Saeed Younan tonight! Rick Wade recovers; Fatima Hajji at Bauhaus LV tonight.
Saturday Compression + Razor Focus | September 6-12, 2026 - Saturdays we stay underground and hard. Techno that still feels like a warehouse, not a festival trailer. That is Compression and Razor - every Saturday at 8a and 8p PST (Compression), and Razor is on every day from 11:30p to 1:30a PST.
// BEST COAST: LV. LA. SF.
Las Vegas.
Saeed Younan @ Pachi-Pachi on Saturday, Sept. 12, 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.
The room is at 211 S. Las Vegas Blvd, Suite 120, downtown. Robtronik.FM is co-presenting the night with Pachi-Pachi, Compression, and Soulkitchen. Edgar Reyes, Pat SL, and Robtronik open.
Saeed Younan (Younan Music) is a true underground heavyweight. Born in Baghdad and forced to flee Iraq in 1980, he turned music into both sanctuary and lifelong mission. For more than two decades he has been a driving force in house and techno — a DJ’s DJ known for precise, hypnotic, rolling grooves that control the floor from open to close.
Career highlights include: • Billboard #1 Dance single with Celeda – “The Underground” • America’s Top 50 Best DJ (DJ Times) for six consecutive years • Traxsource Top 20 Tech-House Artist three years running • Exclusive U.S. tour support for Carl Cox (including the historic Space Ibiza closing in 2016) • Major stages: EDC Las Vegas, Ultra Resistance, Electric Forest, BPM Festival (seven years), and headlining Montreal’s Olympic Stadium to 27,000 people • Remixes and productions for Kylie Minogue, Danny Tenaglia, Loco Dice, Information Society, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and more • Debut album MORPH charted across five Beatport genres
His independent label Younan Music (founded 2004) continues to push quality underground tech-house and tribal-edged sounds.
Fatima Hajji plays Bauhaus Vegas tonight, Saturday, September 12.
Listings put the start at 11 p.m. The room is at 115 North 7th Street, downtown, a short walk off Fremont. Hajji is the Salamanca DJ whose records still push hard percussion and fast techno rather than Strip peak-time house. Bauhaus bills itself as a downtown house and techno room. This is the named Las Vegas techno night tonight.
Los Angeles.
Factory 93 and Hot Meal Records take Ace Mission Studios Mission 4 warehouse tonight, Saturday, September 12.
Factory 93 posted the night with Bad Boombox, Mischluft, Ollie Lishman, Supergloss, and Madgavs. Doors on the Avalon listing are 10 p.m. The night is 21 and over. Bad Boombox runs Hot Meal as a bounce and hard-groove label. This is a warehouse booking, not a Hollywood booth hour. After Los Angeles the same crew is listed Sunday in San Francisco.
San Francisco.
Bad Boombox, Ollie Lishman, and Supergloss play 888 Garage at The Midway on Sunday, September 13.
Spotify lists the date with LAMMER and Zero Idea on the same bill. Fatima Hajji closed Public Works on Friday night. Sunday at the Midway is the warehouse night this weekend.
// GLOBAL DANCE MUSIC CULTURE & CONTEXT
Loidis Announces a 110-Minute Album for October
Resident Advisor posted the news on September 10. Brian Leeds records as Loidis and as Huerco S. The new Loidis album is From The Toolkit Of Lovers. Incienso puts it out on October 23. RA called it a 110-minute meditation on life, love, and dub. Leeds recorded it in the summer of 2025. The record follows One Day, which RA named its album of the year for 2024. There are twelve tracks, built long enough for a DJ to hold a blend. Towlift is already out as the first single. This is a listening record and a club record at the same time, which is why it leads the week.
Rick Wade Is Home After a Heart Attack
Resident Advisor published the report on September 9. The Detroit DJ posted on Instagram on September 7 that he had a heart attack. Doctors also treated pulmonary edema, atrial fibrillation, and a respiratory infection. He is home now. He said he does not pretend to know exactly what caused it, and he pointed toward a lack of rest. Wade has been playing and producing since the mid-1980s. He launched his label in 1993. He had already played more than a dozen Detroit dates this year, plus Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, and Washington, D.C., and he still had Miami on the book. The point for anyone who lives in the booth is simple. The calendar does not keep you healthy.
Waterworks Moved to The Cause and Runs 36 Hours This Weekend
Waterworks could not stay at Gunnersbury Park after the park did not receive planning permission for the September dates. The festival kept September 12 and 13 and moved the whole booking to The Cause in London as Waterworks Extended. Doors open at noon on Saturday and the night runs as a 36-hour stretch across seven rooms. Saturday still holds the house, techno, and electro side: Daniel Avery, Modeselektor, Octo Octa live, Skee Mask with OK Williams, Midland, Leon Vynehall, Eris Drew. Sunday leans sound-system. Existing tickets stay valid. The park date is the story people planned around. The Cause date is the one that is actually happening.
// GLOBAL DANCE MUSIC RELEASES OF THE DAY
upsammy and Piezo - Places Remember Events.
