Nowadays

Avalon Emerson

Now one of dance music’s most respected DJs, Avalon Emerson first made a name for herself in the storied warehouse scene of her birthplace, San Francisco, before relocating to Berlin in 2013. Over a decade of performances at the famed Berghain led to appearances at numerous festivals around the world, which all cemented Emerson as perennially in demand.

Her DJ sets transcend the confines of time or genre by recontextualizing dance music from previous eras among contemporary sounds, weaving together house, techno, new wave, disco, and rave obscurities with her own productions and edits.

Mixes | Live At Mutek Mexico & Essential Mix

Aurora Halal

Aurora Halal is an artist whose work creates worlds.  She’s been making magic in the NYC underground since 2010 with her DIY festival Sustain-Release and party Mutual Dreaming, pushing forward a vision of dance music that’s immersive and community-driven.  With her storytelling DJ & live sets, Aurora invites listeners into a realm that fuses shadowy sensuality, infectious energy, emotional resonance and playful surprises. Her sound is an open-minded definition of psychedelic techno that’s cosmic and colorful, smoothly exploring many genres and musical terrains along the journey.

Mixes | Resident Advisor & Phonica

Ayesha

Ayesha is a key player in Brooklyn’s dance music scene, and has become one of NYC’s most prominent names when it comes to faster, more bass-heavy sounds in New York. Her approach to DJing and production blends elements of America’s techno underground with leftfield UK sounds and diasporic influences from her Indian heritage, moving across tempos and rhythms with ease. Her music—hypnotic, pulsating, and powerful—is as at home at a deep forest festival as it is a sweaty basement or dark club, made with meticulous sound design, spongy textures, and alien melodies. She writes tracks with deliberate consideration for how bodies move—and how music moves bodies—which makes her work unusually tactile and physical.

Mixes | Live at Fourth World & LT Podcast

Batu

Known for his distinctive slant on modernist techno and experimental club music, Batu has built a sound defined by bold shapes, percussive rhythms and meticulous sonic detail. Utilising modern software to create a singular sound signature. 

A landmark 2025 marked a double celebration: 10 years of his future-facing Timedance label and five years of En Masse Festival, a platform rooted in Bristol’s innovative electronic music scene. The year also saw the release of his Question Mark EP, alongside production work for FKA twigs and PinkPantheress, a collaboration with Tikiman and a remix for Tricky. He was also named by Mixmag as one of the DJs that defined 2025.

As a DJ, Batu moves fluidly between the intimacy of underground spaces and major international stages, with standout sets in 2025 at Dekmantel, Draaimolen, We Out Here, Houghton, Rainbow Disco Club.His creative practice also extends into soundtrack work, including scoring a short film Stepney Western, directed by Harry Lawson.

Mixes | Mixmag & Live @ Nowadays

Binh

Born in Düsseldorf and now based in Berlin, Binh has been digging deep into music for over two decades. Starting his career in Düsseldorf as a resident at Tribehouse, he later moved to Berlin before steadily expanding his reach across the globe. His obsession with under-the-radar records—spanning house, techno, and electro—defines a DJ style that’s both unique and widely respected. A key figure in the scene, Binh has stayed true to the roots of DJ culture while steadily gaining recognition around the world. Once known primarily within a close-knit community, he is now widely regarded and sought-after worldwide—playing regularly in some of the best and most renowned clubs, yet remaining grounded in his purist ethos: putting music first.

Binh runs the Time Passages label, founded in 2014. It showcases stripped-back, trippy house and techno with a focus on sonic clarity and character. In 2024, he introduced Time Passages X, a sublabel dedicated to one limited-edition release per year—pushing exclusivity and curation even further. Both labels mirror Binh’s approach: understated, immersive, and deeply personal. With releases on his own imprint Time Passages, Cabaret Records, Perlon, My Own Jupiter, and as part of the Treatment project, Binh remains a quietly formidable presence—dedicated to the craft, the culture, and the music, right to the last beat.

Mixes | Resident Advisor & Live at Houghton

Eamon Harkin

Eamon Harkin is one half of the partnership behind Mister Saturday Night, Mister Sunday, Planetarium and Nowadays — a constellation of projects rooted in the belief that music can bind strangers, reshape spaces and shift the way a city feels.

As a DJ, producer, label owner and venue maker, he’s less concerned with genre than with the emotional temperature of a room: how sound can lift, soften, provoke or soothe. His music has been released by Fixed Rhythms, Coastal Haze, Funnuvojere, Sorry Records, Argot, Darker Than Wax, Throne of Blood and his own Mister Saturday Night Records.

