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A.C. Marias

Multi award winning Drum n Bass DJ & producer and CEO & founder of Titan Records.

Deas

He have been releasing music on: CLR, Dynamic Reflection, Planet Rhythm, Materia, Quartz

Sept

Techno is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of Sept. He has always been far away from the mainstream beats.

Friction

Drum & Bass Producer/DJ from Brighton.

Lens (2)

Lens is rapidly becoming a leading force in Drum & Bass with her dynamic double drops and eclectic selections.

Mischluft

Known for his deep passion for catchy and sexy vocal lines...

Nico Moreno

RA: Resident Advisor

NOVAH

NOVAH is a female hard techno DJ based in Antwerp, Belgium.

Odymel

Retro nostalgic trancy italo hard techno

ØTTA

Øtta seamlessly blends elements of trance and groove to craft a dynamic and vivid musical style.

PARISI

RA: Resident Advisor

Rusko

Rusko is a dubstep DJ/producer who is closely affiliated with Caspa, a fellow DJ/producer who is an influential figure within the dubstep community, not only as an artist but as the founder of several influential labels (i.e., Storming Productions, Dub..

Âme

In a genre seemingly obsessed with revisiting the past, Âme look firmly to the future of dance music. Driven toward continual evolution since they started making tracks in 2001, the German duo of Frank Wiedemann and Kristian Beyer have challenged club-goers’ expectations with their conceptually driven and uniquely visceral music. Now over 15 years into their career together, their deep understanding of the clubbing landscape and each other’s strengths allows Âme to stay innovative and relevant in a swiftly paced genre. And as primary partners of the Innervisions label/collective with Dixon, the pair continue to foster the future of house with carefully selected releases, all-encompassing live events, and even their own boutique shop that solidifies the connection between the artists and their admirers.

Trikk

ENGINEERED BY DIXON & TRIKK.

ACTIVATED BY RAGENATION.

Bad Boombox

Bad Boombox recently emerged with an irreverence and colorful vitality rarely seen in techno.

Ben Klock

Ben Klock is a German techno DJ and producer who runs his own label Klockworks. He can often be found behind the decks at Berghain club in Berlin.

Boys Noize

㋡ of @boysnoizerec ❚ Octave Minds ❚ Dog Blood ❚ Handbraekes ❚ ☞

Brina Knauss

Exploring house and techno sounds, Brina Knauss is a Slovenian-born versatile artist who achieved a worldwide notoriety and recognition in today’s electronic music scene, performing in high-end festivals and running her own label "EMPATH"

Catz 'N Dogz

Greg and Voitek are two friends behind the prolific house outfit Catz 'N Dogz

Chlär

Chlär holds this perpetual need to learn and improve, convinced of the fundamental relationships humans share with the groove. His productions and performances are attempts to awaken the tribal and primitive instinct that sleeps in each of us.

Colin Benders

Utrecht’s jazz, hip-hop connoisseur Collin Benders, the man behind The Kyteman Orchestra, is also a bit of whizz with modular synthesizers. His music is still full of melody and flow, controlled and balanced, with odes to his hop-hop roots.

Cranz

KYSH Records and events founder

Crackhouse resident

IG: cranz.kysh

mixes:

linktr.ee/cranz.wav

Danté

RA: Resident Advisor

Damian Lazarus

The mysterious allure of musical vibrations can perplex and intrigue in equal amounts at the best of times, not least when the sorcery of a certain Damian Lazarus comes into play. Crosstown Rebels, Day Zero, Get Lost, Rebel Rave, his own DJ and product..

Disclosure

Surrey brothers, Disclosure, effortlessly combine the 2-step garage rhythms and dubstep basslines of their locale with their own rich musical heritage of soul, jazz and 90s hip hop. Crafting their own lo-fi dream-dub sound, Disclosure released their d..

DJ Gigola

like gigolo, but Gigola

Dyzen

Dyzen is the musical signature of Francesco Perrone, a young Italian producer, who through music wants to tell his story.

Edvvin

RA: Resident Advisor

Effy

London-based producer and DJ Effy grew up in the North West of England listening to the high energy sounds of artists like The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy.

