Cat Dealers

From:Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

DJ style: “Cat House.”

Best known for:“Having a bunch of cats and playing some great/energetic music!”

Hailing from Rio, Brazilian brothers Lugui and Pedrão are both big football fans. So the last twelve months have been dominated by the renaissance of their beloved Botafogo. “Right now we are leaders of the national championship and we couldn’t be happier with it,” they tell us when we catch up. The duo have been flying high themselves, “touring non-stop around the world, always getting to know new places and cultures”. Meanwhile, closer to home, their Cat House Sessions have seen them playing across their home country.

Following last year’s main stage debut for Tomorrowland, the heavyweight brand released the Dealers most recent single, ‘Partycrashers’, featuring the vocals of Dom Vallie. Trance don Armin van Buuren, meanwhile, got them onboard to remix ‘Computers Take Over The World’, a track about the influence of AI on dance music. “The fact that you can now separate full songs into almost perfect stems is a game changer,” the siblings tell us on their own embrace of AI. “Doing remixes and edits was never this easy!” To prove it, their re-rub of Beyoncé’s ‘PURE/HONEY’ became a fan favourite.

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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.