Showtek

Showtek
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	; Sjoerd Janssen (back) & Wouter Janssen (front right) together with Jamaica musician GC (front left) live at Airbeat One 2017
	General information
origin	Eindhoven , Netherlands
Genre (s)	Big room , electro house , future bass , hard style
founding	2001
Website	www.showtek.nl
Current occupation
DJ , producer	Sjoerd Janssen (* 1984)
MC, producer	Wouter Janssen (* 1982)
Accompanying musician for live performances
MC, singer	Sonny Wilson (born 1980)
Singer	Andre "GC" Fennell (* 1988)

Showtek is a Dutch producer - and DJ - duo consisting of brothers Sjoerd Janssen (aka DJ Duro) and Wouter Janssen (aka Walt). They first gained fame in 2003 in the field of hardstyle, while they celebrated a world hit in 2013 with the electro house song Booyah .

history

2001 to 2010: Advancement in the hardstyle line

The two brothers grew up in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and were inspired by electronic music at a young age. In 2001 they finally founded the Showtek project and began to draw attention to themselves both as a remixer and with their own songs in the field of hardstyle .

In March 2003, the duo achieved their international breakthrough with the track Be you ready . At the same time, a collaboration with the media company ID&T began , which gave them access to various festivals. Furthermore, her songs were used on numerous samplers, as well as appearances at events such as Qlimax , Hardbass or InQontrol. In late 2008 they toured Australia as X-Qlusive Showtek .

In 2009 the Janssen brothers continued the hardstyle compilation series by producer Blutonium Boy and made it with their tracks on samplers such as Hardstyle Vol. 18 . Her own recordings have all been released on her own label, Dutch Master Works.

2010 to 2012: Removal from hardstyle

Showtek performing live (2009)

In February 2010, Showtek announced that they will not be taking any more bookings from the Platinum Agency as they will move further away from the hardstyle genre to embody their own style. Nevertheless, in collaborations with other Hardstyle projects such as Noisecontrollers in the single Get Loose, selected songs in the original Showtek style appeared. On the other hand, the greatest success of the song Get Loose , a remix by Tiësto .

Due to the dwindling success, the duo's music style developed into house music, mainly and electro house . With the track Cannonball , which they recorded in collaboration with the also Dutch DJ and producer Justin Prime, their first EDM release appeared, which was able to advance to the top 10 of the Dutch singles charts within a very short time. The vocal version Earthquake with the American singer-songwriter Matthew Koma , released a year later, brought the track into the British singles charts.

How We Do was released on July 30, 2012 and was created in collaboration with Hardwell . The track became a perennial festival hit. Hey was released in collaboration with the newcomer duo Bassjackers . Hey moved up to the top 10 on the Beatport charts. With the song Slow Down , the official anthem for the 2013 Emporium Festival , they hit the Dutch charts again.

2013: Breakthrough in the big room genre

With the follow-up single Booyah , Showtek, in collaboration with the producer team, We Are Loud! and the Dutch singer Sonny Wilson her biggest success so far. The piece reached the charts in over 12 countries as well as top 10 and number one placements in various dance charts. With the track We Like to Party , which was released in the same year, they continued the style of the song Booyah . The song reached the top 40 in the Netherlands after a short time. At the same time they produced the song Nobody's Perfect together with the German composer and producer for the American singer Chris Brown . Shortly afterwards, the duo released the track Wasting Our Lives , a vocal version of We Like to Party, with Tryna Loules , Hilbert's friend .

A collaboration with French DJ and producer David Guetta followed . This resulted in the songs Bad , No Money No Love and Sun Goes Down , in which the musicians Magic! , Vassy , Nicky Romero and Manian ( Twoloud ) contributed. In particular, the first single, Bad , made it into the top 5 in over 10 countries.

The track 90s by Nature , released on December 29, 2014, was created in collaboration with US singer and rapper MC Ambush. Stylistically, the piece is based on the current big room and the classic 1990s tech house style.

On June 15, 2015, the song Satisfied , sung by Vassy , was released. In doing so, they allowed themselves to be influenced by the rising popularity of the future house style. In 2015, only the song Sun Goes Down with David Guetta from the previous year was released as a single. After the single release, they advanced to the charts in Germany, Belgium and Friday, among others. In 2016 they started with the single N2U , which was created in collaboration with DJane Eva Shaw. In 2014 they worked together on the song Space Jungle . Martha Wash of the Weather Girls was also involved in this single . The track is based on character traits of the song Show Me Love by Robin S. In parallel, a fourth single was released with David Guetta . This is called The Death of EDM and received a lot of criticism due to its similarity to Gesaffelstein's Pursuit from 2013.

2016: Mellow : return to hardstyle

Showtek at the XStatic 2010 in Copenhagen

On August 12, 2016, they returned to their classic hardstyle style with their collaboration Mellow with Technoboy and Tuneboy . The track received a lot of praise and became part of a number of sets over the summer. Swipe also appeared in August 2016. The track is again based on a Big Room-drop and is a parody on the current Tinder hype and is following a similar pattern selfie from the Chainsmokers established.

On September 30, 2016, the long-awaited publication of their collaboration with the American DJ trio Major Lazer took place . This is called Believer and is based on the song Good Swimma by the Trinidad and Tobago producer Q Major and the Caribbean reggae singer Freetown Collective. The vocal track was taken over. In addition to their big room style, elements of the dance hall and traps can also be found. In Belgium, France and the Netherlands advanced to the official singles charts. In particular, the music video that alludes to the European refugee crisis received positive reviews.

2017: Amen- EP and North America tour

On March 26, 2017, they performed at the Ultra Music Festival. There they premiered a number of new productions from the areas of trap , jungle terror and big rooms. While Sonny Wilson went on tour with the duo last year, the Jamaican singer Andre Fennell alias GC Showtek and Wilson has been accompanying them since 2017.

