Their remix of Fatboy Slim & Riva Starr’s ‘Eat Sleep Rave Repeat’ became the first Beatport No.1 of 2014. Last year Dimitri and Mike scored seven Beatport No.1 releases with their label Smash the House, and nine others that hit the top three slot. “At one point I was living in Mike’s flat, with him and his girlfriend, and our entire studio was shoved under one of the beds in the flat, because there was no room anywhere else,” says Dimitri. “Yeah, we’ve had some pretty dark times - with no money, struggling to get by,” says Mike.
“People ask us, ‘What’s it like getting big, career-wise, so quickly?’, but we’ve been at it for years,” says Dimitri. It’s the latest instalment in a story about two-brothers-behind-the-decks that started out in Ibiza in 2003 before coming home to Belgium, and is now setting about taking over the world. These two shows - set to be held at the Sportpaleis in Belgium - are the duo’s first solo concerts for the forthcoming Bringing Home the Madness tour. And fans are so hungry to get a taste of the brothers’ peak-time mash-up of electro beats, techy vibes and mic madness that the following morning, when they put another show up for grabs for the same crowd size, that sold out in 24 hours too. So great, in fact, that the pair sold out a solo show for 20,000 people earlier this year, in just one day. “He doesn’t ever say ‘play that track or play this track’,” says Dimitri, “if he did that, we’d fight. “I’m DJing and he’s doing the vocals and the effects.” “Yeah,” says Mike, “I’m kind of improving what he’s doing but I never actually press ‘play’.” “Thing is, we have a really clear barrier,” says Dimitri.
Indeed Belgian house duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have based their entire CDs, decks and FX live show around that format. And lately, if you turn up at a big festival abroad, it seems like every house/electro/trance DJ is up for a bit of the kind of MC action you’d only previously have seen at a garage or d&b rave. Danny Tenaglia’s been known to have a go.
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