Gentleman’s Journal speak to Martin Garrix about his Summer of fun

At just 17 years old, Dutch producer Martin Garrix had footprints over every single dance floor in the world. Not physically – he was still a year off buying his first beer – but through his breakout 2013 single Animals, a feverish, pulsating, pop-hooked EDM track that beat Lily Allen’s John Lewis Christmas advert (Somewhere Only We Know) to Number One in the UK and soundtracked the headiest moments of an entire generation of millennials. Play it now, and I can almost smell the sweat beading on the walls of my university nightclubs and dripping off merged bodies; see the exhilarated smiles and eyes saucer-wide. The song may be nearly a decade old but played at any festival this summer and the crowd will inevitably begin to quake.