Martin Garrix's Ultimate Playlist

Martin Garrix's Ultimate Playlist

Martin Garrix's Ultimate Playlist

At the age of just 17, Dutch DJ and producer Martin Garrix has quickly become one of the biggest names in dance music.

Beginning with collaborations alongside Sidney Samson, Julian Jordan and a remix for Christina Aguilera, he exploded into the mainstream with the release of last year's enormous number 1 single Animals, in the process becoming the youngest-ever artist to have a number 1 on the specialist dance music service Beatport.

We caught up with Martin to find out his Ultimate Playlist, which resulted in some big tunes, and a frankly brilliant suggestion for the song with containing his favourite lyrics. Read on to discover his selections...

Wizard by Martin Garrix and Jay Hardway is released 23rd March. Find out all the latest release and tour news from www.martingarrix.com

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Favourite Sad Song

"Lana del Rey - Summertime Sadness. Lana has such a warm and unique voice, I love it. "

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Favourite movie soundtrack song

"I love Kavinsky - Nightcall from the movie Drive'."

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Favourite song from your childhood

"One More Time by Daft Punk brings back so many great childhood memories every time I hear it."

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Favourite song that no-one else has heard of

"My daily ritual of singing in the shower. Of course, no one's ever heard this because I'm the worst singer in the world haha!"

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Favourite club anthem

"There's this unreleased new single by Jay Hardway that I play in most of my sets lately. Every time I play it, the crowd goes nuts!"

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Favourite lyric from a song

""I like big butts and I cannot lie' - Sir Mix-a-Lot. This one's easy, it's all in the lyrics.
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Favourite song currently in the top 40

"Really loving the new Coldplay track Midnight. Sounds fresh and I really like the vocals on it!
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Favourite song from your own music

"There's a track I did with Dillon Francis called Set Me Free that I'm obsessed with. Can't wait for you guys to hear it."

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Marc Chacksfield
Content Director

As Content Director of Shortlist, Marc likes nothing more than to compile endless lists of an evening by candlelight. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.