W&W

From:The Netherlands

DJ style:“High energy festival music.”

Best known for:“Getting the crowd going.”

Dutch dance duo W&W started 2023 with a big tour of China, performing their first shows since the pandemic. “It was great to be back,” W&W say. “All the shows were incredible, and the crowd was on fire.” They also played plenty of huge festival shows across Europe, popping up at AIRBEAT ONE, Parookaville and Open Beatz in Germany, Ultra and Day & Night in Croatia, Tomorrowland in Belgium, Frequency in Austria, and Creamfields in the UK, “a crazy summer tour that was arguably the best one so far in our career”, they add.

The prolific producers also managed to create a host of bangers this year, with fast and relentless tracks like ‘Gangster’, a collaboration with VINAI, and ‘Million Places’, made with R3HAB, part of their festival repertoire. ‘Kriss Kross’, a link-up with Da Tweekaz, boasted more precipitous drops than Everest.

“We’ve been releasing a lot of music, and we’re making tonnes of new music that we feel really excited about,” W&W say. The duo also put out loads of releases on their Rave Culture label from the likes of Andrew Rayel, Jay Hardway, Ben Nicky and Firebeatz. This November, catch them in Guatemala at the Road To Ultra event.

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Le Shuuk

From: Stuttgart, Germany

DJ style:“Hard dance / electro / hardstyle / techno / EDM.”

Best known for: “The tracks ‘Sandmann’, ‘Toast Hawaii’ and ‘Konje’, as well as being a resident and face of WORLD CLUB DOME Festival.”

A mainstay of the electronic scene for almost 20 years now, Stuttgart native Le Shuuk is no stranger to the rigours of touring. In the last 12 months, he decided to overhaul his lifestyle, committing to exercising regularly and abstaining from drinking during his shows. As a result, the DJ and producer, who is a favourite of the German festival circuit, says that he is having more fun on stage than ever. He credits these changes with allowing him to connect on a deeper level with his audiences, as well as redefine his career goals and look with renewed focus to the future.

The new healthy habits clearly agree with him. As well as recently performing at festivals and clubs across Europe, and holding his own Le Shuuk & Friends parties in his home city, he continues to build on the momentum of tracks like 2020’s peak-rave, German language tune ‘Sandmann’ and 2021’s hypnotic ‘Goodbye’ (featuring Xillions). This year he had another star turn with the explosive ‘Konje’, a collaboration with B-Stylezz that combined modern techno and EDM with the traditional elements of Bulgarian folk songs, with the track receiving big support from the likes of Armin van Buuren, Amelie Lens, and Joyhauser.