Artists

Adam Beyer

Adam Beyer is the Swedish techno DJ and producer who founded Drumcode in 1996 and still runs the label three decades on.

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.

Aphex Twin

Aphex Twin is Richard D. James, the Cornwall-raised producer behind Selected Ambient Works, Windowlicker and Syro, and co-founder of Rephlex Records.

Arapu

Arapu is a Slatina-born, Bucharest-based minimal house producer, founder of the Liniar label and a Sunrise artist heard at Sunwaves and DC10.

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.

Ben Klock

Ben Klock is a Berlin-born techno DJ and long-time Berghain resident, the artist behind the album One and the label Klockworks.

Ben UFO

Ben UFO (Ben Thomson) is the British DJ and Hessle Audio co-founder, a Rinse FM voice known for omnivorous bass, house and techno sets.

Black Coffee

Black Coffee (Nkosinathi Maphumulo, born 11 March 1976) is a South African Afro house DJ, Grammy winner and Saturday resident at Hï Ibiza.

Blawan

Blawan, real name Jamie Roberts, is an English producer from Barnsley who debuted on Hessle Audio and released SickElixir on XL Recordings in October 2025.

Boris Brejcha

Boris Brejcha, the masked German producer behind High-Tech Minimal and the Fckng Serious label, will end his career at the end of 2028.

Carl Cox

Carl Cox, British techno DJ born in Oldham in 1962: Space Ibiza 2001 to 2016, UNVRS Sunday residency, Intec and Awesome Soundwave, OBE in June 2026.

Carl Craig

Carl Craig is the Detroit producer, remixer and Planet E founder who led techno's second wave, with aliases from Paperclip People to Innerzone Orchestra.

Cassy

Cassy (Catherine Britton) is a Vienna-raised DJ, singer and producer, a Panorama Bar resident who mixed Panorama Bar 01 and runs Kwench Records.

Cezar Lazăr

Cezar Lazăr, known as Cezar, is a Bucharest DJ, producer and engineer who runs the label Understand and co-founded the distributor Our Own with Rhadoo.

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 Liebing

Chris Liebing, the Gießen-born German techno DJ and founder of CLR, released the solo album Evolver in March 2026 after three decades of hard techno.

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.

Cristi Cons

Cristi Cons is a Bucharest-trained cellist turned minimal house producer, co-founder of Amphia Records and half of SIT with Vlad Caia.

Dan Andrei

Dan Andrei is a Romanian DJ and producer from Craiova, signed to Sunrise around 2010, whose 2015 album Parcul Cosmos was only the second LP on Arpiar.

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.

Dave Clarke

Dave Clarke is the Brighton-born, Amsterdam-based techno DJ and producer behind the Red series, Archive One and the long-running White Noise radio show.

Derrick May

Derrick May is the Detroit producer and Transmat founder behind Strings of Life, one of the three Belleville High School friends who created techno.

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are Belgian brothers from Willebroek, Tomorrowland's resident DJs since 2010 and No. 1 in DJ Mag's Top 100 in 2015 and 2019.

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.

Dixon

Dixon (Steffen Berkhahn) is the Berlin DJ who co-founded Innervisions with Âme and topped Resident Advisor's poll four years running, 2013 to 2016.

DJ Hell

DJ Hell (Helmut Josef Geier), the Bavarian founder of International Deejay Gigolos, issued the electroclash-era album Neoclash in December 2025.

DJ Koze

DJ Koze (Stefan Kozalla, born 1972 in Flensburg) is a German producer and Pampa Records founder, behind the 2025 album Music Can Hear Us.

Donato Dozzy

Donato Dozzy, Rome DJ and producer behind Voices From The Lake, Aquaplano and Spazio Disponibile: Exhale with Batu (2026) and Astro on Tresor, 20 November.

Dubfire

Dubfire is Ali Shirazinia, the Iranian-American techno DJ who co-founded Deep Dish, went solo in 2006 and runs the SCI+TEC label.

Duhov

DJ Duhov is a Moscow deep and tech house DJ with mix CDs on GR Records and Deus Vox from 2003 to 2004, and a long run of sets in the RTS.FM archive.

Electric Indigo

Electric Indigo is the Vienna techno DJ and composer Susanne Kirchmayr, who founded the female:pressure network in 1998 and the label indigo:inc.

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.

Floating Points

Floating Points is Sam Shepherd, a Manchester-raised producer, DJ and neuroscientist behind Elaenia, Promises and the Sunflower sound system.

Four Tet

Four Tet is Kieran Hebden, the Putney-born producer and DJ behind Rounds and There Is Love in You, and founder of Text Records.

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.

Genning

Genning is a dub-minded house producer with EPs on MixCult, Greyscale and TAMIZDAT, and RTSFM002 on the RTS.FM label in 2024.

Helena Hauff

Helena Hauff is a Hamburg-born DJ and producer known for analogue acid, electro and EBM, founder of Return to Disorder and 2017 Essential Mix winner.

