Alok

From:Brazil

DJ style:“Brazilian bass, dance-pop, hyper-techno.”

Best known for:“Bringing Brazilian bass music to the global level.”

“I’ve been working hard, producing music, learning to be a father every day, making some seemingly crazy ideas come true, and trying to take life lightly even with a hectic schedule of travel and shows,” says Alok. In typical fashion he’s playing it down somewhat.

Alok is nothing short of a DJing colossus in his home nation of Brazil. To see in the New Year, he played to a reported one million people on the beach in Fortaleza, a city in the north-east of the nation. Drone footage that circulated online looked more like a scene from Lord Of The Rings than a DJ set, but that’s just testament to the passion of the Brazilian people to get behind their heroes. He later played a ginormous Carnival show, and in August “I had my own show on Brazil’s most famous beach, Copacabana, where I performed for hundreds of thousands of people on a 360-degree pyramid-shaped stage. It was insane,” he adds. Elsewhere he’s played all the usual mega-fests like Tomorrowland, EDC Las Vegas, and Untold, and renowned superclubs like Ushuaïa Ibiza, Boston’s Big Night Live, and Cavo Paradiso in Mykonos.

On the production front, September saw Alok drop the soaring trance of ‘Jungle’ with The Chainsmokers and Mae Stephens, while August was all about the percussive ‘Drum Ma

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Le Shuuk

From: Stuttgart, Germany

DJ style:“Hard dance / electro / hardstyle / techno / EDM.”

Best known for: “The tracks ‘Sandmann’, ‘Toast Hawaii’ and ‘Konje’, as well as being a resident and face of WORLD CLUB DOME Festival.”

A mainstay of the electronic scene for almost 20 years now, Stuttgart native Le Shuuk is no stranger to the rigours of touring. In the last 12 months, he decided to overhaul his lifestyle, committing to exercising regularly and abstaining from drinking during his shows. As a result, the DJ and producer, who is a favourite of the German festival circuit, says that he is having more fun on stage than ever. He credits these changes with allowing him to connect on a deeper level with his audiences, as well as redefine his career goals and look with renewed focus to the future.

The new healthy habits clearly agree with him. As well as recently performing at festivals and clubs across Europe, and holding his own Le Shuuk & Friends parties in his home city, he continues to build on the momentum of tracks like 2020’s peak-rave, German language tune ‘Sandmann’ and 2021’s hypnotic ‘Goodbye’ (featuring Xillions). This year he had another star turn with the explosive ‘Konje’, a collaboration with B-Stylezz that combined modern techno and EDM with the traditional elements of Bulgarian folk songs, with the track receiving big support from the likes of Armin van Buuren, Amelie Lens, and Joyhauser.