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Your guide to 2022's biggest tours

From Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Weeknd, here are all the artists who can't wait to get on the road again.

Lester Fabian Brathwaite is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly , where he covers breaking news, all things Real Housewives , and a rich cornucopia of popular culture. Formerly a senior editor at Out magazine, his work has appeared on NewNowNext , Queerty , Rolling Stone , and The New Yorker . He was also the first author signed to Phoebe Robinson's Tiny Reparations imprint. He met Oprah once.

Remember live music? Enjoying a shared vibe in a crowd, a moment of familiarity and solidarity betwixt complete strangers, even having a $35 beer spilled on your person? Well, concerts are back, baby!

From Red Hot Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins to the Weeknd, our fave musicians are ready, willing, and able to rock our collective socks off — with some artists making up for rescheduled shows from the past two years, established stars hitting the road again , and new acts striking out for the first time. Here, we've compiled a list of all the 2022 concerts and music festivals you'll want to keep an eye on.

September 2022

Stevie Nicks Tour: Live in Concert Dates: Sept. 2-Oct. 28

Lil Nas X Tour: Montero Tour Dates: Sept. 6-Nov. 17

Phoenix Tour: Alpha Zulu Tour '22 Dates: Sept. 6-Oct. 18 Opening act(s): Porches

Roxy Music Tour: 50th Anniversary Arena Tour Dates: Sept. 7-Oct. 14 Special guest: St. Vincent

Panic! At the Disco Tour: The Viva Las Vengeance Tour Dates: Sept. 8-March 10 Opening acts: Marina, Jake Wesley Rogers, Beach Bunny

She & Him Tour: Fall Tour Dates: Sept. 9-Sept. 16

Yola Tour: Stand for Myself 2022 Tour Dates: Sept. 9-Sept. 25 Opening act(s): Peter One

Post Malone Tour: The Twelve Carat Tour Dates: Sept. 10-Nov. 15 Opening act(s): Roddy Ricch

Gorillaz Tour: North American 2022 Tour Dates: Sept. 11-Oct. 23 Opening act(s): EARTHGANG, Jungle

Mary J. Blige Tour: The Good Morning Gorgeous Tour Dates: Sept. 17-Oct. 29 Opening act(s): Ella Mai, Queen Naija

Dry Cleaning Tour: World Tour Dates: Sept. 17-April 1

Carly Rae Jepsen Tour: The So Nice Tour Dates: Sept. 21-Nov. 5 Opening act(s): Empress Of

Ally & AJ and Ben Platt Tour: The Reverie Tour Dates: Sept. 22-Nov. 18

Lizzo Tour: The Special Tour Dates: Sept. 23-Nov. 18 Opening act: Latto

The Judds Tour: The Final Tour Dates: Sept. 30-Oct. 28 Opening act: Martina McBride

Festival: Primavera Sound Los Angeles City: Los Angeles Dates: Sept. 16-18 Headliners: Arctic Monkeys, Lorde, Nine Inch Nails, Cigarettes After Sex, Clairo, Darkside, James Blake, Kim Gordon

Festival: Portola Music Festival City: San Francisco Dates: Sept. 24-25 Headliners: Flume, Kaytranada, Charli XCX, The Chemical Brothers, James Blake, M.I.A.

Festival: Global Citizen Festival 2022 City: New York Dates: Sept. 25 Headliners: Mariah Carey, Metallica, Rosalia, Mickey Guyton, Charlie Puth, the Jonas Brothers

Festival: Ohana Festival City: Dana Point, CA Dates: Sept. 30-Oct. 2 Headliners: Stevie Nicks, Eddie Vedder, Jack White, Pink

October 2022

Smashing Pumpkins Tour: Spirits on Fire Arena Tour Dates: Oct. 2-Nov. 19 Special guest: Jane's Addiction Opening acts: Poppy, Meg Myers

Jessie Reyez Tour: The Yessie Tour Dates: Oct. 13-Dec. 4

beabadoobee Tour: North American Fall Tour Dates: Oct. 25-Dec. 4 Opening act(s): Lowertown

Lindsey Buckingham Tour: Fall 2022 Tour Dates: Oct. 26-Nov. 19

Festival: All Things Go Music Festival City: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Columbia, MD) Dates: Oct. 1 Headliners: Lorde, Mitski, Bleachers

Festival: When We Were Young City: Las Vegas Dates: Oct. 22 Headliners: My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Avril Lavigne, Bright Eyes

November 2022

The Smile Tour: North American Tour 2022 Dates: Nov. 14-Dec. 21

Modest Mouse Tour: The Lonesome Crowded West Tour Dates: Nov. 18 - Dec. 17

Harry Connick, Jr. Tour: A Holiday Celebration 2022 Tour Dates: Nov. 18-Dec. 24

Darren Criss Tour: A Very Darren Crissmas Dates: Nov. 29-Dec. 17

December 2022

LeAnn Rimes Tour: Joy: The Holiday Tour Dates: Dec. 2-Dec. 18

Mariah Carey Tour: Merry Christmas to All! Dates: Dec. 11, 13

January 2022

Kacey Musgraves Tour: Star-Crossed: Unveiled Dates: Jan. 19-Feb. 20 Opening acts: King Princess, Muna

The War on Drugs Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: Jan. 19-July 8

Courtney Barnett Tour: USA & Canada Tour Dates: Jan. 20-Aug. 28

Björk Tour : Cornucopia Dates: Jan. 26-Feb. 8

Big Thief Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: Jan. 31-June 21

February 2022

Waxahatchee Tour: Saint Cloud Tour 2022 Dates: Feb. 3-June 21

Billie Eilish Tour: Happier Than Ever: The World Tour Dates: Feb. 3-Sept. 30 Opening acts: Duckworth, Willow, Jessie Reyez

Sparks Tour: Tour 2022 Dates: Feb. 7-May 7

Spoon Tour: Lucifer on the Sofa Tour Dates: Feb. 8-June 4

Bad Bunny Tour: El Ultimo Tour Del Mundo Dates: Feb. 9-April 3

Lucy Dacus Tour: Winter Tour 2022 Dates: Feb. 9-Aug. 26

Dua Lipa Tour: Future Nostalgia Tour 2022 Dates: Feb. 9-Nov. 16

Tyler, the Creator Tour: Call Me If You Get Lost Dates: Feb. 10-Aug. 3 Opening acts: Kali Uchis, Vince Staples, Teezo Touchdown

Jazmine Sullivan Tour: The Heaux Tales Tour Dates: Feb. 14-March 30

Clairo Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: Feb. 16-Oct. 4 Opening acts: Arlo Parks, Widowspeak

John Mayer Tour: Sob Rock Tour Dates: Feb. 17-May 10

Justin Bieber Tour: Justice World Tour Dates: Feb. 18-March 25

Beach House Tour: Once Twice Melody Tour Dates: Feb. 18-Aug. 28

The Flaming Lips Tour: American Head American Tour 2021-22 Dates: Feb. 19-Nov. 22

Tame Impala Tour: Slow Rush Tour Dates: Feb. 27-Oct. 29

Festival: Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest City: Los Angeles Dates: Feb. 10-12 Headliners: Machine Gun Kelly, Halsey, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, Green Day, Miley Cyrus

Festival: Diplo's Higher Ground Cabo City: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Dates: Feb. 17-21 Headliners: Diplo, Duke Dumont, Gorgon City, VNNSA, John Summit, Solardo

Festival: Dirtybird CampINN City: Orlando Dates: Feb. 25-27 Headliners: Chromeo, DJ Premier, Claude VonStroke, Dillinja

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Tour: Live 2022 Dates: March 1-April 3

Khruangbin Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: March 2-July 31 Opening acts: Toro y Moi, Men I Trust

311 Tour: Spring Tour 2022 Dates: March 6-June 5

Animal Collective Tour: Spring 2022 U.S. Tour Dates: March 8-June 9 Opening acts: L'Rain, Spirit of the Beehive

Maren Morris Tour: Humble Quest Tour Dates: March 8-Dec. 2

Greta Van Fleet Tour: Dreams in Gold Tour 2022 Dates: March 10-Nov. 12 Opening acts: The Pretty Reckless, Houndmouth, Durand Jones & The Indications, Fruit Bats, Robert Finley, Crown Lands, and Hannah Wicklund

Eagles Tour: Hotel California Tour Dates: March 17-May 28

Chris Stapleton Tour: All American Road Show Tour Dates: March 17-Oct. 27

Coldplay Tour: The Music of the Spheres Dates: March 18-Oct. 29 Opening acts: H.E.R., London Grammar

Rina Sawayama Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: March 19-May 9

Summer Walker Tour: The Summer Walker Series Tour Dates: March 19-July 9

Perfume Genius Tour: Perfume Genius Tour Dates: March 20-Aug. 26

Kesha Tour: Kesha Live Dates: March 21-30 Opening acts: Kesha's Weird + Wonderful Rainbow Cruise, April 1-5

Bleachers Tour: the 2022 tour Dates: March 24-July 29 Opening acts: Allison Ponthier, Beabadoobee, Blu DeTiger, Charly Bliss, the Lemon Twigs, Wolf Alice

Dawn Richard Tour: Electro Revival Tour Dates: March 24-Aug. 28

Charli XCX Tour: Crash: The Live Tour Dates: March 26-June 9

Bon Iver Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: March 30-Nov. 11

Festival: CRSSD City: San Diego Dates: March 5-6 Headliners: Glass Animals, Sofi Tukker Live, 070 Shake, Blu De Tiger, Cautious Clay, Chet Faker Festival: Treefort Music Fest City: Boise, Idaho Dates: March 23-27 Headliners: Kim Gordon, Durand Jones & the Indications, Osees, Snail Mail

Festival: BUKU Music + Art Project City: New Orleans Dates: March 25-26 Headliners: Tyler, the Creator; Tame Impala; Tierra Whack

Bon Jovi Tour: Bon Jovi 2022 Tour Dates: April 1-30

Olivia Rodrigo Tour: Sour Tour Dates: April 2-July 7 Opening acts: Gracie Abrams, Holly Humberstone, Baby Queen

Lorde Tour: The Solar Power Tour Dates: April 3-March 18, 2023 Opening acts: Remi Wolf, Marlon Williams

Snail Mail Tour: Valentine Tour Dates: April 5-Sept. 9

Backstreet Boys Tour: DNA World Tour Dates: April 8-March 11, 2023

BTS Event: BTS Permission to Dance on Stage City: Las Vegas Dates: April 8-16

Lil Durk Tour: The 7220 Tour Dates: April 8-May 2

H.E.R. Tour: Back of My Mind Tour Dates: April 8-June 19

Jack White Tour: The Supply Chain Issues Tour Dates: April 8-Oct. 16 Opening act(s): Cherry Glazer, Cautious Clay, Glove, Zelooperz, The Paranoyds, Cat Power

Wilco Tour: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 20th Anniversary Tour Dates: April 15-April 23

Mitski Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: April 17-Sept. 18 Opening act(s): Indigo De Souza, The Weather Station, Hurray for the Riff Raff

Modest Mouse Tour: The Golden Casket Tour Date(s): April 18-Aug. 29 Opening act(s): The Cribs

J Balvin Tour: J Balvin Presents Jose Tour 2022 Dates: April 19-June 4

Destroyer Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: April 22-Oct. 7

Brandi Carlile Tour: Beyond These Silent Days Dates: April 22-Oct. 22 Opening acts: Allison Russell, Ani DiFranco, Brittany Howard, Celisse, Indigo Girls, Katie Pruitt, Lake Street Dive, Lucius, and Sarah McLachlan

The Who Tour: The Who Hits Back Tour! Dates: April 22-May 28 (spring); Oct. 2-Nov.5 (fall) Special guests: Leslie Mendelson, Los Lonely Boys, Amythyst Kiah, the Wild Things, Willie Nile, Steven Page, Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs

Haim Tour: The One More Haim Tour Dates: April 24-July 27 Opening acts: Waxahatchee, Princess Nokia, Faye Webster, Sasami, Buzzy Lee

Interpol Tour: Spring Tour Dates: April 25-June 19 Opening acts: Tycho, Matthew Dear (U.S.), Dry Cleaning (Mex.)

