The Gym starts strong with an all night B2B from longtime collaborators in sapphic music mischief… D.Tiffany & Roza Terenzi. The pair have each spent over a decade cranking out freaky, tripped-out tech and bass-laced breaks under countless aliases, collabs, and via their respective labels Planet Euphorique and Step Ball Chain. A manifestation of femmeforward rhythmic energy, combining rave sonics across style & era with relentlessly naughty finesse.
So nice we do it twice: Roza is part of trickpony who also perform live on Friday in The Bossa Lounge.

Read: The Sound Of: Planet Euphorique
Watch: Dekmantel Ten - Roza Terenzi | Radar

Setting the tone in The Grove is local producer Escaflowne, who’s spent years absorbing sounds from every corner of the underground, forging a voice that’s guided by deep curiosity. With releases on Haus Of Altr, Allergy Season, Juke Bounce Werk his music fuses elements of house, UK garage, electro, jungle, and downtempo, and his extended warm up set will see him giving it all room to breathe.

Listen: At Zero Chill NYE 2025
Read: Mixmag - Impact

French composer and vocalist Malibu, a.k.a. dj lostboi, ushers in opening night with a glimmering live performance. One of the defining voices in contemporary ambient music, her monthly NTS show United In Flames offers a window into her world of reverberant synthesizers, field recordings and deeply felt emotion. In a live setting her music truly breathes, slowing your heartbeat to the speed of the forest around you. 

Listen: Mix at the Barbican Centre
Read: The Fader

Kangding Ray has spent nearly two decades making enigmatic deep techno. In The Grove, he’ll perform his award-winning score for Oliver Laxe's Sirāt, the 2025 film based on traveling ravers in Morocco. Made with processed modular synthesizers, the Sirāt soundtrack is a captivating journey that melds freetekno influences with ethereal, spiritual textures. 

Listen: SIRĀT (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Read: Hammer to Nail

Afghan-Moroccan, raised in the Netherlands and based in Barcelona, Mad Miran defies easy categorization, just like her DJ sets. She'll close out opening night in The Grove, weaving between bass, electro, acid house, and other leftfield oddities under the motto "genres are disturbing, I play vibes." Shaped by her time in the Dutch underground at Clone, Red Light Radio, De School, and Strange Sounds From Beyond, she brings the intuitive approach that's made her a trusted selector around the world.

Listen: un:send 25/26
Watch: Dekmantel Festival 2025

The first half of the Lake Party has Cosmo on the controls - a specialist in all things swung, soulful and sultry. Originally from Ohio, now based in NYC with a Lot Radio and Public Records residency, Cosmo is a thoughtful collector of R&B, hip-hop and house filled with emotion and atmosphere.

Listen: Live at Public Records
Watch: At The Lot Radio Block Party

Following their lush sunrise set Year Nine, Myles Mac and DJ Possum return to soundtrack a day in the sun. The Melbourne duo are supreme diggers of warm balearic sounds - 90s house, R&B, street soul, vintage trance, and deep cuts in all shapes and sizes. Their chemistry flows from the heart and is always more than a sum of its parts.

Listen: MDC.300
Myles Mac & DJ Possum at Sustain-Release Year Nine 2023

We’re proud to host an intimate live show from Ridgewood’s own pop star james K on a special new stage at sunset.  Her ethereal voice floats through a concoction of shoegaze, trip-hop, rock and ambient techno, creating a unique world of its own. For this rare performance she will be accompanied by Ryley Walker on guitar and Lazar Bozic on bass.

Listen: Friend
Read: Crack Magazine

Brooklyn's deep creep shifts the dance floor into gear with her blend of tripped-out minimal, sexy tech house and deep digs of the early 2000’s. As the curator behind the beloved pi pi pi mix series / label and The Lot Radio, her selections are playful, satisfying and charged with a sense of intimacy.

Listen: RA Mix
Watch: Horst Festival 2024

Ekkel takes The Grove deeper into the night with hypnotic, trance-inflected dreamscapes born from Norwegian forest parties. A prolific producer, and running Oslo’s Ute label with Marius Bø, Ekkel often spins his own tracks and label releases, creating a uniquely captivating mood built for smoke-filled dance floors under the stars.

