Boiler Room is deep into another strong year in 2026. The platform keeps expanding its footprint without losing the thing that makes it work—no stage separation, no polished spectacle, just DJs surrounded by ravers and sound systems pushed to their limits. This year's sessions have ranged from UK garage and hardgroove techno to Lagos street sound and minimal house marathons, touching down everywhere from Amsterdam and Sydney to Lagos, Santiago, Shenzhen, and Mumbai. What ties it together is the same thing that's always defined Boiler Room: crowds shaping the energy in real time, and DJs willing to take risks because of it. This roundup pulls together the standout sets released so far in 2026—the ones worth going back to, whatever corner of underground dance music you're into.

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THELMA | Boiler Room: Amsterdam

Deep, driving hard house and trance from a Swiss-born, Barcelona-based DJ who's quickly becoming one of the scene's most in-demand names.

THELMA's Amsterdam set, recorded at the city's beloved Shelter club, is a masterclass in tension. Her selections stay hard-edged without tipping into the generic bang-bang-bang that a lot of hard house descends into — there's real groove underneath the aggression, and the trance influences give the peaks room to breathe instead of just hitting a wall of kicks.

It's easy to see why this set has become a calling card for her: she's since picked up support from names like Interplanetary Criminal, KETTAMA, and Alarico, and signed to Meanwhile Agency off the back of it. This is a producer who understands pacing over a full hour, not just a producer with hard tracks.

Read our interview with THELMA here

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Main Phase | Boiler Room: Sydney

UK bass and bassline garage delivered with serious low-end weight, part of Boiler Room's biggest-ever Sydney show.

Main Phase brought the UK bass sound to a room that doesn't get it often enough, and the set thrives on that novelty — you can hear the crowd catching on in real time as the bassline stabs and half-time swing kick in. It's high-energy without being one-note, moving through bass house and garage-adjacent tracks with a producer's ear for low-end detail.

Paired on the night with fellow UK export Keyrah, this was Boiler Room using its Sydney platform correctly: import the sound, let the room react honestly, capture it.

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2HOT2PLAY | Boiler Room: Amsterdam

Berlin-based duo bringing hard house, bounce, and fast-paced techno at a genuinely relentless pace.

2HOT2PLAY's Amsterdam set is built for maximum impact — high-tempo, high-impact selections that lean into rave aesthetics without irony. Their own productions (including their Ida Corr collaboration "Think About It" and Amelie Lens-supported "Type Of Beat") sit naturally alongside the rest of the tracklist, which says something about how far their sound has traveled from remix-and-edit territory into a genuine identity.

It's a set built for people who want their hard house delivered with precision rather than chaos — dynamic, but never sloppy.

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Keyrah | Boiler Room: Sydney

Electronic, house, and UK bass from a Birmingham DJ making her mark on Boiler Room's biggest-ever Sydney night.

Keyrah's set is the more song-forward half of the Sydney double bill, working house and bass hybrids with an emphasis on groove and vocal hooks rather than pure low-end pressure. It's a smart pairing with Main Phase — where his set is about weight, hers is about movement, and together they gave the night real range.

Her presence on a bill this size is a strong signal for where UK bass-adjacent house is headed internationally.

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Novah | Boiler Room x Teletech: London

Acid, hard techno, and psytrance in an intimate showcase built around Teletech's harder end of the techno spectrum.

Boiler Room's Teletech collaborations tend to strip things back to basics, and Novah's set delivers on that promise — relentless, hard-edged, and unapologetically maximalist in a small-room setting that makes the intensity feel even more direct. It's not a set for casual listening; it's built to be felt on a dancefloor.

If you've slept on the current UK hard techno resurgence, this is a solid entry point.

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Azzi On The Beat | Boiler Room Lagos: Street Beat

A fully live set from one of Lagos's most experimental street sound producers, recorded as part of Boiler Room's Street Beat showcase.

Azzi On The Beat has been building toward this moment through his "One Night, One Gathering" series, monthly experimental performances in Bariga that bring in MCs and live instrumentalists rather than just DJ sets. That live-performance instinct carries into this recording — it's less about mixing existing tracks and more about constructing something in real time, which sets it apart from most of the Street Beat lineup.

He's been compared to genre-defining names like DJ Travella and DJ Lag, and this set is a genuine argument for why.

