The Midnight Project Techno Music

Midnighters, this week I'm opening the hour with my own track.
Golden goes first. You heard it in last week's episode before most people did, and since then, it has kept climbing in the promo lists. Now it has a release date: 15 October on IAMT.
The pre-order is open, so if you want it in your collection or your sets the day it lands, this is the moment.
Pre-order Golden: https://www.beatport.com/track/golden/30741336
A track only travels when people pass it on, and the same goes for this show. If Golden has stuck with you since last week, send this episode to one friend who should hear it. Then tell me in the comments where you were when it hit you, and tag it #TheMidnightProject so I can find you.
On the island it's closing season, but the show keeps going. A new hour every Wednesday, through the winter, wherever you are.
See you at midnight,
Sebastiaan

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Midnighters, a new hour is here.
I often wonder where you are when you press play. Some of you have told me you listen on the early commute, some at the gym, some in the kitchen, some late at night in the studio when everything else is quiet. From Amsterdam to Buenos Aires to right here on Ibiza, we're all in different places at different times, but we're listening to the same hour. That's what makes this a community and not just a show.
So this week I want to hear from you. Where are you listening right now, and when? Drop it in the comments. Send a photo of your listening spot if you like, and tag it #TheMidnightProject. I'd love to see where these hours end up around the world.
And if there's someone in your life who belongs in this community, a gym buddy or a friend who always asks what you're listening to, send them this episode. That's how Midnighters find each other.
If you're on the island this Saturday, 3 October, come up to the Tomorrowland Ibiza Rooftop Sessions in Platja d'en Bossa. Groovecreator plays from 20:00 and the guest list is free:
https://www.fourvenues.com/vanesa2/events/tomorrowland-ibiza-rooftop-sessions-03-10-2026-WXGT
For once, you can listen in the same place at the same time as me.
See you next Wednesday, Midnighters.

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Midnighters,
This one is personal. I've been playing Groovecreator's music for fifteen years. His records have filled countless hours of this show and many nights behind the decks. Bringing him to you as a guest on this bonus episode feels like a full-circle moment.
He's sharing something special: a live recording from his set at Playground during Burning Man 2026, captured in Black Rock City. If you couldn't be in the desert this year, this is the closest you'll get to dancing in the dust at sunrise.
The set opens with an unreleased Chicago acid track he made with house legend Roy Davis Jr. From there, it takes you through a Led Zeppelin bootleg, a club edit of Radiohead, and Prydz's Pink Floyd rework. Then it lands on "I Feel Love" by Moroder and Donna Summer, the record that arguably started it all. The last stretch builds into peak-time house and techno, ending with Carl Cox's remix of "Talamanca," a nice nod to the man behind Playground.
Big thanks to Groovecreator for trusting us with this recording. If it moves you, follow him via https://linktr.ee/Groovecreator and let him know. Nothing means more to an artist than hearing that it landed.
Now for the part that makes me happiest. On Saturday, 3 October 2026, Groovecreator joins me on my rooftop at the Tomorrowland Ibiza Rooftop Sessions. After fifteen years of playing his tracks, I'm still letting that sink in.
He plays from 20:00 to 21:00, with Rebeca Ark before and after. You'll find us at the Tomorrowland Ibiza Store in the Ibiza Gallery, Platja d'en Bossa. The guest list is free, so bring your crew and sign up here: https://www.fourvenues.com/vanesa2/events/tomorrowland-ibiza-rooftop-sessions-03-10-2026-WXGT
If you come because of the show, come find me and say hi. Putting faces to the names I see in the comments every week is the best part of what we've built together.
Midnighters, this community grows because of you, so tell me what you think. Which moment got you: the Zeppelin bootleg, "I Feel Love," or that unreleased acid track? If you've been to the Burn, share your best playa memory. Coming to the rooftop? Say so in the comments so we can find each other.
Tag a friend who needs this set and share your favourite moment with #TheMidnightProject.
The regular show is back on Wednesday.
Until then, see you on the dancefloor.
Sebastiaan

