Exclusive Interview: 2EMPRESS fulfilling dreams

2EMPRESS (Justine and Charline), Belgium’s top-notch female deejay duo, are Antwerp-born. During their first year as deejays, the ladies got booked by the biggest discotheques in Belgium, amongst them NOXX Antwerp, Carré and Gotha Club Knokke. Nowadays, the ladies of 2EMPRESS get booked on a weekly basis for the biggest festivals and events around the world.

DjaneMag: Who came up with your name? What does it mean?

2EMPRESS: We, our manager and a good friend came up with the name Empress. But after a while, when we were getting bigger and more international, we found out our name then was Going To be a problem. Because there was another djgirl with the same name from America and as we were about To do a Tour in latin-America, we were sort of 'forced' To change the name. Than when we had a meeting at our first dj-Agency, Someone who worked there just dropped the name "2Empress". The three of us liked it immidiately! And it was actually the perfect solution and even a Better name for us, we think. 

DjaneMag: How do you begin with music and Djaying? Was it your dream from early years? 

2EMPRESS: For me (Justine) personaly, it was never a dream. I even never thought of it untill our common friend came up with this idea and asked me to join this dj project together with Charline. For Charline it was a little bit different. She already was very interested in the deejaying stuff. It took a lot of time To learn all those basic things. We were practicing Every day during a month in the basement together with Some dj friends who explained us those basic things. After that, all the rest we learned by our own ... 

DjaneMag: Pros and cons of playing in a duet? Would you like to play separately in future? Do you quarrel often?)

2EMPRESS: Ofcourse there are Some (small) cons, But those fade away when we are doing something Great together. Charline has huge pro's that I don't have and it's exactly like that the other way around. And ofcourse we had Some discussions. A lot :D But i think it was actually necesserly we had those because now we learned a lot from it and we are stronger and Even better than before.

DjaneMag: What was the coolest club or festival where you worked, name please country and city?

2EMPRESS: Well That's a tuff question for us. We've been to so many places around the world and it's difficult to compacte them. But We both think that the coolest club was the one in Havana in Cuba. It was open air in the middle of the Woods. It was so magical and so beautiful and the People were insanely amazing. The energy we received back then from the crowd was crazy! And than we have Tomorrowland which  is totally different and also one of the best festivals we did. 

DjaneMag: Is there any female Dj you admire and want to play with?

2EMPRESS: We think Juicy M is a very good female dj and also Nervo because they're Going 200 km per hour and They are also a duo so for us They are a bit our example. 

DjaneMag: What style of music do you play? What style of music do you listen at home?

2EMPRESS: The style we play and the style we listen at home are mostly totally different from eachother. We don't have really one style that we play. We don't like to be put in one box. We adapt to what the crowd wants and to what we feel like we want to play at that moment. But you can say we play a lot of EDM as Well as progressive. From time to time we play also deephouse and future house as well. Again, it depends on where we are booked for. The style of music we listen at home to, you can describe it as classical and radiohits with a lot of singing in it. Organised Jazz and blues is also a style that Justine likes very much. 

DjaneMag: How do you spend your free time?

2EMPRESS: At our free time we spent it both differently. Charline likes to ride horses and does competitions as well on a high level. Me (Justine), I like to travel, play tennis and to go away with friends for dinner and have Some Nice catching-up moments. 

DjaneMag: Do you go in for sport? How do you keep fit? Give some advise for readers how to keep in shape and look great!

2EMPRESS: Well, our job, the deejaying is already a sport for us. We're constantly dancing, jumping and clapping our hands during our sets. And we have most of the time 3 sets a night so, believe us, That's what Keeps us very fit :D. But as we've already mentioned before. Charline her main sport is riding horses and it takes a lot of energy and focus. For me, I go from time to time to the gym and now I started again with taking private lessons in tennis. As a good advice we want to give is that it doesn't matther which sport you're doing, as long as you really really love to do it, you Will stay fit because of the amount of perseverance you won't stop fast. You just keep on Going.

DjaneMag: Can you share your dreams and plans for future? What would you like to achieve? 

2EMPRESS: Our dreams are actually most of them goals. We want to achieve many things with our deejaying. Like for example, to spin at Ultra Music Festival (and other cool festivals), to have a collaboration with dj Tiësto or other Great deejays. We're working are ass off with pleasure to achieve them. And Some of our dreams have been already fulfilled so we're more than determined to keep giving everything we have to achieve those.