Rising Techno DJs to Watch in 2025
- Filip
- 7 days ago
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Techno isn’t just pulsing out of Berghain’s concrete walls anymore — it’s cracking through bedroom monitors in Manila, DIY spaces in Medellín, and warehouses in Warsaw. As the genre continues to shapeshift through 2025, a new class of selectors, producers, and audio insurgents is taking over. They're sometimes faster, weirder, more emotionally nuanced — and they aren’t here to play safe or follow set rules.
This isn’t your cousin’s “Berlin essentials” playlist. These are the names you’ll be seeing on the second line of posters this summer — before they’re headlining.
1. Nene H
Nene H blends classical training with blistering industrial techno, weaving sets that hit somewhere between a sonic ritual and emotional warfare. Her 2025 CTM set? Already being whispered about like lore.
→ Label: Possession, SPFDJ’s Intrepid Skin→ Listen: Her Live at Bassiani mix is pure catharsis.
2. Estella Boersma
Fashion industry darling turned dancefloor destroyer. Estella serves stripped-down, groove-forward techno with a sense of control that’s unnerving in the best way. She’s played Berghain. Twice. And it shows.
→ Label: L.I.E.S., Unknown To The Unknown→ Vibe: Minimal, chic, deceptively hard.
3. Chlär
Precision-engineered techno with relentless swing. Chlär’s rise through Mutual Rytm and Berlin’s warehouse circuit proves that groove doesn’t have to mean soft. His productions land like clockwork punches.
→ Recommended: Motion Unit series→ Sets: Always vinyl. Always surgical.
4. Peachlyfe
Queer, high-octane, unbothered. Peachlyfe’s sets blend fast techno, trance, and EBM with a confrontational sense of play. Imagine a rave sermon, but gayer and sweatier.
→ Sound: Euphoric chaos→ Watch: Nyege Nyege 2025, closing b2b with Ibon.
5. Daria Kolosova
Kolosova’s rise has been slow-burn and deliberate. Her mixing style is clean, intelligent, but with moments of total abandon. You’ll hear her on the biggest stages this year — and she’ll still sound underground.
→ Label: Standard Deviation, System Revival→ Mood: Political, elegant, brutal.
6. DJ Fart in the Club
The name’s intentionally ridiculous. The sets are not. Playful, break-laced techno that punches through the monotony of 4/4 with sass and precision. Expect nothing. Get everything.
→ Fun fact: Just dropped a remix on Planet Euphorique.→ Set to hear: Boiler Room Taipei 2025.
7. Tauceti
Latin America’s hard techno moment is real, and Tauceti is one of its most hypnotic figures. Her sets are tribal, trance-inflected, and unapologetically physical — designed for dancing, not spectating.
→ Labels: Illegal Alien, Relapso→ Where: Watch her dominate at Domo Fest.
8. SPFDJ
She’s not “rising” so much as exploding. SPFDJ’s sound has sharpened into something nearly architectural — all tension and catharsis. 2025 is the year she moves from cult icon to absolute staple.
→ Label: Intrepid Skin→ Sets: Her b2b with Patrick Mason on a boat in Malta is now folklore.
9. Varya Karpova
Textural, acidic, and emotionally loaded, Varya’s selections are never obvious. She’s been lowkey commanding attention on HÖR and in smaller Eastern European circles. Not for much longer.
→ Listen: Her HÖR Berlin residency→ Energy: Cool rage. Cold sweat.
10.
Stateside techno often gets sidelined, but Ne/Re/A is changing that. A master of Detroit-inspired groove filtered through queer futurism, their debut EP is one of the most anticipated of the year.
→ Label: Fast Forward New York→ Vibe: Late-night warehouse with soul and spikes.
Honorable Mentions (because you should already know):
INVT: Live Latin-infused techno mutations.
Rrose: Deep, draggy, and cerebral.
Peligre: Afro-Caribbean techno with a political edge.
Why This Matters
If techno in the 2010s was about Berghain orthodoxy, 2025 is pure decentralization. These DJs are pushing the sound forward — faster, freer, and defiantly weirder.
This isn’t just a list. It’s a cheat code. You’re welcome.