Henrik Schwarz

Henrik Schwarz is a Berlin-based German producer who went from deep house and DJ-Kicks to orchestral and jazz work on his Between Buttons label.

Honey Dijon

Honey Dijon (Honey Redmond, born 1968 in Chicago) is an American house DJ who worked on Beyoncé's Renaissance and released The Nightlife in 2026.

Hugobeat

Hugobeat is a DJ and producer with a 2015 to 2020 catalogue on Disco Cat, Pepper Cat and KudoZ, and RTSFM014 on the RTS.FM label in 2026.

I Hate Models

I Hate Models is a masked French techno artist, founder of the Disco Inferno label and creator of the 2024 release Forever Melancholia.

Ilya Schulz

Ilya Schulz is a Moscow house producer behind RTSFM015 on the RTS.FM label (2026), with earlier EPs on Zingiber Audio and Purple Box.

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.

Jean-Michel Jarre

French electronic pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, born in Lyon in 1948, made Oxygène in 1976 and marks its 50th anniversary in 2026.

Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills, born 18 June 1963 in Detroit: UR co-founder, Axis Records boss. Latest: The Trip To Vega (June 2026), Gamma Rays EP, Liquid Room tour.

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.

Josh Wink

Josh Wink is Joshua Winkelman, the Philadelphia DJ behind the 1995 acid classic Higher State of Consciousness and co-founder of Ovum Recordings.

Juan Atkins

Juan Atkins, the Detroit producer behind Cybotron, Model 500 and Metroplex, has died. His agency announced it on 1 November 2026. A career biography.

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 Saunderson

Kevin Saunderson is the Belleville Three member behind KMS Records, Inner City's Big Fun and the Reese bassline that later shaped drum and bass.

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.

Kimbar

DJ Kimbar is a Russian house DJ with mix CDs on Day & Night, KDK and Balisong from 2004 to 2007 and a spot on Solyanka 2009 beside Kubikov and Sapunov.

KMRU

KMRU is Joseph Kamaru, the Nairobi-born, Berlin-based ambient and field-recording artist behind Peel and Kin, released on Editions Mego.

Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier, French techno DJ born in 1966 in Boulogne-Billancourt, co-founded F Communications and released 33 tours et puis s'en vont in 2023.

Len Faki

Len Faki (Levent Faki, b. 1975) is a Berghain resident DJ and founder of Figure. Latest: Zera EP (Apr 2026), Infinity In Loop with Exos (Oct 2026).

Loco Dice

Loco Dice is the Düsseldorf-born house and tech house DJ who started out as a hip-hop DJ and rapper and co-founded the Desolat label in 2007.

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.

Lost Frequencies

Lost Frequencies is Felix De Laet, a Brussels DJ whose 2014 remix of Are You with Me hit No. 1 in Belgium and the top 10 across much of Europe.

Luciano

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

Maceo Plex

Maceo Plex is Eric Estornel, the Barcelona-based house and techno DJ who runs Ellum Audio and Lone Romantic and records as Maetrik and Mariel Ito.

Marcel Dettmann

Marcel Dettmann is a German techno DJ and Berghain resident who runs the labels MDR and Bad Manners and made Dettmann II and Fear of Programming.

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.

Monolake

Monolake is Robert Henke's Berlin dub techno project, begun with Gerhard Behles in 1995, and he is also a co-creator of Ableton Live.

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.

Nemec

Nemec is the producer behind RTSFM008 on the RTS.FM label (April 2025), with a Kandaurov remix, and a September 2025 RTS.FM session in Alicante.

Netsky

Netsky is Boris Daenen, a Belgian drum and bass producer from Antwerp who signed to Hospital Records in 2009 and hit No. 1 in Belgium with Running Low.

Nicolas Barnes

Nicolas Barnes is a Riga DJ and producer who runs the dub-leaning label ECOUL SND and released RTSFM009, a four-track dub story, on RTS.FM in 2025.

Nicolas Jaar

Nicolas Jaar, the Chilean-American producer born in New York in 1990, runs Other People and releases the AEAEA album Mist on 20 November 2026.

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.

Onlee

Onlee is Boris Romanov, the Moscow DJ behind the Propaganda night Origin and the digital label Lichen Records, founded in 2006.

Paul Kalkbrenner

Paul Kalkbrenner, German live act born in 1977 in Leipzig, starred in Berlin Calling and released The Essence in October 2025, his first album since 2018.

Peggy Gou

Peggy Gou, born Kim Min-ji in Incheon on 3 July 1991, is a Berlin-based DJ, Gudu Records founder and XL Recordings artist behind I Hear You.

Perc

Perc (Ali Wells) is a London-based British techno producer, DJ and founder of the Perc Trax label, launched in 2004. Latest album: The Cut Off (2024).

Peter Van Hoesen

Peter Van Hoesen is a Belgian techno producer from Antwerp who runs Time To Express, released Life Performance on Tresor and moved to Berlin in 2010.

Petre Inspirescu

Petre Inspirescu is a Romanian DJ and producer from Brăila, co-founder of the Arpiar label, whose records range from minimal house to ambient.

