Since 2016, Your EDM has endeavored to characteristic 40 utterly new artists, yearly, that we consider will obtain nice issues the next yr. As of this yr’s record, which means we’ve beforehand featured 280 distinctive artists over the course of seven years. The record has advanced in its early years from merely “which massive artists have albums to look out for subsequent yr” to “who’re the smaller artists which can be doing one thing distinctive,” which means we’ve had the chance to characteristic an unimaginable variety of gifted producers and musicians, lots of whom have really gone on to change into powerhouses of their communities and genres.
Coming into the eighth yr of Your EDM’s High 40 Artists to Watch, this yr’s record proved to be a bit harder (however no much less fulfilling). The record is definitely drafted from the start of yearly, preserving watch on who’s doing a little cool issues, who’s being booked to assist the highest artists as future rising stars, and extra. Towards the center of this yr, our record was corrupted and we misplaced all of the names. We did our greatest to recreate it, however on the similar time, issues can change over the course of six months.
After we asked our followers on Twitter precisely one month in the past right this moment who they wished to see on the record this yr, we discovered an enormous variety of names we hadn’t seen, and lots of we’ve recognized of for some time that merely slipped the thoughts.
REMNANT.exe, RemK, Sora, and A Hundred Drums (our featured artist for the record this yr) have been on our radar for years. And for no matter cause, they perhaps didn’t make the quick record or another person popped off only a bit more durable. We’re glad to lastly have them on our record for 2023.
Others, within the case of Matt Barri, Misplaced in Beijing, So Sus, onumi, OLAN, Skellytn, zoska, or Ninajirachi, actually entered our body of consciousness this yr or late final yr and have been so really relentless within the pursuit of their very own artwork that they’ve shined in 2022 and are absolutely destined for giant issues subsequent yr.
After which there’s isqa, the not-forgotten-but-revived alias of No Mana, who we featured in our inaugural record in 2016, that has come again this yr courtesy of Rezz’s newly-minted label HypnoVizion. Sporting such a sonic legacy however having been inactive for the previous 7-8 years, it’s solely truthful that we convey this spectacular undertaking to the eye of the lots.
As we do yearly, we’ve picked 40 artists who we really feel can have an unimaginable yr in 2023, not simply in their very own private careers, but in addition on the digital music scene as a complete. As a reminder, we do our greatest to not repeat names yr after yr in order to offer new artists the highlight. So for those who don’t see the identify of an artist you’re feeling has had an excellent yr and is destined for extra, it’s greater than seemingly we featured them up to now six years.
2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022
See Your EDM’s Artists To Watch in 2023 record under. Congratulations to all who’re featured! We count on massive issues of you subsequent yr.
(in no explicit order)
Matt Barri | Misplaced in Beijing | Ninajirachi | Skellytn | A Hundred Drums
Mary Droppinz | W IN Okay | Skybreak | Hamdi | Atura | DOIL
Illusion | LYNY | ELIMINA | OLAN | isqa | Protial
juuku | Eyezic | sxth sns | Sora | ALLIESUN
PLAIN | CHYL | Jasper Tygner | Tom Jarmey | onumi | RemK
Low Poly | REMNANT.exe | Pocket | MSFT | So Sus | Joel Cruz
zoska | camoufly | Ivoryghost | AK RENNY | MashBit | Kosu.
