Mau P
Mau P didn't just make a hit song, he practically willed a whole subgenre back into the spotlight. Maurits Jan Westveen, born October 26, 1996 in Amsterdam, spent years grinding under the name Maurice West before rebranding as Mau P in 2022. That rebrand turned out to be one of the smartest moves in recent dance music history.
The breakthrough came almost immediately. “Drugs From Amsterdam,” released via Repopulate Mars in August 2022, exploded to number one on Beatport's main chart and landed on Billboard's list of the 50 Best Dance Tracks of 2022. It's a bratty, bouncy, unmistakably tech house record that scene veterans like Reinier Zonneveld and Armand van Helden thought was worth putting their own remixes on, which tells you everything about how quickly Mau P earned respect from the old guard while still sounding like nothing else out at the time.
He didn't let up. “Gimme That Bounce” landed in 2023, along with “Metro,” a collaboration with fellow Dutch producer Kevin de Vries that also made Billboard's best dance tracks list that year. His catalog since has bounced between Repopulate Mars, Insomniac, Afterlife, Columbia, Black Book, Defected, Diynamic, and Nervous Records, an impressively wide net for an artist barely a few years into his solo run. He's also linked up with Diplo (and Gunna) on “Receipts,” and put his own spin on tracks from Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding and Swedish House Mafia.
Mau P's sound sits right at the intersection of house, tech house, and techno: punchy, groove-forward, a little cheeky, and built to work a room without needing to hit you over the head with drama. It's a style that translates instantly on a festival stage, which is a big reason his rise up the rankings has been so fast. He debuted on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs at No. 91 in 2024 and jumped to No. 77 in 2025.
2025 brought his debut EP Too Big for B-Side in May, along with another Beatport chart-topper in “The Less I Know the Better.” For an artist who only became “Mau P” a few short years ago, the trajectory has been staggering, and there's no sign of it slowing down.
