Deadmau5’s appearance in this year’s Top 100 DJs poll is not all that surprising – after all, Joel Zimmerman has been at the forefront of the EDM scene for over 15 years. With his distinctive masked look and grandiose shows, he’s done more than almost anyone else within dance music to blur the boundaries between DJing and live performance.
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.