Praslea

Praslea is the stage name of Bucharest DJ Florin Cunțan, a Sunrise and a:rpia:r roster artist who played the final Romanian edition of Sunwaves in 2025.

Priku

Priku is Adrian Niculae, a Bucharest DJ and producer on the Sunrise roster since 2007, known for releases on Arpiar, Eastenderz and his own Motif.

Raresh

Raresh, Romanian minimal DJ from Bacău and a:rpia:r co-founder with Rhadoo and Petre Inspirescu: fabric 78, Vivaltu LP, long sets with Villalobos.

Rhadoo

Rhadoo (Radu Bogdan Cilinca) is a Romanian DJ and producer, one of three people behind the Arpiar label and a pioneer of the Bucharest minimal sound.

Ricardo Villalobos

Ricardo Villalobos is the Chilean-born, Berlin-based DJ behind Alcachofa and the 37-minute Fizheuer Zieheuer, a defining voice of minimal techno.

Richie Hawtin

Richie Hawtin is the British-born Canadian behind Plastikman, Plus 8 and M_nus, a Detroit-rooted pioneer of minimal techno and DJ technology.

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.

Robert Hood

Robert Hood is the Detroit producer behind 1994's Minimal Nation, an early Underground Resistance member and founder of M-Plant, and the Floorplan project.

Roni Size

Roni Size, the Bristol drum and bass producer behind Full Cycle and the Mercury-winning New Forms (1997), tours its 30th anniversary in June 2027.

Sapunov

Sapunov is Sergey Sapunov, a Moscow house DJ who started playing in 1996, learned from Sergey Sanches and worked with Anton Kubikov.

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.

Sergey a.m.

Sergey a.m. is a Moscow DJ, listed on Discogs as Sergey Timoshov, behind a run of Propaganda club mixes from 2009 and a long record of RTS.FM sets.

Sergey Sanches

Sergey Sanches is the Moscow house DJ behind Sanches' Thursdays at Propaganda, a weekly party that ran from 1998 until its final night in May 2023.

Seth Troxler

Seth Troxler, b. 29 September 1985: Visionquest co-founder, Tuskegee and Slacker 85 label head, RA No. 1 in 2012. Releases, labels and 2026 dates.

Shonky

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

SIT

SIT is the Bucharest duo of Cristi Cons and Vlad Caia, behind the 2019 album Invisibility and 2026's Synaptic, both on Berlin label Sushitech.

Solomun

Solomun (Mladen Solomun), Bosnian-German DJ born in 1975 in Travnik, runs Diynamic Music and the Solomun +1 nights at Pacha Ibiza.

Sonja Moonear

Sonja Moonear, Swiss DJ born in Geneva in 1978 as Sonja Mounir: Weetamix resident since 2002, Ruta5 label, Cocoon mix with Carl Craig, Swiss Music Prize.

Soultape

Soultape is a Moscow-linked producer whose debut album The Last Universe (RTSFM012, 2025) spans ambient, house, minimal, electro and breakbeat.

Soulwax

Soulwax are Ghent's Dewaele brothers, also DJs as 2manydjs, behind As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2, the DEEWEE label and 2025 album All Systems Are Lying.

Speedy J

Speedy J is Jochem Paap, the Rotterdam techno producer behind Pullover and Ginger, and founder of the Electric Deluxe label.

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.

Stephan Bodzin

Stephan Bodzin is a Bremen-born techno producer and live performer, known for melodic synth records and for founding the Herzblut label in 2006.

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 Marquardt

Sven Marquardt, born 1962 in East Berlin, is a portrait photographer and the head doorman of Berghain, with books, shows and film roles behind him.

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.

Techu

Techu is a Romanian minimal house producer with EPs on Juuz Records and Heisenberg, a 2025 RTS.FM set and RTSFM019 on the RTS.FM label in 2026.

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.

Todd Edwards

Todd Edwards, the New Jersey producer behind the sample-chopped garage house sound and Daft Punk's Fragments of Time, was born in 1972.

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.

Tripmastaz

Tripmastaz is Andrew Guyvoronsky, a Chelyabinsk-born house producer who built his name in St. Petersburg, runs Plant 74 and works with DJ Sneak.

TYGAPAW

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

Type B.

Type B. is the producer behind RTSFM013 on the RTS.FM label (December 2025), with a Kandaurov remix, and a 2026 Moscow set for minim.all x RTS.FM.

Underground Resistance

Underground Resistance (UR) is the Detroit techno collective formed in 1989 by Mad Mike Banks and Jeff Mills. History, members, discography, 2026 news.

Victor Polo

Victor Polo is a Valencia DJ and producer who co-runs the labels Wireless Marionettes and Eccentric, and appears on RTSFM003 and RTSFM011.

Vince Watson

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

Vlad Caia

Vlad Caia is a Bucharest producer, co-founder of Amphia Records, half of SIT and one third of Amorf, whose debut album Division I came out in 2018.