Dekmantel Festival 2026

A Guy Called Gerald

When it funks, it funks hard.

Breaking Beats Since 1988.

Actress

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Carl Craig

Einn af áhrifamestu tónlistarmönnum á sviði raftónlistar.

Al Wootton

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Azu Tiwaline

Azu Tiwaline is a producer inspired by the need to explore her origins, rooted in the Sahara. Her sound is a mix of the organic and the raw, vibrations from the spaces of the desert where entrancing music resonates and ecstatic rituals are commonplace.

Alex Wilcox

Born in Dallas, moved to Austin, moved to LA, then Detroit, and now based in Berlin - producer/DJ Alex Wilcox composes crazy bullshit and DJ's with lots of BPM and genre swings.

AMORAL

AMORAL is an Amsterdam based DJ

Aurora Halal

Aurora Halal is a producer, DJ and creator of Brooklyn’s influential Mutual Dreaming party series & the Sustain-Release festival.

Aya

aya is a an actual person from off the Pennines that well likes playing music and used to be called LOFT but don't you dare say that name to me who do you think you are.

Barker

As a musician and DJ, Berghain resident and co-founder of the Leisure System label, Sam Barker has helped push the boundaries of dance music in Berlin, looking beyond the realm of 4/4 techno to explore left-field sound design and rhythmic complexity.

Batu

DJ, producer and owner of the Timedance record label, based in Bristol (UK)

Ben Ufo

Ben UFO founded Hessle Audio with Pearson Sound and Pangaea in 2007.

The Hessle Audio show broadcasts on www.rinse.fm every Monday night from 9pm - 11pm GMT.

Call Super

Call Super is the primary moniker of Joseph Richmond Seaton, a DJ and musician from London who has carved out his own place in the landscape of electronic music.

Objekt

Objekt is a Berlin-based DJ and producer.

Pariah

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Benny Rodrigues

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Beste Hira

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Bitter Babe

Miami based Dj from Bogotá-Colombia

Blasha & Allatt

Meat Free, Vault Sessions & Tech Couture Residents.

Brodinski

Brodinski is the most exciting dj and producer to explode onto the scene in recent years. Yes, he may hail from France (Reims, Lille) but he is quite unlike any of his Parisian peers. His taste in music is broad and this is reflected in his own product..

Slikback

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Cari Lekebusch

Cari Lekebusch is a Stockholm-based sound architect alongsides other Swedish Techno profiles like Adam Beyer, Joel Mull, Alexi Delano and Jesper Dahlbäck. He has borne many pseudonyms over the course of his illustrious career to date including Fred, Mr..

CCL

subglow / liquidtime.

CCL(they/them) liquefaction of rhythmic and melodic matter—combustive phase transitions through wiggle-steppers, trip-no, dub-core, cowgirl-breaks, trip funk, shoe-gays, drum & face.

Channel One

Channel One are a Dublin based four-piece who use a mixture of electronic and live instrumentation to create their sound.

Cheyanne Hudson

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Christian AB

Part of Berlin's vinyl-loving community, AB's selections do the talking.

Clark

Clark is a shape-shifting producer-composer blending rave, atmosphere, classical, and raw electronics. From Warp Records to Deutsche Grammophon, his music defies genre—visceral, textured, and ever-evolving, with no two records alike.

Colin Benders

Utrecht’s jazz, hip-hop connoisseur Collin Benders, the man behind The Kyteman Orchestra, is also a bit of whizz with modular synthesizers. His music is still full of melody and flow, controlled and balanced, with odes to his hop-hop roots.

Darkside

DARKSIDE is the collaborative duo of guitarist Dave Harrington and electronic producer Nicolas Jaar. The two musicians have vastly different backgrounds, but over the course of several years of touring together they found common ground: DARKSIDE.

DASHA RUSH

www.dasharush.org

BOOKINGS: Daniela at triangleagency.com

USA: Andrew at Deviation agency

South America via Liminal agency

Oscar Mulero

Oscar Mulero is a Spanish electronic musician and dj who was the major influence for the Spanish electronic scene since the early 1990s and a leading exponent of underground techno since his productions in the early-2000s.