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The Midnight Project #225
Midnighters,
There are three Faithless records in this hour. That was not the plan when I started building it. The first one went in, the other two followed, and by the time the hour was finished, it was clear the episode had a spine.
We open with "Tarantula" in KASIA's hands. She has had the kind of year on Drumcode that most artists would take a whole career for, and she was the right person to start this one. Khabiar follows with "Monologue" and Cristian Varela on the remix for Tronic, one of the names Spanish techno was built on, still showing up and still doing the work.
SUDO comes in next with "Converge" on DCLTD, the darker side of the Drumcode family, and he is back later in the hour with "Origin" on the same label. Two records, one artist, and both of them earned their place on their own.
Adam Beyer's remix of "We Come 1" arrives early, and his alternative mix returns further in. He has been carrying this one around all year, Drumsheds and Awakenings among the rooms it has been through, and putting both versions in the same hour is deliberate. Between them sits ADRIANNA's "Shake The Underground" with Tao Andra on the remix for Natura Viva Black, and Tao Andra comes back near the end alongside Sarah de Warren on "Higher" for Arcane.
Zafer Atabey takes the middle with "System Fallt" on EXTIMA and "Align" on Natura Viva Black, and Davestorm keeps EXTIMA in the room with "Let the Bass Guide Us." Konrad (Italy) lands "Din Don" on Gain Records, a label that keeps turning up in these hours because that is where the records keep coming from. Simina Grigoriu closes the DCLTD run with "Divine Assignment."
The last word belongs to Robert Owens. "My Everything" with Rober V, in a warehouse dub by Groovecreator, who has been working with Robert all year and has the touch for it. Robert has been singing on house records since Chicago invented the form. Ending a techno hour on that voice is the only way I wanted to end this one.
One more thing from the island. The Tomorrowland Ibiza staff named me the "Best Artist of the Season" for the 2026 Tomorrowland Residency. Those are the people who work every one of those rooftop nights, who stand at the side of the booth from the first record to the last and hear all of it, week after week. Getting it from them means more to me than any chart position. A good part of what is in this hour was built up there in front of them, and you are hearing it because it worked on that roof first.
Full tracklist is on 1001Tracklists as always.
One thing before you go. If "We Come 1" meant something to you the first time around, there is someone who was standing next to you when it did. Send them this episode. That is how this show has grown from the start, one person handing it to one person, and it still beats anything an algorithm has done for me.
Hit reply and tell me which one hit hardest. I read everything.
See you at midnight, Sebastiaan

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Midnighters,
Sixty thousand of you hear this hour on DI.FM every week, and that is before the podcast feeds, Spotify, SoundCloud, YouTube and every replay in between. The real number is bigger than I can count, and it grows in one way only. Someone sends the link to a friend on a night shift, someone drops the show in a group chat after a set, someone plays it in the car with the windows down. That has been the whole engine from the start. If the show gave you something this week, pass it to one person.
The hour opens on Drumcode with Taste of the Night, the first collaboration between A.D.H.S. and Kos:mo, out on DC4 Vol. 6 last Friday. Sam WOLFE and PETER PAHN came from that same EP last week, so the release is now three records deep in two shows. Victor Ruiz and Modeā follow with Bloom, again on Drumcode, then Zafer Atabey on EXTIMA, the Istanbul label he co-founded. Victor Ruiz returns with Moreira on Arcane Music, and Atlante takes us to twenty minutes, the title track of the Redraft Memories EP on Second State Audio. Gitecdj and Unika DJ land next on BLACKRIFT.
The middle is SS Ventura and Mankraft with Ravalon on Shodan Records, a label I know from the inside, then Marco Faraone with Killa on Artcore, Davestorm with the second EXTIMA record of the hour, and Tech Us Out on Orange Recordings. We close with Simina Grigoriu, Layers of Reality on DCLTD, the Heizek remix of Mind from Caméléonx on Dark Fiend Records, and Connect (BR) with Calum Kieran on Sound Dissonance.
Every one of those artists is someone in this community can discover for the first time this week. Follow them, buy the records, tell your people where you heard it. Small labels grow on exactly that, and so does this show. Full tracklist is on 1001Tracklists as always.
So tell me which track hit hardest, I read everything.
See you at midnight,
Sebastiaan

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