DVBBS

DVBBS consists of brothers Chris Chronicles and Alex Andre, two DJs and producers whose work blends house, electro, reggae, and dub textures. The pair launched their recording career with the 2012 EP Initio and quickly followed it with a string of successful singles that registered strongly both at home in Canada and internationally, most notably the 2013 track “Tsunami.” Multiple editions of that single reached the top of the charts in Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Four further Canadian entries preceded their debut album, Nothing to See Here, which arrived in 2020; “West Coast” preceded their second full-length, Sleep, issued the next year.

Ontario natives Chris Chronicles and Alex Andre—born Christopher and Alexandre van den Hoef—first performed together with DJ Martin Sinotte under the name Dubbs. The trio issued the Generation Party EP in 2010 and toured alongside Steve Aoki and LMFAO before Sinotte’s departure in 2012 led the siblings to adopt the phonetically identical DVBBS. Later that year they released Initio, the first project under the revised moniker. Their breakthrough arrived with “Tsunami,” a collaboration with Borgeous issued on Sander van Doorn’s Doorn Records. The single peaked at number 80 in Canada, entered the top 20 in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and hit number one in both the Netherlands and Belgium; the Tinie Tempah remix “Tsunami (Jump)” subsequently topped the U.K. pop chart.

Throughout 2014 and 2015 the brothers continued releasing singles, among them the Sander van Doorn and Martin Garrix collaboration “Gold Skies,” their second Canadian chart entry. Festival appearances around the world raised their profile, resulting in a number-16 placement on the 2015 DJ Mag Top 100 and a residency at Hakkasan in Las Vegas, as well as their own Mount Woozy Festival in Toronto. In 2016 they returned to the Canadian charts with “La La Land” and “Not Going Home,” the latter appearing on the six-track EP Beautiful Disaster, which also featured Juicy J. The 2017 Blood of My Blood EP and additional singles followed, including “You Found Me” with Belly, “Without U” with Steve Aoki and 2 Chainz, and two tracks with CMC$ (“Parallel Lines” and “Not Going Home”). “IDWK” featuring Blackbear charted in 2018, while 2020 brought further entries with “Tinted Eyes” (Blackbear) and “West Coast” (24kGoldn and Quinn XCII). Nothing to See Here, their first album, appeared that same year, and the duo maintained album-focused activity with the 2021 release Sleep.