Lucas & Steve

From: Maastricht, The Netherlands

DJ style: “House.”

Best known for: “Beer pong skills.”

Lucas & Steve’s productions and DJ sets pull some serious numbers – but this Dutch duo are all about maximising the fun along the way. The past twelve months have been no exception, as the house titans played the first ever set on the Rotterdam subway, had a fan join them as a tour member for a day, and created an intro track for their debut Ultra Miami set within 24 hours of the show.

Amidst the escapades, Lucas & Steve have also returned to their producing A-game with tracks like ‘Careful What You Wish For (feat. Alida’) and ‘Best Of Me (feat. Philip Strand)’. Easily the pick of the bunch, however, is the Robert Miles-sampling ‘After Midnight’. Despite being on the outskirts of their comfort zone, the dark trance hit – produced alongside Yves V, and featuring Xoro – has become one of the pair’s most enduring tunes since 2021’s ‘Anywhere With You’. It also formed the epicentre of a summer of career-topping festival sets, including Airbeat One, Tomorrowland, Parookaville and more.

Giving new meaning to the ‘work hard, play hard’ adage, the best pal duo continue to dominate the international house continuum, with the help of a playful mindset anda lotof tequila.

Hero of 2023: “Barbie / Ken.”

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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.