Tori Amos Tour: Ocean to Ocean 2022 Tour Dates: April 27-June 16

Paul McCartney Tour: Got Back Tour Dates: April 28-June 16

Nine Inch Nails Tour: Nine Inch Nails Tour Dates: April 28-Sept. 24 Opening acts: Boy Harsher, 100 gecs, Yves Tumor, Ministry, Nitzer Ebb

Tim McGraw Tour: McGraw Tour 2022 Dates: April 29-June 4 Opening acts: Russell Dickerson, Alexandra Kay, Brandon Davis

Leon Bridges Tour: Gold-Diggers Sound Tour Dates: April 29-Sept. 8 Opening acts: Chiiild, Kirby (Europe), Little Dragon

Sigur Rós Tour: Sigur Rós World Tour 2022 Dates: April 30-June 18

Festival: Coachella City: Indio, Calif. Dates: April 15-17; April 22-24 Headliners: Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Swedish House Mafia

Festival: Stagecoach City: Indio, Calif. Dates: April 29-May 1 Headliners: Carrie Underwood, Thomas Rhett, Luke Combs

Pearl Jam Tour: North American Tour Dates: May 3-Sept. 22 Opening act: Pluralone

New Kids on the Block Tour: Mixtape Tour 2022 Dates: May 10-July 23 Opening acts: Salt-N-Pepa, Rick Astley, En Vogue

Sylvan Esso Tour: Shaking Out the Numb Tour Dates: May 11-June 26 Opening acts: Moses Sumney, Vagabon, Yo La Tengo, Indigo De Souza, Little Brother, Mr Twin Sister

Dave Matthews Band Tour: Tour 2022 Dates: May 11-Sept. 20

Tiwa Savage Tour: Water & Garri North American Tour Dates: May 15-June 19

My Chemical Romance Tour: The Reunion Tour Dates: May 16-March 20, 2023 Special Guests: Devil Master, Dilly Dally, Badflower, GOSH, Kimya Dawson, Meg Myers, Midtown, Nothing, Shannon and the Clams, Soul Glo, Surfbort, Taking Back Sunday, the Bouncing Souls, the Homeless Gospel Choir, the Lemon Twigs, Thursday, Turnstile, Waterparks, Youth Code

Halsey Tour: Love and Power Tour Dates: May 17-July 9 Opening acts: Beabadoobe, Pink Pantheress, the Marias, Abby Roberts, Wolf Alice

Tears for Fears with Garbage Tour: The Tipping Point World Tour Dates: May 20-June 26

Norah Jones Tour: 20th Anniversary Come Away With Me Tour Dates: May 22-Aug. 4 Special guest: Regina Spektor

Belle and Sebastian Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: May 24-Nov. 30 Special guest: Divino Nino, Thee Sacred Souls, Tennis, Los Bitchos

Festival: Cruel World Festival City: Pasadena, Cali. Dates: May 14-15 Headliners: Morrissey, Bauhaus, Blondie, DEVO, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Psychedelic Furs, Violent Femmes, The Church

Festival: Hangout Music Festival City: Gulf Shores, Ala. Dates: May 20-22 Headliners: Post Malone, Tame Impala, Halsey, Fall Out Boy, Megan Thee Stallion, Zedd, Jack Harlow, Maren Morris, Phoebe Bridgers, Leon Bridges

Festival: Lightning in a Bottle City: Buena Vista Lake, Cali. Dates: May 25-30 Headliners: Glass Animals, Kaytranada, GRiZ, Chet Faker, Big Freedia, Black Coffee

Festival: Wilco's Solid Sound Festival City: North Adams, Mass. Dates: May 27-29 Headliners: Wilco, Japanese Breakfast, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, John Hodgman's Comedy Cabaret, the Sun Ra Arkestra

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Tour: Raising the Roof Tour Dates: June 1-Sept. 12

Red Hot Chili Peppers Tour: Global Stadium Tour Dates: June 4-Sept. 22 Opening acts: The Strokes, A$AP Rocky, Haim, Beck, St. Vincent, Anderson .Paak, the Free Nationals

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: June 5-Oct. 6 Opening act(s): The Linda Lindas, TBA

Pavement Tour: 2022 Tour Dates: June 6-Nov. 11

Machine Gun Kelly Tour: Mainstream Sellout Dates: June 8-Aug. 13 Opening acts: Avril Lavigne, Blackbear, iann dior, PVRIS, Travis Barker, Trippie Redd, WILLOW, 44phantom

Alicia Keys Tour: Alicia: The World Tour Dates: June 9-Sept. 24

Stevie Nicks Tour: Live in Concert Dates: June 10-21

Rod Stewart Tour: Cheap Trick Tour Dates: June 10-Sept. 17

The Chicks Tour: Summer 2022 Tour Dates: June 14-Aug. 13

Tenacious D Tour: Summer 2022 Tour Dates: June 16-22 Opening acts: Puddles Pity Party

St. Vincent Tour: Daddy's Home World Tour Dates: June 22-Oct. 2 Opening act(s): Celya AB, Snail Mail, Big Joanie, Ali Macofsky

Father John Misty Tour: Chloë and the Next 20th Century Tour Dates: June 26-Oct. 8 Opening act(s): Suki Waterhouse

Fleet Foxes Tour: Shore Tour Dates: June 27-Sept. 11

Festival: Governors Ball City: Queens, N.Y. Dates: June 10-12 Headliners: Kid Cudi, Halsey, J.

Festival: Bonnaroo City: Manchester, Tenn. Dates: June 16-19 Headliners: TBA

Festival: Something in the Water City: Washington, D.C. Dates: June 17-19 Headliners: Pharrell; Pusha T; Lil Baby; Chloe x Halle; Lil Uzi Vert; Tyler, the creator; Tierra Whack; Run the Jewels; Jon Batiste; Dave Matthews Band

Festival: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts County: Somerset, England Dates: June 22-26 Headliners: Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar, Diana Ross, Billie Eilish

Alanis Morissette Tour: Celebrating 25 years of Jagged Little Pill Dates: June 9-29 (Europe), July 10-Aug. 6 (North America) Special guest: Beth Orton (Europe), Garbage (North America)

Roger Waters Tour: This Is Not a Drill Dates: July 6-Oct. 15

Rosalía Tour: Motomami World Tour Dates: July 6-Dec. 18

The Weeknd Tour: After Hours Til Dawn Dates: July 8-Sept. 3

Rage Against the Machine Tour: Public Service Announcement Tour Dates: July 9-Aug. 14 Special guest: Run the Jewels

The Black Keys Tour: Dropout Boogie Tour Dates: July 9-Oct. 18 Special guest: Ceramic Animal, Early James, the Velveteers

The Shins Tour: Oh, Inverted World: The 21st Birthday Tour Dates: July 12-Sept. 16

Lady Gaga Tour: The Chromatica Ball Dates: July 17-Sept. 10

Kendrick Lamar Tour: The Big Steppers Tour Dates: July 19-Dec. 16

Sharon Van Etten, Julien Baker, and Angel Olsen Tour: The Wild Hearts Tour Dates: July 21-Aug. 21 Opening act: Spencer

Kehlani Tour: Blue Water Road Tour Dates: July 29-Oct. 21 Opening act(s): Rico Nasty, Destin Conrad

Wet Leg Tour: U.S. Tour Dates: July 29-Oct. 12

Maroon 5 Tour: 2022 World Tour Dates: July 30-Aug 20 (North American dates)

Erykah Badu Tour: The Digging Crystals in Badubotron Tour Dates: July 30-Sept. 11

Festival: Pitchfork Music Festival City: Chicago Dates: July 15-17 Headliners: The National, Mitski, the Roots

Festival: HARD Summer Music Festival City: San Bernardino, Calif. Dates: July 29-31 Headliners: Megan Thee Stallion, Lil Uzi Vert, Porter Robinson, Three 6 Mafia, Gunna

August 2022

Franz Ferdinand Tour: U.S. Tour Dates: Aug. 4-Sept. 1

Bad Bunny Tour: World's Hottest Tour Dates: Aug. 5-Dec. 9 Opening acts: Alesso, Diplo

Michael Bublé Tour: Higher Tour Dates: Aug. 8-Oct. 11

Alice in Chains and Breaking Benjamin Tour: Alice in Chains & Breaking Benjamin Tour Dates: Aug. 10-Oct. 8

Harry Styles Tour: Love on Tour 2022 Dates: Aug. 15-Dec. 13 Opening acts: Jessie Ware, Blood Orange, Gabriels, Madi Diaz, Ben Harper, Koffee

Kid Cudi Tour: To the Moon — 2022 World Tour Dates: Aug. 16-Sept. 17 Opening act(s): Don Toliver, Strick, Denzel Curry, 070 Shake

Duran Duran Tour: North American Tour Dates: Aug. 19-Sept. 11 Opening acts: Nile Rodgers and Chic

Beth Orton Tour: Fall 2022 Tour Dates: Aug. 19-Nov. 22

The B-52s Tour: Farewell Tour Dates: Aug. 22-Nov. 13 Opening acts: K-C & the Sunshine Band, the Tubes

Interpol and Spoon Tour: Lights, Camera, Factions Tour Dates: Aug. 25-Sept. 18 Opening act(s): The Goon Sax

Wu-Tang Clan and Nas Tour: N.Y. State of Mind Tour Dates: Aug. 30-Oct. 4

Festival: Outside Lands City: San Francisco Dates: Aug. 5-7 Headliners: Green Day, Post Malone, SZA

Festival: Let's Get Fr.ee Carnaval City: Queens, N.Y. Dates: Aug. 20-21 Headliners: Missy Elliott, Anderson .Paak , Jhené Aiko, Wizkid, Major Lazar

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The 22 Top Breakthrough DJs Of The Year 2022

This new generation of DJs are rising to prominence and shaking up the dance music landscape

• Words: Patrick Hinton, Megan Townsend, Gemma Ross, Becky Buckle, Isaac Muk | Nostra font designed by Lucas Descroix
• 20 December 2022

The first full year of events since 2019 has given a new cohort of DJs the chance to make their mark on the dance music landscape, and we haven't been let down. DJs from across the globe have risen up to delight ears and feet with their refreshing sets. The passion they show as figureheads of emerging scenes and in pioneering musical movements that should give any established headline names that have been phoning it in a much-needed fright. Read on for our pick of the top breakthrough DJs of 2022 (in alphabetical order).

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AMÉMÉ radiates energy with his excitement and pride behind the decks that is mirrored into his crowd. The West African artist has relocated to New York, where the One Tribe collective he founded has become known worldwide. From playing inside Coachella’s Yuma Tent to Space Miami with Black Coffee , AMÉMÉ spread the sounds of West Africa internationally. His Lab LDN was flawless and refreshing, and gave the UK a preview of his potent single ‘Balafonerra’ on Armada Music. The self-taught musician has released a spectrum of work this year. Tracks ‘Never Forget’ and ‘Conga Mongo’ came from his groove-laden house EP ‘Power’, showcasing the future of One Tribe.

2 Ariel Zetina

With a deep-rooted love for all things weird and wonderful in dance music, Ariel Zetina ’s fast-paced blend of archival house favourites, frenetic techno and sass-heavy pop has given her a reputation for mind-blowing, referential party sets. Having been a resident at Chicago’s storied Smart Bar since 2018, Ariel has worked to highlight the work of the city’s legendary queer scene — while also inserting nods to her Belizean heritage, incorporating elements of brukdown and punta into her music. This year saw the release of Zetina’s debut album ‘ Cyclorama ’, a blissed-out nine-tracker that masterfully manoeuvres every element of her sonic persona — glittering synths, punchy percussion, sexy riffs and silky vocals to boot. Beyond Chicago, crowds either side of the Atlantic have been falling over themselves to catch her at the likes of Unsound, Brooklyn Mirage, Nowadays and more; while spine-tingling mixes for CRACK , Boiler Room , Daisychain and FACT have had us all salivating next to our Rokits.