Listen: Bassiani Podcast #229
Read: Minimal Collective

Naone is a Korean DJ and producer who’s been rising for a long time in the Amsterdam underground - co-running the label down2earth and playing at the hotspots like noclubs and Garage Noord. Her sound is rare vinyl driven, rooted in '90s and early-2000s dark progressive, tribal and dubbed out tech-house hybrids. Undeniably party time, but make it deep..

Listen: having a good time @ noclubs ade 2025
Watch: themuddshow

SPF 50 is a producer, resident DJ of Brooklyn DIY party Bob & Shirley, and head of the label Professional Music.  Working on the Sustain-Release production team in the early days, he once named a track "Grove Map," knowing full well how portals are opened in the woods. His rolling hardware live set moves through psychedelic techno, breaks and acid with meticulous sound design, and is a perfect fit to take us there.

Listen: At The Tunnel
The Rush

Mexican-Jamaican artist Andy Martin brings his fusion of dub, sci-fi techno, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms to The Grove. Through his labels Mole Audio and Diaspora Echoes, his work draws on mythology, history, and ancestral knowledge, guided by the principles of dub that he describes as "the skeleton of what electronic music is today." 

Listen: ani/live Eighty One: Andy Martin @ pe:rsona
Watch: Ssensorial X Relink

Few names cast a longer shadow over modern techno than Sandwell District. Formed in 2002 by Regis, Function, Silent Servant, and Female, the collective rejected dance music's growing commercialism in favor of punk swagger and brooding tenderness.  Their 2010 album Feed-Forward reshaped a generation of techno producers with it’s mysterious and emotionally captiving sound. Fifteen years later and honoring the loss of Silent Servant, they’ve returned with End Beginnings and are bringing that singular intensity to their closing set.

Listen: RA.978
Read: Crack Magazine: Closing the Loop

Friday in The Gym is all about bass-mangling and innovative breaks, and DJ DEADNAME & DJPT are perfect local artists to represent this movement in NYC. As a resident of Tossd, DJ DEADNAME plays hot and sweaty dubstep, drum & bass and deconstructed club. DJPT serves up off-the-wall club sounds from far and wide, punctuated by bold bass movements, explosive percussion and deep drama. This B2B is primed for full-bodied party pleasure.

Listen: Osmosis In The Trees 2025
Read: PAPER Magazine

From the lineage of Crystal Labeija, Byrell The Great is NYC ballroom royalty - making bangers like “Bubble Drip” and collaborations with Cakes Da Killa and DJ UNiiQU3. His “ovah beats” have found their way into fashion campaigns, film and TV, but it's on a proper dancefloor where they truly belong.

Listen: Vogue Workout Pt. 5
Watch: Live at Paragon

Fearless selectors CCL and Yushh go back to back peak time in The Gym on Friday, delivering broken techno, bassy explorations and wide ranging emotion. CCL’s open-ended style makes each set feel fresh, fluid, and unpredictable. Yushh has a lifelong immersion in drum & bass and dubstep lineage in Bristol. Their B2B at Draaimolen was a standout moment for many, so this is a highly anticipated comeback.

Listen: CCL B2b Yushh at Draaimolen Festival
Read: The Sound of Pressure Dome

Mala is a dream booking for Sustain, and it’s a real honor to hand him the reins to The Gym’s mighty subwoofers. The South London icon is a dubstep pioneer, one half of Digital Mystikz, and co-founder of Deep Medi Musik. He’s has spent over two decades honing the art of soul-stirring bass weight hypnosis, and his 3-hour closing can’t be missed. 

Listen: RA.1016
Watch: Live at Dimensions Festival

Montreal’s como se DJ steps up to set a playful, soft and psychedelic tone for the start of The Bossa Lounge. Paul is a familiar face in Brooklyn, having co-organized the roving Recess DIY parties, and his DJing centers the spacious, soulful and sensuous stuff that the Lounge is made for.

