Eris Drew and Octo Octa are DJs and producers whose work sits at the emotional and ecstatic heart of contemporary dance music. Rooted in house, techno, and breakbeat, their sets move fluidly between deep grooves and high-energy moments, guided by a shared belief in the dancefloor as a space for connection, healing, and release. As co-founders of the T4T LUV NRG label, they champion trans visibility, queer love, and radical self-expression through music. Individually, both artists have released widely celebrated records and played some of the world’s most respected clubs and festivals, while together they are known for powerful back-to-back performances that feel intimate, joyful, and transformative. Drawing on decades of dance music history and lived experience, Eris Drew and Octo Octa create journeys that are deeply personal yet universally resonant, inviting dancers into a shared moment of warmth, movement, and collective energy.

Pangaea, AKA Kevin McAuley, has been at the cutting edge of electronic music as a producer and DJ for a decade and a half. He’s maintained a magnetic output that derives its energy from a synthesis of the familiar and the futuristic, with his 2023 album on Hessle Audio, Changing Channels, serving as the latest example. Expansive references from his long-time engagement with disparate UK dance music cultures intersect with relentless rhythmic exploration and an appetite for the experimental, delivering an undeniable dancefloor impact and upfront immediacy. In his DJ sets, and in the productions they inspire, genres combust, collide, and cohere, creating entirely new innovations in their wake. 2023 marks 16 years since Pangaea’s first release on Hessle Audio, the boundary-pushing label he co-founded with Pearson Sound and Ben UFO, and Changing Channels represents some of his most intentional, club-ready work to date. It’s a jolting reminder that functional doesn’t mean complacent. The title suggests a transition, and Pangaea, now based in South London, is indeed testing out a few different remote controls. Still, the LP sits firmly within his ongoing reputation as a producer of assertive, grooving tracks on Hessle and his own imprint, Hadal, which have found frequent play on dancefloors worldwide.

Tangela’s style of aural storytelling is as distinct as it is varied. She guides listeners through deep, subby, subterranean worlds, encouraging them to float upward through spacious, textural soundscapes full of unexpected turns, all delivered with a nimble and playful touch. You may find yourself wondering how you arrived here, and from where you began. Her meteoric rise through the underground scene began with a weekly radio slot on Sydney’s iconic FBi Radio 94.5FM, where she broadcast all things “squelchy, wobbly, gooey, twisty.” This signature style has since translated from the airwaves to dancefloors across Australia’s cult clubs, DIY warehouses, and bush raves, including events she founded herself through dstreet and Minutiae Festival. Tangela also runs the record label Oomycota, which pushes into the experimental realms of techno while platforming emerging artists from Australia and beyond. European highlights include appearances at Garage Noord, Monument Festival, Macadam, Ouroboros, Refractor Festival, Säule, and Tresor. Versatility is Tangela’s strength. She is equally at home slowly building through chuggy downtempo, wiggy tek, and dubby breaks as she is whipping through percussive techno, minimal psy, and floaty trance. Her sound is undeniably psychedelic, deeply connected to the Australian bush, blending organic textures that evoke leafy clearings, hazy morning light through gumtrees, and thumping kicks drenched in subby, dubby, gurgling undertones. Alongside curating and delivering DIY events, Tangela is deeply embedded in her local community. She organises Dance Class, a series of BIPOC and FLINTA DJ workshops and radio mentorship programmes.