Since its launch in Cyprus three years in the past, BEONIX Pageant has yearly remodeled the island nation right into a summer season journey hotspot for home and techno lovers from across the globe, attracting over 25,000 yearly attendees with performances from the style’s most storied DJs on the sun-drenched Mediterranean Coast.
The three-day celebration is again on the shores of Limassol this September 19-21, this yr unfolding all through ETKO, a sprawling open-air venue on the positioning of a historic former vineyard, with headline units from Armin van Buuren, Adriatique, Boris Brejcha, Anfisa Letyago, Shimza, Maceo Plex, Dubfire, Kevin Saunderson, Roger Sanchez, and Len Faki.
However the expertise doesn’t cease there. Over 50 acts spanning progressive and melodic techno, home, trance, and reside experimental sonics are slated to carry out throughout 4 phases all through the weekend. From driving kicks to hypnotic grooves and ethereal melodies, learn on for 5 can’t-miss units at BEONIX Pageant 2025.
Octave One (Reside)
Octave One are heroes of Detroit Techno’s second technology. Helmed by brothers Lenny and Lawrence Burden, the sibling collective has sat atop the style’s proverbial Mount Rushmore since they debuted in 1989 with “I Imagine,” a Motor Metropolis anthem launched on Derrick Might’s well-known Transmat Data that cemented their place amongst fellow greats like Carl Craig, Robert Hood, and Jeff Mills.
Joined by revolving studio contributions from the three different Burden brothers—Lynell, Lorne, and Lance—Lenny and Lawrence have toured globally for over three a long time, persevering with to show Octave One as considered one of techno’s most groundbreaking reside acts.
That includes a beefy analog reside setup they name “the mothership,” their riveting performances are fiercely Detroit, rooted in techno’s origins as an exploration of man’s synthesis with machine. However relating to their choices, the group is all about eclecticism, mixing funky grooves, home flutters, squelchy acid, and soulful rhythms throughout a lifetime of releases as Octave One and Random Noise Era.
Juliet Fox
Wrapping the breadth of rave music in a pulsing techno bundle, Juliet Fox is likely one of the style’s most dynamic high-speed selectors.
Over greater than a decade, the Australian-born DJ, producer, and label head’s driving releases throughout heralded imprints like Drumcode, Filth On Acid, MOOD, Three Six Zero, Armada Music, and her personal TREGAMBE label have propelled Fox from her hometown of Adelaide and Australia’s clubbing capital, Melbourne, to the world’s most lauded techno temples in London, Barcelona, Berlin and past—and a Juliet Fox DJ set is reflective of that world journey.
Recognized to curate her tracklists to the style and vitality of native crowds and blend primarily on the fly, Fox’s performances increase the techno blueprint to tug from a mess of musical influences, whether or not its Detroit’s industrial kicks, the bouncing left-field doof music of down beneath, deep and hypnotic grooves by the use of the UK and Spain, the high-speed raves of Amsterdam, or wherever she’s headed subsequent.
Carlo Lio
In terms of home and techno, Carlo Lio is Toronto’s main man. Over the past 20 years, the Toronto native DJ, producer, and label boss’ sweeping affect has rippled from the center of the town’s bustling membership scene to Europe, South America, and past.
Lio’s A&R work alongside Nathan Barato and Kareem Cali as co-founder of the scene-shaping Rawthentic Music and On Edge Society has given life to among the world’s most playable 4×4 tunes, whereas he continues to carry down common appearances at high golf equipment on each side of the Atlantic and nurture the scene regionally. However greater than his position as a foremost trade determine, on the decks he’s one of many underground’s quiet juggernauts, peddling deep, pulsing tech home, minimal grooves, and chugging techno basslines.
Past his personal imprints, Lio’s productions have landed on heralded labels reminiscent of SCI+TEC, Bedrock Data, Cocoon Recordings, Drumcode, and MOOD. As of late, he returned to Carl Cox’s Intec to assist relaunch the legendary label earlier this yr, and has put out latest cuts on Eli Brown’s Arcane and Anthony Attalla’s Incorrect Music, along with “Xanadu,” his newest thumper for Rawthentic.
AVALAN ROKSTON
AVALAN ROKSTON is the pandemic-era brainchild of Grammy-nominated Dutch sensation Avalan and rising German producer Rokston. After connecting in Amsterdam throughout COVID-19 lockdowns in 2022, the dynamic duo has shortly garnered acclaim as considered one of most intriguing pairings in melodic techno with a bevy of beneficial cosigns from the highest selectors of their sonic palette, together with latest collaborations with Argy and Mathame and releases on main labels like Island Berlin, Upperground, and MHA.
Setting the scene alight with their fusion of trance, techno, progressive, and cinematic sounds, the pair of multi-hyphenate musicians—Avalan, a producer and vocalist, and Rockston, a producer and songwriter—weave reside instrumentation and vocals into their electrifying reside exhibits. As they proceed to explode, catch considered one of Europe’s most promising next-gen acts earlier than they go nuclear.
Yulia Niko
Above all else, Yulia Niko’s two-decade profession has been pushed by musical immersion. Committing to her beat-driven pursuit on the age of 15, the Russian-born producer and DJ later moved to New York in her early 20s to seize a level in music manufacturing and take in the scene at its supply.
Yearly since, this unwavering dedication to music has lifted her to change into considered one of deep and melodic home and techno’s most technically gifted producers, breaking by way of on prestigious labels like Crosstown Rebels, Watergate, 8bit, and Hottrax with assist from the likes of Damian Lazarus, Nicole Moudaber, and Jamie Jones.
With a hand in varied underground scenes throughout the globe from NYC and Ibiza to Berlin, the place she served as an esteemed resident of the clubbing capital’s legendary late Watergate nightclub, and a eager ear for spotlighting the following technology of 4/4 stars together with her newly minted label, AXEPT Music, Yulia Niko lives and breathes dance music—step into her world for a uncommon Cypriot efficiency.
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