Artists

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.

Andrey Pushkarev

Born in Votkinsk in 1981, Andrey Pushkarev rose from Moscow's DeepMix.ru radio to become a deep techno DJ and founder of the Luck of Access label.

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.

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.

Anyma

Matteo Milleri's solo project turned melodic techno into a CGI-driven spectacle, from Afterlife's dancefloors to the first electronic residency at Sphere.

Batu

Bristol producer Batu built Timedance into one of UK bass music's defining labels, then paired with Donato Dozzy for the 2026 album Exhale.

Charlotte de Witte

Charlotte de Witte went from Ghent's underground clubs and the Raving George alias to become techno's most consistently ranked headliner worldwide.

Chris Stussy

Dutch house producer Chris Stussy, now performing as Chris Stassy, founded Up The Stuss in 2020 and reached No. 59 in DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs 2026.

Daniel Bell

Daniel Bell, who records as DBX, helped define Detroit's minimal techno sound on his Accelerate label in the 1990s and moved to Berlin in 2000.

Daniel Wang

Daniel Wang, the Oakland-born, Berlin-based disco DJ and producer, founded the Balihu label in New York in 1993 and moved to Berlin in 2003.

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.

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.

Eric Cloutier

Eric Cloutier DJed for 25 years, ran the Palinoia label, became a Tresor resident, and only then made his first album, born out of two hard years.

Fred P

Fred P has spent two decades building a deep house catalogue between Brooklyn and Berlin, founding Soul People Music and recording as Black Jazz Consortium.

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.

Jeff Mills

Detroit techno originator Jeff Mills built Underground Resistance and Axis Records, then spent three decades redefining minimal techno worldwide.

Joseph Capriati

Joseph Capriati, born in Caserta in 1987, is the Italian techno DJ behind the Redimension label and the Metamorfosi parties at Amnesia Ibiza.

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.

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.

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.

Lola Palmer

Lola Palmer built her name as a deep house and tech house selector from Crimea, backed by five separate RTS.FM archive sets and a Sonar Barcelona booking.

Luciano

Swiss-Chilean DJ Luciano, born Lucien Nicolet, runs Cadenza and earned DJ Mag's Outstanding Contribution award at the 2026 Top 100 DJs.

Marco Carola

Naples-born techno originator, Music On founder, and the DJ whose Ibiza residencies have run continuously since 2012, from Amnesia to Pacha.

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.

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.

Mollono.Bass

Mollono.Bass, Ronny Mollenhauer, has spent three decades in German tech house, from founding Kombinat100 to running Acker Records and 3000° Records.

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.

Move D

Move D, the Heidelberg producer David Moufang, co-founded Source Records in 1992 and has spanned ambient, techno and deep house ever since.

Nastia

Nastia built Ukraine's underground techno scene from KISS FM to NECHTO Records, then rebuilt her career from Amsterdam after Russia's invasion.

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.

Okain

Okain is Samuel Thalmann, the Paris-raised, Berlin-based house and techno DJ behind Talman Records, releasing on Tsuba, BPitch Control and Truesoul.

Rick Wade

Rick Wade built a deep house catalogue out of Buchanan, Michigan and Detroit, co-founding Harmonie Park Records with Dan Bell in 1993.

Sara Landry

Sara Landry, the US-born hard techno DJ and founder of Hekate Records, was named World's No. 1 Hard DJ in DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs 2026.

Shonky

Shonky is Olivier Ducreux, the Paris-born, Berlin-based house producer and co-founder of Apollonia alongside Dan Ghenacia and Dyed Soundorom.

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.

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.

Surgeon

Anthony Child records as Surgeon: Birmingham techno, a Tresor residency, his own Dynamic Tension label and British Murder Boys with Regis.

Sven Väth

Frankfurt's own techno pioneer, Omen founder and Cocoon boss, still running vinyl-only marathon sets four decades into a career that built the genre.

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.

Theo Parrish

Detroit-based DJ and producer Theo Parrish founded Sound Signature in 1997 and blends soul, jazz and disco into house, from Parallel Dimensions onward.

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.

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.

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.

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.

TYGAPAW

Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based producer TYGAPAW built Fake Accent as a platform for Black queer nightlife, then landed a 2026 album on Tresor.

Vince Watson

Scottish producer Vince Watson has made soulful, Detroit-minded techno since 1995, with releases on Rotation, Delsin, Planet E and Awesome Soundwave.