Mixes on repeat this week: August 3, 2026
Marlon Hoffstadt
Marlon Hoffstadt is having a better time than everyone else, and he would like you to join him. The Berlin DJ records as DJ Daddy Trance, a name that comes from fatherhood and from a wholehearted love of the genre, and his sets bounce between trance, hard house and nineties eurodance without ever settling. He is entirely serious about the music and not remotely serious about himself.
The Lofi set in Amsterdam gets gnarly fast and stays there, an outdoor floor running trance melodies over hard house kicks and hooks nobody needs introducing. He is unapologetically committed to sending a crowd home more alive than it arrived, and you will not see more hands in the air than this.
Live @ Lofi, Amsterdam (2026)Justine Perry
Justine Perry works at the fast end of techno without letting it turn brittle. The French-born, Berlin-based producer builds from trippy texture and forward momentum, deep enough to sink into and quick enough to keep you alert, and that sound has carried her through Berghain, Tresor and Radion. She holds a residency at Kalt in Strasbourg and puts real work into queer parties and into leaving floors safer than she found them.
Her hour for SECTION. in London arrived the same month as Transit Motion, her second EP and her first for X/Y/Secret, four tracks with nothing spare on them, and the set runs on the same instinct. It moves early and keeps moving, hypnotic in the way a long drive is, where the repetition is the point and only the scenery changes.
SECTION. (March 2026)Dual Pistols
Dual Pistols holds a residency at KHIDI in Tbilisi. His techno is raw and unyielding, hypnotic and threaded with tribal percussion, built from repetitive grooves that gather weight instead of resolving. It sounds like the club itself, which makes sense, since he is one of the people shaping what that sounds like.
This is the fourteenth Night Cuts, KHIDI's own series, recorded on their floor last February. It is a three-hour journey that unfolds slowly, the same grooves coming round again with more force behind them each time, until the floor has gone somewhere it did not plan on.
KHIDI Night Cuts (Feb 2026)Disguised
Disguised is Alvaro and Domenik, two producers from southern Germany who met at a techno party in 2014 and have worked as a pair out of Berlin ever since. They make techno that is fast and melodic at the same time, driving drums beneath hypnotic lines that keep climbing toward a peak. They run Inherit Records, started in 2020, and have made RSO and its Robus floor something close to a second studio.
This is their closing set on OPAN, the outdoor floor at RSO, on the Sunday of the fourth Heisss birthday in July 2026. Closing out a birthday weekend is its own discipline, since everyone still standing is there on purpose and the only thing that will hold them is honest momentum. They play it accordingly, melodic where it counts and relentless everywhere else.
RSO, 4 Years HEISSS (Jul 2026)NXN
Nadia and Natalie had each made a name across Europe before they became NXN in 2022, and the partnership suits them. Their sets run warm and organic through house, afro house and tech house, carried by samples that arrive from nowhere and a bassline they refuse to bury. Their floors are open to anyone, and they have built them that way on purpose.
Their hour for HÖR in Berlin, from an Apolonia Invites show in March last year, is deep and afro and a good deal more playful than that suggests. The grooves roll, the thing keeps tipping euphoric, and their enjoyment of it is the most contagious part.
HÖR Live Set (Mar 2025)