Raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Akanbi moved to NYC and immersed himself head-on into every corner of dance music. He’s cultivated his unique style of DJing that delivers an intentional blend of freak-out boogie music, whip-crack bangers, insistent percussion, and afrobeats goodness. He started New York City's GROOVY GROOVY party in 2014 - a judgment-free atmosphere for wild dance floors, mental, spiritual & physical rejuvenation, radical politics, and undeniable talent. Akanbi has made an impression locally with visionary sets at Sustain Release, Nowadays & Public Records, and internationally at Tresor, Berghain/Panorama Bar, Dekmantel, Primavera Sound and more across Europe & the United Kingdom.

Akanbi

Amaliah, a London-based DJ and producer, has rapidly become one of the city's most thrilling artists. She manages her label, Borne Fruits, and hosts a monthly radio show on Rinse FM. Her DJ sets reflect her bouncy personality, drawing from years of rave experiences. She seamlessly transitions from progressive house to tribal techno, exploring euphoric bass elements more rooted in her deep appreciation for sound system culture. Amaliah has performed at renowned venues like Panorama Bar, De School, and Fabric and at festivals like Draaimolen, Love International, and Glastonbury. 2024 promises to be an exciting year for Amaliah as she thrives in her musical journey.

Amaliah

Andy Martin is a Mexican Jamaican electronic artist who mixes up sci-fi techno and Latin Caribbean sounds with a futuristic edge. His most recent album “Antiguos Astronautas” is a musical exploration between the sounds of techno and native american futurism narrative which had a good response from the music community with the support of artists like DVS1, Nastia, Ben UFO, KIA, Gigi FM, Blawan, Jonas Kopp, Daniel Avery, Mama Snake, Pariah, Batu, Darwin, Rene Wise, CCL, Reka Zalan, DJ Rolando, Josh Wink, Objekt, Norman Nodge, Richie Hawtin, Dj Bone, The Advent, Truncate, Beatrice M, Ciel, Machine Woman, among others, playing his tracks in clubs like Berghain, Tresor, Fabric, Bassiani, Lux Fragil, De School.

His experience and skills as a DJ has led him to perform at the best clubs and venues in México among artist like Dj Stingray, Skee Mask, Aurora Halal, Ryan Elliot, Batu, Darwin, Function, Mad Miran, NVTS, Eduardo de la Calle,Victor, Goldie among others.
His last release on the label Mole Audio was a collaboration with the Jamaican artist legend Lee Scratch Perry who was one of the most relevant figures in dub music and an important influence on music culture.

Andy Martin

Anz, the MOBO award-nominated DJ, played international stages in 2023, from Glastonbury to Sonar and Boiler Room sets worldwide. Known for her diverse mixing style blending 4x4 rollers, acid cuts, speed garage, and breakbeats, she celebrated milestones like her 6th year NTS residency, 3rd year of Manchester APC parties, and a standout all-night debut at The White Hotel. Other highlights include sets at Circoloco and Melt, a memorable Dekmantel closing b2b with Special Request, a successful US tour, and a second release with Hessle Audio featuring 'Clearly Rushing.' As she hints at secret plans for 2024, including fresh OTMI label releases, Anz continues to bring her infectious energy and fun to the global music scene.


Avalon Emerson's selections reflect a deep knowledge of house, techno, new wave, EBM and rave, as well as the experience of an adaptable selector. Her style transcends the confines of time or genre by recontextualizing dance music from previous eras among contemporary sounds and her own productions and edits. In the past few years, she became a regular across all floors of Berlin's famous Berghain nightclub and played at major festivals like Coachella and Pitchfork. In 2019, she launched her own international series of events named 9000 Dreams, which entailed all-night-long solo marathon DJ sets and club line-ups that she curated. And that's in addition to the steady stream of original music that she's issued on various respected electronic music labels like AD 93 (FKA Whities) and Ghostly International imprint Spectral Sound. She released her entry into the esteemed DJ-Kicks series in 2020. Her debut album, & the Charm, was released on her own Another Dove label in 2023.

Avalon Emerson

 Reflecting the Turkish word for ‘different,’ BASHKKA’s name highlights her one-of-a-kind presence. The Munich-born and raised DJ, renowned for her daring and incisive style, captivates audiences while pushing the boundaries of electronic music. From her residencies at HAMAM Nights, Club RAUM and Munich’s Blitz Club, to her solid footing as a regular at Berghain’s Panorama Bar, her standout performances at Glastonbury (listed among Resident Advisor’s 5 Key Performances), Dekmantel Festival, Nuits Sonores, London’s Fabric or legendary Queer parties like ADONIS, are just a few examples.