Dave Huismans

Musician and DJ from The Netherlands. Currently based in Utrecht.

Dax J

A global pillar of the techno scene, continuously pushing the underground forward

Death In Vegas

New album "DEATH MASK" out now:

https://lnk.to/drone027

COUM | Lightning Bolt - Live Versions out now:

https://lnk.to/drone028

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/richardfearless

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Devon Rexi

Devon Rexi is an Amsterdam-based group creating dubby, playful experimental music.

Dimi Angelis

Dimi Angélis / Short Bio:

It might sound like a cliché, but sticking to what you believe in really does pay off in the end. Dimi has been actively involved in the Dutch technoscene since the late nineties, his legendary raves at various locations s..

Dino Sabatini

Italian-born producer Dino Sabatini is an artist whose strong body of work has helped to develop his local scene, and redefine what it means to work with electronic music in the 21st century

Dopplereffekt

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Doudou MD

The underground spiritual game

Dr. Rubinstein

Acid Doctor from Berlin

Ellen Allien

DJ, musician, label manager and creative all-rounder – Ellen Allien has carved out her own space in all these roles, creating a unique universe.

DVS1

DVS1 stands as one of electronic music’s most respected and uncompromising figures. Emerging from the early ’90s Midwest rave scene, his path has never followed trends but reflects a lifelong dedication to sound, community, and integrity.

Piezo

Scaling the liminal nexus of UK club futurism with tempoless inhibitions and adventurous textures in sound, Piezo explores the kinetic infinites of dance music’s vast permutations.

Efdemin

Efdemin, aka Phillip Sollmann, is a Berlin producer who's leading the way forward through the converging thickets of minimal, deep house and techno. Last month Efdemin released his debut album on Hamburg's Dial imprint, home to lush like-minded technoists Pantha Du Prince and Lawrence. But whereas Lawrence is about the romantic pads and Pantha the melodies, Efdemin is all about the careful, calculated groove. Wondering where this attention to detail comes from? Efdemin is a graduate of the Institute for Computer Music in Vienna, where he put together sound installations as well as worked on a contemporary opera morphing sopranos into howling voices. He also used to sing in a band, although you might not know it from his clothes. One of the snappiest dressed men in dance music, Efdemin's rarely spotted not wearing a shirt and tie.

Polygonia

Infectious texture grooves.

Eris Drew

High Priestess of the Motherbeat. T4T.

Octo Octa

Maya Bouldry-Morrison has been releasing music as Octo Octa since 2011.

Fafi Abdel Nour

Fafi Abdel Nour finds beauty in the margins and the bliss in between - a passionate artist and community builder, on a mission towards imagining better futures through musical connectivity and understanding between humans.

Jennifer Loveless

Jennifer Loveless is all heart and a force among the queer powers driving a particular moment in dance music history.

FJAAK

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Francois K

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Suze Ijó

Immersed in music from a young age, Suze Ijó's path inevitably led her into the world of song and dance. The Rotterdam native found herself drawn to dancing and collecting records; a passion that notched up a level after she became a First Floor member.

Fumiya Tanaka

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Gabrielle Kwarteng

In an era of everything at once, Gabrielle Kwarteng is a DJ who weaves stories for the dancefloor that often look to the past, while always focusing on possible futures.

Garçon

co-runs amenthia recordings together with Agonis

Sybil

Sybil is a storyteller, her sets bring listeners along on exciting voyages through the imagination. At the core of Sybil’s mystical selections is an emotional depth, textural clarity and a sense of space.

GiGi FM

☿️ Intergalactic Mermaid ☿️

JakoJako

Berghain Resident

Live/DJ

gyrofield

Very few artists in drum & bass have experienced the same exponential trajectory or attention, or created such a sense of mystery, as Gyrofield.

Helena Hauff

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L.F.T.

