KAAZE

From:Sweden

DJ style:Big room

Best known for:Melodies

You only need to watch a little of the KAAZE TV episode, ’First Show In My Hometown’, to get a feel for how beloved Sweden’s rising progressive star currently is. Putting the work in for well over a decade now means current status is best described as just desserts — pay-off for dedicating so many hours, and so much of himself, to both the scene and sound, gradually building a following since before the legendary Tiesto first picked up on his talent through a 2012 demo.

By 2019, the pride of Helsingborg — his hometown, and the closest Swedish city to neighbouring Denmark — was dropping his own chart-topping anthems like ‘I Should Have Walked Away’, which passed the 50 million stream mark this summer, at which point the artist was in the midst of an extensive tour taking him everywhere from Amsterdam to Phuket. Meanwhile, that recent Steve Aoki collaboration, ‘Whole Again’, featuring John Martyn, looks set to enjoy similar longevity, cementing the fact that this name i

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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.”

What’s the longest DJ set you’ve