Reinier Zonneveld

From:Netherlands

DJ style:“Techno”

Best known for:“His unique live sets, for which he even holds an official Guinness World Record for the longest live electronic music set with original music only, featuring a combination of modern and classic analog equipment”

2022 DJ Mag North America cover star Reinier Zonneveld climbs one place to No. 26 in this year’s Top 100 DJs poll after a year of almost relentless releases. These include the six-track ‘Who Is Batman?’ EP with Italian producers T78 and MOTVS, ‘Rave Nation’ with Just_us, ‘Judgement Day’ with D-Devils, ‘Hard Kick Cheap Thrills’ with Nick Moreno, ‘Poison’ with Zeltak, ‘Bouncing Ball’ with Hannah Laing and trance legends, Push, and a rework of Tiga’s dance classic, ‘Sunglasses At Night’. Zonneveld has also used his Filth On Acid label to release music from Nicole Moudaber, UMEK, Amber Broos and more.

On the live stage, he has performed at a wide range of the world’s biggest festivals and parties from Ultra Music Festival to Time Warp, as well as playing b2b with an A.I. version of himself at R² festival, which had been trained on over 2,000 hours of the Dutch artist’s original music and recordings from more than 1,000 live shows. Zonneveld is also on the bill for the “longest rave at ADE” this y

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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