KSHMR

From:Berkeley, CA

DJ style:“Indian, big room, hip-hop.”

Best known for:“‘Secrets’, ‘Like A G6’, ‘Power’, ‘Kids’, ‘Wildcard’ and ‘Carry Me Home’.”

Since he first burst onto the scene with a series of ultra-slick, big-time, big-room releases on Spinnin’ Records in 2014, LA-based producer and DJ KSHMR had made a name for himself as one of the prime global purveyors of accessible main stage electro dance.

He’s since amassed a huge back catalogue of releases, collaborating with pretty much all the main players on the EDM/hardstyle/festival scene, and added to his discography this year with massive high-octane vocal tracks like his‘Eternity’ with Bassjackers and Timmy Trumpet or the day-glo mayhem of his Maddix collab ‘Close To You’.KSHMR also showed the smoother side of his production with solo effort ‘Heartbeat’ and his track with Quaterhead, ‘Major Lazer’, both of which were big for him this year.

2023 has seen KSHMR hard at work finishing his latest passion project, a brand new Indian hip-hop album project called ‘Karam’, while also continuing his mission to bring his particular brand of high-intensity, high-emotion festival main stage soundtrackers to the world. As he says, 2023 has been all about “touring the world and returning to dance music with a new revitalized passion!”

Hero of 2023:“The Great Carlini of Coffee Chess.”

Fave tune of 2023:“100 gecs ‘Dumbest Girl Alive’.”

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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.