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Hurricane Emily

Hurricane Emily is the alias of Poneke-based DJ Emily Janus.

Since her return to the city that raised her, Emily has been carving out a space within the dance music community. Her high energy sets are scattered with driving rhythms, acid bleeps, unconventional, unconventional percussion and assertive anthems.

Hurricane Emily is storming it up within the Aotearoa music scene. Her name becoming synonymous with hardhouse steppers, electro wigglers, cowgirl-breaks and rave euphoria. Dress to sweat! 

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Hunua Hustle

Hunua Hustle aka Ben King, has been working towards perfecting the art of DJing for over a decade. He's played in bars, clubs, underground house parties and various festivals throughout Aotearoa.

Ben enjoys nothing more than telling the story through a great track selection and seeing the crowd respond to the energy.

He likes to explore most electronic mediums but is drawn toward Tech,  Progressive and Minimal Deep Tech House, and often crafts is set specifically for the occasion. Most of his inspiration comes from the European underground scene. Often it's not the headliners that surprise you - it's the DJ you've never heard of that shines.

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Miss B

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Miss B

MissB played her first DJ set on a bright yellow and black double cassette deck in 1989.
Since upgrading her technology and mixing skills, she has played at Splore, Rhythm and Alps, Taniwhas Den, Kiwiburn, Burning Man and Relish Festivals, and can regularly be found playing at clubs and events around New Zealand.

MissBs sets are fun and up for it - she has a passion for observing crowds and their responses to different kinds of music- expect the odd familiar riff, and more than a few dark twists.

In 2021, MissB released her first EP, The Temple.
She has remixed tracks for Atari Safari, Big Pop Records, cusp, House of Downtown and Max Maxwell, with further releases due in 2022.

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HEYLADY

Heylady is a Wellington by Auckland reprobate who is often spotted behind decks, on dancefloor or in front of bar.
 
She can be found regularly playing at festivals, clubs and parties across NZ.
 
Dedicated to constantly improving the house scene, Heylady has worked with some of the biggest and the best over the past 20 years, as well as some of the smallest and coolest.
 
So many parties, so little tequila left at the end of them.. Cutting her teeth as a promoter, she has run multiple party series under the Casio Circus and Back on Track brands, she's run small festivals, stage managed and brought through some of the biggest names in house music.
 
Holding a residency at The 7 Deadly Gins at Burning Man, rocking LA and playing regularly across New Zealand, Heylady has cemented herself as one of the forces to watch.
 
From big festival sets to small, intimate club spaces, her diversity and range always ensures a stomping dancefloor.
 
Born with a soul infused with a love of all things tech, ponies, sneakers and dressups, Heylady believes fun and frivolity is paramount, which is why her sets never conform to any one silly sub-genre. It's all four-four, isn't it?

 

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Hape

Looking back it’s now obvious that HAPE was going to naturally progress from being a punter on the dance floor to being behind the decks, such was his appetite and voracity for the music.

With an ever growing collection of records it wasn’t long before he got some 1210’s, delved into learning the craft, honing his skills and playing alongside friends. He was soon a regular on club nights and outdoor party line ups such as Pitch n' Faders, Back on Track, Dirty Laundry and his own High Calibre.

HAPE is a through and through beat merchant with an absolute passion for storming any dance floor you give him. Constantly striving to both push himself and take the audience on a journey through dark vocal prog with lush servings of deep tribal tech and everything in between, it’ll always be infused with his own twist of high energy funk.

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Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers has been playing at dance festivals and underground parties around Aotearoa since the gathering in the late 90s

Buck's mission is to connect one soul to the infinite glorious vibration of the universe. Her finesse mixing it up coupled with a love of performance art has seen her host a number of multidisciplinary events and theme nights.

Spanning a kaleidoscopic spectrum of genres including indie dance, Bedouin tech, bass house, disco halal through to breaks, eastern bass and UK garage. Buck is very much at home crafting multi genre sets and adding flavour to key festivals and hot nightspots.

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Coda

One of Aotearoa/NZ's founding and most enduring Techno DJs...

Star on and off The Floor at Radio Active...

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Dale Fairbairn

Born out of a deep passion for electronic music. Dale Fairbairn has established himself as one as an exciting talents emerging in today's techno scene.

Since his breakthrough in 2018 his tracks have been smashing dance floors across the world, picking up huge plays from some of the scenes most prominent artists, Pleasurekraft, Thomas Schmucher, Monika Kruse, Joyhuaser, and Spektre. His music has a unique flavour, combining influences from techno, house and uplifting riffs. With many years behind him in production,

Dales focus was on developing a sound that is unique to him, which resulted in releasing music of an international standard on labels Kraftek, Respekt and Phobiq. Starting out back in 2002 in the London electronic scene, with his determination to push the boundaries to grow his knowledge in music.

He worked with some of the scenes most talented producers to learn and develop his production skills, which saw him, DJ, at the most prominent venues London had to offer.

Sealing his techno passion came after travelling to Ibiza in 2016 and by chance watching Richie Hawkin play. From that point on, techno was his sole focus for inspiration.

He has a real focus on his craft; being a designer by day, he cares about the details in every track. Only releasing the music, he's genuinely proud of and believes meets his standards. Aside from his production craft, his DJs sets have built a reputation of quality and respect in the scene for delivering a musical journey with impeccable mixing skill, played in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. His hard work and patience paid off in 2018 with his release "In Range", which had a unique, uplifting sound of trance riffs, pitched with heavy grooves.

Gaining worldwide plays by some of the scenes biggest names. This kickstarted support from the scenes heavyweights. Making way for more releases on Kraftek, Phobiq, IAMT and Respekt with the EP "live through the night", which reached high points in the Beatport top 100 singles in 2021—reinforcing his reputation for delivering international quality releases.

Resulting in a influx of booking, where you find Dales playing regularly all over New Zealand. Dales excited about the future, with plans already underway for future big releasing and upcoming sets, hel hopes will result in making many ravers happy to be taken on a journey

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DUSA

Dusa is an SA born artist, who found his passion for electronic music in the early 2000s London scene. Coming from a background of Drum & Bass he has weaved his sound to be all-round genre-bending. 

These days mainly sticking to the sounds of House and Techno, he plays music with a tribal, heavily drum-based influence.

Since moving to NZ, Dusa has climbed the ranks of playing some of NZ's biggest Festivals from Aum and Shipwrecked to RnV. He uses his broad music knowledge to intertwine himself into a set that adheres to the crowd, vibe and feel.

If you're looking for a set that's heavy, deep and uplifting then put on ya dancing shoes, it's Dusa!!

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