Timmy Trumpet

Timothy Smith, better known to the festival-going world as the big-tune-spinning, horn-tooting Timmy Trumpet, presents a showman’s image of controlled anarchy when he’s on stage — but it takes a lot of hard work to get to where he is today. As he relaxed on an Aegean island, on a rare break from this summer’s main stage circuit, he filled DJ Mag in on his background in jazz, his reliance on Stoicism... and the New York Mets

An accomplished jazz musician, Timmy Trumpet made the switch to electronic music some years ago and has quickly become one of the world’s biggest DJs, famed for his ecstatic energy, collaborative mindset and improvised trumpeting on stage. DJ Mag speaks to Timmy — and his wife Anett — about his journey so far