Hamburg based Producer/DJ

Member of Schulverweis

Member of Cher Fassbinder

Identified Patient

Electronics from Identified Patient for you

Ikonika

SAD n Sexy

Interstellar Funk

Introspekt

Producer/DJ

Garage and Bass head

128-175BPM

James Holden

British techno sorcerer and psychedelic shaman james holden is a man of many talents: zeitgeist-defining label boss, trend-setting producer, hugely in-demand monster remixer, and last but by no means least, he can count himself amongst that very modern..

Surgeon

Surgeon has been at the forefront of UK techno since 1994.

James Massiah

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Lord Tusk

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Jane Fitz

file under: ambient. acid. deep. house. industrial. progressive. psychedelic. techno. tribal. trance.

Jasmín

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JASSS

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Vlada

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Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills, along with Robert Hood, Carl Craig, and Joey Beltram, is one of the biggest American names in techno. Championed for his music's relentless pursuit of hardness and his stripped-down, almost industrial DJ sets, Mills is the latest in a long..

Job Jobse

DJ from Amsterdam.

Palms Trax

Palms Trax is a producer and Dj based in Berlin, Germany. His first record was released in October of 2013 on London-based imprint Lobster Theremin.

Juan Atkins

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Jyoty

Considered by many as being at forefront of her own movement, Jyoty has become a trailblazer in dance music globally. From her beginnings in radio; to eight years on London’s Rinse FM, to headlining festivals and hosting sold out stages around the world.

Katatonic Silentio

Sound Artist & Independent Researcher in Sound Cultures.

Khadija Al Hanafi

Tunisian electronic music producer & NTS Resident, blending and reinterpreting Chicago footwork with diverse influences.

Kode9

Kode9 is a DJ/Producer, artist and writer. He set up the record label Hyperdub in 2004, and in 2019 the sub label Flatlines to focus on audio essays and sonic fiction.

Konduku

Konduku explores hypnotic momentum and immersive space. He deals in detailed, distinctly angled rhythms, favouring subtle textures over hooks and riffs as he helps shape out a psychedelic, deep-diving branch of modern techno.

Kuniyuki

Kuniyuki Takahashi is a sound designer and producer who is based and works in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Lady Starlight

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Lea Occhi

Léa Occhi is a French DJ based in Berlin, co-founder and resident of the parisian queer collective Spectrum Waves.

livwutang

Liv is a NYC-based DJ.

Loradeniz

Loradeniz represents a multidisciplinary music and art project conceived by Deniz Omeroglu.

LSD

LSD is the coming together of three creative minds. Each entity, in their own right, has made a profound impact in the last twenty years on this thing we call techno.

mad miran

“Genres are disturbing. I play vibes,"

Quest

Music has always been a big part of Quest’s life, from learning the bass in Church, then progressing to the piano and guitar in his early teens. Since then Quest has become an integral member of Anti-Social and Mala’s Deep Medi imprint, alongside close..

Makam

For Guy Blanken, music is a matter of the heart.

Mala

Born and raised in South Norwood, London, Mala has played a pioneering role in UK music since the turn of the century.

His work as a producer stirred dubstep’s musical melting pot with its most primal ingredients before it even had a name.

Sir Spyro

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Marcel Dettmann

DJ and producer Marcel Dettmann is recognised as one of the most influential proponents of contemporary Techno.

Mia Koden

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Mike Parker

Mike Parker’s experimental and ritualistic approach sets him apart from the rest and in a time of over-saturation he is still one of those few artists whose sound you can spot in a heartbeat.

Molina

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Nala Brown

The Rotterdam born, raised and based DJ Nala Brown has been cultivating a sound that explores different genres.

Nazar

Nazar's musical world centres around the extreme violence, injustice and omnipresence of a repressive state during and after the 27-year Angolan civil war, while exploring hope, resilience and pride in a country torn apart by conflict.

Neska

DJ, producer and musician originary from the Basque Country. Based in Amsterdam via Barcelona.

Fauna & Flora curator. Neskafe host on Echobox Radio.

