Techno

If the dancefloor has a dark night of the soul, it sounds something like ‘Controlling Me’. SIAN’s latest on Octopus Recordings arrives like a reckoning – a slab of acid-soaked groove that feels like watching a storm roll in from the wrong side of midnight. This is dancefloor music in its raw form – precise,... Read more »

Armada Music has acquired Oxia’s ‘Domino’ – one of the most iconic records in house music history, now celebrating its 20th anniversary. The track has amassed over 150 million Spotify streams and 49 million YouTube views since its original release. On June 12th, an official remix arrived from Space 92 – Beatport’s all-time best-selling Techno... Read more »

Few names carry the weight that Oliver Huntemann does in techno. For more than two decades, the Hamburg producer has shaped the genre with a sound built on precision, restraint and a relentless sense of forward motion, and on his own Senso Sounds imprint he continues to set the standard for the music he helped... Read more »

Carl Cox, one of the most iconic and beloved figures in dance music has today been named in the King’s Birthday Honours List, receiving an OBE in recognition of his services to music. The award is a landmark moment not only for Carl himself, but for the global dance music community he has championed throughout... Read more »

Brazilian born and Berlin based, Alex Stein has built a reputation as one of techno’s most relentless forces, a producer whose tracks are engineered for the biggest rooms and the most intense moments of a peak-time set. With releases on Drumcode, Octopus and a long-running home at Terminal M, he has become a go-to name... Read more »

Simina Grigoriu returns to Drumcode LTD with Frame Control, a four-track EP that captures the Berlin-based artist at her most precise and purposeful. Following the success of her previous Drumcode LTD outings, Declare Me and Divine Assignment, Simina once again delivers a body of work that balances raw physical intensity with intricate rhythmic detail, reaffirming... Read more »

Rave The Planet returns with the 030th edition of its Supporter Series, and this time the spotlight falls on American producer Shay De Castro, an artist who has spent the past few years building a reputation for techno made entirely on her own terms. A self-made talent from Boise, Idaho, Shay De Castro emerged far... Read more »

Irish-born producer and DJ Luciid has spent the past few years carving out a singular space inside electronic music, rising on the strength of the hard techno movement before quietly outgrowing its boundaries. With his debut album REELUV arriving on 22nd May 2026 via Be Yourself Music, he sets a much wider stage. Thirteen tracks... Read more »

There’s a version of the proppaganda story that’s easy to tell: California DJ performs underwater with sharks, then base jumps off a hot air balloon flying above Brazil. The videos go viral, the comments ask if it’s AI, and the algorithm rewards the spectacle. But spend any time with Bry Stevens and it becomes clear... Read more »

Moritz Hofbauer is back on FCKNG SERIOUS with his fifth single of 2026, and this time the Mannheim-based producer takes a sharp turn into harder territory. ‘Golden Hour’ is a powerful peak time techno cut that hits hard from the very first moment, built around a massive build up designed to ignite the dancefloor. After... Read more »