W & W

Willem & Wardt have kept all the necessary plates spinning over the last twelve months and thrown a couple of new ones up for good measure. To expand both their musical and overall scope, last October their Mainstage Music label was replaced by Rave Culture. That’s already been the platform for ‘Let The Music Take Control’ — their pairing with Blasterjaxx — and enjoyed more weighty success with their Maurice West team-up, ‘Matrix’. Rave Culture is “more than just a record label” though, emphasises Willem, with the pair capping off a busy spring by launching their associated streetwear line.

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Solomun

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.