Irreversibly shaped by a decade in New York City—a place she describes as her rebirth—has profoundly influenced her artistry, thanks to the city’s rich, diverse culture and LGBTQIA+ legacy. Outside the DJ booth, BASHKKA’s commitment to SWANA and queer representation, along with her homage to dance music’s Black and Brown origins, redefines the genre's rebellious spirit. With her debut EP "Maktub" claiming the number 1 spot in 2023, BASHKKA has emerged as a trailblazing artist and producer, showcasing her bold creativity in impactful collaborations, such as with Sedef Adasï for renowned fashion designer Dilara Fındıkoğlu, as well as in her numerous cutting-edge remixes.

BASHKKA

Byron Yeates is a Berlin-based DJ and producer, founder of record label Radiant Records, and co-founder of La Noche. He has served his signature sound at Panorama Bar, Tresor, and Horoom and holds a bimonthly residency at Berlin’s Refuge Radio. Yeates’ sets are inflected with an attitude that can at once be incredibly playful and theatrically sincere, a duality that animates the queer lineage of electronic dance music in which Yeates places himself. Since November 2019, Yeates’ label Radiant Records has released an array of EPs by artists both locally and abroad. The catalogue is filled with floor-ready cuts that also reward a close listener – the RR sound is rich with unexpected timbres and textures, clever melodic lines and rhythms pivoting far off the 4/4.

Byron Yeates

C.FRIM bellows a massive sound, spinning drum-driven cuts that step, bounce, sway, and shuffle. As a DJ, she draws from her own blueprint - with taste shaped by her perspective as a member of the Ghanaian-Filipina diaspora, growing up on a healthy diet of hybridised musical styles, ripping tracks off Youtube tracks as a teenager, and watching Jerk and Dougie videos. C.FRIM blends global club sounds that are urgent and forward-thinking while evoking deep feelings of nostalgia. Her eclecticism reflects an artist and DJ with confidence in the vision and a desire to keep pushing boundaries, collapsing walls between cultural silos and championing her refreshingly distinct style.

C.FRIM

Here is a tinfoil garden. The music written by Joseph Richmond Seaton is a place of its own, a place you can fall and dissolve into. A twilight place where night meets day and the patterns of machines submit to the mucky honesty of life. This somewhere is built from music released under the names Call Super and Ondo Fudd, released on Incienso, The Trilogy Tapes, Hessle Audio, Houndstooth and increasingly the label he co-founded with Parris, can you feel the sun.

Call Super

Najaaraq Vestbirk, aka Courtesy, is a Danish DJ, musician and artist based in Berlin. She is best known for her emotional dance music selections as a DJ and performing at major venues and festivals (such as Sonar, Berghain and Primavera), where she has proved her ability to spread euphoria among large crowds of dancers. Vestbirk maintains a residency on NTS Radio and is the founder and creative director of Kulør Publishing and her new record label Against Interpretation, curating epochal dance music releases, fashion collaborations, publications and multimedia projects. As an artist, she has exhibited and performed at renowned spaces and institutions, including Treize, Arken, and Berghain. Her research in the intersection of music and fashion has led her to compose runway scores for renowned brands like Chanel, Solitude Studios, and Vitelli. Her debut LP, ‘fra eufori’, was released in September 2023, and in January 2024, she released the power house-styled single ‘

 feat. Klō’ on Against Interpretation.

Courtesy

The propulsive and uncompromising nature of D.Dan’s sound, both DJing and
on record, tactfully navigates a distinct intersection of raw grooves, slippery psychedelia and visceral techno bass rhythmics. Informed by his Korean-
American roots, musical training as a percussionist, experiences in the Seattle DIY underground, and current residency in the notable Berlin-based party Mala
Junta, D.Dan’s sets create an intense state of dynamic tension, deep hypnosis,
and sublime release, evolving to define a singular sound and experience.

