Showtek

Since forming Showtek in 2001, the Dutch siblings Wouter and Sjoerd Janssen have fused EDM, techno, and hardstyle into a distinctive sound. Their debut album Today Is Tomorrow appeared in 2007, after which the pair partnered across the following decade with an eclectic roster of leading names that included Tiësto, David Guetta, Moby, and Wyclef Jean. Among their most recognized tracks stand the 2013 single “Booyah” alongside We Are Loud and the 2014 release “Bad” with Guetta.

Operating from Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Showtek began circulating remixes and original tracks in the early 2000s. In 2007 Dutch Master Works issued Today Is Tomorrow, which contained twenty-two original productions and seventeen co-productions. The same imprint followed with the 2008 compilation We Live for Music, gathering additional material from that decade. Their second full-length, Analogue Players in a Digital World, arrived on Dutch Master Works and Central Station Records at the close of 2009. Ministry of Sound then presented the 2010 double-disc mixtape Fuck the System, Vol. 001, spotlighting Showtek remixes of Marcel Woods and System F alongside selections from Lisa Lashes, Technoboy, and further contributors.

During this period the duo headlined concerts and appeared at festivals shared with Deadmau5 and David Guetta. A string of joint efforts with Tiësto began in 2011 and yielded the 2012 dance single “Hell Yeah!” Further installments in their self-titled “Crazy Collabs” series produced cuts with Hardwell, Bassjackers, and Justin Prime, the latter’s “Cannonball” entering charts in the Netherlands, France, and Belgium. Later in 2012 they joined David Jost to co-produce Chris Brown’s “Nobody’s Perfect.” Skrillex’s OWSLA imprint put out “Get Loose,” credited to Showtek and Noisecontrollers, in 2013, while “Booyah” featuring We Are Loud and Sonny Wilson reached charts in the Netherlands, Japan, and the U.K. The following year brought another global success, “Bad” with Guetta and VASSY, which at the time marked their strongest U.S. and Canadian performance by peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart and number 78 on the Canadian Hot 100.

Farm Records released the 2015 collection Showtek Essentials, and that same year the duo curated Skinkalation, Vol. 1 for the Skink label. Skinkalation, Vol. 2 surfaced in 2016, its opening track “The Death of EDM” credited to Showtek and Guetta. A subsequent alliance with Major Lazer on “Believer” again placed the brothers inside the U.S. dance-chart Top 20, preceding the 2017 reggae-tinged EP Amen, which included contributions from Freetown Collective and GC. Another Guetta pairing, “Your Love,” returned them to that same Top 20 position in 2018, a year that also introduced the singles “Natural Blues” with Moby and “Down Easy” alongside MOTi, Starley, and Wyclef Jean.