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