D.Dan

DHC is an expression of sonic fierceness, an embodiment of passion and intrinsic queer force which surges through their music. They draw on a deep devotion to their dance history and culture, making connections through undeniable groove and infectious energy spanning the more seductive shades of house, trance, progressive and beyond. With sister THC, the duo make up S-candalo; an unstoppable force to be reckoned with, already gracing the likes of Panorama Bar, Bassiani, Horst Festival and Dekmantel with their dynamic presence. Co-founder of Berlin-based party, La Noche, DHC is constantly expanding their web and cementing its contribution to today's tastemakers, regularly showcasing their vivid musical insight on Refuge Worldwide.

Danielle’s DJing has touched upon vital events, venues and locations around the world, from touring the US, Australia and Asia alongside playing flagship festivals like Glastonbury, Dekmantel Selectors, Love International, and Draaimolen to clubs like DC10, Fabric, Panorama Bar and De School. She has also been a resident at Leftbank in Tbilisi since 2022. In tandem, her skills have been recognised by key publications, including Mixmag & DJ Mag (she was nominated as the best breakthrough DJ in 2020) and her live set at Organik in Taiwan was voted as one of the top 10 mixes of 2023 by Resident Advisor. Beyond her DJ work, she runs Soft Raw, a label & party series founded in 2022. Danielle also takes the time to impart her experience and knowledge to the next generation via her classes at Mix Nights – a non-profit organisation she helped set up seven years ago to encourage women and non-binary people to explore the art of DJing.

Danielle


A true underground force, techno activist, and master of marathon sets, Freddy has been shaping the scene since the ‘90s—from Rome’s iconic Virus movement to his legendary closing sets at Berghain.

With an unmatched energy, deep musical knowledge, and a 360° approach to techno, he remains a driving force in the underground. As the head of KEY Vinyl, he continues to champion raw, unfiltered sounds with a pure, no-nonsense ethos.

Expect intense, extended vinyl only sets crafted strictly for the dancefloor.

Freddy K

Gabrielle Kwarteng’s journey so far is one of passion, dedication and the occasional strike of fate. Born and raised in New York, Kwarteng’s name has recently risen in prominence throughout a challenging time for dance music and club culture. 

A DJ, radio host and curator, her sets have enchanted vital club spaces such as Panorama Bar in Berlin and NYC’s Nowadays, as well as a span of festivals including Glastonbury, Horst, Melt and Dekmantel selectors. Kwarteng’s diverse taste and open-mindedness lead first, allowing her to fluidly slip through a mix of heady 80s and 90s NY house, disco interpretations that traverse diaspora and eras, percussive passages alongside boldly broken beats and, as the lights get lower, an undeniable acid undercurrent. In an era of everything at once, Kwarteng weaves stories for the dancefloor that often look to the past, but always focus on possible futures.

Gabrielle Kwarteng 

French-born Jen Cardini (they/them) has been welcoming people into the discotheque for the last 30 years. Their belief that something more was hidden under the surface of electronic music has put them at the helm of tiny sweaty lesbian bars, flamboyant Ibiza superclubs, and precarious off-the-beaten-path warehouse raves.

The sometimes-gothic always-seductive wave-laced house music they canonized in their mixes, record labels (Correspondant, DISCHI), remixes, and productions helped rephrase the world's understanding of the French dance music scene. They continue leaving their trace playing festivals such as Glastonbury, Primavera, Field Day, Sonar, Butik Festival, Mutek, and more. Cardini is a regular at the best clubs in the world, such as Berghain, Outra Cena, Bassiani, Basement or Circoloco. They have also been able to perform at iconic art venues like MoMA PS1 and the Centre Pompidou. Jen has also launched their own party series, Nightclubbing, a platform for queer underground artists. 


The transformative power of music has been a constant inspiration for Cardini and feeds their creative curiosity. Just as soon as the mainstream thinks they know how to define them, they're onto something else. It is an essential piece of their status as an underrecognized pioneer.  Although the mainstream may never catch up to their icon status, the underground has already crowned Cardini, ensuring that if they do, they sure will have a lot of music to sift through.

Jennifer Cardini 

OMOLOKO is part of the new wave of artists leading the Brazilian scene from the front. His colourful 101Ø party in Belo Horizonte is one the most exciting in the country thanks to its exchange of artists both nationally and internationally. Having lived all over Brazil, his music is infused with all the various niche scenes and sounds you would hear if you travelled the country, from disco to world music, techno and house to broken beat.

João has an impeccable, deep and honest way of going about his selections. His mixes feel enigmatic yet relaxed and, most importantly, full of love.

