WildStyle Fridays! Saeed Younan Saturday night!
Friday WildStyle Focus | September 5-11, 2026 - Fridays we stay with drum and bass, breaks, jungle, and bass music. That is WildStyle. Lunch Breaks still runs every day at noon PST with downtempo breakbeat, boom bap, and soulful breaks. Every Friday at 8a & 8p 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.
Hybrid Minds play Substance on Thursday, September 17.
The show is listed at 10 p.m. The room is on the second floor of Neonopolis at 450 Fremont Street, Suite 270, downtown. RVLTN and Bassrush present the night. Hybrid Minds are Joe Halstead and Matt Lowe, the Yorkshire pair whose liquid drum and bass still carries a song in the middle of the drop. They played WAH Malta last weekend and they put out how it used to be with Nixxy Rain and Dame on September 4. After Las Vegas they play Sunbar in Tempe on September 18 and Nocturnal Wonderland in San Bernardino on September 19.
Los Angeles.
Brownies and Lemonade present the DNBNL Block Party on Saturday, September 12. Doors are listed at 4 p.m. The night is 21 and over. The promoter bills it as a two-stage indoor and outdoor day-to-night drum and bass rave for five years of DNBNL. The posted lineup includes Pendulum, Andromedik, Blossom, Danny Byrd, Dirtyphonics, Fred V, K Motionz, Manila Killa, Mozey, Natty Lou, Skanka, S.P.Y, and T and Sugah. That is the West Coast drum and bass gathering this weekend, not a club hour with one headliner.
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/108747330-pendulum-dj-set-at-mateo-warehouse
San Francisco.
Pendulum play a DJ set at 1015 Folsom tonight, Friday, September 11, at 10 p.m. Andromedik opens. The room is at 1015 Folsom Street. The night is 21 and over. DNBNL presents the booking. Pendulum's DJ sets still run their own records next to current drum and bass. Andromedik is the Belgian producer whose 2025 album Ascension put him next to Netsky and Kanine. After San Francisco, Pendulum are listed at 45 East in Portland on October 8 and Q Nightclub in Seattle on October 9.
// GLOBAL DANCE CULTURE & CONTEXT
A Ukraine Rave Film Premieres Tonight With Fred again.., Aphex Twin, and Four Tet on the Score
Mixmag posted the story on September 11. Black Sunflowers premieres today at the Toronto International Film Festival. James Marcus Haney directed it. He made the 2014 Coachella film No Cameras Allowed. This one started as a question about whether Kyiv's warehouse parties were still running after the 2022 invasion and became a portrait of people in their twenties moving between day raves, relationships, and the front. Sean Penn is an executive producer. The soundtrack uses Fred again.., Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Four Tet, IDLES, Sega Bodega, and an original score from Brad Oberhofer with Ukrainian producer Koloah. The film treats the dancefloor as part of wartime life, not as an escape reel.
Silencio Takes the Old Watergate Room in Berlin Through May
Resident Advisor published the booking on September 10. Paris club Silencio will occupy the former Watergate space on Falckensteinstraße from October 30 through May 2027. The project marks fifteen years of the David Lynch-designed Paris room. A pre-opening night already ran on September 9 with Richie Hawtin, Ben Klock, BASHKKA, and Valentina Magaletti. Studio Karhard, the firm that designed Berghain, is on the rebuild with Studio Raito and Bureau Borsche. Watergate closed after twenty-two years. The terrace on the Spree is still there. What changes is who programs it, and whether a members-club name can hold a room that used to belong to a working techno week.
Universal Music and ElevenLabs Build a Licensed Remix Platform
The Verge and Music Ally reported the deal on September 10 and September 11. Universal Music Group signed a multi-year agreement with the voice-AI company ElevenLabs to build a fan platform for remixes, mashups, and new interpretations of tracks from artists who opt in. UMG says the tool will sit apart from ElevenLabs' existing ElevenMusic generator. Artists choose whether their catalog is included. The announcement landed in the same week Suno released a model trained with Warner and BMG licenses. UMG, Sony, and Warner sued Suno in 2024. This is the industry trying to put a license in front of the same machine.
// GLOBAL RELEASES OF THE DAY
Fort Romeau - Lovin' U. Radio Slave's Rekids label released this EP today as REKIDS 297. The three cuts are Lovin' U, No Limit, and Breathe (Trip mix). Fort Romeau is Michael Greene, the English producer who used to tour with La Roux and now writes deep house that leaves space in the middle. This is the current Rekids twelve if you buy on street date.
Pirapus - RENEGADE (Every Day). UKF released this on September 10. The label posted the video on September 11. Pirapus work the high-energy drum and bass lane UKF has been pushing all year next to Kanine and Cyantific. Start here if you want the new UKF tool rather than last week's singles.
// FRIDAY'S WILDSTYLE ESSENTIALS
Fridays we focus on bass music in support of WildStyle: drum and bass, breaks, jungle, and heavy electro, with occasional 90s boom-bap influence. High-energy drops, speaker-rattling rhythms, and riddim built for the wild side of the floor. WildStyle airs every Friday at 8a and 8p PST.
