Dutch duo (Willem van Hanegem Jr. & Wardt van der Harst) and founders of Mainstage Music. Started in uplifting trance, expanded into big-room and psy-trance crossover; long-running DJ Mag Top 25 presence.
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W&W are a Dutch DJ and production duo composed of Willem van Hanegem Jr. (Breda, 1987) and Wardt van der Harst (Dongen, 1988), who first met as fans in the crowd at Trance Energy 2007 and began producing together shortly after. The duo founded their own Mainstage Music label in 2012, which has since served as the editorial home for their catalogue and for adjacent producers in the same big-room / uplifting / psy-trance crossover lane.
Their 2015 collaboration with Armin van Buuren, "If It Ain't Dutch", arrived on Mainstage Music and stands among the duo's most-recognised crossover singles. Subsequent releases including "Put Em Up" (2017) extended the catalogue into the big-room and psy-trance-leaning material that has defined the duo's later live programme. W&W have held a long-running presence in the DJ Mag Top 100 — including over a decade inside the Top 25 — and continue to perform and release at the centre of the modern Mainstage / festival circuit.
Sound Style
Mainstage-scale arrangement with a clean lineage back to uplifting trance — the duo's sets and recent catalogue fold big-room drop architecture, psy-trance percussion, and uplifting-anthem melodic content into one peak-time format that the Mainstage Music editorial direction has refined across the 2010s and 2020s.