Effy was named as one of Pete T ong's Rising Stars and has attained blanket support on BBC Radio 1 & Radio 6 with Mary Anne Hobbs. Her debut EP Not What It Seems sees Effy stepping into the sounds she turns to when she DJs, as well as hearing that Prodigy influence with aci

Eli Brown

Eli Brown is a standout artist in the house music world. He's currently the number 1 best selling artist on Beatport and it's easy to see why with releases on Repopulate Mars, ViVA Music, Toolroom, Truesoul, Ultra, Big Beat, We Are The Brave and more.

Ellen Allien

DJ, musician, label manager and creative all-rounder – Ellen Allien has carved out her own space in all these roles, creating a unique universe.

DJ Salome (PL)

SALOME is electro, techno Dj and a producer. Resident of Herrensauna.

Based in Berlin, From Tbilisi, Georgia.

Funk Tribu

RA: Resident Advisor

Hector Oaks

Disc-jockey, operates at the vanguard of rave, label owner of OAKS and KAOS.

I Hate Models

In a scene choked by formulae, we need voices that cut through the

noise to present something unapologetically true and devoutly

non-conformist.

Ignez

By not taking usual paths and knowing his inner self, it all felt natural for Ignez to devote more of his life to electronic music.

MKO

dj/promoter

Shadows clubnight owner

Jasna 1 resident

SLAP crew member

co-founder of dype

Jimi Jules

Born Happy, Die Happier

KlangKuenstler

90s and early 2000s influenced Techno producer from Berlin.

Kream

RA: Resident Advisor

LB aka Labat

DJ, Producer & Label owner

naked relaxing

RA: Resident Advisor

Len Faki

Berlin based DJ, producer and label owner Len Faki is one of the most outstanding and in-demand artists in techno's present age. Being a resident at Berlin’s prime techno club Berghain since its opening in 2004

London Elektricity

London Elektricity is an English recording artist and DJ from the greater London area. His sound is not easily categorized, but it seems to approximate genres such as electronica, breakbeat, future jazz, punk, dub, and funk.

Mall Grab

love is everything

Mano Le Tough

Mano Le Tough – Irish by Birth, International in Spirit.

Mind Against

Expressing a musical venture which draws from the combined roots of IDM, house and techno, Mind Against are the Italian-born, Berlin-based duo of Alessandro and Federico Fognini.

Dj Shimza

One of Africa's shining light, an incredibly talented young mix Dj who has proven to be successful at whatever he does. House music producer, radio mix dj on Metro FM Oskido I believe show, Channel O mix effect master, Director of SHIMUZIC Productions,..

The Prodigy

RA: Resident Advisor

WRK (PL)

A 24-year-old DJ and promoter living in Łódź. On stage since 2020. Despite her short experience, she has managed to win the hearts of dancers with her energy and authenticity.

Zhu

With his sleek synth melodies, billowing basslines, and undeniable hooks, the GRAMMY-nominated artist ZHU creates tracks that are as sexy as they are sinister and as indulgent as they are dark. Songs like his star-making hit “Faded,” with its 318 million streams, provide a noirish soundtrack for massive crowds of writhing bodies. Though many know ZHU as a producer and DJ, he’s much more than that: he’s also a singer, performer, instrumentalist, and, importantly, a songwriter and filmmaker, two facets he delves into on the ambitious and unique new album and film GRACE. “The most powerful thing we have is to be able to tell stories,” he says.

“Settle for Less,” ZHU’s collaboration with Sabrina Claudio and latest single for Astralwerks, is a shining example of how he stirs powerful emotions with his stories and sounds. Beginning with only pensive piano keys, he builds an ethereal atmosphere through Claudio’s reverbed vocals and subtle background harmonies. Finally, the track opens up further with a sensual yet urgent, percussion-led rhythm as ZHU fights for a love on the edge: “You know you touch me in the broken parts / So don’t you leave.”

ZHU worked to create a film (out this fall) that fully captures GRACE’s breathtaking audio-visual spectacle. The album—which will double as the film’s soundtrack—was recorded mostly at Grace Cathedral in ZHU’s hometown of San Francisco, among the stained-glass windows and marble columns where people preached, worshiped, and sought answers from a higher power. He channeled the grandness of the occasion into the LP with transcendent organs, string players, and even a choir. ZHU worked fast, recording with intensity and urgency, most of its tracks are single, live takes. Far from a standard dance record or a collection of singles, ZHU intends GRACE to be listened to from beginning to end, as he tells a story for which even he’s not completely sure of the ending.

