9-year-old DJ Archie has grow to be the youngest DJ ever to carry out at Tomorrowland.
The Essex, UK-based drum & bass DJ warmed up Tomorrowland Belgium’s Ambiance stage for artists like Andromedik, Dimension, and VTSS on Saturday with a set of style classics.
Although he wasn’t sufficiently old to roam the pageant grounds on the 18+ occasion, Archie now holds the brand new document for youngest performer on the pageant. Beforehand, Dubai’s DJ Michelle had been Tomorrowland’s youngest DJ, enjoying final yr at age 11.
The efficiency wasn’t Archie’s first historic accomplishment. In 2019, the grade-schooler was acknowledged by the Guinness E-book of World Information because the youngest DJ on the planet at simply 4 years previous. Final yr, he grew to become the youngest-ever performer at Glastonbury and even bought to satisfy his hero, Andy C, on the pageant.
“I used to be shocked after I heard that I’d lastly went to Tomorrowland,” Archie advised DJ Magazine in a video interview. “And after I DJed there, after I managed the group, they had been all dancing. And I performed some classics, like “Unimaginable.” All of them preferred that one as nicely.”
Archie realized his abilities from his father, John Norbury, a DJ himself generally known as DJ Essex, who defined the younger selector’s path to the massive time in an interview with VTS Information.
“He form of watched me from when he was about two and a half years previous. He was very small, and I used to be saying don’t contact my tools as a result of I assumed he’d break it,” Norbury stated. “After which in the future, he turned all of it on, and he began mixing. And I walked in, caught him, after which I noticed the whole lot he was doing was completely in time. I noticed he knew what he was doing.”
Archie was considered one of seven younger DJs invited to play Tomorrowland as a part of the pageant’s “younger skills” invoice. The partnership with the Tomorrowland Academy, the pageant’s DJ and music manufacturing college, additionally noticed 14-year-old DJ Daan, 16-year-old Dolores, and 15-year-old Rumix carry out final weekend. Sixteen-year-old FLOw, 15-year-old Lucca van Damme, and 17-year-old W4STD will carry out throughout throughout weekend two.
Featured picture from DJ Archie.