Resident Advisor posted the album announcement on September 10. Dekmantel releases the full record on October 30. The pair call the project Eerie Enterprise. They wrote it after two days in the same studio. The title track is out now. The rest of the album moves through nostalgic electronica rather than peak-time tools. This is the current Dekmantel long-form file if you buy the single first.
Loidis - Towlift.
The first single from From The Toolkit Of Lovers is already circulating. Incienso has the album dated October 23. Start with this cut if you want the new Loidis loop before the twelve-track set lands.
Octave One - Whatever She Wants (Live in Manchester 2026).
The Burden brothers put a live take of the track on their Bandcamp as a limited free download. It sits next to The Collective deluxe edition and Gallium in the current 430 West stack. Use it if you want Detroit hardware in a room, not another studio edit.
// SATURDAY'S COMPRESSION & RAZOR ESSENTIALS
Saturdays we focus on underground and hard techno in support of Compression and Razor. Compression covers heavy techno, underground house, Detroit and minimal-inspired sounds, and raw warehouse energy, Saturdays from 8a to 10a and 8p to 10p PST. Razor covers hard-edged techno, industrial, hard groove, and dark machine music, every night from midnight to 2a PST.
Laster Takes Lisbon Tonight With Ben Klock and Marcel Dettmann
The Madrid promoter Laster Club is in Lisbon tonight, Saturday, September 12, for its third warehouse date with VIBR8. The posted bill is Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, LAIA with Roll Dann, and Amulador. Resident Advisor carried the wider autumn programme on September 11, with later dates in Amsterdam for ADE, Brussels, Paris, and a twelve-hour night at FOLD in London on December 19. Tonight is the working date. Klock and Dettmann in a warehouse is still the cleanest version of this music.
Cocoon Plays Sparta in Frankfurt Tomorrow
Sven Väth takes Cocoon to Sparta on Sunday, September 13.
The label posted the open-air date with the rest of the autumn run. Cocoon 528 Ibiza follows on Wednesday, September 23, with Väth, Richie Hawtin, DJ Hell, Cassy, Marie Montexier, and Franziska Berns. These are the two named Cocoon rooms still on the board before the island closes.
Grace Dahl's RA.1055 Is Still the Current Numbered Techno Mix
Resident Advisor posted RA.1055 around September 6. The mix runs a little over an hour. Dahl starts dubbed-out and waits until about the twenty-minute mark before the floor opens. The tracklist moves through VNTM, Villa, Luke Slater, Underworld, and Ian Axide. If you want one complete techno hour from this week rather than another clip, start here.
Amelie Lens Continues the AURA Dates
The debut album came out on September 4 on EXHALE. The U.S. stretch still lists Washington, D.C. on September 18, Denver on September 19, and Gloria Molina Grand Park in Los Angeles on September 26. Amsterdam Dance Event follows in October. The Antwerp museum set already ran. These are the dates left on the book.
// WORTH YOUR TIME
Sybil at The Lot Radio, September 7
About an hour from the Brooklyn container. Posted this week.
Stacey Pullen at The Lot Radio, August 15
Detroit hardware in a short Lot Radio pass. Pullen is still the named Motor City link if you want one set next to the Rick Wade news.
Fergus Jones at The Lot Radio, September 5
Two hours. Still the strongest recent Lot Radio upload if you missed it last Saturday.
Call Super at Horst 2026
Kiosk Radio posted the hour and a half with The Lot Radio. Useful if you want one long techno-shaped festival set instead of another trailer.
Loidis - One Day
The 2024 Incienso album is the record the new one has to live next to. Bandcamp still has the files.
Octave One Bandcamp
Whatever She Wants live from Manchester, Gallium, and The Collective deluxe edition are all on the same page. That is the current Detroit catalog pull.
// DJ CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY
Elektron shipped Tonverk firmware 1.4. The 16-track sampler now supports Overbridge multi-channel streaming, which means the box can talk to a computer without turning the live set into a laptop show. If you write techno on Elektron gear, that’s worth checking out!
// LOOKING AHEAD
Cocoon is at Sparta in Frankfurt on Sunday, September 13.
Waterworks Extended continues through Sunday evening at The Cause in London.
KAS:ST plays Discopussy in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 19.
Daniel Avery plays the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday, September 17.
Âme and Rodriguez Jr. play Public Works in San Francisco on Friday, September 18, from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Making Time runs at Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia from September 18 to 20.
Cocoon returns to 528 Ibiza on September 23.
RA25 starts in London on September 25.
Joy Division's Eternal (Live) box arrives on September 25.
Loidis - From The Toolkit Of Lovers arrives on Incienso on October 23.
upsammy and Piezo - Places Remember Events arrives on Dekmantel on October 30.
Public Works marks 16 years on October 16 with Detroit Love, Carl Craig, and Moodymann.
Amsterdam Dance Event runs October 21 to 25.
Time Warp makes its Los Angeles debut on November 27 and 28 at Ace Mission Studios.
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