NEW YORK

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Nicolas Lutz

Nicolas Lutz has forged a solid identity, wrapped in a carefully sustained aura of mystery and shaped through thousands of hours of obsessive research, digging deep into the darkest corners of underground electronic music.

Nídia

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NIKS

NIKS is an inimitable self-taught producer and DJ, steadily rising and making waves organically and powerfully. Not only a pillar in the community for championing the underground, but a staple and integral part of contemporary dance music.

DJ Nobu

Japan’s DJ Nobu is one of a kind; a DJ with no fixed style but instead a very real ability to draw on a wide world of music and cook up his own unique sound spaces.

Wata Igarashi

Wata Igarashi has developed a clear sound of his own. He brings together the euphoric and psychedelic, with his music standing out for its crystalline structures and shimmering intensity.

Novelist

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Slimzee

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Ogazón

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Philippa Pacho

Frequently promoting an intense journey of groove and force. Pacho's early beginnings took place in the illegal party scene in Stockholm and have since carried her far and wide, playing at renowned clubs such as Bassiani, De School and Berghain.

Olof Dreijer

The Knife is Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson. They are based in Stockholm, Sweden and have made music together since 1999, released on their own label Rabid Records.

Richard Akingbehin

Refuge Worldwide / Kynant Records

PLO Man

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Skee Mask

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Rene Wise

Rene Wise’s approach to writing music and DJing fuses together as one concept; where high attention to detail blends with a strong vision for storytelling through sound.

RHR

Brazilian DJ & producer

Skrillex

Skrillex draws on a vast range of influences like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, IDM and acid house music – as well as video games like Final Fantasy and shows like Transformers.

Ricardo Villalobos

Villalobos was born in the capital of Chile, Santiago, in the year 1970. However, at the age of three he moved to Germany with his family after General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1973.

Ron Trent

DJ/Producer Ron Trent, rooted in the dance music world for over 35 years is largely regarded for producing and playing an eclectic range of music. Raised in Chicago's early underground music scene in the 1980s, which transitioned from Disco into House..

Rozaly

Rozaly is an upcoming sonic practitioner & researcher, curator, and DJ from Curaçao. His practice

aims to break the boundaries and stigmas surrounding Caribbean musical expressions by researching and expanding on his own identity search.

Sandrien

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Sass

Polish dj and producer based in Berlin.

Moxie

Moxie is a dance music powerhouse who broadcasts her iconic voice as one of London’s most in-demand DJs and radio hosts, continuing to be a constant fixture of clubs and festivals globally.

Peach

ball of energy.

Saoirse

As an established and authoritative figure in dance music, Saoirse has crafted a career that traverses sonic worlds, subcultures and scenes.

Shanti Celeste

There is something vivacious at the heart of Shanti Celeste's work, a bounce, a swing, an uplifting lilt.

State OFFF

For State OFFF, gqom isn’t a genre, it’s a weapon,

and he’s firing it into the global club circuit.

Sepehr

Sepehr is a sonic maverick, DJ, live act and producer from the Bay Area, and based in NYC.

Shed

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SHERELLE

SHERELLE is the champion of high speed dance music who has led a new generation of club kids to tempos of 160bpm and beyond.

Shy FX

Shy FX crashed the British pop charts in mid-1994 with "Original Nuttah", one of the most infectious Ragga-Jungle anthems of all time and quickly became one of Jungle's most respected producers. Born in London, Andre Williams debuted on S.O.U.R. Record..

Tasha

Runs Neighbourhood record label & techno party... Presenter on Rinse FM... Played alongside Ben Sims, Randomer, Helena Hauff, Ben UFO, Pangaea, Karenn, Henning Baer...

Space Afrika

Speedy J

Together with Laurent Garnier, Aphex Twin and Richie Hawtin, Rotterdam’s Speedy J helped define Techno since 1991 with albums like Ginger, G Spot, Public Energy No. 1 and Loudboxer – spearheading labels like Plus 8, Novamute and Warp.

His latest proje..