Burak Yeter

From:Amsterdam, via Turkey

DJ style:“House.”

Best known for:“‘Tuesday’.”

To say that 2024 was a big year for the Amsterdam house head Burak Yeter is an understatement. The DJ and producer has aspirations to become the first ever musician to perform in the stratosphere. Yes, you read that right — Yeter is performing inspace. Ascending from Barcelona, Yeter will attach himself to a series of balloons that bring him above the atmosphere and will allow him to perform a DJ set at the border of the celestial. While the outer fringes of the cosmos have long been an inspiration for electronic music, Yeter takes this gambit literally and is writing himself into the history books in the process.

As if that wasn’t enough, he also kept up an exhaustive booking schedule (on Earth), playing everywhere from ADE to Exit Festival, criss-crossing the globe from Dubai to Miami. He also released one of his biggest tracks to date, the anthemic and appropriately titled, ‘Go To Space’. It doesn’t seem like Yeter can get much higher, but who knows what next year will bring.

Fave tune of 2024?

“Hugel x Topic x Arash ‘I Adore You’.”

Rising star DJ/producer of 2024?

“Anyma.”

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Faustix

From:Denmark

DJ style: “Big techno.”

Best known for: “Collaboration with Diplo, Faustix, Imanos and Kai called ‘Revolution’.”

Everything about 2024 was big and bold for Faustix. The Danish dance music lifer found a new sound over the course of the past year, where ropey and dramatic arpeggios dart in and out of brash techno kicks and every drop feels like barreling down a dopamine rollercoaster. Each release seemed to push the envelope further and further — from the soaring emotions of ‘Lead Me To Love You’ with vocalist Mougleta to ‘All My Friends Are Hot’, whose cheeky vocal flip (“All my friends are hot and only listen to techno”) was the perfect summer festival anthem. Add to that a teased remix of Belgian Stromae ‘Alors on danse’ and it’s clear that 2024 was, without a doubt, the year Faustix found a whole new groove.

While he’s certainly been busy in the studio, Faustix has also played everywhere — from 13,000 person raves in the middle of Copenhagen to gigs on the Faroe Islands. Faustix, in other words, hasn’t taken his foot off the gas for even a second. And, with each gig and release, he is testament to how much people still love pumping, hard-edged techno.

Fave tune of 2024?

“Dash Berlin ‘Till The Sky Falls Down’, it’s an all-time classic and still gets me