For the past couple of years, Techno Station had a task to bring the best of techno and house scenes to our crowd. With the continuing dominance of rave culture, techno and similar genres have gained a lot more worldwide fans in recent years.
We are presenting our list of 2022 Top 10 DJs as a way to celebrate the incredible popularity of the techno scene. Here are the names you loved the most this year!
Carl Cox
A titan of the worldwide electronic music scene, he’s a global ambassador whose effervescence and joie de vivre behind the decks is absolutely infectious. Starting to DJ in his mid-teens, Coxy was ideally placed to become one of the UK’s acid house pioneers, his three-deck vinyl mixing wowing the raves right across the UK. By the mid-90s, with the release of his ‘F.A.C.T.’ mix on React and a slew of productions, he was already the biggest DJ in the UK — a fact borne out by his No.1 placing in 1995’s Top 100 DJs poll, and again in 1997. Via Ultimate Base and Intec Records he cemented his position, and when he began his residency at Space Ibiza and toured his Carl Cox & Friends around various megafests, he became a globally recognized statesman for our culture.
Adam Beyer
From the fertile Swedish underground to the peak of global club culture, the reign of Adam Beyer continues to pull on the heartstrings of modern techno like few others of the time. A festival headliner, sought after recording artist and enigmatic DJ entity, the Stockholm-based heavyweight’s brick-by-brick legacy has seen his functional and focussed take on the techno sound become one of the genre’s most sought after and respected sounds. From branded events and festival stages to the extension of its branded radio show across more than 53 countries, the label continues to deliver cutting edge records, Adam Beyer’s mission in spreading techno is more than successful.
Amelie Lens
As anyone with half an eye on dance music trends will know, hard and fast techno has been having a moment for a minute. Belgian techno supremo Amelie Lens has risen rapidly over the past few years, thanks in no small part to the community feel she has built around her renowned EXHALE parties and radio show, which she started in Hasselt in Belgium in the middle of the last decade. This year she brought EXHALE to Ibiza’s DC-10.
Anfisa Letyago
Siberian-born Anfisa Letyago is fast becoming one of the leaders of the new school when it comes to delivering cutting-edge electronic music. This rising star has caught the attention of a certain Carl Cox who has been supporting her music regularly in his DJ sets. Anfisa is fast becoming a household name in techno. In 2021 she launched her record label, N:S:DA, and in 2022 she surprised us all with her sublime remix of Moby’s ‘Go’.
I Hate Models
The mysterious French producer I Hate Models first broke onto the underground techno scene with the release of his 2015 debut Persephone, an onslaught of crunchy, industrial-tinged techno. But it would be his penchant for ripping up the genre rule book that made him stand out from the crowd, embracing acid, EBM, Trance, rave culture, and psychedelics in his future productions. 2022 was a massive year for his gig, and there are tons of videos across social media to prove that.
Indira Paganotto
Indira Paganotto was born in 1992 and is currently one of Spain’s youngest promises. 20-year-old Indira has had a most eclectic musical upbringing. Her father, a DJ in the 80’s, was her educator and his collection of disco, jazz , acid house and goa music was the perfect library for the girl from Madrid. Her sets are full of elegance and effusive danceability , with a quality selection that brings us from 90´s disco to the most current underground techno music. Wherever or whenever, her style is energetic, regardless of whether it is hard or soft. This energetic eclecticism has become her signature trait, together with a constant smile! She proudly brought psytrance on a techno dance floor and we are forever grateful!
Trym
Emerging DJ from France, Martin is better known under his aliases Trym aka Sparkling Water Boy. He cuts the boundaries between HardDance and HardTrance. Owner of the label ‘COLOR’, he released three vinyls up until now, completely mirroring his personality – driven, powerful and polychronic. Compulsive producer, he released over the course of the past 2 years not less than 15 tracks on imprints such as Exhale, Involve, Possession and his own COLOR. His biggest challenge remains to induce emotion at every single gig, and tell his story, which has only just begun.
Adiel
Having made a practice to steer crowds into deep ecstasy with her hypnotic sets at famed Goa Ultrabeat parties in Rome where she operates as a resident DJ, Adiel kicked off her own label, Danza Tribale in 2016. Adiel’s skills both as a DJ and producer have seen her play at some of the coolest clubs and festivals around Europe, such as Dekmantel, Off Sonar in Barcelona where she did her first Boiler Room, Berghain for the Klockworks showcase and Panorama Bar invited by Marcel Dettman, London’s Printworks for Ben Klock’s Photon event series, Concrete in Paris, DC 10 in Ibiza, De School in Amsterdam, Fuse in Brussels and other prestigious venues.
Klangkuenstler
Klangkuenstler is first and foremost a raw techno act, the alias was made to introduce artist’s own productions in the club. His massive sets go from from industrial hardcore techno, mind-bending acid, fast hard trance and even gabber. Klangkuenstler’s sets release a transcendental energy that makes everyone desire more right after. With his bold approach to Techno, boundless energy and forward-looking taste in music, Klangkuenstler is an unapologetic techno heavyweight.
999999999
999999999 are an imposing and inescapable presence at the vanguard of the hard techno scene. In the studio and on stage, the immediacy of uncompromising machine music collides with the unpredictability of improvisation to create an ever-shifting, forward-pushing energetic force. Their ‘300000003’ track (released on Planet Rhythm in 2018) was a breakout success, catching a viral wave, going through repress after repress and breaking their take on acid techno to a huge new audience. And now they moved from a vinyl-only operation for their own productions to offering their music up digitally, and welcoming other artists into the fold.
