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MADEON
From: France.
Style: Nu disco/electro house/pop.
IT’S safe to say that Madeon was a very early
starter. Now known for his house/nu disco/
pop releases, when the 19-year-old (known to
his mum as Hugo Pierre Leclercq) ?rst started
making music he was just 11-years-old. These
early trance tunes were made under the
monikers Deamon and Wayne Mont. Then, in
2010, he hit on a nu disco/house and poppiertinged tip and switched all productions to the
name Madeon.
It wasn’t until 2011 that his early-start efforts
came to fruition. In the summer of that year
he decided to upload a vid of him performing
his mash-up tune ‘Pop Culture’. This pastiche
featured him mixing together samples from
39 pop songs in three minutes, all done onthe-?y using a Novation launchpad. Within
days the clip went viral and Madeon’s name
— and fast ?ngerwork — was all over every
dance forum, chat room and social media
network.
Since then things have hit ?fth gear for
Madeon. He’s performed alongside Jacques
Lu Cont in London and done live shows all
over the world. He’s also bagged several slots
on Pete Tong’s 15 Minutes of Fame slot on
BBC Radio 1 where he aired his debut single
‘Icarus’. And, of course, the gigs have been
steadily ?owing.
Now, with reverberations still happening from
the August release of his electro house tune
‘Technicolour’ (released on his own Popcultur
label), Madeon’s back in the studio. He
recently worked with Lady Gaga, on her album
‘ARTPOP’, but now he’s busy working on his
own material. CLAIRE HUGHES
EVEN by the Top 100’s standards, Vicetone’s
ascent has been pretty impressive. The
young Dutch duo, comprising of twentysomethings Ruben den Boer and Victor
Pool, only started making music in early
2012 and played their ?rst gig together only
a few months back. As you’d imagine, they
get pretty giddy when talking about it all.
“We played clubs like Pacha NYC, Space
Ibiza, Ministry of Sound in London and
New City Gas in Montreal,” they happily tell
DJ Mag. “We also went on a bus tour with
Nicky Romero through Canada and played
pretty much all over the United States.
2013 marks our ?rst year — and it’s been
one hell of a ride so far.” You can say that
again. STEPHEN FLYNN
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VICETONE
From: Holland. Style: “Melodic, big room house
music.” Best known for: ‘‘’Tremble’, various remixes.” Tune
of 2013: “Calvin Harris feat Ellie Goulding ‘I Need Your
Love’.” Breakthrough DJ/producer of 2013: “Martin Garrix.”
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Have DJs’ fees got out of hand? “With dance music
blowing up worldwide, the fees are always going to
go up as well. It’s just the market.” Has dance music
become the new pop? “Some dance tracks do just
as, or almost as well as pop tracks nowadays, and it’s
very exciting to see dance music being embraced by so
many people and getting so much radio play.” If you
could be any animal what would you be? “Probably a sloth. Life would be so relaxing and Kristen Bell
would dig us…” Should DJs do ‘heart hands’? ”Why
not? And who cares really? For us, all that matters
is that the crowd has the best time.” Do DJs have
a duty to speak out about drugs? “Education is
the answer here and people need to be aware of the
risks of drugs, which is an issue completely unrelated
to dance music or DJs.” What would be on your
fantasy rider? “A teleporting machine, a fully blown
professional studio with SSL mixer and vocal booth,
and a spa with a jacuzzi to top it all off!”