Alarico took the field by storm in 2021, with a work ethic that didn’t look like anyone else’s, and has spent the next few years proving it was real. The Italian plays techno the way hip-hop producers build beats, with faders and EQ doing the dirty work, slick minimalism mixed with gritty textures. Yanamaste knows everything about techno. The Batumi-born KHIDI resident created a style all of his own, with twisted melodies and metallic textures. He finds music in places most DJs won’t go, turning every session into something quite unforgettable

When the underground has new voices worth paying attention to, this is what they sound like.