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His latest release, “THE BEAT” with Hurts on Speedmaster, embodies this balance. It’s physical yet melodic, spontaneous yet calculated.
“For me, Hurts is a very exciting
upcoming artist and great producer who was based in Berlin at the time. We decided to jump in the studio together, and from there, it all came together really naturally. There wasn’t any big plan behind it; we just went with the flow, bounced ideas back and forth, and ended up with this absolute banger.”
Collaborations and Collective Energy For
DJ
isn’t about convenience; it’s about chemistry.
GUESTLIST, collaboration His ongoing partnership
with Mika Heggemann captures that perfectly, blending power and emotion into something greater than the sum of its parts.
“Mika and I have both been around electronic music for many years and share a similar mindset. He started slightly earlier, but we both played a role in reshaping the new trance movement. I’ve always admired him; he’s one of the most inspiring and technically skilled producers in the scene. Our connection was instant, both musica- lly and personally, which made working together
feel natural. He brings the
club-ready power; I bring the emotio- nal depth. Together, it just clicked. The result is a powerful blend of our styles, which will be released on December 19 on Hannah Laign’s Label Doof.”
“Mainz shaped everything for me; it’s my hometown and where my musical journey truly began. I started DJing at 16, so I’ve been doing this for more than ten years now. Back then, I played groo- ve-based techno music at small local events. After COVID, I shifted towards trance together with a friend, and that change felt like a new era for me. The moment I realized it could be more than a hobby was when bookings started co- ming from outside Mainz and Frankfurt. From that point on, it wasn’t just pas- sion anymore; it became a real vision I’d been chasing for a decade. Berlin ope- ned the door to international gigs, I quit my 9-5 job to concentrate on my career fully, and so far, this was one of the best choices I made.”
That decision marked the start of a new era. In the studio, DJ GUESTLIST works with intuition and emotional precision, constantly seeking the per- fect intersection between feeling and rhythm.
“For me, emotion always comes first; it’s what drives my creativity in the studio. Every
track starts with a specific
feeling, and from there, I build the rhythm and the arrangement. Sometimes I have to remind myself not to get too emotional, to keep that raw club energy alive. Revisiting a project the next day often gives me a new perspective and new ideas. My goal is always to make tracks that move both body and mind, hard and emotional at the same time. My sets follow a similar flow: they begin with driving energy and end with a sense of emotional release.”
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Behind the decks, GUESTLIST cons- tructs his sets like architectural blueprints: arcs of tension and release that make time feel elastic.
“The energy of the crowd always
influences how I build my sets; it’s a dia- logue. I like to create long arcs: starting with hard, driving energy and ending with an emotional punch. Most of my sets are not pre-planned; I play from instinct and what I feel at the moment. I still pay attention to details like key-mi- xing and emotional balance. I choose tracks that follow a natural tension cur- ve, avoiding too many long breaks in a row. For me, a good set tells a story that makes sense from the first track to the last.”
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