3 Charisse C

Pulling influences from her London upbringing, and South African and Zimbabwean heritage — Charisse C has explored a multitude of genres within her selections since turning her hand towards the decks — delving deep into the structure and form of sounds from the diaspora and exploring the stark contrasts, as well as deep-rooted similarities between the worlds of UK bass, gospel house, gqom and more. Though for the past few years her sets have become synonymous with the stratospheric rise of amapiano. Alongside joining genre-superstars Major League DJz at their Warehouse Project and Boiler Room Ibiza shows, Charisse has also seen in regular appearances at London’s Piano People, FABRICLIVE ( for its first amapiano show ever ), and launched her own party Abantu at Werkhaus. Abantu, a platform started as part of her bi-weekly No Signal residency #AbantuNoSignal, translates to “people” in a number of Nguni languages, which seems to be the core mission of much of her work. With a number of off-shoots including the culture-focused podcast #AbantuPod and her #AbantuArtists segment, which shines a light on artists across the spectrum of electronic music, she’s putting education and elevation at the forefront of whatever she does. Her monthly NTS show, which takes a playful approach to the bass-heavy soundscape of South Africa, has also had us all hanging on her every blend this year — with guests including Vigro Deep, Mr Jazziq and Southern Rebelz.

[Photo: Boiler Room]

4 Chloé Caillet

From being named as a resident of Ibiza’s favourite Monday night party CircoLoco and playing across some of the Europe and the USA’s biggest festival stages – Coachella, Glastonbury and Three Points Miami to name three – Parisian DJ and producer Chloé Caillet has had a monster year. She’s done so by getting hips shaking with her singular, soulful, funk and disco brewed take on house music. With another stacked year of gigs for 2023 lined up, Caillet also has releases scheduled on CircoLoco Records, Defected , Crosstown Rebels, Innervisions and more – cementing her status on the top shelf of house and tech-house music.

Those who managed to push their way into Glastonbury's packed out Babylon Uprising and Stonebridge Bar to see Coco Em this summer were fortunate enough to witness a new East African star in full flow. Diving into her career in the pandemic, 2022 was really the year Coco could jump into her music with a sense of freedom, with sets that united stomping feet and rolling shoulders. Coco is sharing the music of Africa in every way she can, including collaborating with Bone Soda, Black Noi$e and Earl Sweatshirt for a special NTS episode that showcased amapiano among styles such as house and jungle. A newfound talent of Coco’s is her ability to produce outstanding productions, which led to her releasing her debut EP ‘Kilumi’ this year. Challenging herself to create a new beat every day in the creation of the EP, she produced more than 70 ideas for the eventual seven-tracker, which featured collaborations with fellow Kenyan artists and came out through Nairobi-based non-profit organisation Santuri East Africa studios. This same community have been a part of Coco’s Nairobi-based female-fronted collective Sim Sima.

[Photo: Paddy Gedi]

6 Crystallmess

Having spent the past few years grinding away to become Paris’ go-to for nail-biting techno, soul-affirming jungle rollers, feverish footwork and downright rude hip hop edits, it felt like this was the year it was avoir un coup de foudre for CRYSTALLMESS for the rest of the music world. Based in the French capital, this Ivorian/Guadeloupean DJ and producer, real name Christelle Oyiri, has had an undeniably killer year — having spent much of it in the throes of a world tour that’s featured stops at REIF at Berlin’s Panorama Bar and London’s Body Movements . Alongside being chosen by Frank Ocean to be the first guest on his Homer Radio show on Apple Music 1 , described as by the ‘Blonde’ artist as “what he listens to in the office” , Oyiri has delivered some much-talked-about mixes for Fact, Dazed , Borsch , NTS and Boiler Room — all infused with the same club-focused, sultry flavour that she’s been dishing out in spades in the basements of the Île-de-France and her Rinse France slot for half a decade. C'est ça!

7 Eliza Rose

An artist that was guaranteed to make this list is the one and only Eliza Rose . It’s been an undoubtedly hectic yet thrilling year for the London DJ and producer who rocketed into fame with her UK Number One belter ‘B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All)’ . It was the soundtrack to this summer and probably many to come judging by the rate that it’s still getting rinsed across clubs today. Before its release, Eliza played out the soon-to-be hit at The Lab LDN where its response foreshadowed its success. More recently Eliza performed the track on the stage of the MOBO Awards , bringing along Sweet Female Attitude and Sonique for a remarkable medley. Let’s hope for more chart-topping anthems in 2023.

8 Girls Don’t Sync

In December of 2021, something special went down within the walls of a Liverpool club. When Girls Don’t Sync caused havoc at Mixmag ’s Lab on Location , it rose to become one of our most viewed sets of the year. The rowdy two-hour showcase set in motion a great year for the four-piece DJ group, who pulled together an incendiary run of shows in 2022, making their debut overseas at clubs including Berghain and Ibiza Rocks , pulling off their first sold-out headline show, and playing to a packed-out tent at Glastonbury Festival. At just a year old, this high-energy quartet have been on one hell of a journey so far, and it shows no sign of stopping yet. Earlier this month, Girls Don’t Sync announced their debut England tour in 2023 where they’re slated to play every major city in the country.

This year IYRE has proven himself to be a gamechanging artist in the realm of drum ‘n’ bass. Hailing from the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, he fuses aural influence from South Asian melodies and even rock and metal music into his techy and liquid d’n’b, crafting a distinct hybrid sound that has caught ears across the globe. At the same time, he’s used his own come-up to draw attention to the overlooked drum ‘n’ bass scene on the Indian subcontinent, platforming the wealth of talent from the region alongside more established names with his must-listen mixes and the 93-track compilation ‘FLOODLIGHT’ he co-curated with pyxis to raise funds for those affected by the flooding in Pakistan.

[Photo: Che Studio]

10 JADALAREIGN

JADALAREIGN is a DJ success story that reflects the value of building steadily. She hasn’t ‘exploded’ onto the scene in a flurry of viral moments, instead taking the time to hone her craft, put in the work in her community, and mark herself out as one of the most important figures in New York’s dance music scene. Her sets are rooted in Black American house and techno, liable to hit rave-fuelled peaks while maintaining a compelling sense of momentum and flow. Having taken on a role as a booker and resident at Nowadays last year, she’s been instrumental in maintaining its rep as NYC’s best-loved club. Now the rest of the world is catching up to her brilliance, with tour dates in Europe and the launch of her NTS residency this year.

At the start of 2022 La La heralded a year that was due to bring “lots & lots of firsts”, and she's duly kicked on for a stellar breakthrough year. From an all-night-long set alongside Skream to a fabric debut, the Glasgow DJ kept up the pace throughout 2022, including making her debut in Mixmag’s Lab LDN where she marked her territory in her newly adopted home of London. On top of an endless run of shows, La La stepped into Berlin’s HÖR for an hour-long takeover, smashed through a Rinse residency , and held up her name at consistent Ibiza shows, La La has only just dipped her toes in the world of dance music.

The most exciting thing about a Manami set? You will not be able to guess what she’s going to do next. A sonic chameleon if there ever was one, this Japanese-born/UK-based DJ and producer has built up a steady platform around herself within the underground music scene — she’s been on tour with Bicep, her Bristol-based party Better Days has brought the likes of Call Super, Sassy J and Amaliah to the South West, and her Worldwide FM and Noods slots have given her a loyal following of listeners. But, in 2022 as the club/festival circuit fully opened its doors, Manami really showed us what she’s made of, and we must confess… we’re into it. As much a lover of face-scrunching jungle as she is hands-in-the-air noughties bangers, she’s proven herself to be an unmissable set for any dance music fan worth their salt. Appearances at Waterworks, Love International and Love Saves the Day have provided some of the best festival moments of this year, while her HÖR and Mixmag’s The Lab LDN streams — with the latter seeing her getting lofted into the air after dropping ‘No Diggity’ and Darude’s ‘Sandstorm’ — have provided a plethora of feel-good viral moments. Underestimate Manami at your own cost.

13 Mixtress

With her rapid, mind-frying style blending drum ‘n’ bass, jungle, footwork, hardcore and more, Rukmini Mukherjee AKA Mixtress has had a fittingly faced-paced year – playing up-and-down the UK each weekend and holding down a Rinse residency. She also formed the fantastically named Team Woibey DJ collective, with ohmydais, Ell Murphy and Fae, who have been taking over club rooms and radio slots over the past year. Having first developed a love for the sounds of the UK’s hardcore continuum in her native Amsterdam , she’s been taking them to her own plane – grabbing the already sharp sounds of drum ‘n’ bass and jungle with an extra dose of edge.

14 Nick León

Starting out as a behind-the-scenes hip hop producer, DJ and hip hop head Nick León has emerged into the global dance music consciousness in 2022. The Miami-based artist delivered a full-throttle mix for RA , ahead of dropping a four-track EP of Latin-infused techno on Colombian label TraTraTrax with remixes from Pearson Sound and Doctor Jeep in June which stood among the year's finest. A whirlwind summer tour followed, with León becoming a central figure for the renewed focus on music from Miami that merges influence from Latin America. He's currently finishing off the year in Europe and is due back across an already enormous-looking 2023, with confirmed dates across the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and more.

As a founder of Black Artist Database (B.A.D.), a platform uplifting the work of Black musicians and creatives, NIKS has been an activist and champion within electronic music circles for a number of years now. But 2022 saw her DJing calendar swell, as she started a Rinse FM residency , recorded a pumping RA mix , debuted on toilet stream HÖR , in Amsterdam's De School, played up, down, left and right across the UK (including The Warehouse Project, Secret Garden Party and White Hotel with Roi Perez), and took a trip to Berlin where she played a by-all-accounts magical early morning Panorama Bar set. Her style of groovy-yet-considered electro, heads-down house and '90s techno should be charming dancefloors for many more years.

16 Nooriyah

Fusing Middle Eastern, North African and well-known dance classics, Nooriyah has an ear for heaters and blends that are bound to make any crowd go wild. Her space Middle of Nowhere , built to give people the opportunity to celebrate the music of SWANA (South West Asian and North African), has built a rep as one of the premier parties in London this year with a series of stand-out events. Their Boiler Room takeover has been lauded for producing one of the most iconic moments on the platform. Preceding the setlist of masterfully curated setlist of roof-raising bangers, Nooriyah was joined by her father playing the oud to astound the audience from the room to our screens — there’s never been an intro quite like hers.

[Photo: Yvonne Shelling]

As a favourited radio host and producer in Mexico City , Paurro is a familiar name for anyone acquainted with the Mexican underground scene. But as someone who in the past leant towards melodic house, her sets this year have taken on a more pumping, rave-y edge. With the development of her sound came a flood of international gigs and recognition, as 2022 saw her first European tour, which included a special closing of iconic Berlin club Tresor’s 31-year anniversary festival. It also included her dipping into the waters of production, releasing her debut EP – a fun, banger-filled five-tracker built for any kind of dancefloor on Matias Aguayo’s Cómeme label.

[Photo: Jada]

18 Sedef Adasi

In claiming one of house and techno’s most prized gigs – a Panorama Bar residency – the Augsburg-raised-and-based Sedef Adasi has had quite the year. She’s delighted the ever switched on crowds of the Berlin institution with her classy selections rooted in house and techno, but which almost constantly break beyond the blunt genre definitions. Her profile has also broken out of the borders of Berlin and Germany, having graced festival stages and club d-floors across the European continent from Glastonbury Festival in England to Prague’s Ankali.

[Photo: Julius Ertelt]

19 Skin On Skin

Although coming across as a somewhat shy character, Skin On Skin has sprung into every single party's speaker this year. Merging the worlds of drill and techno to create a miraculous harmony with his track ‘Burn Dem Bridges’, he's made a blueprint that looks to be the future of a new strain of dance music. Meanwhile his captivating sets have made him a must-see DJ. And if you witness him in action, he might just rock-up to your afters .

20 TAAHLIAH

The first time we heard TAAHLIAH we were immediately gripped by her fearless sonic palette and the way she contorts familiar pop sounds and out-there experimentalism into music that feels genuinely disruptive, refreshing and intoxicating on a dancefloor. We were sure should would kick onto big things when the Impact mix she made for Mixmag last year was chock-full of unreleased cuts, and she’s duly delivered across a mighty impressive 2022. She’s played at best clubs up and down England and Scotland, and earned bookings across European hotspots and as far afield as Melbourne. She’s also released a number of killer collabrative tracks, her Boiler Room debut became an instant classic with many labelling it among the best ever, and she stole the show at AIM Awards , winning Best Independent Mixtape and moving the crowd with a powerful speech about accepting people from marginalised identities. An icon in the making.

