Skrillex

From:USA

DJ style:Face melting

Best known for:Badass bass music

In 2023, when Skrillex burst back onto the scene with new albums ‘Quest For Fire’ and ‘Don’t Get Too Close’, performed headline sets at Coachella with Fred again.. and Four Tet, and crushed the now-infamous Madison Square Gardens sell-out show, the message was loud and clear: Skrillex is back.

Although this year things have seemed fairly quiet on the surface, with the California native retreating once again into relative obscurity with just a handful of festival performances in 2024 at events like Budapest’s Sziget and South Africa’s edition of Ultra, it’s clear that Skrillex is following his blueprint, taking a backseat from touring to focus on creating new music. With a handful of releases dropped at the latter part of last year alongside Flowdan, PEEKABOO, Lil Baby and Crayon, the last few months in 2024 has seen the first taste of what to expect from Skrillex in the near future. Keeping up the theme of mass collaborators and strictly soaring anthems, singles ‘TAIKA’, with Ahadadream, Priya Ragu and contra explores percussive soundscapes, while ‘Push’, the latest offering with Hamdi, TAICHU, OFFAIAH and contra, dives back into that signature, bass-heavy Skrillex sound we know and love. With Skrillex’s team further confirming that the DJ and producer is currently heads down in the studio, we’re excited to see where his sound go

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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