It was bound to happen sooner or later. Anyone who plays Panorama Bar within a week of graduating high school is clearly headed for great things. And anyone with a personality so infectious is going to get a few breaks along the way. Which isn't to say this was somehow preordained—no, Seth Troxler's steady ascent to the #1 spot on this poll was very much his own doing. With Visionquest, he co-founded one of dance music's most well-loved labels and DJ teams . As a solo DJ, he maintained his underground flavour in the face of bigger and bigger gigs—what other DJs at Ultra Music Festival had Analog Solutions or Anthony 'Shake' Shakir in their bags? Speaking of gigs, he played more of them this year than anyone else on this list, even with time off and a supposedly scaled back touring schedule. Like anyone with his kind of popularity, he's got his detractors. But as this year's poll makes clear, it's pretty hard not to love Seth Troxler.