Busy P

Pedro Winter, aka. Busy P, is a huge name in the music production and management world, as well as being a fantastic DJ himself. As manager of Daft Punk from 1996 to 2008, he has a vast scope of experience in the electronic pop industry, and now manages Cassius on his own label.
Busy P has an awesome back calalogue of EDM and house tracks to his name, and I first started listening to his music when he released the EP Rainbow Man back in 2007. The tracks are funky and catchy, and the kind of not too heavy electronic music, and it just makes you want to dance. I’ve been following Busy P since then, and have loved everything he’s released, especially Still Busy, which is epic, especially with Thunderbird Gerard featuring on the tracks.
I was hyped to see him live, because I’d heard that he puts on an awesome show. I definitely wasn’t wrong there, from beginning to end without a moments break I was dancing along to the awesome tunes with my arms in the air. His stage presence is electric and he had everyone captivated by his skilful abilities on the decks. He’d put his arms in the air and get everyone clapping, and take his headphones off slightly to get a sense of the vibe in the venue. Great DJ, and a great performer, something the industry needs more of.

Unlike neighbouring Germany and The Netherlands, you find France to be a lot more reserved and subtle about its dance music exports. Following in the footsteps of legendary acts such as Justice and Daft Punk, Thibaut Berland better known by his stage name BreakBot has been winning over crowds in his homeland and is spanning out to the rest of Europe.

He is an older musician yet this gives him an upper hand to the teen whipper snappers breaking through as his own life experience and experience on the circuit feed into the performance style. He appears on the decks and begins his show instantly whilst the crowds are still cheering and applauding, his long hair is bobbing around in the motion of the music as he never stands still for a moment throughout the show. There are the crowd pleasers including 'Baby I'm Yours' and 'Break of Dawn' from his own discography and his ingenious remixes of Röyksopp, Kavinsky and Digitalism to keep the whole room bouncing along to the very final high pitched piece of synth.