Born in Derry in the North of Ireland but deeply woven into New York’s musical fabric, Eamon has spent more than two decades shaping moments of togetherness. The Mister Saturday Night and Mister Sunday parties — humble at first, hosted in backyards and improvised spaces — grew into global and historical touchstones for dancers who sought connection as much as catharsis. Those gatherings eventually crystallized into Nowadays, a permanent venue built with intention: a place to listen, move and meet one another without pretense and today one of the most respected clubs in the world.

Beyond the dancefloor, Eamon works alongside his partner Justin Carter to put together their Planetarium series where they invite people to lie down among pillows and blankets and surrender to deep listening — a reminder that music doesn’t always ask for movement; sometimes it asks for stillness. Even in its quietest forms, the work remains rooted in the shared rhythms of New York City: a place that has shaped him, and which he continues to shape in return.

Mixes | Live @ Waking Life & Juanita’s

Honey Bun

Honey Bun is a New York City-born interdisciplinary Afro-futurist artist with an omnivorous and expansive taste that is at once sensual, adventurous, and playful. She blends the sounds of her East Coast roots, Southern upbringing, and the ever-evolving, interconnected sonic output of the global Black diaspora: seamlessly merging everything from contemporary breaks and bass to sultry R&B, soulful house, Detroit techno, and cosmic electro classics. Her commitment to centering intergenerational Black femme DJs inspired the burgeoning Soul Connection party, which she runs alongside friend and DJ, Lovie. Over the last couple of years, Soul Connection has been blossoming beautifully, and like her DJing, continues to showcase her growing expertise in going deep and filling dance floors with love. Her monthly BUNTOPIA show on The Lot Radio has been essential listening for us over the past couple of years and recently, she has brought her sonic vision to notable booths, including Sustain-Release, Boiler Room in New York, and Djoon in Paris.

Mixes | Deep South & Coloring Lessons

Introspekt

Introspekt is an contemporary club icon, afrofuturist, producer, DJ, sensual provocateur, roots of dubstep recontextualiser, who recently released on T4T LUV NRG and her first album (‘Moving The Center’) on foundational UK dubstep label, Tempa. Inspired by Baltimore club, Croydon dubstep, the Paradise Garage’s heritage of Afro-Latin rhythms, she conjures up her own sense of space and time, through cycles of rhythm. Her approach to composition and DJ sets is about reimagining the past and also creating a different trajectories of futurity.

Mixes | Live at Fabric & Mixmag

Justin Carter

Justin Carter is an artist, musician and DJ as well as the co-founder of Nowadays, the Planetarium deep listening series, and the Mister Sunday and Mister Saturday Night parties. His practices of space making and music are intertwined, aligning to create moments for community and catharsis. As a DJ, Justin plays records that create either vast, detailed scenes in the mind, the deep urge to move the body, or both.

Mixes | Melbourne Deepcast & Live @ Nowadays

Kia

Kia is a DJ, curator, and label boss with a gift for weaving atmospheric, psychedelic sounds that create immersive, pulsating worlds. Based in Naarm/Melbourne, she helms Animalia and Cirrus, platforms that champion organic and kaleidoscopic shades of electronic music. Known for her context-driven approach, Kia adapts effortlessly to any moment, from sunrise sets to dark, intimate dancefloors. Her community-driven ethos fosters a global network of forward-thinking talent, while her celebrated sets—like those at Sustain Release and her award-winning Dekmantel mix—reflect creative honesty and adventurous energy cementing her place as a rising star in electronic music

Mixes | Monument & Dekmantel

Kilopatrah Jones

Born and raised in Queens, a city dweller and a club kid, Kilopatrah has an innate and superlative gift for transferring energy from the booth to the dance floor—through exciting house, techno, and jungle, and moments that both harken to Sound Factory–era glory days and bring you to sweaty BPMs of the future. Their sets are palpably personal: The dance floor has always been a powerful platform for expression for Kilo, once as a freeing and connecting space for a quiet house dancer and now as one for moving others like them. When Kilo gets going, you’ll lose sense of the kick drum versus the beat of your own body against the floor. That’s a gift from them to you, and your percussion is a gift back to them.

Kilo brings their energetic sass to a monthly Lot Radio residency and to parties with impressive lineups, playing alongside Todd Terry home in New York, at the legendary Movement weekend Club Toilet in Detroit, and for Boiler Room. Their mixes, for series such as Coloring Lessons, Honcho, and Juanita’s, and for spots on Rinse and Refuge, also capture the club at its most euphoric. You’ll step a little harder with Kilopatrah Jones. 

