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Its been a decade now since the rise of Dirty Vegas and Days Go By, the international house music smash that jumped to renown thanks to its placement on radio and in a Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial.

But fans of cultishly beloved musical acts tend to have long memories, so when the British house trio plotted a much-anticipated comeback two years ago, the response was massive.

2011 was a crazy year, Dirty Vegas frontman Steve Smith said. We reformed the band, we put out an album [Electric Love] on Om Records, a West Coast label well known to electronic musicians. That was an amazing success we hit Top 5 on the iTunes dance chart and we had songs from the album featured in everything from HBO shows to Lucasfilm productions and Heineken commercials. We toured the world again, too.

The last time we caught up with Smith, whos lived in Scituate, Mass., for the better part of a decade now with his wife and daughters, was 2008. By then, he was three years removed from an amicable split with bandmates Ben Harris and Paul Harris and was releasing a solo album, This Town.

Fast forward a few more years however, and Dirty Vegas is not only back together but Smith has more solo work in the can, with another album now in production.

But about that Dirty Vegas reunion: with so much having changed in the music industry even between 2005 and 2011, Smith and his mates were wondering if thered still be an appetite for the band. The answer, Smith found, was far and wide.

Music travels farther than ever before you can share it immediately with anyone with a Wi-Fi connection, he said. So we had requests coming in from places like Macau crazy spots wed never been to before. In Beijing, people were outside our gig with posters to sign. It was really good. The first time wed toured the world heavily, it was a whirlwind. This time we really got a grasp of being onstage in all these places, thousands of miles from home and having people know the music.

Smith will spend most of July away, starting with dates in Brazil, but things will settle down a bit more next month when he plays some live shows from his solo project.

Its been bubbling away for a while now, and this year it felt right to do it, he said of the new album, for which he recently traveled to Spanish party island Ibiza for inspiration.

I lived in Ibiza many years ago. Its a very creative place, Smith said. "Dirty Vegas has always been big energy, anthemic-type songs. These are a little bit quieter. Theres an electronic pulse to them but theyre not really 2 a.m. type songs more sitting around the pool type things.

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Electronic dance music artist Steve Smith whips up wicked beats