Listen: Animix - One Hundred and Twenty One
Watch: At The Lot Radio

trickpony is Roza Terenzi, Mike Midnight and Maria Korkeila (aka emkay). Their 2 records on Step Ball Chain were instantly iconic - vocals that saunter atop richly woven trip-hop and electro, harkening to the jazzy vibe of St Germain and Sneaker Pimps. All their tracks are timeless and candle-lit, with "Room To Breathe" as a certified hit.

Listen: 24/7 Heaven (STEP17)
Read: Trickpony & The Art of Coming Together

Mexican born Amelia Holt runs the Honey Trap and Blow parties in NYC. Her taste leans toward the sleazy and off-kilter, and her downtempo slot in the Bossa Lounge will have her finding the sweet spot of cosmic exploration through late-night oddities.

Listen: Live From Dimensions 25'
Watch: Le Petit Box Radio

Eden Aurelius has quietly emerged as one of the city's most compelling voices in experimental club music - her productions balancing weightless dub atmospherics with dancefloor physicality. She favors patient, deeply textured journeys that reveal themselves through subtle emotional shifts, a perfect fit for a deep dive in Friday Bossa.

Listen: IA MIX 393
Plateau

DJ G & DJ’J aka Gareth and Jenny serve one of their notorious B2Bs for the afters portion of Friday Bossa, at the time of night when things get wobbly. Kindred spirits in sound, their approach is inspired by their Irish roots and a shared path in the underground music scenes of early 2010s London and New York, where they’ve each spent the last decade quietly dedicated to world-building projects - J with Incienso, and G with Nowadays, where he oversees operations and bookings.

Listen: Crack Magazine: Incienso #3
Listen: Animix One Hundred & Thirty Three

A quirked up cutie, Saia has quickly become known in NYC for sets that are as exuberant as they are unexpected. Acid house, italo, new beat, tribal, electro and pop instincts collide into something that feels psychedelic, playful and completely their own. As founder of the Diva Diva party which pairs queer legends on Sundays, they cultivate the same sense of openness, irreverence and delight that runs through their DJing.

Listen: AT CARRY NATION GOOD ROOM
AT OFFICE HOURS

PAURRO is a fixture in the Mexico City queer underground as a DJ, producer, promoter and label manager for Cómeme. Her sound is a rave fever dream fusing golden-era NYC house with Latin percussion and raucous rave samples. Through her House of Paurro party series, she's championed Latin American talent on stages around the world.

Listen: RA.966
Watch: AT MAKING TIME ♾️ 2025

La Noche is the beloved Berlin party run by Byron Yeates and S-candalo who are joining together for a mega B3B to turn out the pool party. Byron is an Irish-born producer, the founder of Radiant Records and resident of Adonis whose warm personality shines through his DJing: playful, proggy, and packed with euphoria. S-candalo is the sibling duo of THC & Disk Cartel. Raised in Germany with Colombian and Chilean heritage, the pair bring maximalist Latin energy: big chords, big drums, even bigger basslines.

Listen: S-CANDALO B2B BYRON YEATES Live at Nowadays
Read: DJ Mag: Selections

This year, we’ll have a sauna village at The Lake on Friday and Saturday from 1-9PM. CUL DE SAC is a non-profit building NYC’s first outdoor community sauna with pop ups in the city’s parks and plazas. Pando is a forested space for music and relaxation based in South Kortright, NY, who also built the soundsystem that will be used on Saturday.

Cul de Sac
Pando

Sauna time starts Saturday with Downloadable Content, a born and bred New Yorker and a familiar face on its dancefloors since he was a teen. The Effervescence co-founder and Mansions resident has a sincere eclecticism inspired by NYC’s uniquely diverse dance landscape, every track groovy and interesting.

Listen: pi/live: All Night at Mansions
Watch: The Lot Radio

Who better to soundtrack a sauna party than the Finnish? Denzel and Joni are the force behind Solstice Festival and Helsinki’s Post Bar, lifelong friends with immaculate taste, pushing forward sonic movements in their community. Together they excel in picking brain ticklers for this digger stage delight.

Listen: Solstice x Sustain-Release at Open Ground
Watch: At The Lot Radio

Previously part of Groovy Groovy and longtime Sustain team member, DJ Temporary is an artist whose music combines speculative sci-fi and trance, both the genre and the mindstate. They’ll be bringing a mix of relaxing soundscapes and hypnotic downtempo as the sun sets by the lake. DJ Temporary has also contributed the handcrafted sauna and sound system as part of Pando.