Mixes | Resident Advisor & Is Burning

livwutang

livwutang sits within a modern continuum of DJs whose sound can’t be contained to one particular style or genre – she instead delivers a distinctly eclectic array of exuberant kinetics, introspective strength, & chaotic dexterity to any dancefloor she’s a part of. Beginning her DJing journey amidst the liberated frequencies of pirate radio & the psychedelic embrace of DIY rave in Seattle, her expressive practice has only continued to evolve & connect her inner world to those around her.

Underpinned by elegant buoyancy & an unrestrained sense of manifestation, her mixing accesses a constantly shifting point of serenity – subtly creating full fledged sensory experiences, always attuned to immersive narrative building & delivered with a keen sense of danceability, confidence, & poise. It’s within this spellbinding maelstrom that she brings a unique & adventurous flare to DJing, constantly reinventing her present surroundings to create innovative glances into the past & future.

While her style is grounded within the unifying spatial awareness of dub and the joys of dance music’s renegade sound, lifelong influences from her musical upbringing are channeled into her enthralling musical vision – an enchanting sonic palette deftly maneuvering between the jubilant rhythms of Central & Western Africa, the innovative momentum of Black American music, & an expansive love of timeless vocal flourishes and earworm melodies from the last 60 years of popular music.

Mixes | Live at Sustain-Release & Dekmantel

Matas

Matas is a New York City-based DJ who, over the past decade, has worked in many different avenues of dance music – record shops, DIY parties, festivals, clubs, and sound crews, developing a taste inseparable from how records land on a dancefloor. As both a DJ and a sound technician, he treats the system as part of the performance, attentive to balance, pressure, pacing, and keeping the floor held rather than merely impressed.

Rooted in local community and long-term scene building, Matas’s residency at Nowadays reflects a commitment to continuity and to developing a shared language with the room over time. His sets are long-form and psychedelic, threading playfulness through weight without losing coherence. A technician’s ear, a digger’s range, and music selected for impact.

Mixes | Live at Earth Dog & Live at Nowadays

MORENXXX

DJ, producer, and antidisciplinary artist MORENXXX—also known as Jesús Hilario Reyes—is a true enigmatic force exalted from Chicago’s underground. MORENXXX’s hypnotic sound ranges with rapturous percussion and ethereal intensity, weaving machinic grooves and infectious rhythms far above the genre battlegrounds, culminating in something otherworldly and entirely their own. Tectonic, boundless, and undeniable, MORENXXX blends the contemporary and the timeless with cyclonic fluidity; their cunning prowess invigorates dancers to riotous peaks, bringing out something primordial yet contemplative.

Mixes | Live at Nowadays & Live at Sustain-Release

OK Williams

OK Williams fearlessly keeps the dance floor on its toes. The London DJ is known for her high energy club sets which masterfully travel through genres – freeform blends of bassy floor busting tracks live alongside blissful synth-heavy house, with techno, jungle and electro also weaved into the mix. Everything Williams plays is intentional and shining with personality.

Her multidimensional radio shows on NTS have garnered a loyal and global following, while her idiosyncratic sound has taken her across the world to festivals like Unsound, Horst and Draaimolen.

Mixes | Resident Advisor & NTS Radio

Powder

The shorter and more vague a word is, the more direct its physical meaning becomes. Powder’s DJ sets and music consistently hold this feeling, even though her sets are often long. Powder plays all forms of dance music in her sets, but it is fundamentally simple: gently arranged rhythms evolve alongside morphing scenery, and unexpected sounds appear and disappear like the wind. By emphasizing certain elements while diluting others, a subtle yet solid groove emerges. The buildup is hidden, and this guided comfort allows dancers to focus on every sound in the space, from a faint whisper to the crunch of a cracker, and before you notice, big, uncontrollable moments carry you to the right place. Hydration and stretching will allow you to enjoy this journey longer and deeper.

At the end of 2025, her live mix in Berlin from ten years ago, “Powder at Cocktail d’Amore December 2016,” was chosen as one of RA’s best mixes of the last quarter-century. While her craft has deepened over the years, the essence of what she delivers has always been present, guiding you gently in all directions with musical tension and release.

The same can be said of her production. From her 2015 debut EP Spray on Born Free Records, which became a statement in place of words, you can hear her consistent sound practices through numerous releases since, along with Thinner Groove (TG), her label, party, and musical output launched in 2019 to introduce her friends’ grooves.

Powder’s DJing can be experienced occasionally across the world. Just as you might notice a seasonal breeze if you pay attention, you can find her in the present, despite her minimal online presence. When the season is right, go out and find Powder DJing, and hope you catch the groove.

