“I don’t think I’ve made it,” says ALOK rather humbly, despite placing so highly in this year’s poll. “This is a recognition for all Brazilians and Brazilian artists. I hope I can be a ray of light to those people who believe that their art can take them above, as that is why I keep taking my beats out into the world — to wake up the positivity and good choices in the people who feel them.”
Marco Carola has been synonymous with what has become known as business techno for the last decade. He’s one of Ibiza’s biggest draws thanks to his own Music On night, and is just as big in the festival game given that he hosts his own Music On weekender in Amsterdam each May. This year, of course, it was postponed, as was his full Ibiza season, leaving fans desperate for some of that stripped back, rolling minimal techno that is known as the Neapolitan sound.