In March 2017 the song On Our Own was released , which was created in collaboration with future house DJ Brooks and singer-songwriter Natalie Major. The track was designed in the Future Bass style, which was very popular between 2016 and 2017 , and was premiered at ADE 2016.

On July 28th, 2017 they released an EP called Amen , which is a fusion of the most recent music styles they represent, reggae and future bass. At the same time they announced the North American tour of the same name for late summer.

2018: Down Easy

Together with the American musician Moby , the song Natural Blues was released in January 2018 , with which they returned to the electro house style. The song Your Love followed in a similar style on June 14, 2018 , which they produced together with David Guetta and Jake Reese . The song contains an interpolation of the song Show Me Love by Robin S. from 1990.

On July 26th, 2018 Showtek released a collaboration with Dutch producer MOTi , whose vocals are contributed by Australian singer Starley Hope and Haitian hip-hop musician Wyclef Jean . The Latin pop song is called Down Easy .

With new remixes by Breathe Carolina , Lowriderz and Technoboy 'N' Tuneboy , a remix EP of their 2013 hit Booyah was released on November 16, 2018 .

Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title music label	DE	AT	CH	UK	NL	Remarks
2007	Today Is Tomorrow Dutch Masters Works	-	-	-	-	NL68 (1 week) NL	First published: April 19, 2007
2008	We Live for the Music Dutch Masters Works	-	-	-	-	-	First published: April 11, 2008
2009	Analogue Players in a Digital World Dutch Masters Works	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 22, 2009 in the Netherlands only
2010	Fuck the System (The Album) Ministry of Sound	-	-	-	-	-	First published: October 4, 2010

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	NL	Remarks
2012	Cannonball (Earthquake)	-	-	-	UK29 * (3 weeks) UK	NL23 gold (2 weeks)NL	Instrumental: November 29, 2012 * Vocal: March 3, 2014; with Justin Prime and Matthew Koma
2013	Slow Down (Anthem Emporium 2013)	-	-	-	-	NL18 (16 weeks) NL	First published: March 5, 2013
	Get Loose	-	-	-	-	NL24 * (8 weeks) NL	with Noisecontrollers: May 14, 2013 * Tiësto Remix: May 24, 2013
	Booyah	DE56 (4 weeks) DE	AT50 (5 weeks) AT	CH45 (7 weeks) CH	UK5 silver (11 weeks)UK	NL14 (11 weeks) NL	First release: December 3rd, 2013 feat. We are loud! & Sonny Wilson
2014	We Like to Party (Wasting Our Lives)	-	-	-	-	NL32 * (5 weeks) NL	First release Vocal: December 7th, 2014 * Instrumental: January 13th, 2014; feat. Tryna
	Bad lists	DE19 (38 weeks) DE	AT15 (27 weeks) AT	CH28 (24 weeks) CH	UK22nd gold (23 weeks)UK	NL13 (19 weeks) NL	First release: March 17th, 2014 with David Guetta feat. Vassy
	No Money No Love Lists	DE94 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: November 21, 2014 with David Guetta, Elliphant & Ms. Dynamite
2015	Sun Goes Down Lists	DE67 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First release: July 31, 2015 with David Guetta feat. Magic! & Sonny Wilson
2016	Believer Music Is the Weapon	-	-	-	-	NL23 platinum (12 weeks)NL	First published: September 30, 2016 with Major Lazer
2018	Your love	DE70 (1 week) DE	-	CH53 (1 week) CH	-	-	First published: June 14, 2018 with David Guetta

More singles

2001:

Save the day
Bassment
Controller
Early Soundz

2003:

Are you ready

2004:

Choruz
Save the day again

2005:

Brain crackin '
Rockin 'Steady (vs. Deepack )

2006:

3 the Hard Way (vs. Gizmo)
Bangin '
Puta Madre
The Color of the Harder Styles

2007:

Party lover
Born 4 Thiz
Ravers
AGV
Shout Out (feat. MC DV8)
Today Is Tomorrow - Album Sampler 00
Today Is Tomorrow - Album Sampler 002
Hold Us Back (feat. MC DV8)
We Live for the Music
Skitzo (vs. Deepack )
Black 2008
Apologize
Down under

2009:

Party lover
Dominate
The World Is Mine
We speak music
Freak (feat. MC Stretch)
Fast Life
Electronic Stereo-Phonic (feat. MC DV8)
My 303
Laa-Di-Fucking-Daa

2010:

Analogue Players in a Digital World
Rockchild (feat. MC DV8)
Faces (feat. Zushi)
Dutchie (feat. MC Stretch)
Beats of Life
Breakbeat junkie

2011:

Music on My Mind (feat. Lexi Jean)
Dirty Hard
Memories
Hell Yeah! (with Tiësto )

2012:

How We Do (with Hardwell )
Hey (with bassjackers )

2013:

Crunk

2014:

Bouncer (feat. Ookay)
90s By Nature (with MC Ambush)

2016:

The Death of EDM (with David Guetta)
N2U (with Eva Shaw feat.Martha Wash )
Mellow (with Technoboy 'N' Tuneboy )
Swipe

2017:

On Our Own (with Brooks feat. Natalie Major)

2018:

Natural Blues (with Moby )
Down Easy (with MOTi feat. Starley & Wyclef Jean )

2019:

Momma (feat. Earl St. Clair)
Listen to Your Momma (feat. Leon Sherman)

Remixes

2001:

Walt vs. Zero-Gi - Exciter / Contact - Exciter

2002:

DJ Duro - Again (Remixes) - Again
Desperation - Our Reservation
Desperation - Our Reservation (Part Two)