Mixes on repeat this week: August 17, 2026
Nene H
Turkish-born and classically trained as a pianist, Nene H has spent more than a decade in Berlin's underground, while also creating space for SWANA, Muslim, queer and femme artists through projects including Sirän and Umay. Her DJing runs just as wide. Fast, deep techno can swing into acid, ghetto-house and old-school rave, with an emotional streak running through the harder passages.
Her Intercell Naarm/Melbourne set was recorded in a raw warehouse in Preston. She drives hard early, then opens into more euphoric, rave-heavy passages and keeps the pace up. The switches can be sudden, and she means them to be. A Sunday set that behaves like nobody has work on Monday.
Intercell Naarm/MelbournePink Concrete
Istanbul-born and Prague-based, Pink Concrete has built his identity around putting "pink touches" into techno. His sets keep the weight and drive of the genre, but make room for melody, warmth and a little melancholy. That same sensibility runs through hereandthere, the temporary, one-night events he curates around sound, light and space.
6D. Podcast 028 comes from his set at FOLD in London. Across nearly two hours, the groove stays firm while the color keeps changing: rolling percussion, warm chords and flashes of melody threaded through tougher passages. A good place to start with him. Techno with muscle, and the feeling left in.
6D. Podcast 028Isabel Soto
Venezuelan-born and Berlin-based, Isabel Soto made her official club debut at Stereo in Montreal, and that room set the direction. She developed her sound across the city's underground before moving deeper into Europe's techno circuit. Her sets are raw, hypnotic and percussive, but the tension comes from restraint: textures gather slowly, rhythms tighten, and the pressure builds out of the tightening alone.
Her Awakenings Festival 2026 recording is a clean example of that approach. Deep drums and abstract textures do most of the work, with each layer arriving gradually enough that the shifts can pass almost unnoticed. The energy rises by narrowing the space around the groove rather than breaking it open. A patient set that gets heavier the longer you stay with it.
Awakenings Festival 2026Sicion
A resident of Berlin collective Feieramt, Sicion has been building a name through releases on Molekül, KYSH, Smile Sessions and BCCO. His techno is rhythm-first but unusually detailed: interlocking percussion, abstract textures and cinematic tension, with tribal patterns giving the tracks a physical pull beneath all the complexity.
Slam Radio 701 puts that language into motion. The tracklist moves through Temudo, Chlär, Kameliia, a Marcal remix and Sicion's own unreleased material, and it keeps shifting between rhythmic shapes throughout. Drums keep being rearranged, pressure rises and releases in small increments, and the result stays forceful while the gear keeps changing.
#SlamRadio 701KUSS
French DJ and producer KUSS works wider than a single techno lane. His main project leans groovy, mental and hypnotic, while Derivative of the Unconscious gives him room to move into ambient, downtempo and progressive rock. That range shows up in his club sets less as genre-hopping than as a willingness to change texture, mood and density inside the same groove.
His hour-long Intake Paris session keeps the focus on the dancefloor while letting that wider vocabulary through. Muscular drums sit under shadowy atmospheres and small shifts in texture, so the set keeps changing while staying continuous. The groove anchors it; everything around it stays restless.
Intake Paris DJ SetAltinbas
Brussels-raised Altinbas first fell for techno on the dancefloor at Fuse, then eventually became one of the club's residents and part of its curatorial world. He now also runs Observer Station. His sound reflects that long education: precise selection, dense layering and quick changes in dynamics, with grooves that feel constructed as much between records as inside them.
The hour-long SPND20 Mixtape makes that layering easy to hear. Dubby pressure sits underneath rolling percussion, while tracks are stacked so their details start to interact rather than simply follow one another. It moves through several shades of techno and holds together as one piece, continuously reweighted.
SPND20 MixtapeBeau Didier
Amsterdam-based Beau Didier has built his name around bass-heavy, vocal-driven hardgroove, with appearances at HÖR, Awakenings and Vault Sessions helping carry that sound beyond the Netherlands. His sets are physical and direct, and he keeps tight control of them. Swing, low-end weight and vocal hooks pushed hard, with the mix kept sharp.
The Singularity @ Tresor recording catches that approach in a room built for pressure. The pace stays high and the transitions stay tight, but Didier keeps changing the shape of the groove underneath it: more swing here, more weight there, vocals arriving just often enough to reset the ear. Momentum carries it rather than sheer hardness.
Singularity @ Tresor