OMOLOKO

'Ogazón is an artist that truly embodies the spirit of the music she plays. Releasing all inhibitions, she pours herself totally into her performances. Her approach is one of careful consideration, with the audience's journey at its heart. Deeply sensitive to the subtle and contextual nature of electronic music, she is equally adept at presenting both house and techno, often rendering the perceived boundary between them non-existent. With forward-facing music that propels, she's able to make creative progress in an already well-established art form while remaining true to its fundamentals -the mark of a student truly passionate about their subject matter.’

Ogazón 

Parris is a producer, DJ and label owner whose creative evolution reflects a decade inside the engine room of UK club music. With an experimental ear honed at the crucial parties, labels and record shops of the 2010s, the Hackney-born artist has cultivated a genre-fluid style that plugs sound system pressure into misty dubscapes, pulsating house and fragments of pop glitz. His diverse record crates have taken him from the sweatboxes of London to world-class clubs and festivals.

Parris

Under the Priori moniker, Québecois musician Francis Latreille has established himself as a crucial voice in underground techno producer, DJ and live-artist.  Across a sprawling discography, including four full length albums, several eps, and a host of collaborative projects, Priori builds a hyper-detailed world steeped in science fiction and fantasy, residing somewhere between the biological and the synthetic, the actual and the possible. Priori’s meticulously crafted dance music is full of fractalizing patterns, ear-prickling textures, and crystalline melodies that emerge and flicker in stunning detail; it is evocative, enchanting, and always moving.


Priori is also an accomplished mixing engineer who has worked with James K, Bambii, Maara, Ex-terrestrial, Roza Terenzi, D.Tiffany, Regular Fantasy, Ramzi, URA and many more. As one half of NAFF recordings and the Jump Source recording studio, Francis is steadily shaping the course of underground electronic dance music in Canada and abroad.

NAFF

Priori

Born in Diadema, Roniere Santos launched his DJ career in 2010, drawing influence from the local experience and infusing Brazilian rhythms and percussive elements into his work. RHR's unique blend of percussive soundscapes is gaining prominence in Brazil and worldwide. Continuously delving into São Paulo's diverse stimuli, the artist showcases his research across genres like techno, bass, dancehall, electro, and baile funk. With five solo EPs and a collaboration with Danny Daze, Roniere is gearing up for a new release to share his artistic vision further. Beyond collaborations with labels like Mamba Rec, Omnidisc, Pac Recs, and Nice and Deadly, RHR is an integral part of the New York-based label TIJOLO Records. His capacity to transform amidst challenges positions him as a potentially liberating force, maintaining his unique characteristics, references, and artistic ideas.


Rene Wise’s approach to writing music and DJing fuses together as one concept; where high attention to detail blends with a strong vision for storytelling through sound.

Wise portrays a deep sense of knowledge and maturity, devising atmospheric soundscapes with a raw but modern touch, captivating the listener from beginning to end. His sets demonstrate this to full effect, consistently maintaining a powerful sonic trademark via a low end focused, yet intricate and enchanting selection. Indeed, the capacity to dip in between deeper realms of sound and rhythmic exploration aids the artists preference towards longer sets.

Before discovering the world of electronic music, Wise came from a background of drum and percussion which was guided by his Iranian father, a former professional drummer. This influence plays a key part in shaping the foundation of techno that he crafts. Subsequently, exposure to Europe’s dancefloors further triggered his passion, allowing him to understand the importance of the interaction between the physicality of sound on the human body. Fast-forward to 2024, this notion gave birth to his label ‘Moving Pressure’. Conceptually, as the title already hints at, the imprint focuses on the capacity of sound to guide movement and emotion, to weave into the fabric of our physical being. Concretely, the first release features a 4 tracker by Wise himself and will proceed by showcasing his sonic vision through self and external releases.

The artist’s 'quality over quantity’ mindset has seen him become a mainstay on influential labels such as Mote Evolver and his pure but passionate approach to music has given him the honour of gracing institutions such as Berghain and Bassiani and earned him a residency at the esteemed underground Eerste Communie parties hailing from The Netherlands.

Rene Wise

Ryan Elliott, a Detroit-born DJ who found his groove in Berlin, has spent two decades deftly merging diverse artistic realms. Holding residencies at Berghain, Panorama Bar, and Robert Johnson in Offenbach, he defies genre constraints, seamlessly blending techno and house. Through his label Faith Beat, established in 2019, Elliott curates music that is both playable and unpredictable, reflecting his DJ roots, production skills, and passion for collecting records.

