As A&R director for dance music powerhouse 3Beat, Anton Powers knows more than most about finding new talent. Also a DJ and producer who’s worked with Pixie Lott and others, the Liverpudlian knows a thing or two about shifting records, too. Here, he shares his lessons from a life on the dancefloo.

I fell in love with dance music when...

“I was 14 or 15 and there was a guy in the year above me who was always playing mixes ...