Delta Heavy Play SD Union at Spin Tonight
SD Union brings Delta Heavy to Spin Nightclub, 2028 Hancock Street in San Diego, tonight, Friday, September 11. The night runs from 9 p.m. to late and is 21 and over. Ben Hall and Simon James are the UK pair behind Set You Free on UKF. The local bill lists Amethyst, Charles Rebellion, Garva, Late Riser, and Tripsol, with MC Ridda and Chemistry MC on the mic. This is San Diego's working drum and bass night, not a one-off flyer.
Cyantific Put Call Me Out on UKF
UKF released the single on September 8 and posted the video the same day. Jonathan Stanley is the Hospital-era producer who spent years off the main board and is writing vocal drum and bass again. Call Me is the current UKF cut after Kanine and Jem Cooke's Surrender from September 2.
Hobzee Talked Through His Metalheadz Debut
Drum and Bass UK posted a new interview with Andy Hobbs in the last day. Hobbs is one half of Silent Dust and a co-founder of none60. Things Are Different Now came out on Metalheadz on August 21. The EP includes Edge of the Sea with Uneven, a title cut with Response, and Revox with Justice and saxophone from Callum Connell. DJ Mag reviewed the record when it landed. He talks about the Silent Dust years and the Nina Simone song that pulled him back to writing.
Hybrid Minds Carry how it used to be Into Las Vegas
The single with Nixxy Rain and Dame came out on September 4. Nixxy Rain is Dave Kennett after SpectraSoul. The Las Vegas date at Substance on September 17 is the first named U.S. club stop on this run. Tempe follows on September 18. Nocturnal Wonderland is September 19.
UKF Plays Bratislava Castle Tomorrow
Pulsation and UKF take Bratislava Castle on Saturday, September 12. Local listings put the start at 4 p.m. The bill is posted as four international headliners plus afterparties. UKF used the castle as the visual for the booking. This is the named European brand date this weekend.
// WORTH YOUR TIME
DJ Mixing Techniques For a Hard Techno Set
Crossfader. A working walkthrough on CDJ-3000s and a DJM-900NXS2. Phrase length, EQ, and when to leave a record alone. Useful even if you are mixing drum and bass rather than hard techno.
Joseph Capriati at Metamorfosi, Amnesia Ibiza
DJ Mag. Three and a half hours from the 2026 residency. A complete club set if you want one long listen instead of another short clip.
Carl Craig Live at the Roundhouse
Labyrinth. Carl Craig with Jon Dixon. A full live electronic set from a room that still treats the instruments as the show.
// DJ CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY
Elektron Outbox 8
Loopop reviews the Outbox 8 and shows what it actually does with Elektron boxes and with other gear. If you use Digitakt, Digitone, or Analog Rytm, this is the short version of the routing story.
I Cut My DJ Library From 6,000 Tracks to 1,000
Club Ready DJ School. A Rekordbox walkthrough on how to keep the records you actually play and archive the rest. Useful if your crate has grown faster than your sets.
Serato Beta 5.0 with Lucid Beatgrids, Open Streaming and Cue Loop
Cleveland Terry. A look at the three headline changes in the Serato DJ Pro 5.0 beta: grids that update while you mix, more than one streaming service at once, and loops tied to hot cues.
Serato DJ 5.0 Public Beta First Look
DJcityTV. Mojaxx runs the same 5.0 public beta from the Beatport Tech desk. Watch this next to the Cleveland Terry clip if you want a second pass on Lucid Beatgrids and Cue Loops.
// LOOKING AHEAD
Pendulum play 1015 Folsom in San Francisco tonight with Andromedik.
The DNBNL Block Party is Saturday, September 12, in Los Angeles. Doors are listed at 4 p.m.
UKF at the Castle is Saturday, September 12, at Bratislava Castle.
Saeed Younan plays Pachi-Pachi in downtown Las Vegas on Saturday, September 12, from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Robtronik.FM is co-presenting. Tickets are on Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saeed-younan-at-pachi-pachi-tickets-1999001338816?aff=oddtdtcreator
Hybrid Minds play Substance in Las Vegas on September 17, Sunbar in Tempe on September 18, and Nocturnal Wonderland on September 19.
Transmission drum and bass lists Saturday, September 19, at Audio Bar, 1020 South First Street in Las Vegas, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., with Mantis. The night is posted with no cover.
Pendulum play 45 East in Portland on October 8 and Q Nightclub in Seattle on October 9.
Kanine's debut album Reflections is listed for October 2 on UKF.
Djrum's DJ-Kicks arrives October 16 on !K7.
Amsterdam Dance Event runs October 21 to 25.
Sub Focus is still listed for The O2 in Greenwich and Co-op Live in Manchester in March 2027, with one pound from each ticket going to grassroots rooms.
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