Listen: At Sustain-Release Year 9
At Dripping 2024

Known for their expansive hardware live performances and lush releases on Animalia, Kalahari Oyster Cult, Naff and more, OK EG play an extended live set to lift off the The Grove Saturday.  Drawing from Melbourne’s fertile underground, their music is organic and ever-unfolding.  This placement gives a great opportunity to hear both sides to their sound: starting deep and introspective and ending fully dancefloor.

Listen: At Monument Festival 2025
Watch: At Kiosk Radio

Matas has moved through NY's dance music community in many roles - working in record shops, festivals, sound crews, running DIY warehouse party Loop (formerly Earth Dog), and recently starting a residency at Nowadays.  As both a DJ and a sound technician, he treats the system as part of the performance, and his immersive sets prioritize pacing, pressure and story telling.

Listen: At Sustain-Release x Nowadays Nonstop
Watch: At Lot Radio

The creator of Sustain-Release and Mutual Dreaming, Aurora has been pushing DIY magic in the Brooklyn underground since 2010. Each project takes a curiosity-led path of constant evolution, ruled by an ethos of sensuality, intensity, and not forgetting the fun. She’ll be bringing her cosmic techno live hardware set for her first time in The Grove.

Listen: RA.681
Watch: Dekmantel Ten - Aurora Halal | Radar

Konduku uses polyrhythms from his Turkish heritage to create a deep, immersive strain of modern techno, tinged with tribal house, UK breaks and other twists. Garçon is a Basel-based expert in slow-burning mood modulation, combining dexterous landscapes from all corners of electronic music united by a dark and mysterious mood. Frequently playing in psychedelic open air festivals around the world, we are in a for a rewarding ride in The Grove.

Listen: At waking life
Watch: themuddshow x Sound Metaphors

Rhadoo is a pioneer of the Romanian minimal sound, whose label [a:rpia] reshaped underground dance music since the late 2000s. Utilizing his own edits and unreleased material, his sets unfold with brain tingling precision, creating endlessly evolving grooves that seem to bend time itself. Few artists possess such a singular command of mood and tension, fitting perfectly in the forest at dawn.

Listen: Live at Waking Life 2025
Watch: At SUPER DOMMUNE

The elegant Luxembourgish-Spanish DJ Ogazón has built her name on a commitment to vinyl records, digging for special tracks, and sensitivity to the audience's journey. She pours her soul into her performances, and she’ll take over at sunrise for a warm and cathartic final push.

Listen: Recognise 096

Seven years after her legendary closing that broke the Bossa Stage floor, Powder returns to close Sustain-Release in The Grove. The Japanese artist has cultivated one of dance music's most singular voices: equal parts mystical and deeply human, her sets have a rare ability to transform a dancefloor into an intimate space where strange things are possible, informed by cosmic disco, house and mutant techno. 

Listen: BIS Radio Show #897
Passing it clockwise

DJ Miss Parker is a vinyl DJ whose deep knowledge has made them a true educator for scores of Brooklyn’s bleary-eyed dancers. With crates spanning tribal, acid house, trance and hardstyle, Parker can be seen most weekends spinning throughout the city with one ear pointed towards today while cleverly referencing NYC’s legendary music history throughout their sets. Guaranteed to wake it up in The Gym right away.

Listen: Elektronik Carnival Mix
Watch: Sound Metaphors TV

Raised on Chicago house, Juke, and brought up dancing in Atlanta's vogue and ballroom scene, Shaun J. Wright brings those lineages into every set they play. A former touring vocalist for the legendary Hercules and Love Affair and co-founder of Twirl Records, their DJing fuses 808 rhythms, euphoric synths and live vocals from the heart.

Listen: Honcho Campout Mix Series
Read: DJ Mag: Get To Know - Shaun J. Wright

Her name being the Turkish word for “different”, BASHKKA has Turkish roots, raised in Munich, and was irrevocably shaped by a decade in NYC in the ballroom scene. She channels an intoxicating energy that’s self professedly cunt, and is dedicated to realizing SWANA and queer counter-cultural potential in music.

