SIEGE

From its trail-blazing 90s rave-days to giving birth to the world-conquering Tomorrowland, Belgium has long punched above its modest size in the world of electronic music. Siege, whose techy take on house has graced labels from Toolroom and Saved records to Yousef's Circus, Alan Fitzpatrick's We Are The Brave and Adam Beyer's Truesoul, can add his name to the acts that Belgium has gifted the world.

Raised in Hasselt, outside of Belgium's best known clubbing centers, Siege is a beacon for the power of focus and self-determination. Buying his first vinyl turntables before he was old enough to go to a club - instead he listened to mixes on the internet to find the hottest records of the moment. It was after playing his first major gigs just a year or two later that he realized he wanted to similarly inspire others by producing his own tracks. Self-taught by his own dedication and the help of Future Music Magazine, when his first ever remix stopped just shy of the another download site House Top Ten his reputation was assured.

It was Defected who passed his breakthrough track 'Crunk' to Azuli, vocalist Eeva re-singing the hook to Mary J Blige's classic 'Family Affair', beginning an ascent that has made his releases a standard for DJs from Claptone, Mark Knight, Carl Cox and Camelphat to the BBC Radio One family of Pete Tong, Danny Howard, Annie Mac and Monki. Siege has played in the world biggest clubs from Fuse in Brussels to Ministry of Sound and Studio 338 in London and some of the best festivals in the world including Tomorrowland.