Mixes on repeat this week: August 10, 2026
Mac Declos
Where most techno reaches for menace, Mac Declos reaches for ecstasy. The Paris DJ keeps the aggression in the groove and the seduction dark, then runs it all on the soul of a house record, funk and swagger right on the surface. Sultry vocals whisper in your ear, and before long you are dancing like you know you look good.
Before the Curfew is Standard Deviation's record of nights at K41 in Kyiv through the full-scale war, and of what the Ukrainian scene sounds like under it. This is the most recent entry, two hours of Mac Declos at his most soulful and funky.
Before the Curfew 33, K41 KyivTemudo
Temudo is João Rodrigues, and his records carry a signature you learn to recognise fast, a motif built entirely out of friction. The Portuguese producer keeps techno's soul and wraps a clinical, unorthodox method around it, gritty and futuristic in the same breath. Klockworks, Soma, Blueprint and Warm Up all put it out. He co-founded Hayes and masters records at Tema.
This came from ANTIDOTE, an anti-war fundraiser at Tillatec in Amsterdam in May. Ninety minutes of him mixing fast across eras, one decade into the next, holding together the whole way.
ANTIDOTE, Tillatec (May 2026)Bailey Ibbs
Bailey Ibbs plays hypnotic techno with the funk left in, UK garage running underneath, warm and faintly nostalgic at the darker end of UK rave. The Derbyshire-born, London-based DJ releases on Token, SLAM and KiNK and runs Night Service. He first walked into Tresor as a punter in 2018 and holds a residency there now.
This is two hours from Unfold at Fold in London, and he spends them throwing curveballs. Whatever genre he is working in, the groove drives it and the floor feels it.
Unfold @ Fold, London (Jul 2026)Hashashin
Hashashin plays high-energy techno built on deep rolling basslines and up-tempo hypnotic sounds, raw in the intensity and careful in the selection. He has been part of Amsterdam's underground since 2006, a fixture at AURA and Radion, the kind of selector a city hands all-night slots to because he can hold them. The name comes from his Arabic roots.
His Hotcast for Heisss in Berlin runs ninety minutes. It is the closest you get to his taste without standing in the room.
HEISSS Hotcast 075Setaoc Mass
Setaoc Mass makes sleek, hypnotic techno out of very little. The Mancunian, in Berlin since 2013, gets his impact from a handful of elements, each placed with intent, and pulls the rest from IDM and experimental electronics. He runs SK_Eleven and SK_X, and all the precision serves how it feels.
Dreaming Festival is Medellín's open-air celebration of underground techno, built to play as one long continuous stretch. He works with real precision and builds something you can sink into, and it stays danceable the whole way through.
Dreaming Festival, Medellín (2026)