Fedde le Grand

Despite the fact that his best known track to date, ‘Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit’, might suggest ties to the American city, Fedde Le Grand is, in fact, from the Netherlands; Utrecht, to be precise. It might have taken him until 2006 to experience genuine charts success with that track - it topped the singles charts in the UK - but he’d been in the game a while already at that point, releasing underground singles like ‘The Vibe’ and ‘I Miss You’ that were hits in the clubs, if not on the radio. Since ‘Detroit’ made a name for him, Le Grand hit the top ten in the UK twice the following year, with ‘The Creeps’ and ‘Let Me Think About It’, but has retained a relatively low profile since. Le Grand’s last full-length album, Be at Space, dropped in 2011, but he’s continued to release new singles as he’s gone along since; ‘Don’t Give Up’ ‘You Got This’ and ‘Twisted’ all having been released this year. He continues to tour European clubs prodigiously, too, delivering high-energy and often experimental sets that blur the line between house and techno. He’s not played in the UK since late 2012, at the Ministry of Sound in London, but he’s seldom away for long; look out for more dates once he’s wrapped up his current U.S. run.