Marlon Hoffstadt

Biography

He played Berlin clubs from the age of 15. In 2020 he reinvented himself as DJ Daddy Trance, and his edit of Kid Cudi’s “Day n’ Night” was his breakthrough. Club Heart Broken, the label and party he founded with MALUGI, drew queues in Berlin, and their b2b Boiler Room London set has close to 3 million views.^[1]

In May 2025 he made his US debut on the main stage at EDC Las Vegas and signed with Capitol Records the same week, then headlined a sold-out Knockdown Center in Brooklyn. In Australia he sold out back-to-back events of 10,000 people each, and he launched DADDYCATION, an audio-visual show built entirely from his own material.^[1]

In August 2025 he played his first b2b with KI/KI on the beach at Zeebrugge, Belgium, with 20,000 tickets sold out within two hours. Their first collaboration, “Losing Control”, had been announced just before. At ADE in October 2026 he is listed among the artists of AMF at the Johan Cruijff ArenA.^[2][3]

Sound

Insomniac calls him “an anti-purist dance floor hero, too poppy for the underground, too ravey for the mainstream”. ADE asks whether it is trance, hard house or just “dad noises”. In his own words: “There is no guilty pleasure. Only pleasure.”^[1][4]

Key tracks

• Losing Control — KI/KI / Marlon Hoffstadt

• It's That Time — Marlon Hoffstadt / DJ Daddy Trance

Public sets

Upcoming shows

• 12/04 Fri 23:00

  Marlon Hoffstadt Japan

  ZEROTOKYO · Tokyo · Japan · Trance (Main Floor) · Dance / Pop

• 06/05 Sat–06/06

  Amsterdam Open Air 2027 presents Marlon Hoffstadt

  Gaasperpark · Amsterdam · Netherlands · Trance (Main Floor) · Dance / Pop

New releases

• 11/06

  Water （2026-11-06） Single Spotify

• 10/09

  Caught Up （2026-10-09） Single Spotify

Rankings

DJ Mag Top 100 DJs (2026)

#97 Source

Festival appearances

Tomorrowland appearances

2026

Ultra Music Festival appearances

2026