If you come listen to me, you’re going to get a bit of everybody, all the personalities.” “In my sets, I always sound a little bit like all of them. Though these days, he admits, they are starting to blend into one: “I think it’s becoming less important, slowly but surely,” he says. He’s also an artist with more alter egos than the Spiderverse, playing festivals and clubs spanning the globe as Maceo Plex, Maetrik, Mariel Ito and occasionally even Estornel. He’s not only been a key part of the electronic club and festival mainframe for the past decade, but an Ibiza and Miami mainstay, who’ll be playing B2B with another techno titan, Carl Cox, at this year’s Exit Festival. Mixmag and Maceo have circled each other’s electronic orbits countless times since he first appeared on the cover back in December 2013, most recently in Leeds earlier this year when he shared a bill with Gerd Janson, Daniel Avery and 2018 Essential Mix champ HAAi at a particularly cheeky all-night rave. In 2019, Maceo Plex sits firmly alongside those house and techno big hitters (on the main stage – just before Sven Väth, to be precise) – and then some. For sheer thrills, pills and 24-hour techno bellyaches, Time Warp is hard to beat. And Maceo Plex is very much one of those key players. For a few days in April, Mannheim’s Hotel Dorint feels like the hub of the wheel around which techno revolves, the place where all the key players in the genre reconvene ahead of their sets at what is one of the world’s finest techno festivals.
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