Mixes | Resident Advisor & Sustain-Release

RHR

Influenced by the raucous rhythms and powerful percussion of the São Paulo ghettos, RHR has been quietly honing his craft as a producer and DJ in Brazil since 2010. Since breaking out into the international scene a couple of years ago, Roni has blown minds at some of the most world’s most notorious clubs and festivals with a head, razor sharp mixture of techno, bass, dancehall, electro and baile funk that honors the raw spirit of his hometown. He’s released five distinctive solo EPs to date with NYC’s Tijolo Records, Miami’s Omnidisc and Brazilian label Nice & Deadly all playing host to his singular productions. With plenty more new music in the works and head full of creative ideas when he gets behind the decks, RHR is establishing himself a unique talent capable of pulling off everything, without giving up anything.

Mixes | Unsound & Gop Tun

Theo Parrish

Theo Parrish is a Washington D.C.-born, Chicago-raised DJ, producer, selector, arranger, keyboard clunker, machine beater, writer, sculptor, car lover, visual artist, lecturer, and father that loves creativity. Detroit’s creative community has recognized his input since 1995, the era of Buy Rite Records, Saint Andrew’s Hall, the Rhythm Kitchen, and Alvin’s. He started Sound Signature Recordings, which has manufactured vinyl records independently from 1997 to this day — exclusively using the legendary Archer Record Pressing Co. on Davison Avenue. He continues to engage, challenge, and redefine the limits of what we call Black dance music, serving as an example of creative independence. Parrish holds a BFA in sound sculpture from Kansas City Art Institute.

Mixes | Live At Nowadays & Live In Detroit

Vladimir Ivkovic

Vladimir Ivkovic is a DJ blessed with a particularly unique talent for selecting records and weaving them into a larger – and often unusually compelling – narrative.

Born and raised in Belgrade, Vladimir first dabbled in DJing as a teenager in the mid ’80s, but it was only after leaving Yugoslavia (to study in Germany) and later coming back for a summertime visit that he truly immersed himself in the craft, taking up position behind the decks during a series of impromptu parties at a lakeside restaurant owned by his parents.

From there, he spent much of the next two decades honing his skills while throwing events like Selected and Substance that played host to a cross-section of boundary-pushing DJs, long before it was fashionable to do so. Eventually, Ivkovic found his musical and spiritual home at Salon des Amateurs in Düsseldorf.

Salon provided something of an open platform, a place where true music lovers could experience DJs exploring sounds and genres that strayed far from traditional electronic dance music tropes. That same adventurous spirit has found its way into Ivkovic’s curation of Offen Music, a label he launched in 2015. Although the imprint’s output is all but impossible to neatly categorize – experimental Serbian rarities sit alongside ambient excursions and moody synth-pop in the label’s catalogue – the label’s open-minded approach and embrace of off-kilter sounds perfectly encapsulates Ivkovic’s artistic temperament.

Mixes | Live @ The White Hotel & Live @ Solstice

x3butterfly

x3butterfly is a Mexican-American DJ and producer native to Detroit. With a background in experimental performance art and interdisciplinary studies completed at the California Institute of the Arts, x3butterfly’s call to clubland eventually saw the artist take up a life in Europe before ultimately making a move to New York.

x3butterfly has been based in New York since 2021, performing across a constellation of the city’s clubs and parties. Their sound is deeply informed by a background in both classical and contemporary dance. Inspired by early Throbbing Gristle and Coil, they move fluidly between UK club culture, Detroit techno and the euphoric accents of Chicago house, approaching DJing as an intersection between the somatic and the sonic.

Translating ego, fantasy, intimacy and spirituality into an artistic medium, x3butterfly can be heard combining acid, electro and dubstep with dark industrial and experimental textures, as much as drum & bass, house, breakbeat, club jams, UKG and a variety of Latin influence. Each set gestures toward surprise and world-building.

As a fluid-identifying artist, x3butterfly made ground in Mexico by helping their hometown of Guanajuato host its first queer party, alongside online appearances for Boiler Room and The Sound Gallery. Their work has since travelled widely, with mixes airing on NTS, Rinse and other global radio outposts, and features in publications such as Mixmag, DJ Mag, Crack Magazine and Paper Magazine. Releases on Subglow, Plot Records and DALF Records further trace their sonic evolution, while their sound design has shaped a number of contemporary gallery exhibitions.

By embracing a transatlantic vision of underground culture, queer communities and experimental scenes, x3butterfly’s improvisational technique and interdisciplinary approach flies by its own wings.

Mixes | Crack & Live at Dekmantel Selectors