The appeal of Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike is now definitively global, though it all began in Belgium a decade ago after the pair returned to launch their musical partnership following a stint of living and working in Ibiza. Speaking to DJ Mag during their downtime after a show in South Korea where they played to a crowd in excess of 30,000 people, they’re gearing up for similarly huge shows in India. It’s certainly a formula that has been working magic for the brothers over the past few years. I think they feel this, and it’s the sort of thing that can really create a magical vibe at a party.” We try to connect with the crowd as much as possible. We’re not the kind of DJs who like to be isolated from the crowd, on an island alone and doing our thing. “At our shows this year, there would have been as many as 50 people standing with us behind the DJ booth. “We feel that the interaction with the crowd is vey important, we want the crowd to party as much as we do,” he says, pointing to their House Of Madness residency at Amnesia Ibiza this season as a prime example of how the duo break down the barrier between DJ and crowd. It’s this down-to-earth attitude that shines through when DJ Mag gets Dimitri on the phone to talk about the Top 100 DJs poll. Nonetheless, there’s none of the emotional distance that you’d associate with a typical pop star performance, as their sets are very much about connecting with their crowds. It’s excess and theatre that’s brimming with showmanship, and unambiguously focused on providing entertainment. It’s a quintessential Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike moment. With older brother Dimitri settling in behind the decks, it isn’t long before hype-man Mike is reaching out to the crowd with a bottle of vodka in hand, urging them all to “drink it up”. In the opening moments of last year’s annual Bringing The Madness show, which saw the brothers return to their home turf of Antwerp, Belgium for a spectacle-filled headline arena concert (this year’s upcoming shows have sold a whopping 80,000 tickets across four sold-out evenings, no less), Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are shown striding dramatically towards the stage in slow motion.Īs the arena is bombarded with flashing lights, and one of their unreleased jams ‘Action’ rings out over the speakers, the record’s drop is greeted with the requisite fireworks explosion.
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