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DJ Mag Top100 DJs
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Blasterjaxx
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“Turbulent” is Blasterjaxx’s adjective of choice to describe their year, speaking to DJ Mag all the way from Shanghai. “But we’re very happy to look back and say that we’ve really established our place in the dance scene.”

Debuting in the Top 100 in 2013, Thom Jongkind and Idir Makhlaf met at the gym and, since that fateful workout, haven’t once looked back. Treating their fans (or “Blastersoldiers”) to their ‘Maxximize On Air’ podcast and an array of festival appearances (Tomorrowland, Ultra, Sziget) this year, the pair prove they're still going strong.

One project this year saw them teaming up with Electric Family to develop a bracelet, with all proceeds going towards helping millions of blind adults and children.

The trance, hardstyle and house producers have spent the past six months building their own studio and in there have been “raising the level compared to the years before. Not only as Blasterjaxx, as artists, have we grown but definitely have also matured on a personal level,” they say.

A recent Facebook post of theirs promised that for each ‘Like’, they’d do one push-up — meaning that by now they should have done 33,712. Good luck guys!