Fedde Le Grand

From:Utrecht, Netherlands.

DJ style:“House.”

Best known for:“‘Let Me Think About It’ / ‘Put Your Hands Up For Detroit’.”

Fave tune of 2022:“Massano ‘The Feeling’.”

Rising star DJ/producer of 2022:“ACRAZE.”

With the pandemic easing in 2022, Dutch house whiz Fedde Le Grand’s tour schedule kicked back into overdrive. The author of perennial club and radio hits like ‘Put Your Hands Up For Detroit’ and ‘The Creeps’ played shows across the United States, stopping off in Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Kansas City and St. Louis. He also appeared at South Outdoor Festival in the new summer season hotspot of Albania, and the massive Mysteryland event, back on his home turf of The Netherlands.

Fedde also, in addition to “playing, gardening, making baby’s cooking, and having fun with friends”, focused on his Darklight Sessions radio show. Stuffed with energetic house cuts, the show has reached an astonishing 527 editions (at the time of writing). On the production front, Fedde continued his prolific run, putting out a variety of tunes, from the disco pop influenced ‘Wouldn’t Be Me’ with 22Bullets and JAMIE, to the stadium-sized ‘One Way Up’ with American Authors and the funkier, bass-driven club flavour of ‘Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You’. There are bound to be more hits before the year is out.

What’s the best DJ set you’ve seen this year?

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Cuebrick

From:Germany

DJ style:“Progressive house.”

Best known for:“‘Squid Game’ with Blasterjaxx.”

Fave tune of 2022:“James Hype ‘Ferrari’.”

Rising star DJ/producer of 2022:“Marten Horger.”

What’s the best DJ set you’ve seen this year?“Tale Of Us, Afterlife show at the Brooklyn Mirage.”

After finishing just outside of the Top 100 in 2021, this year German DJ and producer Cuebrick breaks in for the first time this year. He now sits at the top table of global dance music after standout shows everywhere from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Singapore to Bangkok.

While releasing big tunes on labels like Spinnin Records, Armada and Ultra Music, he also works as a radio-host on bigFM’s nitroX show, which is the biggest radio platform for electronic music in Germany.

This year he has worked on a new sound which he says “can best be described as a fusion of different elements from genres such as techno, hard techno, and trance. Hard techno kicks are the foundation, with classic trance synthesizers.” It’s a sound that has seemingly connected with fans, who will be pleased to learn Cuebrick has signed a deal meaning “Smash the House will be the main home for my music for at least the next two years.”

Name one great festival you played for the first time this year…

“Hypercat Festival at Noa Beach Club.”

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