Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike

From:Belgium/Greece

DJ style:“An eclectic fusion of post-rave, gabber, raw and hard techno.”

Best known for:“Being the ambassadors of Tomorrowland and DJ Mag’s highest ranked duo/group for over a decade.”

Over the summer, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike brought their Tomorrowland Presents event to Ushuaïa Ibiza, taking over Wednesdays at the venue. For Dimitri, it was their best season yet, a residency they balanced along with festival shows at Creamfields, Untold, Airbeat One, Medusa in Spain and Ikarus in Germany. Dimitri surprised fans with a special vinyl-only DJ set at Tomorrowland, leaning into gabber and hard techno, and when the duo played together at the same event, they were joined by Hollywood royalty Vin Diesel onstage.

DVLM made loads of new tracks in 2024, both together and with their respective solo projects, with Mike promising three solo albums soon. “We’ve been constantly reinventing our sound and really enjoying the creative process,” Dimitri comments. “Needless to say, we have plenty of music ready to release.”

Among their releases this year were ‘Rave Generator’, a hectic Will Sparks collaboration with a relentless synth riff, a new remix of the Harold Faltermeyer Beverley Hills Cop theme ‘Axel F’ (the same track that Crazy Frog used), and ‘Lights Up’ with Nicky Romero, a thumping festival cut with a bu

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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