21 Two Shell

It’s fair to say Two Shell ruffled a few feathers this year. With cagey, self-destructing interviews and pre-recorded live streamed DJ sets fronted by imposters (if rumours are to be believed), the club scene has a new set of pranksters that have divided opinion. Whether you fall into the camp of turning your nose up at these antics in the serious business of dance music or appreciate having a bit of fun, it’s all immaterial when you push past the playful façade and focus on the tunes — which undeniably bang. Their ‘Icons’ EP stood among the year’s best, and their bookings have duly surged, with the duo (or, people representing them at least) playing at just about every favourite club in the UK and Ireland, including their beloved Venue MOT in South London, as well tour dates across Europe, in the US and now finishing up 2022 in Japan.

[Photo: Nancy McNulty]

22 Uncle Waffles

Uncle Waffles became a viral superstar in late 2021, drawing attention from all over the world for her on-point amapiano DJing and exuberant accompanying dance moves . This year the captivating performer behind decks has proved she’s no flash in the pan, building on that platform with her chart-topping debut EP ‘Red Dragon’ , gigs all over South Africa, a UK and a European tour , debut Boiler Room set and a BBC Radio 1 residency, to name a few achievements. Originally hailing from Eswatini, a small country bordering South Africa formerly known as Swaziland, Uncle Waffles had to work hard to make her way to the top of the neighbouring nation’s vibrant music scene. She’s now proven she has the staying power to conquer the globe.

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Upcoming Techno DJ’s Of 2022

Techno is a genre that has evolved and now officially rules the world.

The thumping that began in the Detroit warehouses is now heard in every club on earth. Music is not the only thing that has contributed to his success, but also the artists who carried the torch of music forward. The scene has been shaped by artists like Adam Bayer, Jeff Mills , Carl Cox , Nina Kraviz , and others.

It’s time to introduce the new people who will carry and carry the flag forward.

These upcoming techno artists deserve your attention. Here’s our list of the upcoming Techno Djs of 2022:

1. Space 92

A chart-topping French producer, Space 92 is the brain behind the best-selling Beatport Techno tracks and currently stands at No.1.

After discovering electronic music as a teenager, Space 92 began composing and producing. He mixes trancey Techno, distorted percussion, and a touch of Acid with underlying nostalgia and sensitivity – perhaps inspired by his passion for vintage 80s sci-fi.

His remix for Hungarian duo Twins Project, “Bass in your Face”, was an instant success, entering BP’s Top 10. Other releases followed such as “Dune” on Umek’s label 1605 and a collaboration with French techno duo Cosmic Boys. Space 92 & YellowHeads have released what would be the year 2020’s biggest Techno hit: “Planet X”, which sat four consecutive months at Number 1 and is still currently in the Beatport Top 100.

2022 will see many brand-new releases on major labels as well as collaborations & remixes with/for global electronic music artists.

Slovenian techno artist UMEK is a techno legend.

Through organizing illegal raves and becoming one of Slovenia’s most wanted export products, he is responsible for kickstarting the electronic music scene in his country. Now he is the world’s leading ambassador for techno music.

Throughout his career, he has played gigs at the most renowned festivals as well as dark underground clubs in Berlin. Every year, he travels around 100 times, visiting almost every continent. As well as making a name for himself in the DJ booth, he’s also an ardent producer. Many of his tracks land at the top of Beatport’s charts after being released on his own imprint 1605.

His experience and skills as a professional musician led him to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors after more than 25 years in the music industry. He founded Viberate ( www.viberate.com ) with his managers to build the world’s largest music platform.

Oliver Heldens’ HI-LO is the darker side , pushing the boundaries with futuristic sounds .

Oliver was awarded the coveted position as the #1 most supported dance artist platform-wide for his two 2020 tracks ‘Zeus’ & ‘Kronos’. Many of his releases inspired by the Greek Gods, like ‘Poseidon’, ‘Athena’, ‘Hades’, and most recently ‘Saw of Olympus’ and ‘Balearic Mornings’, contributed to HI-LO’s #6 spot on Beatport’s best-selling Techno chart last year.

In addition to a massive remix for Nina Kraviz’ ‘Skyscrapers’, HI-LO delivered his debut EP on Drumcode ‘Hypnos’, which includes the title track and the dance floor stomper ‘Hera,’ proving his relevance in the Techno scene.

4. ELI BROWN

Eli Brown is a standout artist in the world of techno and house music. With releases on Repopulate Mars, ViVA Music, Toolroom, Truesoul, Ultra, Big Beat, We Are The Brave, and more, it’s easy to see why he’s the best selling artist on Beatport. Carl Cox, Green Velvet, Fisher, Claude VonStroke, Black Madonna, Denis Sulta, Calvin Harris & Annie Mac are just a few of the big names that have endorsed his productions.

Eli Brown continued to build on his ever-expanding accomplishment list last year with releases on Relief Records, Sola Records, and Elrow. He has appeared at Miami Music Week, toured to South America including two separate runs in Ecuador & Brazil and also made his debut at iconic London club fabric (a personal highlight for the Bristolian).

The UK producer has been on a prolific streak with anthems like ‘Brazil’ (Repopulate Mars), ‘Inside My Head’ (Black Book Records) ‘Our Love’ (Truesoul) and ‘BS48’ (Big Beat) causing damage on the international club circuit.

A raw and caustic talent, Eli Brown continues to cement his reputation as one of dance music’s most innovative and forward-thinking DJ & producers heading above and beyond.

It is no secret that POPOF is one of the most well-known names in techno and house music.

As one of the most popular artists in his category, POPOF is very in demand for his remixes and has worked with a number of different artists, including Depeche Mode, Chemical Brothers, Moby, BookaShade, Vitalic, Tiga, Maetrik, Martin Solveig, among others. In addition to his early work on Turbo, Cr2 and Mistakes, POPOF also released on Sven Väth’s Cocoon outlet, Kerri Chandler’s Kaoz Theory, Jamie Jones’ Hot Creations, Nicole Moudaber’s Mood, Adam Beyer’s Truesoul, among others.

A string of remixes followed his two singles, “Words Gone” and “Going Back,” which were performed by Jamie Jones, Luciano, Magda, Kerri Chandler, Eats Everything, Lee Foss, Marc Houle, Oxia & Miss Kittin. Among the remixes for “Lidl Girl” were ones by Kerri Chandler, Shaun Reeves & Tuccillo and Carl Cox Collective.

After performing Strings of Resistance at Ultra Miami and Latin America, followed by other shows worldwide, it’s safe to say he’s a name to watch

Dj and producer T78 hails from Italy and is the founder of the techno label Autektone Records. With a weekly podcast featuring all the best new tracks for T78, Autektone has gained an impressive following.

In addition to being a highly skilled DJ, he is also an accomplished musician.

Combined with his outstanding production quality and unique way of approaching techno, he rose rapidly in the scene. It is exciting to listen to T78 sets, which include productions like Blast-Attack, Fisto, Acid Lick, and a remix of “All the hurts we made” by the legendary Moby, as well as exclusive tracks from friends in the industry.

He takes his audience on an intense musical journey with his high energetic grooves, which never fail to impress.

In rave circles, Rebuke is known as the ringmaster.

One of the most exciting new artists in years has emerged from the white-hot atmospheres of the Irish underground music scene over the past 18 months. Rebūke is a DJ and producer creating something new and genuinely exciting.

He creates his own sound by mixing techno, house, and rave records from the early ’90s. With a steady place in the Beatport Top 10, he has established his own ER* Music parties, kicking off with sold-out shows reflecting his huge popularity.

From Dubfire to Diplo, Sven Väth to Fisher, he has an ever-expanding fan base and Adam Bayer, Carl Cox, and Pete Tong are among his biggest supporters.

8. MARK BROOM

He discovered the delights of Chicago and Acid House when he landed in Tenerife on vacation in the summer of 1989. After returning to the UK, he immediately set out in search of this newfound music and bought a pair of turntables, birthing a musical career.

As a prolific artist, Mark Broom has worked with some of the biggest labels in the world, including Blueprint Records, Rekids, M-Plant, EPM, Cocoon, Bpitch Control, Warp Records and Ifach with Baby Ford. His name is always associated with Intelligent Techno.

Among the artists he has worked with are Robert Hood, Floorplan, Alan Fitzpatrick, and Gary Beck.

9. RENE WISE

By tapping into rhythm and groove, Rene Wise’s approach to music and DJing merges into one concept. Before discovering electronic music, Wise studied drum and percussion under the guidance of his Iranian father, a professional drummer. The techno he crafts is heavily influenced by this..

Using a raw but modern touch, Wise creates atmospheric soundscapes with a sense of knowledge and maturity, captivating the listener from beginning to end. Throughout his sets, he consistently demonstrates this, maintaining a strong sonic trademark while creating hip-shaking polyrhythms and multi-deck elements.

The ‘quality over quantity’ mindset Wise adopts has seen him work with some of the most respected names in music, including Mote Evolver and Beard Man.

Currently standing at No.1 on Beatport Techno Raw and Deep charts Marcal is a Brazilian artist from Goiânia who has been soaring up the South-American charts for the past few years with his consistent presence around the globe with his odysseys of spellbinding swing and haunting atmospheric sounds.

His impressive consistency has earned him accolades from some of the global techno scene’s big guns, including Ben Klock, DVS1, Rødhad, Freddy K, Luke Slater, Setaoc Mass and many more.

With club material of the finest quality, his trade of choice, hypnosis-inducing, sanity-combusting, bursts to even greater explosive effect throughout his performances. Marcal stakes out his territory in sheer badman style with his intense groove, intelligent rhythms, compl

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The Best DJ Mixes of 2022 So Far

By Philip Sherburne

Our electronic music expert Philip Sherburne sifts through the internet’s bounty of DJ mixes to find only the best sets—because life’s too short to waste on stale beats. The following list is presented by release date, from newest to oldest, and will be updated throughout the year.

UK-based DJ/producer k means describes their Fact Mix in vivid terms: a descent “into a clattery percussive hellhole… getting trippier, more grungy, more amphibian, eventually ascending into a noisy, guttural climax.” They say that the mix was inspired by a recent closing set after Shackleton and Al Wootton, and you can hear the influence of those producers on the dank atmospheres and gnarled drum programming. k means starts off in woozy terrain where half-speed drum’n’bass feels like wading through a tar pit, then shifts into overdriven acid techno, haunted-sounding footwork, and the occasional dembow groove or post-punk cut. The fidelity is low, the energy is high, and a thrilling air of menace hangs like soot over the whole thing.

For fans of the deepest, most psychedelic strains of techno and ambient, no contemporary festival is more beloved than Japan’s Labyrinth , a boutique outdoor event held in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture. To celebrate the festival’s 20th anniversary, the promoters have published live recordings of 10 legendary performances, including one from Donato Dozzy, a Roman producer known for corkscrewing minimalism who is perhaps the most celebrated of Labyrinth’s repeat bookings. Never before released, Dozzy’s closing set from 2014 is a four-and-a-half-hour journey through intricately detailed, infinitely tunneling techno. As always, the Italian DJ favors dusky tones, dusty textures, and steadily thrumming percussion; the long, gradual blends only intensify the meditative vibes. No surprise that the promoters behind the Labyrinth are called Mindgames —Dozzy’s thoroughly trippy approach is a celebration of techno at its headiest.

“How to be happy during constant catastrophe?” asks FOQL , aka Justyna Banaszczyk, an experimental musician, radio broadcaster, and label head hailing from Łódź, Poland. That sense of unease comes across from the start of this mix: Beginning with the ominous tones of Jane’s “It’s a Fine Day,” a deceptively airy song released on Cherry Red in 1983, FOQL slips into a succession of dank drones, unsettling abstractions, wiry post-punk, and nervous free improv. In this context, even a comparatively beatific song like Sofie Birch and Antonina Nowacka’s “Pripugale” turns shadowy. The majority of the selections come from leftfield Polish musicians and labels—including FOQL’s own Pointless Geometry —which makes the set an excellent primer for the country’s underground sounds.

Not many DJs could convincingly fit Japanese noise minimalists Nisennenmondai and ’90s progressive house in the same set, but that kind of range and audacity is part of what makes Call Super such a joy to behold behind the decks. Perhaps the first indicator of just how fun the London DJ’s Dekmantel set is going to be comes scarcely eight minutes in, when Cardi B’s “Money” a cappella drops into a rubbery tech-house groove and goes bouncing along it for what feels like eons, earwormy as a playground chant. A while later—past a new cut from Daphni, an old one from Mathew Jonson, and an absolute chestnut from John Acquaviva—a wiggly acid remix of Kelis’ “Milkshake” is another unabashed crowd pleaser. The aforementioned Nisennenmondai cut makes for a scintillating blend with the Prodigy’s “Your Love,” of all things, before new releases from Pangaea, Nick León, and Floating Points bring us back up to date with bass music and UK techno. Like all the best sets, the bookends are what hold it together: an extended edit of Carl Craig’s “Domina” remix to blast us off, and the one-two punch of Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” and John Holt’s “ For the Love of You ” to bring us coasting gently back to earth.

Nikki Nair ’s productions are electrifying—like, fork-in-a-socket electrifying. Borrowing from footwork, electro, drum’n’bass, and techno, and fleshing out the hybrid grooves with ultra-hi-def synth detailing, the Atlanta producer is making some of the most thrilling dance music out there right now. His two-hour set for Resident Advisor draws from the same well as his productions, full of quick-stepping tempos and twitchy, syncopated drum programming. Stylistically, it’s all over the place, slipping easily between Kush Jones’ stumbling drum work , Mike Ink’s canonical minimal techno , and Drexciya’s sci-fi electro . And while you won’t find many other sets that range from Squarepusher to Caroline Polachek, it’s Nair’s own productions that glue everything together: There are at least 14 of them here , a high-voltage throughline.

Until Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Kyiv was developing a reputation for its rapidly expanding techno scene. After the invasion, DJ Oleg Patselya stayed behind and cofounded Kyiv Angels , a team of volunteers assisting military and civilians around the country, but he’s continued to make music when he can. His set for the ongoing podcast series from Cxema , a roving party at the vanguard of the city’s club culture, captures the white-knuckled energy of Kyiv’s techno scene in happier days: It’s fast and relentless, full of muscular rhythms and stern, metallic synths. Along the way, he takes minor detours—rattling breakbeats, jazzy electro—but for the most part it’s a focused blast of warehouse-shaking techno. In June, in a New York Times story about the Cxema community’s response to the war, Patselya admitted, “At the moment I don’t see the sense of electronic music. I feel nothing when I listen to it.” But judging from his Cxemcast, he’s again found something crucial in dance music: a sense of release, however fleeting.

To play directly after Nihiloxica , the raucous, Nyege Nyege-signed Bugandan drumming outfit, would be an unenviable slot for any DJ: How could you possibly match that energy? Taking up the baton from them at Sónar this summer, Ehua makes it seem like no big deal at all. Kicking off with a rattling percussive edit—the bridge between Nihiloxica’s sound and hers—the Italian-Ivorian DJ presses the pedal to the floor as she goes barreling through a selection of slamming techno, quick-stepping dembow, tightly coiled bass music, and a generous helping of hard drum, the London sound known for its gargantuan rhythm tracks. She keeps the energy levels elevated all the way through, but she also knows when to take a step back from the edge: Just witness the way she uses the slinky 2-step of Nouveau Monica’s “Be Greedy” to take the pressure off right before unleashing the big guns in a giddy footwork- and jungle-driven finale.

Assuming the existence of infinite universes, in one of them we can postulate that musical evolution ended with broken beat. And why not? Arising in the years before Y2K, the London-rooted sound melted together house, techno, breakbeats, R&B, jazz, and more into a gooey fusion of all things soulful. It certainly would make a logical, even utopian, endpoint for dance-music history. Of course, that didn’t happen. Broken beat largely faded from view, even though some of its pioneering artists are still out there keeping the faith. Count Kiernan Laveaux among the style’s acolytes.

Though she didn’t start playing out until around 2014, you can tell from the way she mixes the stuff that she’s deeply immersed in it. “Whenever I am having a weird day or don’t know what music to play at home, I bust out my stack of broken beat records and just start mixing,” she writes, calling her mix for New York’s Juanita’s series “very much a no thoughts, vibes only kinetic result of that.” Broken beat’s knotty syncopations and dense harmonies can make it tricky business to mix, but she carves an unusually elegant path through her selections, emphasizing tracks with crisp funk beats, aquamarine keys, and just enough vocal hooks to keep things catchy but never cluttered. It’s an exhilarating tour of a sound that never goes out of style.

Like all Lena Willikens mixes, this set recorded in a tiny kiosk in Brussels’ Royal Park is an invitation to travel great distances without leaving your chair. She begins, as she often does, deep in the fog, with distant blues guitar and nearer footsteps tracing an unsteady path. Stumbling rhythms and inky discord extend for half an hour, punctuated by the occasional beam of ambient synths. About halfway through, she locks into the groove that will carry her through to the finish: a methodical, 90-odd BPM chug. She puts the tempo through its paces, exploring every facet; here it’s a sullen zombie trudge, there a slippery acid sashay, there a grim industrial pogo. With 15 minutes left on the clock, it all snaps into vivid focus with the grueling proto-trip-hop of Leslie Winer’s “ When I Was Walt Whitman ,” then climaxes with an early, gloriously gloomy rarity from Ministry. Only Willikens could make closing with a gothic curveball feel like such a walk in the park.

A former tour manager for Hot Chip and Four Tet, Armenian-British producer Hagop Tchaparian recently stepped up with his debut album on Four Tet’s Text label. His Bleep mix extends his musical career’s friends-and-family vibe, peppered with tunes from pals and peers like Daphni, Chloé Robinson, Altrice, and Four Tet himself. It also makes for a pretty comprehensive cross-section of Tchaparian’s tastes, heavy on chunky breakbeats, skippy garage rhythms, and bright, chiming melodies. The San Francisco-based musician’s own tracks stand out for the way he works field recordings from around the world—Syrian street musicians, fireworks over a soccer match—into percussive dancefloor fare, and he’s got a similarly wide-ranging touch here: Just check the stretch that takes him from the controlled chaos of his labelmate Taraval’s “ Aardvark ” through the bhangra-ballroom fusion of Chandé & yourboykiran’s “ Pani Puri Pirates ” and into the blissful Ghanaian highlife of Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band’s “Gyae Su.” From there, the screaming zurna of Tchaparian’s own “GL” propels him straight into vintage jungle from Goldie. It feels like an autobiographical scrapbook of where he’s been—and where he’s going.

Kelly Lee Owens spent the first seven or eight years of her career striking a careful balance between clean-lined techno and atmospheric electronic pop, but she took a sharp left turn with this year’s LP.8 . Conceived as the imaginary eighth album in her discography—in fact, it’s the third—it finds the Welsh musician abandoning her usual hallmarks in favor of stark, industrially tinged beats and ominously looped vocals. A similarly experimental spirit fuels her Resident Advisor mix , which opens with ghostly a cappella by the 11th century mystic Hildegard von Bingen before plunging into eerie soundscaping from Bernhard Günter, Throbbing Gristle, and Steve Roach; the set’s second half winds through ritualistic percussion and soot-smeared techno before a climax that smokes like a burning subwoofer. Many of her picks are unorthodox—this is surely the first time that Rosalía has ever been mixed with the late Editions Mego founder Peter Rehberg—yet Owens’ tonal sensibility carries the day. By the time that extended passage, which also runs through a Jim O’Rourke remix of Japanese noise legend Merzbow, spills out into Rhythm & Sound’s buoyant dub techno, it’s hard to imagine her selections playing out any other way.

UK duo Two Shell ’s Boiler Room appearance at Primavera Sound in June quickly became the year’s most controversial DJ set. For one thing, they appeared to be pantomiming to a pre-recorded mix. (For a dead giveaway, just watch the levels on the mixer when the camera switches to an overhead shot: They’re frequently seen tweaking the EQ on channels that no sound is passing through.) Not only that, but it’s been rumored that the two figures dressed in ridiculous getups—Halloween headwear, bug-eyed sunglasses, a burglar’s stocking face mask—aren’t Two Shell at all. Given that the duo’s members remain anonymous, there’s no way of knowing for sure, but the two people on stage sure acted like ringers. The mix, at least, is a ball—a high-energy highwire act that pirouettes along the line dividing bass music from hyperpop. Alongside cuts from the scene that birthed them (UK funky from Crazy Cousinz, atmospheric techno from Hodge, Facta, and K-Lone) and scads of Two Shell originals, there are a handful of real head-turners, like the duo’s own edits of Justin Timberlake, Sugababes, and a little-known emo musician named antonvstheworld. They close out the set with the effervescent bliss of “home,” a CHINAH-sampling , drum’n’bass-adjacent roller that sputters like a cotton-candy machine running on overdrive; in the video, a lone crutch bobs up from the heaving crowd while the DJs take selfies behind the decks. Getting trolled has rarely been quite so entertaining.

When a pair of homebuyers moved into their Fire Island beach house last year, they made a remarkable discovery left behind by the previous owners: milk crates full of hand-dubbed mixtapes from the 1980s and ’90s. Featuring sets from DJs like Roy Thode, Michael Jorba, and Richie Bernier, the trove of cassettes amounted to a snapshot of Fire Island at a crucial moment in its history. For decades, the Long Island beach resort has been a refuge for LGBTQ+ people; in the ’70s, at clubs like the Ice Palace and the Sandpiper , disco provided the soundtrack to queer liberation. But as AIDS decimated the community, Fire Island’s dancefloors took on more complicated roles, mixing celebration, hedonism, mourning, and perseverance over a 4/4 beat. More than 200 tapes have so far been digitized and uploaded to the Pine Walk Collection on Mixcloud. Spanning the late ’70s to the early ’90s, it runs the gamut of disco, hi-NRG, electro pop, and the woozy afterhours style known as sleaze. It’s hard to pick a favorite set, but I’m particularly partial to the first part of a marathon 1986 recording of Jim Burgess from the Saint , a members-only gay club on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that ran from 1980 until 1988. An acclaimed remixer, Burgess brings a producer’s careful sense of pacing to the decks: He begins with Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” then slips in Walter Murphy’s languid disco interpretation of the piece. Things quickly get weird, as the agonized funk of Robert Fripp’s “Exposure” morphs into the vocodered mechanics of the Android Sisters’ “Robots Are Coming.” You can hear how many sounds were in the air—proto-house, post-disco, new wave, and innumerable ephemeral ideas that never earned a name. Even at a time of grave uncertainty, Burgess’ set encapsulates a sense of promise—a belief in the transformative powers of the new.

Last time Mumdance was booked to play Primavera Sound, in 2019, he ended up dropping out and checking himself into rehab. More than three years sober , he’s back to playing gigs again, and from the sound of his 90-minute, four-deck set at the Barcelona festival, you can tell he’s feeling celebratory. From 4 ’til 5:30 in the morning, he treated intrepid ravers to a full-on party. The “ Mentasm ” stabs that so ominously open the session are a headfake: The apocalyptic scene-setting quickly gives way to much lighter fare, and over the next hour and a half, he switchbacks his way through acid, techno, grime, jungle, and vintage hardcore, rarely lingering on a single track for long. Both his selections and his quick-cutting mixes are primed for maximum dopamine release, and the finale is a heart-racing climax that pushes the tempo dangerously into the red. If one moment sums up the vibe, it’s around 53 minutes in, as blistering acid gives way to a moment of silence and then a brief snippet of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.” Yet as the New York dance-pop icon launches into the song’s refrain (“I hear you call my name/And it feels like—”), a deftly spliced-in sample finishes her sentence for her: “Ecstasy.” Cartoonish rave stabs come bounding into the frame, and it’s off to the races. Mumdance’s 90 minutes behind the decks are as giddy as peak-time sets come.

Dance music and driving have a long history together. Detroit techno’s links to the city’s car culture are immortalized in records like Model 500’s “Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)” and Carl Craig’s Landcruising ; UK duo Orbital took their name from the ring road that funneled ravers to outer-London raves in the late ’80s and early ’90s; Galcher Lustwerk ’s Road Hog project is a love letter to the pleasures of taking the wheel. DJ Voices’ mix for Mixtape Club —a Patreon-funded project founded by Finn and Local Action—finds inspiration in a similar synchronicity of rhythm and road. “Listening to a mix in your friend’s car is likely where you start your relationship with dance music,” says the New York DJ, aka Kristin Malossi, whose Florida upbringing gave her an appreciation for the way repetitive grooves complement long stretches of freeway. Here, she turns to rolling, rippling strains of house and techno for a set that replicates the feeling of disappearing into your thoughts at 65 miles per hour. Her picks, both old and new, are steeped in classic sounds. Harry Mariani’s 2001 cut “Nagchampa” is a slice of Y2K-era progressive house at its most hypnotic; DJ Headshot & Matris’ “ Space Bells ” is from just last year, but it sounds like an old-school bleep-techno workout, kissed with a hint of Balearic warmth. Malossi’s selections display a singular focus across the entirety of the set, and the mixing is as smooth as the gearshift on a luxury sedan. Gas prices may have scuttled your road-trip plans for the summer, but DJ Voices brings the feel of the open road to life.

Peder Mannerfelt is no stranger to white-knuckled thrill rides , but not everything the mischievous Swedish electronic musician does is so intense. In a set for Stockholm experimental perfumers Stora Skuggan —makers of scents such as Moonmilk, Mistpouffer, and, um, Thumbsucker—he drops the tempo down to 100 BPM. But this is no garden-variety chill: Digging into woozy syncopations, rubbery acid modulations, and jittery double-time programming , Mannerfelt shows how dynamic this slow-moving zone can be. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force twists African percussion into elastic shapes; DJ Python exploits the springy qualities of dembow patterns. The tempo zone gives Mannerfelt the opportunity to dust off some classics you don’t typically hear mixed, like Tricky’s heartbreaking “Christiansands,” and bust out rarities from his collaborators Glasser and Fever Ray. Around 52 minutes in, keep your ears peeled for a gorgeous new track from Aasthma, Mannerfelt’s duo with Pär Grindvik, featuring HTRK’s Jonnine Standish.

Powder isn’t a flashy DJ. She tends to stick to a mixture of techno and house, from bleepy to deep; her selections often aren’t particularly radical or terribly obscure. But the Tokyo electronic musician has a way of blending tracks together that creates something entirely new out of them. If there’s a throughline in her set for London’s Mantissa mix series, it’s the rolling hand percussion that surfaces again and again, tying together muted chords with splashes of disco and dub. She covers plenty of ground, connecting sounds that have little in common (squelchy electro funk, minimal house, slinky disco) with understated blends: Around halfway through, a boisterous piano-house jam with yelpy vocals melts so gradually into a low-key drum track that you barely notice the transition.

Sometimes, you just wanna funk, and when Steven Julien and Shy One threw down at Amsterdam’s Lente Kabinet festival not long ago, they brought just the stuff for it. For two hours, the Apron Records boss (fka FunkinEven) and fellow Londoner Mali Larrington-Nelson lay down a dynamic mix of deep house, broken beat, electro, and jazzy techno mixed buttery smooth. Straight out the gate, they strike a heady but muscular tone with the carefully swung, high-stepping groove of Pablo Valentino’s “ Hum Hum ,” followed by Louie Vega’s more introspective “A New Day.” Rooted in classic strains of Black American and British dance music, the vibe throughout is timeless. The drum-machine workout of Julien’s own “POT808” flash back to lo-fi experiments of the 1980s; Pal Joey’s eternal “Party Time” injects a moment of levity about halfway through; and in the set’s final third, they even briefly dip a toe into freestyle, adding an extra dose of summery bliss to a set shot through with sunshine.

Trip-hop never really died—the slow-motion sound of ’90s chillout rooms lives on in today’s “lofi hip-hop” and music-to-study-to playlists. I was about to say “in diluted form,” but honestly? A lot of the original trip-hop was pretty aggressively mid: bland, inoffensive fare that took hip-hop beats and rave aesthetics and repackaged them for coffee shops and lifestyle compilations. Still, when it was good, nothing soothed the nerves quite like a hit of mad blunted jazz . As other ’90s styles come back into vogue , it’s only fitting that a trip-hop revival should be on the way too. New York’s Physical Therapy has already dipped his toes into the waters of downtempo with his Car Culture project; he goes deeper with this trip-hop special , digging out rarities like “Eso Lo Que Va,” a Latin rap curveball by Balearic mainstay A Man Called Adam in his Beach Flea guise, and Pépé Bradock’s “Peer Pressure,” an oft-overlooked B-side from the beloved French house producer. One hallmark of ’90s trip-hop was the strange, even mercenary collision between major-label acts and underground remixers—a phenomenon that turns up here in picks like James Lavelle’s unabashedly epic rework of the Verve’s equally unabashed “Bitter Sweet Symphony.” To listeners who actually lived the era, encountering that song here might be a hard pill to swallow; fortunately, Physical Therapy sweetens the deal with songs like Nobukazu Takemura’s “Crescent (Howie B. Mix),” period gems that are ripe for rediscovery.

In the four years since he began releasing music, Australia’s DJ Plead (Jarred Beeler) has become known for bass music grounded in tough, percussive club rhythms, often offset by samples referencing his Lebanese heritage. He’s recently been easing off floor-fillers to explore more melodic, R&B-influenced sounds, but his Truants mix drops him back into the dancefloor’s deep end. The set starts off mellow and muted—first acoustic guitar and Auto-Tuned vocals, then buoyant ambient dub techno—but it steadily picks up steam as it goes, going from flickering drum jams into psychedelic rollers , lavish sub-bass , and gothic grime anthems. Even at its heaviest, it moves with feline grace, stealthy as a fogbank.

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On April 1, the Ukrainian experimental electronic musician Heinali live-streamed a 30-minute performance from a basement in Lviv that doubled as a fundraiser for his country’s self-defense and humanitarian funds. Conditions were not optimal: To make the stream possible, he had to cobble together two 50-meter ethernet cables, run them out from the basement, and shield them from the rain with a plastic bag. More pressingly, just two hours before his set, an air-raid siren had driven city dwellers scurrying for cover; since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at the end of February, the basement has doubled as a bomb shelter.

The violence being visited upon the country only makes the contemplative stillness of Heinali’s music that much more striking. For 30 minutes, seated before a compact modular rig, he coaxed airy figures based upon Baroque counterpoint into tangled thickets of arpeggios and rich, thrumming drones. In any other context, it would be profoundly beautiful; given the war raging outside, this quiet act of perseverance takes on even greater significance—part protest, part song of mourning.

Between 1989 and 1992, the psychedelic epicenter of the UK’s acid house scene was located at 11 Wardour Street, London, smack between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square. It was there, at a tiny club, bar, and gallery called the Brain, that artists like Orbital and Andrew Weatherall mapped dance music’s outer limits in DJ sets and—a rarity for the time—live performances on keyboards, samplers, and sundry bits of hardware.

Live at the Brain 1990 captures a characteristically heady session from the era, a collaboration between Paul Chivers’ Ramjac Corporation, who was responsible for a handful of brain-bending techno records around that time, and the Irresistible Force, better known as the psychedelic lifer Mixmaster Morris. These days, we tend to think of ambient and house music as opposites, but, much like the KLF’s 1990 classic Chill Out , Live at the Brain 1990 proves the genres’ fundamental compatibility, wrapping propulsive drum programming and basslines in looped chants, spiraling synth arpeggios, and even the occasional snippet of birdsong. It’s a guileless, wide-eyed look back at UK rave’s golden age.

The shift from commercial mix CDs to free online mixes has been a boon for listeners and DJs alike, but for the producers whose music actually fills all those sets, it’s been yet another instance where the value of their work has plummeted. Producers historically have received a licensing fee, however negligible, when their work gets placed on a mix CD, but placement in a streaming mix typically nets only exposure. Enter French producer Maelstrom, whose “Ensemble Mix” harnesses the blockchain as a potential solution to the problem.

In March, he uploaded the mix to sound.xyz , a web3 music platform, as an NFT in an edition of 150. The price tag was .1 ETH, or around $300, on the day of release. A smart contract written into the blockchain guarantees nearly 6 percent of each sale to each of the 14 producers with a track in the mix, while Maelstrom takes home 15 percent. (FWB, the crypto organization that helped him execute the concept, got 5 percent.) The only catch is that all the producers needed to have blockchain wallets to get paid, so Maelstrom ended up sourcing the mix from tracks he found on Nina , another blockchain music platform, along with others that he solicited on Twitter.

Listening to the set—which is also free to stream —you’d never guess that he was pulling from such a limited pool. Blending heavy hitters like Space Dimension Controller and Boys Noize with relative unknowns like Bagvs and Random Brothers (both, coincidentally enough, from Indonesia), his mixing flows naturally across an evolving selection of dark techno and electro.

Sales of the set raised 15.0 ETH—on the day it was released, the equivalent of a little more than $45,000, which meant a payout of about $2,266 for each artist involved. Whether this strategy is sustainable, of course, is another question—the number of buyers willing and able to plunk down hundreds of dollars on a single mix is likely to be limited. As a musical proof of concept, though, “Ensemble Mix” revealed the growing breadth of the blockchain music community, while underscoring a simple but provocative idea: Musicians deserve to be paid for their music.

On her new Dekmantel mix, the London NTS Radio resident (and co-curator of Hyperdub’s monthly  Ø club nights ) Shannen SP is intent upon tracing connections across dance-music history, pulling together rap, techno, electro, drum’n’bass, footwork, ghetto house, breakbeat hardcore, and more, both classic and recent. The set is so tightly wound that it seems ready to snap at any moment. That’s particularly true of the closing stretch, where rapid-fire breaks explode into Tanzanian singeli, a dizzyingly fast style that sounds a little like a merengue cassette played back with the fast-forward button held down. You can tell that she had a blast mixing it, too: The faster the rhythm gets, the giddier the mood.

Washington, D.C.’s James Bangura comes out kicking in this set for UK promoters Origins Sound , doling out booming drums, punchy basslines, and the staccato chords of classic Detroit techno. Bangura’s Interpretation of Sound EP for New York’s Mister Saturday Night label in 2020 balanced muscle with depth, and his mixing here does the same: The drums hit hard, but his textures are diaphanous and billowing. The opening of the mix blends Robert Hood-like squelch with a percussive workout from veteran producer Mark Broom and cavernous techno. The mood softens in the back half as Leon Vynehall’s “Brother” gives way to a 1996 deep-house track from a surprising source . He wraps up with Detroit producer Shigeto’s “There’s a Vibe Tonight,” which is, truly, a whole vibe.

In April 2019, French bass producer Simo Cell strapped in with German breakbeat polymath Skee Mask for a seven-hour B2B set at Nantes, France’s Trempo club, and in November 2020, Simo Cell’s TemeT label released a pair of particularly dynamic 45-minute excerpts from the night as TemeTape1 , the first edition in a new series of mixtapes. The cassette sold out quickly, but in late January, Simo Cell’s TemeT label posted the whole thing to SoundCloud, making it available for all to hear without ponying up silly money on Discogs. On the A-side, the two explore grinding EBM, electro, and gothic trap, finding unexpected connections between Drexciya, Autechre, and Ikonika. The B-side is a whirlwind tour of 160 BPM that’s heavy on footwork, breakbeat hardcore, and jungle; near the end, the mix of LSDXOXO’s Depeche Mode-sampling “False Idols” into a DJ Chap track that samples New Order collapses new wave into fast techno in a way you might not believe possible.

For the January installment of her monthly show on Guadalajara’s Internet Public Radio , Berlin-based musician Slowfoam mixed together a batch of material from Seattle experimentalist Ran Park—songs, snippets, stems—together with some of her own unreleased material. The results are foggy and formless in the best way. The opening passage plays glowing synthesizers off spritzes of static and radar chirps; intimations of electric jazz add depth, and the diffuse atmosphere clears to reveal a simple, poignant piece for piano and flute—one of the “unabashedly aspirational” nods to Ennio Morricone and Ryuichi Sakamoto that Park references in a note accompanying the mix. There’s much more, too: gentle chamber-jazz sketches; glowering reeds; ambient piano; and even, toward the end, a dreamy trip-hop breakbeat. There’s no tracklisting and no clue as to which parts are Park’s and which are Slowfoam’s. It’s best to just close your eyes and let it wash over you.

In January, experimental artist Laurel Halo celebrated the one-year anniversary of her monthly residency on NTS Radio. Her show tends to range widely—a typical episode might include classical minimalism, American primitive guitar, dub reggae, and Detroit techno, all mixed seamlessly together. This program is no exception: It begins with a psychedelic Orb bootleg, drifts across half an hour of ambient soundscaping, and eventually emerges into a sunlit clearing of spiritual jazz.

Even at its most diffuse, an understated lyrical sensibility connects its disparate parts. This shapeshifting through line takes various forms—the flowing chords of claire rousay and more eaze’s “An Afternoon Whine,” the plaintive vocal melody of Reiko Kudo’s “Son of Man,” or the foghorn-like tones of Joe Zawinul’s “ Arrival in New York .” The mood throughout is deeply meditative. Following such a sustained interior journey, the closing song—Ohio Penitentiary 511 Ensemble’s jubilant “Psych City,” from a private-press 1971 recording by a group of incarcerated musicians—feels like emerging into brilliant sunlight, spiritually cleansed.

As one of the organizers of underground Berlin night spots Paloma and Monarch, a former employee of the city’s Hard Wax record store, and a music journalist with decades of bylines to his name, Finn Johannsen is a veritable fountain of dance-music history. And he’s got the mixes to prove it.

In his ongoing Hausmusik series, now 14 installments strong, he’s been documenting the ’90s house and techno scenes in German, Austria, and Switzerland. Volume 10 is particularly engrossing, tracing the delicate balance of deepness and minimalism that held sway in the middle of the ’90s. It kicks off with an uncharacteristically downy selection from Kompakt’s Wolfgang Voigt in his Mint guise before veteran duo Alter Ego, under their seldom-used Primitive Painter alias, offer a deep-diving Detroit homage; ensuing selections offer interpretations of the stabbing organs that were ubiquitous in that era. The period Johannsen surveys here tends to get overlooked in histories of ’90s dance music, and listeners who weren’t there for it may be unfamiliar with a lot these tunes—all of which makes tracks like the shimmering “ Psycho Kinesis ” all the more revelatory.

At the very end of last year, Barcelona’s John Talabot —the city’s most celebrated DJ for over a decade now—settled in at Nitsa Club, his long-time stomping ground, to deliver a peak-time set of uncommon depth. Nitsa was a crucial cauldron of local dance-music culture in the ’90s, and Talabot flashes back to those years frequently here.

It’s not an expressly retro set; toward the end of the first hour, there’s a stretch of recent tunes that feels like a wide-angled snapshot of modern techno in all its nuance. And right around the two-hour mark, he drops Burial’s 2007 track “Raver,” pitched up slightly, in a spellbinding moment of dancefloor melancholy. But the majority of the set is steeped in the bright, brittle sound of the early-to-mid ’90s, in which sullen FM bass, rigid hats and claps, and flickering pads sketched out a hypnotic fusion of techno and trance. Those early European trance sounds have been coming back into vogue lately, particularly in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, but Talabot never tips into the headbanging tempos of Copenhagen’s “fast techno” scene. Instead, he takes something of a Goldilocks approach to blending styles. At once driving and immersive, it’s a picture of classic European dance music at its most ecstatic.

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Martin Garrix wins Top 100 DJs 2022 + full ranking

Prodigious dutch dj and producer makes history as first major artist to dj from the empire state building observatory as centrepiece of reimagined top 100 djs awards show.

According to DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs poll for 2022 , Martin Garrix has been named The World’s No. 1 DJ . The Dutch DJ and producer marked the occasion in historic fashion as he became the first artist to DJ from the top of the iconic Empire State Building, as the centrepiece of a reimagined Top 100 DJs Awards Show broadcast.

The prodigious young Dutchman — still only 26 — broke through onto the scene in his mid-teens via his proto-EDM tune ‘ Animals ’, and scooped the Top 100 DJs crown in 2016, 2017, and 2018. David Guetta, who has been his close friend and mentor for the past two years, loses the top slot to him once more.

An artist who transcends dance music, Garrix has collaborated with Dua Lipa, Usher and Bono and The Edge from U2 in addition to showcasing his own productions and those from his label STMPD RCRDS at festivals and clubs across the planet. With this fourth victory, he surpasses David Guetta and Tiesto in the all-time DJ popularity rankings, trailing only Dutch trance DJ Armin van Buuren, who has garnered five No. 1s.

In response to the victory, Martin Garrix said:

I’m very grateful for everyone taking the time to vote. Being back at number 1 again feels very surreal and I’ll never ever take your support for granted. Thank you. I hope you all enjoy the stream we recorded. Playing my music on top of one of the most iconic buildings in the world was very special. Music has brought me to many crazy places, but this is definitely high up there.

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The BBC Radio One DJ Arielle Free hosted a broadcast show from The World’s No. 1 Club Hi in Ibiza to deliver the Top 100 DJs Awards. Six award-winning DJs from spanning four different continents performed at the global show.

The three-hour event — available to rewatch now — featured Alok from a clifftop in Rio de Janeiro; Charlotte de Witte from Castelo del S.Jorge in Lisbon; leading China-based DJ duo Beauz from a traditional fishing boat in Hong Kong; Lifetime Achievement award winner DJ Paulette from Manchester’s iconic Albert Hall; and Future Star award winner Layla Benitez from Hï Ibiza’s Secret Garden. Martin Garrix’s unprecedented performance from the Empire State Building’s exterior observatory served as the program’s high point.

The Top 100 DJs winner had been announced live on stage at the Amsterdam festival throughout a decade-long collaboration with AMF that ended with the changeover to a webcast event. The reworked broadcast format allowed DJ Mag to better represent the diversity of the dance music scene while also positioning UNICEF, the official charity partner of Top 100 DJs, front and center.

Viewers to the show were invited to support UNICEF’s Children’s Emergency Fund, which helps children affected by disasters and conflict, wherever they are, whenever crisis hits. At unicef.uk/djmag , you may donate right away.

This year’s poll garnered more than 1.3 million votes from participants in 234 nations , solidifying its position as the biggest music survey open to the general public worldwide. Belgian brothers Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike climbed back to No. 3 to maintain their status as the top DJ duo in the list with Martin Garrix at No. 1 and David Guetta at No. 2. The top Latin American DJ, the Brazilian bass sensation ALOK, is ranked at No. 4, while the top North American DJ, Steve Aoki, is now ranked at No. 7.

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Dj mag top 100 djs 2022 top 10.

The top 10 DJs are the same as in 2021, with Timmy Trumpet moving up one spot while maintaining his position as Australasia’s highest DJ and Don Diablo taking home the title of Highest Future House DJ despite moving down two spots. Afrojack, who has always been reliable, stays there at No. 6, while Oliver Heldens , although falling two spots, is still in the top 10. The fact that half of the top 10 artists are Dutch highlights the country’s domination of the international EDM sector.

Vintage Culture , a Brazilian house music party starter, is knocking on the door at No. 11, up a healthy six spots, making him The World’s No. 1 House DJ. Charlotte de Witte , the World’s No. 1 Techno DJ, is up nine places to No. 14, and she must undoubtedly be a contender to end the recent monopoly of male DJs on the top 10 spots. The second-ranked techno DJ, Carl Cox , who is up a respectable five places, and the Belgian DJ/producer, who has had another fantastic year, are both. Calvin Harris, Tiesto, and Fedde Le Grand are all static in the top 20, while Alan Walker is back at No. 17 after moving up five spots. For the first time in a lot of years, Nicky Romero is also back in the top 20; the Dutchman is up six spots.

A lot of techno and underground names in the middle of the ranking

Peggy Gou has climbed 14 spots to No. 24 outside of the EDM scene, and GORDO has climbed 12 spots to No. 25. After a highly successful Ibiza season with his Paradise parties at Amnesia, Jamie Jones is one of the highest climbers — up 18 to No.32 — while the actual highest climber is Black Coffee , who helmed the Saturday night at Hï Ibiza for the whole of the 2022 season and is rewarded by climbing 29 places to No.39.

This year’s chart has six re-entrants, most notably previous champion Hardwell , who returned after a four-year absence with a spectacular set at Ultra Music Festival in Miami in March and a number of other massive performances. Following additional headline performances this year, Swedish House Mafia and Italian techno artist Deborah De Luca have returned to the charts. Lucas & Steve, Solomun and Jay Hardway are also back in the chart now, having all dropped out in recent years.

The highest new entry in the vote for 2022 is Reinier Zonneveld , who comes in at number 49. The frontman of Filth On Acid is miles ahead of Joel Corry , a former Geordie Shore star who is currently the fifth-highest UK DJ act in the chart and the next-highest new entrant. The Martinez Brothers , who squeak in at No. 100, Honey Dijon, Dubdogz, Maya Jane Coles , and other newcomers are also included.

This year, hardstyle has experienced some decline. Even though he dropped 17 positions, Angerfist is still the highest hard DJ, while Miss K8 fell 36 positions to No. 89. The only other hardstyle DJ still present in the chart is Brennan Heart , who is currently at No. 68 (up five). Other notable climbers in the Top 100 DJs list include KAAZE, Cat Dealers , and tech-house showman FISHER , who rose 29 spots to No. 48. (up 13 to No.70).

DJ Mag’s editorial prize

DJ Mag also gave out two editorial choice awards in addition to the prizes that were chosen by the public. The first prize, Future Star , went to Miami-based, New York-born Layla Benitez who has made a name for herself in 2022 with releases on All Day I Dream and Crosstown Rebels, a residency at Space Miami, and performances all around Ibiza.

The lifetime Achievement award was presented to Manchester legend DJ Paulette, who has been active as a DJ, radio and TV host, A&R and PR for over 30 years, in the thick of the action at crucial times in the dance scene’s development. She has been a positive influence and a force for good as she has helped spread top-notch electronic music across the globe, starting with her early DJing days at Manchester’s groundbreaking LGBTQ+ night Flesh at the Hacienda and ending with her support of the Roni Size Reprazent album winning the Mercury Prize.

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Kygo announces 2024 world tour with Sofi Tukker and Gryffin. Get tickets

Prepare to bliss out this fall.

From September through December, Kygo will embark on the first leg of his recently announced world tour with special guests Sofi Tukker, Gryffin, Sam Feldt, Zara Larsson, Klangkarussell and more.

Early on in the globetrotting run, the the popular Norwegian DJ is slated to drop into Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Friday, Sept. 13.

Fans that want to catch the “Stole The Show” hitmaker’s jaw-dropping live show — which includes pyrotechnics, live instruments, dizzying lights and nonstop club bangers — can grab tickets for all of his North American concerts as soon as today.

Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, April 26, fans who want to ensure they have tickets ahead of time can purchase on sites like Vivid Seats before tickets are officially on sale.

Vivid Seats is a secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

They have a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and will be delivered before the event.

A complete calendar including all North American tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.

On Oct. 6, 2022, Kygo headlined at Madison Square Garden.

According to Set List FM , here’s what he performed that night:

01.) “Stole the Show”

02.) “Hot Stuff” (Donna Summer cover)

03.) “Born to Be Yours” (Kygo & Imagine Dragons cover)

04.) “Never Really Loved Me”

05.) “Levels” (Avicii cover)

06.) “Stargazing”

07.) “Freedom”

“08.) “Happy Now”

09.) “Kids in Love”

10.) “ID ultra”

11.) “Stay”

12.) “Cut Your Teeth” (Kyla La Grange cover)

13.) “Undeniable”

14.) “Fever”

15.) “7 years”

16.) “Lose Somebody”

17.) “Think About You”

18.) “What’s Love Got to Do With It” (Graham Lyle cover)

19.) “Lost Without You”

20.) “Souce”

21.) “Carry On”

22.) “Resurrection”

23.) “Paradiso vs. Sunrise”

24.) “It Ain’t Me”

25.) “Woke Up in Love”

26.) “Higher Love” (Steve Winwood cover)

27.) “Freeze”

28.) “Firestone”

Note: Two unidentified “unknown tracks” were also performed that night.

A few days before announcing the world tour, Kygo dropped the single “For Life” featuring Nile Rodgers and Zak Abel.

The danceable three-minute track features Kygo’s signature jumpy piano solos and reverbed vocals over heartfelt lyrics.

If you want to hear for yourself, you can listen to “For Life” here .

While on the road, Kygo is bringing a number of friends along for the ride.

For those that aren’t familiar with his opening acts, you can sample their sounds by checking out their most streamed songs on Spotify below.

Sofi Tukker: “Purple Hat”

Gryffin: “Desire”

Sam Feldt: “Post Malone”

Zara Larsson: “Symphony”

Klangkarussell: “Sonnetanz”

Hayla: “Where You Are”

Victoria Nadine: “Be Okay”

Vandelux: “Matter of Time”

The party starting doesn’t stop with Kygo.

Many of the biggest beat droppers around will be on the road all year long.

Here are just five of our favorites you won’t want to miss live.

•  Odesza

•  Charli XCX with Troye Sivan

•  John Summit

•  Dom Dolla

Who else is out and about? Take a look at our list of the 50 biggest concert tours in 2024 to find out.

This article was written by Matt Levy , New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements for your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed Bruce Springsteen and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change.

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See all that Moscow has to offer by choosing one or more of our incredible Moscow day tours. Visit Red Square , St. Basil’s , the Kremlin or perhaps a vodka museum and the fantastic Moscow metro system , we have it all. Our expert, informative and fun guides will help you get to know Europe’s largest city. Please click on the day tour details to learn more or contact us for more information about our Moscow tours using the form at the side of the page.  You can also schedule a call with one of our Russian travel specialists to learn more.

Head to the heart of Moscow with a professional guide on a 4-hour private walk through the city center. See Tverskaya and Old Arbat streets, Theatre Square with the world-famous Bolshoi Theatre, and the former KGB headquarters...

• Schedule Daily 09:00 - 20:00
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Panoramic City Tour. This Moscow tour is a great start to your trip and the best way to get acquainted with many of the city’s major highlights. Our professional guide will escort you on a route that includes Vorobyevi...

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This tour offers a detailed look into the history and present-day life of the Jewish community of Moscow. On the tour, you will visit sites connected with the cultural and religious life of different Jewish families, as well...

• Schedule Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday 11:00 - 20:00 Friday 10:00 - 14:00 Saturday not available

The tour begins with a drive or walk down Tverskaya Street – a Soviet masterpiece. In the years of Soviet power, Tverskaya began to undergo a transformation: it was widened to two and a half times its original size,...

This is a very interesting and insightful tour. You will visit places connected with Stalin’s terror - a time of great repression and fear. You will be shown monuments to the victims of the repression. You will then...

You will be told of the street’s interesting history and view the street’s artisan culture. You will also have the opportunity to view and purchase souvenirs from the street’s many craftsmen....

The Kremlin is truly a fascinating structure, at the same time it is an ancient tower, the city’s former military fortification, a palace, an armory, the sovereign treasury and the workplace of the Russian President....

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This world-famous gallery contains masterpieces of Russian art beginning in the 10th century up until today. You will view exquisite Russian icons and paintings from the 18th and 19th century including works by Rublyov, Karavak,...

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Tour of the Novodevichy Monastery. Founded in 1524 by Grand Prince VasiliIoanovich, the original convent was enclosed by fortified walls and contained 12 towers. The structure served as a convent for women of noble birth...

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The Moscow Metro is one of the largest and most grandly built metro systems in the world. It was meant to be a showcase of the Soviet Union’s achievements for both the Russians themselves and for visitors from abroad....

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The history of Kolomenskoye stretches back for centuries. In 1380, Dmitri Donskoi’s army passed through Kolomenskoye on their way to the Kulikovo battlefield, and it was here that Donskoi celebrated his victory over...

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Considered by some to be the Russian Vatican, Sergiev Posad is the temporary residence of the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Trinity St. Sergius Monastery (Lavra) was built in the first half of the 1340s by...

The Tsaritsyno Estate is located in the southern part of Moscow. The estate was constructed for Catherine the Great by the Russian architects Bazhenov and Kazakov in a romantic gothic style. The complex includes a landscape...

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The Kuskovo Estate often called the Moscow Versailles due to its perfectly preserved French park, is an example of an 18th century, luxurious Moscow summer residence. Its history dates back to 1715, when the village of Kuskovo...

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Vodka is an important component of Russian life, an element of national identity and everyday culture. We invite you to visit the Vodka Museum and feel the atmosphere of long-gone centuries. You will get to know the story...

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Take this opportunity to learn more about the Russian writer Lev Tolstoy. During the visit to the museum you will see part of a vast collection of exhibits connected to Tolstoy and his family including books and personal...

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This apartment museum located close to Patriarch Ponds became the prototype of the "bad apartment" described in the novel "The Master and Margarita." Currently the museum's collection includes more than three thousand...

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Express to Russia specializes in Moscow city excursions, an essential part of your Moscow travel itinerary. We offer a large variety of day excursions throughout Moscow and its suburbs. From  Red Square  and the  Kremlin  to a city tour of Moscow’s  Old Arbat Street  or the  Moscow metro , an excursion specializing in Stalin and the KGB and much more. No travel to Moscow is complete without taking a few of our day tours that most meet your interest in Russia.

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Pitbull announces Party After Dark concert tour: T-Pain, Lil Jon to join as special guests

Dale! Mr. Worldwide is hitting the road once again.

Latin rap star Pitbull is set to deliver a mix of his career-spanning hits on the upcoming Party After Dark Tour. The U.S. trek follows numerous successful solo tours for the "Give Me Everything" rapper, including the triple-headlining Trilogy Tour with Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin .

Produced by Live Nation, the 26-city tour kicks off on Aug. 21 in Bristow, Virginia, making stops across the U.S. before wrapping in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Oct. 5.  Fellow rappers T-Pain and Lil Jon will serve as a special guests on the tour.

The Grammy-winning Pitbull is known for a slew of hit singles , including "Fireball," "Timber" with Kesha , "Hotel Room Service," "Give Me Everything" with Afrojack and Ne-Yo and "Time of Our Lives" with Ne-Yo.

T-Pain, known for singles like "Bartender," "Buy U a Drank" and "Booty Wurk" is popular for his use of auto-tune pitch with electronic-style vocal performances. His most recent album, "On Top of The Covers," was released in 2023.

Lil Jon will join the pair on two tour dates, in Ridgefield, Washington and Chula Vista, California. The rapper and DJ is known for the tracks "Turn Down For What," "Shots," "Get Low" and "Yeah!" with Usher and Ludacris. He was most recently featured on the Pitbull track "Jumpin" in 2023.

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How to get tickets to Pitbull's Party After Dark Tour

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday at LiveNation.com .

There are also a number of presales in the days leading up to the general on-sale. Live Nation , Ticketmaster and Talking Stick Resort are hosting presales from 10 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

A Citi cardmember presale will be held from 10 a.m. Wednesday through 11:59 p.m. Thursday at citientertainment.com . During the same time period, there'll be an artist presale and a VIP packages presale at livenation.com .

There's also a Spotify presale from noon until 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

The Party After Dark Tour will also offer a variety of VIP packages including premium tickets, backstage tour and photo op on-stage, pre-show VIP lounge, specially designed VIP gift item and more. Visit v ipnation.com

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Pitbull's latest music inspired by NASCAR racing team

Pitbull’s recent musical releases include "Trackhouse" and "Trackhouse: Daytona 500 Edition."

The album titles are inspired by the NASCAR Cup Series team Trackhouse Racing, which he has been a co-owner of since 2021. The tracks feature special guests Dolly Parton , Tim McGraw , Nile Rodgers, T-Pain, Omar Courtz and more.

Pitbull Party After Dark Tour dates

• Aug. 21, 2024 - Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live
• Aug. 23, 2024 - Virginia Beach, VA - Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
• Aug. 24, 2024 - Hershey, PA - Hersheypark Stadium
• Aug. 25, 2024 - Queens, NY - Forest Hills Stadium
• Aug. 29, 2024 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
• Aug. 30, 2024 - Tinley Park, IL - Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
• Aug. 31, 2024 - Milwaukee, WI - American Family Insurance Amphitheater
• Sept. 1, 2024 - Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Music Center
• Sept. 4, 2024 - Clarkston, MI - Pine Knob Music Theatre
• Sept. 6, 2024 - Darien Center, NY - Dairen Lake Amphitheater
• Sept. 7, 2024 - Syracuse, NY - Empower FCU Amphitheater at Lakeview
• Sept. 8, 2024 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Broadview Stage at SPAC
• Sept. 12, 2024 - Wantagh, NY - Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
• Sept. 13, 2024 - Hartford, CT - Xfinity Theatre
• Sept. 14, 2024 - Bangor, ME - Maine Savings Amphitheater
• Sept. 15, 2024 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center
• Sept. 18, 2024 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake
• Sept. 19, 2024 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
• Sept. 21, 2024 - Ridgedale, MO - Thunder Ridge Nature Arena
• Sept. 22, 2024 - St. Louis, MO - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
• Sept. 25, 2024 - Salt Lake City, UT - Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
• Sept. 27, 2024 - Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater*
• Sept. 28, 2024 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre
• Oct. 3, 2024 - Chula Vista, CA - North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre*
• Oct. 4, 2024 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
• Oct. 5, 2024 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater

*with Lil Jon

Contributing: Greta Cross, Springfield News-Leader

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• Admire the rich Russian history, art and architecture
• Travel to Moscow on a highspeed train
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Lower Volga Voyage

• Visit magnificent Red Square and Kremlin and examine the collection at theKremlin’s State Armory.
• Experience Russia’s diverse musical traditions at lively folk music performances
• Explore Volgograd, the site of the decisive battle of World War II’s eastern front

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White Russian - 7 days

• Discover Moscow's UNESCO-listed Red Square, home to spectacular St Basil’s Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum and the historic GUM Department store
• Explore the grounds of Moscow's mighty Kremlin, with its numerous governmentbuildings, gold-domed cathedrals and the giant tsar bell
• Celebrate New Year's Eve in Moscow!
• Take in the highlights of St Petersburg including a guided tour of the exquisite Church on Spilled Blood, Peter & Paul Fortress and Cathedral
• Take a guided tour of the remarkable Hermitage Museum at the Winter Palace

Vodka Shot - 6 days

• Explore the beautiful city of St Petersburg, including the exquisite Church on Spilled Blood, Peter & Paul Fortress and Nevsky Prospekt
• Marvel at the dazzling array of art and exhibits in the world-famous Hermitage Museum, at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg
• Discover a lavish residence of the tsars on a day trip to Catherine Palace at Tsarkoe Selo (winter: mid-October to April) or Peterhof Palace and gardens (summer: May to mid-October)
• Take in the highlights of the capital on a walking tour, visiting Moscow's famous Red Square, home to the historic GUM Department Store, Lenin’s Mausoleum and spectacular St Basil’s Cathedral
• Take a guided tour of the Moscow Kremlin, Russia’s political power house. Stroll around the grounds of this fortified complex, visit the Kremlin's cathedrals and see the mighty Tsar Bell

Route of the Romanovs - 10 days

• Learn about the last days of the Romanovs in Yekaterinburg, visiting the sites where Tsar Nicolas II and his family were assassinated and buried
• Straddle two continents at the famous obelisk Europe/Asia border marker in Yekaterinburg
• Experience the Trans-Siberian railway on an overnight train journey from Moscow to Yekaterinburg

New Year's in Moscow - 9 days

• Visit Catherine Palace at Tsarkoe Selo on Christmas Day and marvel at the incredible Amber Room
• Spend a night in Novgorod, an ancient city by the Volkhov River - explore the kremlin, cathedral and other sights and enjoy a traditional Russian banya (sauna)

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• Visit Catherine Palace at Tsarkoe Selo and marvel at the incredible Amber Room

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