It was like a super-cheap version of CDJs. From that point I started saving up money to buy my own DJ set-up, which I bought three years later when I was about 10 or 11-years-old.

That was the first time I got in touch with electronic music, the first time I actually saw a DJ. “It was 2004, I was watching the Olympics with my mother and Tiësto was playing there. How old were you when you first knew what a DJ was? “At first I didn’t believe it because we didn’t do any promo, then suddenly I saw shit-loads of tweets saying that I was No.40, and I was like ‘What the fuck?!’ I was surprised so many people voted for me, but really happy.” How did you feel when you were voted into the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs poll this year? DJ Mag catches up with Martin chillin’ at home just before going to the cinema with pals… Next year Martin embarks on headline tours of Australia, Asia and the US and will play a lot of big festivals, but he tells DJ Mag that his friends around him help keep his feet on the ground. ‘Animals’ has gone gold and platinum in most of Europe and is probably going to hit the No.1 spot in the UK charts this weekend, clocking in as one of the biggest dance tracks of the year… Martin Garrix was the youngest person ever to be voted into the Top 100 DJs poll - he was born in 1996! - and has had a huge global hit this year with EDM behemoth ‘Animals’ - only his second solo release.

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