On the final day of Movement Festival 2026 in Detroit, Michigan, Unmixed’s founder Nina Katashvili spoke with Ukrainian DJ Nastia. Since 2005, Nastia has been an eminent figure in the dance music industry. Her talent, passion, and empathy have made her musical selections resonate with dancefloors worldwide for over twenty years.

Oscillating through techno, electro, acid and EBM, KXAH’s undefinable sound transports listeners through a deep-dive into her inner mind. With a hypnotic cacophony of dynamic percussion, superimposed textures and a driving baseline, Kristina understands that mixing electronic music isn’t just about transitions. Rather, the 25-year-old DJ, producer and event organizer seeks to build a narrative, one which titillates between mounting tension and cathartic release. 

Staying relevant and invigorated in the dance music scene for over a decade is no small feat. In the relentless chase for the next track or gig, it’s easy to lose sight of the passion that sparked the trip into the world of dance music scene. Many believe that to succeed and stay healthy, a DJ must transform into a wellness guru, but Corey (Wild Dark) defies that expectation. Through consistency, self-awareness, and a commitment to healthy routines, Wild Dark has become living proof that it’s possible to thrive in music while maintaining genuine balance and well-being for all: body, mind, and soul.

We love to hate on social media for a number of reasons, but not in this case. He found me first, followed Unmixed, and I followed back. Half-asleep at 1 AM, I watched his live performance on a tiny screen. That was Alex Wilcox. While Beatport was busy sorting music into genre bins, he was making something that ignored them entirely.

Jamaica Suk’s journey into techno sidestepped the standard route of USB sticks and DJ booths. Instead, she came here from through jazz ensembles, metal bands, and shoegaze projects and musicianship. Each was a world that taught her discipline and patience before she became a Dj.

Canelle Doublekick - a key figure in the French hard dance and trance scene, pours as much creativity into her digital persona as she does into her sets. With a background in burlesque performance, Canelle was born to be on stage, and she does it with an approach that radiates sincerity, which in return is setting her apart from all the “wannabes”.

Naayaab - a self-taught, Mumbai-based vocalist, producer, and DJ, originally from Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, working at the intersection of electronic underground music and rooted musical traditions - this allows her work to sit naturally inside this lineage. Listening to her speak about RAGA, the vocabulary is in a marked degree familiar: longing over resolution, devotion, trancefusion and the sound itself, of course. 

Unmixed was built by people who knew the dancefloor before the guest list. Zoé comes in as both a participant and a firsthand eyewitness: a DJ shaped from the floor up, and a writer who is more interested in power structures of the nightlife than the overpolished PR decks of the mainstream scene.

Lyon-born visual artist and filmmaker Fabrice Catérini spent seven years photographing the night as both refuge and danger - chasing love, ecstasy, and collapse across electro-techno dancefloors, streets, and the quiet hours before morning.

Queer culture isn’t an aesthetic — it’s labor, care, and resistance. Pepiita reflects on queer nightlife, community responsibility, and what the industry keeps getting wrong.

There is no single definition that contains queerness. What exists instead are shared traces: ways of moving, resisting, caring, and surviving; that surface differently depending on the space. This conversation reflects on identity without performance, care without spectacle, and culture as something lived rather than optimized.

Beats on Time opens 2026 by returning to a first principle: for the music. Not scale. Not spectacle. And definitely not velocity. But trust, listening, and time.

This showcase at Signal NYC is not just about names on a flyer. It’s about people on the dancefloor. A room built for listening attention, a label rooted in patience, and artists who understand the floor as a shared language rather than a product.

At the center of the night is Robag Wruhme - a foundational voice whose work across KOMPAKT and PAMPA has shaped how entire generations move, wait, and feel together. His presence isn’t symbolic. It’s structural.

In an era where music is increasingly engineered for speed, compliance, and algorithmic approval, ‘In Constant Evolution’ drops like a sentimental reminder of what has been lost between the lines of chasing virality.
Not a trend response.
A line in the sand. 

Madd Rod’s latest album rejects the idea that electronic music must be optimized to survive. It resists the flattening of sound into singles, the reduction of artists into genre bins, and the growing expectation that creativity should behave like data.

In a city where nightlife has always been political, Kluster has become one of Paris’s most influential voices for safer, more inclusive dance spaces. Born from the silence of lockdown, the collective now stands at the intersection of techno, care, and resistance — just as France enters a decisive election cycle that could redefine the future of its underground culture.

Galactic Girl’s debut EP on Get Physical released October 29th, 2025, instantly commanded our attention - not just for its energy and polish, but for the story behind the sound. Far from an overnight sensation, Galactic Girl’s journey is the kind built on persistence: hustling on the 6 train after long shifts, she poured her soul into each phrase even when exhaustion set in. This release is a testament to what happens when a woman claims her rightful place in the music scene and channels every struggle into unmistakable voice and vision.