575 DJMAG.COM LIVING & BREATHING DANCE MUSIC! DJMAG.COM TOP 100 DJs POLL THE FULL RESULTS! INTERVIEWS WITH ALL THE TOP JOCKS THE TRENDS, NEW ENTRIES & STATS NINA KRAVIZ, ANDY C, EATS EVERYTHING & MORE TALK ABOUT THEIR MENTORS • MUSIC MUSIC • CLUBS CLUBS SPOTLIGHT ON UNSUNG PIONEERS DJ PIERRE, MIKE DUNN & DJ BONE • TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY TECH AWARDS RESULTS! • ALL THE BEST NEW KIT A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF MARTIN GARRIX STILL THE WORLD’S NO.1 DJ! No. 575 November 2017 November PLUS: GOLDIE, MISS KITTIN, TOUGH LOVE, NASTIA, JORI HULKKONEN, JENSEN INTERCEPTOR, No.575 November 2017 £4.95 £4.95 RAHAAN, DANA RUH, BYRON THE AQUARIUS, BILL BREWSTER, PETER VAN HOESEN, IMAGINATION, GOLDEN TEACHER, FEMME... cover final!!!.indd 1 13/10/2017 14:20 Untitled-1 1 13/10/2017 14:23 CONTENTS 040 WORLD’S NO.1 DJ Having claimed the Top 100 DJs crown for the second year in a row, Martin Garrix shares his top moments of the past 12 months... Cover pic: LOUISA VAN DOODAR 037 TOP 100 DJS COUNTDOWN 130 UNDER THE INFLUENCE 137 HISTORY IN THE MAKING The full results from this year’s Top 100 DJs Nina Kraviz, Eats Everything, Andy C and We chat to DJ Pierre, Mike Dunn and DJ Bone poll, with handy analysis from our hacks too... more reveal their DJing mentors... about making noise from behind the scenes... 145 AGE OF AQUARIUS 148 CATCH THE BEAT 160 FRIEND ZONE Rising Atlanta star Byron The Aquarius DJ Mag chases down Jenson Interceptor to We join Nic Fanciulli to celebrate fi ve years of discusses the move from jazz to house... talk all things electro... his Maidstone-based fest, The Social... 016 COMIN’ UP Golden Teacher, Peter Van Hoesen, FEMME, Joki Hulkkonen, Tru Thoughts, Bill Brewster... 156 ON THE FLOOR Discovering fresh talent in Poland, exploring Oasis Festival, Fly Open Air reviewed... 187 MUSIC REVIEWS Call Super, Extrawelt, Anja Schneider, Roman Flügel, SMD, Honey Dijon, Kelela, Rocks FOE... 224 THE BEAT OF THE DRUM 227 CIRCUIT BREAKER 214 TECH Experimental footwork producer, We get to grips with Novation’s new Mono Secret Cinema does Maschine Jam, V-Moda Machinedrum, invites us inside his studio... 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Advertising Sales & Marketing Director Heath Holmes [email protected] Sales Manager Chris Blackhall [email protected] CONGRATS, MARTY! Advertising Manager Iain McGoldrick [email protected] So there’s a new set of Top 100 DJs results, and it’s perhaps no Managerial surprise that Dutch wunderkind Martin Garrix has retained the No.1 Publisher James Robertson spot — he’s had such a big year, as we profile in his big winner’s Managing Director Martin Carvell feature from page 40 onwards. Who else could you imagine winning Accounts Patricia Jordan [email protected] this year? I first interviewed Garrix just after his big breakthrough track ‘Animals’ dropped. He was extremely well-adjusted for one so young Events — but then most of the Dutch DJs I’ve met seem to be, too. I Head of Events Adam Saville [email protected] remember thinking how mad it was that one big record could Events Booker Alex Donald [email protected] catapult you into an international DJ career, but he’s shown since Events Manager Alex Anderson [email protected] that he’s no one-hit wonder. So let’s adopt a goofy voice and say ‘Congrats, Marty!’… A few of the chairs have been re-arranged at the top end of the chart Subscriptions (page 48 onwards), but a bit further down the poll a slew of Email [email protected] ‘underground’ names have been voted in — Solomun, Black Coffee, Telephone +44 20 7684 4881 Richie Hawtin, Maceo Plex, Alison Wonderland, Andy C, Disclosure Online subscribe.djmag.com etc. This perhaps suggests that the EDM stranglehold on the Top 100 is on the wane, and that clubbers from the more discerning scenes that these guys are involved with are engaging with the poll more. 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DJS PLEDGE THOUSANDS IN WAKE OF RECENT TRAGEDIES Seth Troxler and Diplo call on other DJs to dig deep for good causes THIS YEAR has seen a number of tragedies, both half the money from those discounted tickets to with an overwhelming response from the EDM natural and man-made, shock the globe, and often the disaster relief fund. world, for which Las Vegas has become a particular has seemed as if the whole world is crashing down hub. The likes of Kaskade, Dillon Francis, Calvin around us (after all, good news doesn’t sell). Several days later, Diplo donated $100,000 to the Harris and Marshmello answered the call, while Recently, however, big name DJs have been using Las Vegas shooting victims’ fund. The Vegas attack, Tiësto and Steve Aoki even doubled the amount, their money and infl uence to at least help the which took place during a country music festival, raising almost $1 million in a single day.