“She was with us in Ibiza and at Tomorrowland, and she did a song with my wife. “She’s a very good friend,” Dimitri says. They also worked with reality TV star, socialite and DJ, Paris Hilton, on a track entitled ‘Best Friend’s Ass’. These ranged wildly in style from the vocoder-led, raucous EDM of ‘Repeat After Me’, made with Armin van Buuren and W&W, to the slick R&B pop of ‘Selfish’, with singer Era Istrefi. We’ve done our residency at Amnesia too, we’ve been doing this thing for many years and Ibiza is super-special to us, but I realised that technically, I’m DJing at nearly the exact same place, but seeing what has happened to the whole world in 16 years - you know?”ĭespite their hectic schedule, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike managed to spend plenty of time in the studio, with a host of tracks and collaborations surfacing through Epic Amsterdam, Protocol, Armind and their own Smash The House label. Coming back to a sold-out Ushuaïa, that’s something surreal. Fast forward all these years, and there I am at the same spot, but it’s been turned into one of the biggest clubs in the world - into Ushuaïa - and instead of my shitty DJ booth by the pool, we play in one of the coolest spaces in the world. “I was doing the sound and lights, and I was DJing at a small spot next to the pool every day. “It was at Club Playa D’en Bossa, which was a cheap 18-30 hotel,” Dimitri says. With Ushuaïa occupying nearly the same spot in Playa d’En Bossa as a hotel Dimitri Vegas played at 16 years ago when he was just starting out as a DJ, the duo’s appearances over the summer at the world-famous club illustrate just how far they’ve come from humble beginnings. While the tag team also enjoyed shows in Asia and around much of Europe, their DJ residency in Ibiza was special for another reason.
We really miss the people, and the shows were so crazy.” Next year we’re going to play there way more. “We used to play South America so much, so that was like coming home.
“We did the Lollapalooza tour there,” Dimitri says. Taking their distinctive blend of EDM, trap and other genres to huge venues across the world, they mention South America as being a particular highlight, with festival appearances in Chile and Argentina standing out. The brothers had another banner year in 2019, with an exceptionally busy gig diary. The Greek-Belgian duo of Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike (real names Dimitri and Michael Thivaios) have returned to the throne after first being crowned No.1 in 2015, deposing Martin Garrix from his three-year reign. “For us it was unreal, it was a big surprise, to be honest. “I was caught off guard with the news that we’re No.1 again,” an excitable Dimitri Vegas tells DJ Mag from Ibiza, having just finished 14 weeks of a residency at Ushuaïa with his brother Mike.
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