Darude admits he’s never actually been in a sandstorm

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Darude’s inexorable, monolithic EDM banger ‘Sandstorm’ is pretty accurately named given how it causes you to wince, shield your face and run in the opposite direction, but it’s all based on a lie - the Finnish DJ has never actually been in a sandstorm.

Darude, real name Ville Virtanen, was asked in a Reddit AMA today about his authority on the meteorological phenomena and whether he had experienced one during his 41 years of untz-untz-untz-making on Earth.

“No,” he conceded, “but [I have been in] a smaller one, dust devil, or whatever you want to call it..."

Wishing not to be seen as a fraud, he countered: “AND, I've got a picture from a few years back, when I was landing in Arizona I believe it was, where I literally landed like few minutes a sandstorm blew thru the airport area and you can see the edge on the pic. I tweeted something like "I've arrived" with the pic! :)” (sic).

This is almost as bad as the time MC Hammer admitted he’s not actually a fan of hammers.

Darude was once thrown out of a gig in Montreal for refusing to play ‘Sandstorm’, something the DJ put down to a “dickhead/cokehead owner/manager power tripping” in the AMA.

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