Artists To Watch 2011: Introduction

Introducing electrobuzz’s Artists to Watch 2011, a roundup of producers and DJs we expect to be making big waves this year.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing you to a host of emerging talents from across the electronic-music spectrum—from deep house to dubstep, tech house to trance, and including quite a few artists for whom no existing genre tags seem to fit. Just click on the Artists to Watch 2011 tag for all the posts in the series.

Some of them have been kicking around on the scene for the past year or more, but seem primed for big things this year. Others are brand-new names even to us. Some have links to established labels like Rekids and Spectral; others are representatives of fledgling labels like Mirau Musik and Night Slugs, rising stars in their own right.

To kick off, we’ve gathered charts from a portion of them; read on to see those, and keep checking back over the coming weeks as we offer more personal introductions to the whole rogues’ gallery, featuring

Aera, Benoit & Sergio, Don Rimini, Deathface, Emika, Erdbeerschnitzel, Egyptrixx, Jacques Greene, Jacques Renault, Joyce Muniz, Nicolas Jaar, Nina Kraviz, Steffi, Subb-An, and Wbeeza