“This album is a real-life manifestation of some of the decisions I need to make,” ZHU says. “I’m kind of at this crossroads between some trajectories in my career: one which goes niche, and the other which goes for mass appeal; one in which I focus on being a producer, one in which I’m an artist; one in which I’m in the shadows, one in which I’m in the light.” Inspired by the rawness of acts like Massive Attack and Portishead—“I think their records are really good at expressing pain”—GRACE navigates this junction via a winding path of sounds and emotions. From the roaring, bass-warped aggression of “The Gates” and self-idolizing “Praise” to the sparkling, love-flushed breaks of “Dragonfruit” and introspective, downtempo closer “Blessings,” the album chronicles a carefully written journey from darkness to light, tension to release, uncertainty to peace. A decade into his career, ZHU is sharing his world in a way he hasn’t done before. “I felt like I needed to go back to where I grew up,” he says, “to tell the story of where I’m going next.”

The artist born Steven Zhu has been making music since he was a kid growing up in the Bay Area. In his late teens, he started going to raves, where his idea of what music could be—and what it could do for people—changed. “That’s the first time I saw someone have so much control over an environment,” he remembers. “I was shocked that it was possible for one person playing records to command so much energy. It blew my mind. The lights, the music, the volume, the dancing. Electronic music is an experiential thing. You can’t tell the whole story just by listening to the record—it’s a unique part of this culture.”

ZHU knew he wanted to be a part of that culture, but it took time before he was ready. He was working in the industry, writing, and producing for others, when he realized he had amassed a collection of demos tailored to his unique sonic vision. He put out a few songs on his own, anonymously at first, and they took off instantly. By the time he had his first chance to perform them at a festival in 2014, “Faded” was already a hit. So when he took to the stage, he immediately got a taste of that feeling he craved as a teenage raver: He made people move.

Since then, ZHU has explored bringing rave music into new dimensions. On his 2016 debut, GENERATIONWHY, he worked in New Orleans with local jazz musicians to weave his love for that music’s unpredictability with the ecstasy of dance. His 2018 follow-up, RINGOS DESERT, was all the more genre-blurring—not to mention vocal-forward—folding artists as diverse as Tame Impala and Majid Jordan into the glowing neons of his club tracks. ZHU’s third album, DREAMLAND 2021, was made on the go during quarantine, amid sprawling road trips as he crafted a score for dancefloors that would one day spin back into motion. The set’s grimy techno and sweaty house soundtrack embodied the communal feeling of the dancefloor, with ZHU realizing his vision alongside a vast cast of guests including Yuna, Tinashe, and Channel Tres. His 2022 project, Musical Chairs Mixtape (Vol. 1), ventured deeper into the untamed depths of emotion and vice, unlocking primal instincts through hazy production and vocals aching with desire. At the end of 2023, ZHU released the Days Before Grace EP as something of a prologue to GRACE, wading fans into his slower, more industrial sounds.

Over the years ZHU has won broad acclaim for his boundary-pushing experiments, including a Best Dance Recording nomination at the 2014 Grammys for “Faded.” GENERATIONWHY topped Billboard’s Dance/Electronic albums chart and landed on the Billboard 200. He’s also had dozens of tracks hit on the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, including “Faded” (#12), and “Working For It” with Skrillex and THEY (#11). These accolades have earned him partnerships with brands including Pokémon, Luminosity, and Mortal Kombat. Of late, ZHU’s tracks have been part of the moody soundtracks for film and television—“Desire” appeared in the Netflix series The Sandman, and he reimagined Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” for the Paramount+ film The Tiger’s Apprentice. A clothing designer since 2015, he previewed his high-end NIGHTDAY collection at EDC Las Vegas 2022 and recently opened his showroom for the first time.

Upon the release of GRACE, ZHU is reflecting on his career and appreciating how he has been embraced by the dance world. He’s also ready for new boundaries to push. “Making this album was so grand and tedious that I think I need to really just step back for a minute and just watch it unfold before I can make a decision on what’s next,” he says. Whatever that is will surely be worth watching.

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