whether it gets played on the radio a lot. All that I'm really concerned about when it comes down to it is that I'm happy with the things that I release. That's the important thing for me.

I take though you were pretty pleased when you got those number ones?

Yeah, massively. I totally wasn't expecting that. When we were doing 'Louder', because everyone was so hyped up about it, I was like 'where do you think it's going to get to?' and my manager said 'well, it's actually top five'. And I couldn't believe it. And when it went to number one, it was completely mind-blowing. 

The video for the new single - what's the big hands all about?

That's a very good question. A bit of fun, I suppose? I was actually supposed to wear the hands myself, but I was like 'no way'. So we managed to revise the storyline somewhat. The idea behind the song when we wrote it…I guess me and Tom, doing what we do and being all over the place doing gigs…it's this idea that if you met somebody and they're with you and you can't get any time to be with them on their own - you're trying to entertain everybody else apart from them - that was kind of the ironic twist in the title. It was quite a fun way of capturing that in a music video without it being too serious, because it's just a bit of fun really. I'm really happy with it.

Do you have any new information about your next album?

It's going to be a like a compilation mix album. It's going to have like a lot of new stuff from me and some tracks from other people as well and I think it will be mostly mixed. The idea is to do something that is what it says on the box and something that is unashamedly what it is and not trying to be something else. I realised earlier this year that I haven't actually made an album yet that fits my own idea of what an album should be. It's always been that I've made a few singles and then I've had stuff that I wanted to release, and this is a way of releasing a large amount of music before it gets too old - as opposed to being like a journey across an hour or whatever. So, I figured rather than doing another quote unquote album, I would do something that was aimed towards just doing what you'd want a dance album to do - be something great to put on at a party - and then to transition into doing something much more involved afterwards.

What people have you got in to help out on the record?

Steve Aoki, Tinie Tempah, Ellie Goulding, obviously Diplo on the first single, TC on this single, Jay Fay and Miss Dynamite on 'Dibby Sound'. There were other producers, more underground producers like Schizophrenic, Andy C and John B. It's a really quite a diverse selection of stuff, but it's all quite heavy, go off in a club kind of stuff.

How smooth was the creative process on the album?

Pretty smooth. I've been bursting with ideas and I was really excited about getting into the studio. The record label has been very accommodating as well.

Do you think it'll be better than your last one?

I can't really say if it's better or worse - I think it's just different. The last album had some great tracks, but I feel looking back on it, I didn't embark upon it as an album enough. But it was quite a crazy time with everything going on with 'Hot Right Now' with Rita and touring and putting together a band. It was a really crazy period - I didn't really have too much time to think too much about what I was doing, I was just making music and packaging it together. So I'd really like in the future to be able to think about it from the beginning and to not be chasing after singles that have been released off it. To present it as a full body of music and then release stuff from it afterwards.

Speaking about the future, you've got a Capital FM radio show called The Future of Dance. What do you think the future of dance music is?

You'll have to listen to the show to find out [laughs]. The show is an opportunity for me to highlight all different kinds of dance music that I'm hearing from all over the place. There's no restrictions - it can range from the deeper end of stuff to drum and bass, anything that's going on - stuff that I'm excited about. Hopefully within that I will encompass the future of dance. I suppose everybody likes different things - so what is the future? What does that mean? But it's an opportunity to get the best of what I'm hearing out there.

How do you think dance music has changed since you started making music?

It's definitely become much more commercialised. I hate that word, but it is much, much more commercialised. I was thinking this afternoon that if you had a sh*tload of money you could probably just invest a million quid and create a DJ name and stick somebody on stage. Most of those guys don't even make any of their own music. I've been amazed talking to songwriters and singers and realising how little some of the massive names in dance music actually have to do with their own records. I'm keen to be hands on with everything. I did a session with a writer yesterday - and I don't normally work with writers - but it was someone who's done some tracks that I really loved, and he was in town. I thought it'd be interesting to meet him apart from anything else, and he was saying to me that he was really surprised by how much involvement that I have in my own stuff. I think Calvin Harris has that too. And I think in dance music where a lot of the music is so electronic and so synthetic, even though you can kind of program your own sounds and put your own spin on it, writing lyrics and writing songs ties everything together and creates ownership over it - but it's really surprising to see how many people that I think would be lumped in the same kind of bracket as me on a label level who don't really write any of their own music at all. But the same thing's happened with pop music as well, so I guess that's just the reaction of the music industry to what people are buying and are reacting to.

You recently tweeted about reuniting [previous group] Bad Company. A lot of people seemed excited - do you think it will happen?

I don't know whether it will happen or in what sense it it's going happen, but I know it's something that I would like to happen at the the moment - which I haven't before - so it's definitely been really interesting talking to those guys about doing stuff and thinking about what we would do. A lot of the sounds of Bad Company were the result of technology at the time and the way that we were using it, so one of the things we have been talking about is whether we can get that same human element into new music made with technology and equipment the way that it is at the moment. It's difficult to say, but we're definitely firing some ideas around and talking about it.

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Watch the video for DJ Fresh's 'Make U Bounce' below: