Unexpected Techno B2B's We Want to See
- Filip
- May 10
- 3 min read
We thrive on unexpected moments, do you? It's Friday and I wanna have some fun, fantasize about what culd possibly pop up in the future (or this weekend)? Let's up the ante with back-to-back sets so bizarre they’d redefine “underground synergy”? Here’s our tongue-in-cheek wishlist of the most random, totally plausible—and utterly irresistible—techno artist B2Bs we’d pay any queue fee to witness.
Len Faki B2B Honey Dijon At first glance, it’s minimal-meets-house chaos: Len Faki’s relentless, warehouse-shaking beats paired with Honey Dijon’s soulful disco cuts and peak-time groove. Picture Faki dropping a brutal peak-time hammer, then handing over to Honey who flips it into a euphoric slide of strings and vocal chops. The energy contrast alone would single-handedly keep the bass bins vibrating for weeks.
Paula Temple B2B Helena Hauff
Techno’s dark sorceress meets electro’s lo-fi queen. Paula Temple’s industrial, scalp-splitting noise collides with Helena Hauff’s stripped-down analog grooves. They’d start with rattling bass stabs and end with acidic bleeps so raw your DNA re-arranges. It’s the techno equivalent of mixing black coffee with absinthe—bitter, potent, unforgettable.
Ricardo Villalobos B2B DJ Stingray When micro-house’s slow-burn king jams with Detroit’s futurist turntablist, you get patient loops colliding with hyper-precise beats. Villalobos tugs on a sludgy groove for ten minutes, Stingray pierces it with machine-gun snare rolls. Together, they’d stretch a four-bar loop into a transcendental event that folds time in on itself.
Nina Kraviz B2B Dasha Rush Imagine the acidic seduction of Nina Kraviz’s upfront vocals and warping rhythms meeting Dasha Rush’s cerebral, polyrhythmic architecture. One moment it’s hypnotic vocal loops flirting with your eardrums, the next it’s fractured IDM-adventures that leave you questioning whether you ever even heard “techno” the same way again.
Marcel Dettmann B2B Paula Cazenave Dettmann’s relentless, rail-straight techno anchored by Cazenave’s shimmering, echo-drenched soundscapes. He’ll build a wall of kick drums; she’ll soften it with choral pads and reversed textures. The result? A fortress of sound that feels both immovable and weightless.
Laurent Garnier B2B Charlotte de Witte A generational clash that somehow works. Garnier’s genre-bending sets—spanning house, techno, jazz—paired with de Witte’s austere, acid-laden hammer. This is the moment when old-school rave nostalgia slides into modern, monolithic trance. Expect keys one minute, skull-crusher kicks the next.
Ellen Allien B2B Jeff MillsBerlin’s raving doyenne meets Detroit’s priest of the rhythm. Allien’s playful, space-inflected techno transitions into Mills’s merciless, machine-gun percussion. Together, they’d write a new chapter in “East meets Motor City,” where dreamy vocal samples give way to relentless percussive sermons.
Most Random B2B Pairings We Actually Want to See Anastasia Kristensen B2B Ø [Phase] The raw power of Kristensen’s unfiltered techno crashing into Ø’s minimalist, acid-tinged loops. Think of a volcanic eruption captured in hi-fi: thunderous low end meets squelchy resonance, all delivered with surgical precision.
DJ Bone B2B Rebekah Detroit’s hip-shaking house veteran syncing with Rebekah’s bruising, industrial-leaning techno. When Bone drops a funk-laden groove, and Rebekah follows with a seismic bass-thud reset, it’s like watching two sides of electronic music history collide—and dance it out.
Most Random B2B Pairings We Actually Want to See Air Max ’97 B2B Silent Servant (RIP) How much we'd wish for this, it will stay a far away dream. But in that dream, Air Max ’97’s dense, maximalist techno is colliding with Silent Servant’s subterranean, post-industrial depths in a beautiful explosion. Together, they’d map a skyline of sound where every skyscraper is made of drum machines and every alley echoes with reverb-soaked vocals.
Most Random B2B Pairings We Actually Want to See Bad Boom Box B2B Curses Bad Boom Box’s whip-cracking colourful techno meets Curses’ murky, acid-soaked punky grooves. One moment it’s spitfire Balkan rhythms, the next you’re submerged in a liquid industrial synth bath that never quite lets you up for air.
Most Random B2B Pairings We Actually Want to See Cormac B2B Nene H Cormac’s slick, Dublin-tinged minimalism slides into Nene H’s mesmerising techno fury. It’s elegant restraint crashing headlong into full-throttle synth stabs—like sipping champagne then necking an energy drink.
Most Random B2B Pairings We Actually Want to See Most Random B2B Pairings We Actually Want to See Ben Klock B2B Gabrielle Kwarteng Ben Klock’s subterranean Berghain kicks lock-step with Gabrielle Kwarteng’s sunlit, melodic techno. Picture an industrial cathedral opening into a sunrise ritual—solid concrete floor, golden horizon, euphoria inevitable.
Whether it’s the push-pull of hard and soft, old and new, or acid and industrial, we believe these back-to-backs promise moments you’ll replay in your mind long after the last echo fades. Who would you be most excited to see?