Ryan Elliott

S-candalo is a DJ duo made up of Tania and Dominik Humeres-Correa (THC & DHC). They are siblings, and in their sets, one can hear alongside a deep honour for the old school sound a kind of telepathic link that siblings share. Raised in Germany with Colombian and Chilean roots, they are well-acquainted with mixing together and keeping one’s back to another’s back. On their recent mixes for platforms such as MARICAS, Radiant Records, and Rinse FM, obtuse melodies from the 90s blend with sassy club bangers, then into polyrhythmic grooves, and so on. Their sound is overflowing with the queen and the queer, an energy they also direct into their party, La Noche.

S-candalo

Salamanda is a Seoul-based Leftfield Ambient music producer/DJ duo of Uman Therma (Sala) and Yetsuby (Manda). The duo have been reaching out to a wider range of listeners around the world with their debut full-length albums released on Good Morning Tapes and Small Méasures labels, as well as their mixes introduced in multiple domestic & international radio stations including Seoul Community Radio, NTS Radio & LYL Radio. Salamanda believes every sound has beauty, and loves to collect and experiment with all kinds of sounds from the world around them.

Salamanda


Berlin-based DJ and producer Sally C has crafted a distinctive sound, blending vintage house, hip house, acid, and breakbeat under her label Big Saldo’s Chunkers. Beginning her DJ journey in 2010 at Dundee's Reading Rooms, she honed her skills and principles of authenticity, community, and independence. Sally's 2019 Boiler Room debut marked a turning point, and she was praised for her musical range. In 2020, she launched her label 'Chunkers', drawing inspiration from '88–'98 hip house and US house. Her tracks like 'Let’s Get This' and 'Downtown' have become classics, emphasising a chunky bassline, banging drums, and a trippy vocal. As a Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide resident, Sally champions emerging artists through her monthly show.

Sally C

Berlin-based powerhouse THC is known for ecstatically high-energy sets that captivate her signature style of big-room closeness. She spins house and techno with tokes of warmth, euphoria and rolling groove, mirroring her ideals of a perfect dancefloor. THC also exercises these dreams with the La Noche party series, a collaboration with Byron Yeates and sibling DHC. Whether solo or as part of her and DHC’s back-to-back alias S-candalo, THC’s tour schedule has spanned dance floors such as Panorama Bar and Whole Festival on home turf, Dekmantel Festival in Amsterdam and Sao Paulo’s Mamba Negra party. Outside of the club, listeners can enjoy different facets of THC’s sound through her Rinse FM residency Hot Box, regularly joined by a rotation of special guests.

The Lady Machine is a veteran Brazilian artist with over two decades of experience as a dedicated vinyl DJ. Beyond her mastery behind the decks, she has also made a name for herself as a producer, with successful releases on renowned labels such as 

Her sound is deeply rooted in intricate rhythmic structures, layered with dark, underground synths and textures—capturing the raw essence of 21st-century techno.

Driven by meticulous musical research and precise technique, The Lady Machine delivers versatile sets that explore techno in its many forms. Her fast, fierce, yet flawlessly controlled mixing creates an electrifying dance-floor experience. 

“I never limit myself to one style. Quality sound with attitude—always dance 

oor-oriented—is what I strive for in my sets,” 

In recent years, she has firmly established herself within 

, performing at the city’s top events and securing a residency at the acclaimed 

Brazil’s underground electronic movement, 

The Lady Machine has taken her sound worldwide, performing across 

Asia, North America, Latin America, and multiple European tours

, gracing leading clubs and festivals throughout the continent.

The Lady Machine

Vlada has rightfully earned her worldwide reputation as a master of musical finesse. Her diverse sonic palette of techno, house, trance and everything in between makes her an equally sought-after act both at sweaty dance floors of Panorama Bar and Multisex, where she effortlessly unleashes her mischievous and seductive selections, putting the crowds in states from frenzy to delirium and more intimate clubs and festivals like Houghton and Waking life whose dancers crave to get hypnotised by deep and obscure. Sleek yet raw, dark yet shimmering, playing out or curating her recent projects Spell and dreamslesssweet, Vlada keeps serving a dazzling DJ master-class of top-tier quality.

Vlada

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