Listen: Dekmantel Mix 508
Watch: AVA festival 2025

Verraco brings his signature collision of techno and Latin tribal rhythms straight out of Medellín. Co-founder of the groundbreaking TraTraTrax and Insurgentes labels, he's one of his generation's most daring sound designers and DJs — intense, maximalist, and always mixed with surgical precision. Prepare for a proper peak-time vortex.

Listen: At Rainbow Disco Club 2025
Watch: Horst Festival 2025

Both known for emotionally charged, high-energy sets that traverse techno and trance with surgical precision, Mama Snake joins LYDO for power hour in The Gym, promising ecstatic release and melancholic beauty. Lydo is a Filipino-born Vietnamese-American sound artist, resident of Basement, and creator of projects X-TRA.SERVICES and care, which were built to serve queer, trans, and nonbinary people of color like themselves. Mama Snake is a Copenhagen-based artist, DJ, and label head of Amniote Editions. Expect sonic thrills, ranging from visceral and grooving to mind-bendingly experimental.

Listen: RA.655
Read: Spike Art Magazine: Music Heals

Closing The Gym is the meeting of two generations of Japanese psychedelic techno for their first ever b2b: the legendary DJ Nobu and DJ MARIA., one of the scene's most exciting new voices. Former hardcore punk with a 10,000-record collection, Chiba's DJ Nobu runs the Bitta Label and the fabled Future Terror party which began in 2001 as a deliberate antithesis to the commercialized club scene of nearby Tokyo. DJ Maria is a producer the founder of Japan's small DIY forest festivals Transcendence and Moment and her music has influences of psytrance and progressive. Together their powerful and transporting techno leaves the dancefloor suspended between hypnosis and total release.

Listen: RA.971
Watch: Dekmantel Festival 2025

After performing with Trickpony in Bossa the night before, Mike Midnight steps up for a solo sesh. With a broad knowledge of low-lit club music, the Australian producer / DJ has a signature style of smoked-out rhythms, deviant basslines and illbient elegance. A mainstay on NTS Radio, host Flo Dill called it “music that when listened to at night makes you feel unstoppable.”

Listen: pi pi pi - -2˚
Watch: Kiosk x The Lot Radio at Horst Festival 2026

Joy Guidry is a bassoonist, composer and improviser whose work stretches the instrument far beyond its classical roots, treating sound as a vehicle for storytelling, healing and radical imagination. Drawing from free jazz, gospel and experimental electronics,  they create deeply immersive performances rooted in the lineage of Black musical traditions while constantly pushing toward new sonic territory. They’ll perform live in Bossa on Saturday night.

Read: 15 Questions
Watch: Elevator Music

Proudly repping a “play weirder, not harder” ethos, livwutang has enraptured dancers across continents with her longform storytelling. Her style bridges gaps between eras, scenes, and sounds in a way that feels deeply personal—building an inimitable sonic world committed to Black music, its artistry and its history. After her fan-favorite 2023 closing, we’re excited to hear another side to her sound in a 3 hour downtempo set.

Listen: RA.975
Watch: The Lot Radio at Solstice Festival

Local legends DJ Healthy and jp take an expansive trip into the morning in the Bossa Lounge. As founder of PACIFIC MODE and longtime organizer of Sustain-Release Tokyo, DJ Healthy has been dedicated to building bridges between Japan and NYC heads, and has been organizing in NYC since the early days of Bossa Nova Civic Club. jp draws inspiration from the overlooked corners of '90s IDM, his sound balancing intricate rhythms and shimmering hazy melodies. Together their sets are moody and omnivorous, blending off-center house, techno and dubstep-adjacent breakbeats with a chuggy low-end philosophy uniting it all.

Listen: we're here all the time
Listen: Rural 2025

Closing the luscious morning hours in Bossa Lounge is CCL, a cherished artist who has built immense trust from their audience as they fold genres, eras and tempos into exhilaratingly harmonic combinations, creating wiggly wormholes full of feeling that last long in the memory.

Read: The Art of DJing
Listen: CCL b2b Yushh at Draaimolen Festival 2025