In what seems to be something of a trend amongst many of our Top 100 DJs this year, electro, prog and bass man, Florian Picasso toured less and worked more on music over the last 12 months. He says it’s made him happy and given him focus, and that spending time in a studio working on music in Los Angeles has been a real highlight.
Mladen Solomun has come a long way over the past decade. Emerging from the deep house scene of Hamburg, his adopted hometown — his family had moved there from the former Yugoslavia when he was a kid — Solomun founded the Diynamic label back in 2005. Initially, it served as a platform for local artists like Stimming, Kollektiv Turmstrasse and H.O.S.H, and their early, string-soaked melodic house EPs provided a sweet alternative to the robotic minimalism of that period. Solomun also pushed this sound in his own productions and DJ sets, and this distinctive, singular style has led him to become an increasingly popular international DJ.
