Young Marco

FRIDAY

It now seems a long time since DJ/​producer Mar­co Sterk AKA Young Mar­co was one of the Ams­ter­dam underground’s best-kept secrets. Although he spent the best part of a decade hon­ing his craft, Mar­co has been head­line news since the turn of the decade and his upward tra­jec­to­ry shows no signs of stopping.

This year he’s spent more time in the air than he has on the ground, criss­cross­ing the globe to per­form genre-defy­ing DJ sets, work­ing the dance­floor with both unex­pect­ed twists and ​“unclas­sics”. One night, you might hear trop­i­cal rhythms, Afro-per­cus­sion cuts and Mid­dle East­ern dis­co obscu­ri­ties; on anoth­er, tech­no, synth-funk or indus­tri­al strength jack-tracks.