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- 01 //DJ & PRODUCER · ANTWERP, BELGIUM
Amelie Lens
Amelie Lens went from Antwerp fashion runways to techno's biggest stages, building Lenske and EXHALE into two of the genre's defining platforms.
- 02 //PRODUCER & DJ · BERLIN, GERMANY
Answer Code Request
Patrick Gräser built Answer Code Request into Ostgut Ton's second generation, then took eight years to make Halo, his most personal album yet.
- 03 //DJ & PRODUCER · MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Anton Kubikov
Anton Kubikov has spent three decades at Moscow techno's center, from Hermitage in 1994 to SCSI-9, Pro-tez Records and solo ambient LPs on Kompakt.
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- 06 //DJ & PRODUCER · BERLIN, GERMANY
Dirty Doering
Dirty Doering rose from Bar25 bartender to resident DJ to Katermukke label boss, becoming one of Berlin house music's most recognizable characters.
- 07 //PRODUCER & DJ · ROME, ITALY
Donato Dozzy
Rome's Donato Dozzy spent decades DJing before Voices from the Lake made him an ambient techno reference point, and he is still building from there.
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- 10 //DJ & PRODUCER · LONDON, ENGLAND
James Dexter
James Dexter has run London's Inermu Records since 2015, built a CAYA residency at fabric, and released his debut album 'Here Now' in October 2025.
- 11 //DJ & PRODUCER · DETROIT, MICHIGAN
Jeff Mills
Detroit techno originator Jeff Mills built Underground Resistance and Axis Records, then spent three decades redefining minimal techno worldwide.
- 12 //DJ & PRODUCER · BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, USA
Jus-Ed
Jus-Ed built Underground Quality out of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and mentored Nina Kraviz, Levon Vincent and Fred P before any of them had a name.
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- 13 //PRODUCER & DJ · ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Kalabrese
Kalabrese went from Swiss hip-hop drummer to minimal house producer on Perlon, then co-founded Zurich's Zukunft club and built a genre-blending solo career.
- 14 //PRODUCER & DJ · WAYNESBORO, PENNSYLVANIA, USA
Kevin Yost
Kevin Yost is the Pennsylvania producer behind 1998's deep house landmark One Starry Night, known for jazz-inflected, keyboard-led house music.
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- 16 //DJ & PRODUCER · NAPLES, ITALY
Marco Carola
Naples-born techno originator, Music On founder, and the DJ whose Ibiza residencies have run continuously since 2012, from Amnesia to Pacha.
- 17 //DJ & PRODUCER · JENA, GERMANY
Marek Hemmann
Marek Hemmann built a career in melodic minimal techno from Jena, Germany, via Freude am Tanzen and a long-running partnership with Mathias Kaden.
- 18 //PRODUCER & DJ · CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA
Mihai Popoviciu
Mihai Popoviciu built a deep house and techno career from Romania's 1990s rave scene, running Cyclic Records and releasing on Highgrade, Poker Flat and Bedrock.
- 19 //PRODUCER & DJ · BERLIN, GERMANY
Mollono.Bass
Mollono.Bass, Ronny Mollenhauer, has spent three decades in German tech house, from founding Kombinat100 to running Acker Records and 3000° Records.
- 20 //PRODUCER & DJ · SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND, GERMANY
Motor City Drum Ensemble
Motor City Drum Ensemble is Danilo Plessow, the German producer behind the Raw Cuts series, DJ-Kicks and Fabric mixes, and founder of MCDE Recordings.
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- 21 //DJ & PRODUCER · AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Nastia
Nastia built Ukraine's underground techno scene from KISS FM to NECHTO Records, then rebuilt her career from Amsterdam after Russia's invasion.
- 22 //DJ & PRODUCER · IRKUTSK, RUSSIA
Nina Kraviz
Nina Kraviz traded a Siberian dental practice for techno's front line, building трип and treats into two of electronic music's boldest labels.
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- 25 //PRODUCER & DJ · BERLIN, GERMANY
Shonky
Shonky is Olivier Ducreux, the Paris-born, Berlin-based house producer and co-founder of Apollonia alongside Dan Ghenacia and Dyed Soundorom.
- 26 //PRODUCER & DJ · DELFT, NETHERLANDS
Spekki Webu
Dutch producer Spekki Webu turned a teenage gabber and jungle obsession into Mirror Zone, then opened a new Brooklyn label with Bootstrap Paradox.
- 27 //PRODUCER & DJ · AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Steve Rachmad
Steve Rachmad linked Amsterdam and Detroit techno as Sterac in the 90s, and in 2026 he traded drum machines for a full orchestra on Dekmantel.
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- 28 //PRODUCER & DJ · MANNHEIM, GERMANY
Terry Lee Brown Jr.
Terry Lee Brown Jr., alias Norman Feller, helped invent tech house with 1996's Brother For Real and has stayed at the genre's center from Mannheim ever since.
- 29 //DJ & PRODUCER · BERLIN, GERMANY
Tigerhead
Tigerhead is a vinyl-only techno DJ from Bohemia now based in Berlin, playing Berghain and Boiler Room and releasing through Killekill and BPitch Control.
- 30 //PRODUCER & DJ · LONDON, ENGLAND
Tom Middleton
Tom Middleton co-created Global Communication's ambient landmark 76:14, worked as Jedi Knights and Cosmos, then moved into sleep science and sound design.
- 31 //PRODUCER · UNDISCLOSED
Topdown Dialectic
Topdown Dialectic has released untitled, uncredited techno since 2013 without a public face, and named False LP A hasn't really changed that.
- 32 //DJ & PRODUCER · PARIS, FRANCE
Traumer
Traumer, the Paris-based producer born Romain Reynaud, moved from straight techno to hypnotic minimal house and founded his own label, get-traum, in 2016.
- 33 //PRODUCER & DJ · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
TYGAPAW
Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based producer TYGAPAW built Fake Accent as a platform for Black queer nightlife, then landed a 2026 album on Tresor.