SMASHING UP
THE HOUSE!
This issue’s corker of a covermount CD ‘Smash The House!’ comes
courtesy of hotly-tipped electro house tag team, Dimitri Vegas &
Like Mike. The year 2010 has their names stamped all over it…
Words: HELENE STOKES
T
he smashing pair, of Greek origin, reside in Technotronic’s ‘Pump Up The Jam’, ready to be unleashed But it’s all at once, so it’s very hectic! We’re going to be
Belgium, having also spent a couple of years on the Miami masses in March… there the whole week, and playing virtually everyday.”
living in Ibiza, the lucky sods. Last year, Swedish Dimitri: “The last time we were in Miami was two months
mafiosi Axwell commissioned their magical Tell us about your ‘Smash The House!’ mix CD… ago, and we were there one day. Apparently there is only
remixing talents for mega hit ‘Leave The World Behind’, and Dimitri: “Musically, it’s representative of our sound, a couple of days in the year when there is actually bad
from that moment on, they’ve been snowed under with because we’ve put a lot of our stuff that’s not out yet like weather and of course we were lucky to have one of those
remix requests. the remixes for Tiësto and John Dahlbäck on there. We days, so we spent one day in the rain over there, DJed, and
They are now realizing the dream of becoming world-class wanna show people what we do, production-wise. Mix-wise, then the next morning flew back. But we love it there, we
producers and artists extraordinaire, and with their own it’s not 100% representative because technically, during a could live there!”
label, Smash Music, in full effect, global domination real life set of ours, we’d probably play 30 tracks instead of
beckons. Dutch events bigwigs ID&T have taken them under 15. So it’s a bit different, you know, but we’re really happy You’ve lived in Ibiza, how did that come about?
their wing, declaring their first release ‘Tomorrow’, featur- with it.” Dimitri: “We both left Belgium when we were young, Mike
ing Dada Life, the official anthem for their Tomorrowland was about 15 and I was 17 going on 18. We travelled around
festival in Belgium on 24th and 25th July. Are you going to Miami? Europe working as entertainment in hotels, our DJing
When DJmag caught up with the guys, they were in the Mike: “Yeah, definitely, because we have a couple of events evolved from that. We lived a couple of years in Greece, the
studio, putting the finishing touches to a 2010 version of lined up, and we are most likely going to do our own event. Canary Islands and Majorca and then we ended up in Ibiza. ”
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