December Results. The "Import" Category

- the loudest and most interesting tours by foreign stars. You can vote for the event you think is best at the end of the article. Voting will run until 10 February.

Rolling up the sleeves of their jackets, the Dewaele brothers served the Moscow public all their most successful tricks, seasoning a finely shredded medley of other people's hits with tracks of their own composition. Both were met with cheers, but every now and then the feeling arose that 2 Many DJs had decided not to over-exert themselves and had simply put on their own CD.
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The young French duo are tipped for the fame of the new Daft Punk, but for now they can barely fill intimate clubs. For their Moscow tour date Justice arrived as a full party of five, bringing along a producer with his girlfriend and one more buddy. It's funny, but almost all of them took a turn behind the decks, or at least twiddled some knob on the mixer - maybe that's why Justice's set turned out first-rate.

There's a stereotype that DJing is the domain of the young and precocious. François Kevorkian has been in this business for a great many years already, yet hardly anyone reckons it's time for him to retire. One of the very first DJs, François proved with his set that he's capable of warming up a cold and cheerless karting centre. He was actively hindered by the organisers, who kept making good on their promises of thunder, lightning and artificial snow. What for? Not entirely clear - in winter in Russia there's more than enough snow as it is.
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