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DJ YK | Boiler Room Lagos: Street Beat

A trending entry in Boiler Room's Street Beat series, capturing the current evolution of Lagos's street sound.

Lagos's street scene has splintered into an alphabet soup of subgenres in the past few years — Mara Beat, Cruise Beat, Free Beat, House Beat, Trench — and DJ YK's set moves through several of them without losing coherence. It's a useful primer for anyone trying to keep up with where Nigerian club music is actually headed right now, beyond the Afrobeats crossover hits.

The fact that this set is trending on Boiler Room's own platform tells you the audience appetite is there.

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AKRIILA | Boiler Room: Santiago

A hometown Boiler Room debut for the rising Chilean artist, blending alt-pop, reggaeton, and trap influences.

AKRIILA's Santiago set matters as much for the moment as the music — this was her first Boiler Room appearance, staged in the city she grew up in, alongside fellow Chilean acts iza tkm and Club Core. Her set draws on the same genre-blending instincts that defined her breakout album Epistolares, pulling reggaeton rhythm into a club context without losing the pop songwriting at its core.

It's a strong example of Boiler Room using its World Tour platform to spotlight scenes outside the usual house/techno axis.

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DJ 86 | Boiler Room: Shenzhen

Electronic, post-club, and progressive house from Shenzhen's own booking manager and scene fixture, recorded at OIL Club.

DJ 86 has effectively been building this scene from the inside — as OIL's booking manager, he's one of the people responsible for the club's rise into a genuine hub for Chinese underground electronic music. His set reflects that insider's ear: post-club textures and progressive house that feel considered rather than trend-chasing, a good showcase of where Shenzhen's sound is right now.

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Sheral | Boiler Room: Mumbai

An hour of unrelenting hardgroove techno from a DJ and graphic designer building serious momentum on India's underground circuit.

Following her Boiler Room debut in Gurugram, Sheral's Mumbai set doubles down on hardgroove's rolling, percussive intensity — there's barely a letup across the whole recording. It's a disciplined, focused set that shows off technical control more than flashy transitions, which is exactly what the genre demands.

Part of Boiler Room's broader push into India's growing techno scene, and one of the stronger entries in it.

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Tiffany Day | Boiler Room London: Tiffany Day

Bass, hyperpop, and trap from an artist turning internet-native nostalgia into genuine dancefloor material.

Tiffany Day's path here is unusual — she built an audience through anime edits on SoundCloud before developing her own strand of bedroom-pop, and this Boiler Room debut (alongside biblemami and Boy Pillow) is her first real test in a club context. The set leans into maximalist, high-pitched hyperpop textures cut with trap low end, translating her extremely online sensibility into something that actually works on a system.

It's a snapshot of where a certain corner of internet music culture is trying to go next.

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Rossi. | Boiler Room London: Rossi.

A long-overdue Boiler Room debut for one of minimal house's most patient, long-form selectors.

Rossi. built his reputation on marathon sets — eight-hour "ALL DAY LONG" sessions and open-air HOME//GRXWN parties — and that discipline shows even in Boiler Room's shorter format. His minimal is club-first and groove-led, built on slow accumulation rather than instant payoff, but genre-loose enough to slip something unexpected (a Silva Bumpa track, for instance) into the flow without breaking it. The show reportedly drew a queue out the door with hundreds turned away at the free RSVP door — a real indicator of where minimal's UK audience is at right now.

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Saint Ludo | Boiler Room: Mumbai

A high-octane blend of bass, grime, and dance music as part of Boiler Room's Mumbai weekender.

Saint Ludo's proper Boiler Room debut came as part of a stacked UK triple bill alongside D Double E's first-ever Indian show and the return of Southall's Panjabi Hit Squad — strong company, and Saint Ludo's set holds its own, moving fluidly between bass weight and grime's more vocal, rhythmic energy.

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Chloë Robinson | Boiler Room: Nottingham

A deep dive into bass and dub from a Boiler Room veteran, recorded at Colwick Park.

Robinson's Nottingham set came as part of a lineup curated by Overmono for Boiler Room's debut at Colwick Park, alongside names like Special Request. With residencies at Rinse FM and 1Xtra and a decade-plus of festival and club experience (Glastonbury, Fabric, Warehouse Project) behind her, she treats the set as exactly what it's billed as — a genuine survey of bass music's current range, not just a genre workout.