When Will Sparks tells us he “hasn’t stopped touring” this year, we very much believe him. His action-packed tour diary kicked into action on January 5th and barely stopped, taking in dozens of dates across his native Australia as well as stops in the UK, America, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Thailand, Greece, Sweden, Croatia, Italy and many, many more.
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.
