DJ BL3ND is the US sensation soon to break out onto European shores. The last year has seen him go from bedroom DJ to smash hit sensation, all because the series of DJ videos he uploaded to YouTube went viral.

“2013 has been a great year so far,” says the young, unnamed star who has a terrifying mask glued to his face the whole time. “I played a lot of shows for my fans around the US and I also have been locked up in the studio working on a bunch of fresh new stuff.“

He’s amassed some dizzying stats this year, including over 200 million YouTube views, 3 million Facebook fans and 20 million music downloads. Said music is a high gloss, high impact, maximalist sound that takes the most spikey elements of EDM, biggest drops of dubstep and most sawtooth synths, and welds them together into a hellish soundtrack that gets his fans “raging”.

“Now I'm ready for my international tour coming up in 2014,” he says, so you’d better watch out…