Techno was born in abandoned factories — buildings that didn't get demolished, they oxidized. Left to react with time until the iron turned to rust. OXID is the discovery platform for that music: the underground, wherever it forms, from Detroit's rusting machines to Tbilisi's Soviet concrete.
"The language is music. That's the core idea. Not where you're from, not your politics — just the kick, the groove, and how your body responds to both."
9Cities mapped
8Subgenres
25+Artists
132BPM avg
Concrete cities
The underground, mapped by sound
Every city here built its own version from what it had — ruins, resilience, rhythm. No passport needed. Just concrete and the people who refused to stop moving.
Subgenre explorer
What kind of techno is this?
Select a style to understand its sound, BPM, and key artists.
Artists on the radar
The people behind the sound
Emerging and established. From Siberia to Ramallah, Hamburg to Tbilisi. Click any artist for the full story.
14Women on radar
60%Of this list
This isn't a campaign — it's what the underground actually looks like. The hypnotic, industrial, and high-speed scenes have some of the most important women in electronic music. Not despite the genre's intensity. Because of what it demands: precision, conviction, no compromise.
OXID LOOP — timestamp discovery
The Loop — the moment at 1:47:23 nobody talks about.
YouTube surfaces what's already popular. The Loop surfaces what the community felt — regardless of view count. A 600-view HÖR set with a life-changing drop deserves to be found. Someone drops a moment, someone else finds it, shares it, drops more. That's the loop. @oxidloop
Submit a drop — add your timestamp
Find your sound
Three questions. Your techno entry point.
Not based on what's popular. Based on what you actually feel. Answer honestly.
Question 01 of 03
When the drop hits exactly right — what do you feel in your body?
Not what you think the answer should be. What actually happens.
01 / 03
Question 02 of 03
Which image feels closest to the music you want?
Trust your gut on this one.
02 / 03
Question 03 of 03
How long can you follow a set before you need it to change?
This is about patience — not attention span.
03 / 03
Reading your answers...
Your first three sets
Festival intelligence
The festivals that built the sound
Not a ticket listing. The full picture — history, how each one evolved, stage-by-stage breakdown, sound systems, the lineup mapped to artists you follow, and where to actually book. The place that should exist but doesn't, until now.
◉ UPCOMING — 2026 SEASON · LIVE
JUN 19–21
HIVE
Ferropolis, DE
JUL 10–12
Awakenings
Hilvarenbeek, NL
JUL 10–12
Stone Techno
Essen, DE
MAY 22–24
Cercle
France
JUL 2026
EXIT
Novi Sad, RS
MAY 15–16
Aw. Upclose
Spaarnwoude, NL
JUL 11
CODE @ Fabrik
Madrid, ES
OCT 21–25
Awakenings ADE
Amsterdam, NL
⚠ LINEUP + DATE DATA REFLECTS LATEST AVAILABLE INFO · ALWAYS VERIFY ON OFFICIAL TICKET LINK BEFORE BOOKING
Fresh sets — verified & recent
Just published. Awaiting your ears.
Real sets, recently released on official channels. The timestamps are deliberately empty — that's your job. Watch, feel, and when a moment hits, drop it in The Loop. We supply the set. The community supplies the feeling.
From the floor
The scene, as it's happening
Official posts from artists and festivals — embedded directly from Instagram, credited and playing from the source. Curated moments from the floors that matter. Updated as the scene moves.
◉ SLOT 01 — READY
Official Instagram embed goes here. Awakenings' Gashouder announcement, Yanamaste's CODE post, festival aftermovies — grab the embed code from any public post.
SLOT 02
Awaiting curation
SLOT 03
Awaiting curation
Field notes
We felt this. Here's what it was.
The details most people miss — the sound system brand behind that physical bass, the legendary reunion buried in a lineup, the new service that changed the experience. Built to be read here and shared on @oxidloop. Knowledge that makes the scene smarter.
Rising from The Loop
Artists the community surfaced
The Loop is the engine. When the community keeps dropping an artist's sets, they rise here — nominated by what people actually felt, not by an algorithm or a PR budget. This is how OXID grows: curated by us, surfaced by you, explored together.
◉ HOW AN ARTIST JOINS OXID
01 · CURATED
The ones we know matter. Added by hand, with their canonical source attached.
02 · LOOP-SURFACED
Repeated drops of an unlisted artist surface them here as rising / requested.
03 · VERIFIED
Sources checked against first-party (site/socials) before they join the roster.
04 · TRACKED
Their gigs flow into events. More reasons to drop their sets. The loop closes.
Community board
What's moving you right now
A drop, a set, a moment. One language. All cities welcome.
The origin
Where the name comes from
◉ ANNĒ B2B SOL ORTEGA · STONE TECHNO 2024 · 1:16:32
The name wasn't designed in a meeting. It came from a single moment in someone else's set.
ANNĒ and Sol Ortega, back to back at Stone Techno 2024 — recorded by ARTE Concert inside Zeche Zollverein, a UNESCO World Heritage coal mine in Essen. At one hour, sixteen minutes, thirty-two seconds, the camera pulls to the rust of the old industrial structure while the set drives underneath it. For one second the music, the corroded iron, and the beauty all become the same thing.
That's oxidation — iron meeting time, industry decaying into something new. The reaction that turns industry into art. We watched it happen in real time, in a coal mine, set to techno, and we named the whole thing after that feeling.
Why this exists
One language
Music doesn't need a translator.
A kick drum in Tbilisi hits the same as one in Ramallah, Tokyo, or Berlin. Your passport, your politics, your background — none of it matters on the floor.
Free movement
No prescribed steps. The body as machine.
Techno floors have no choreography. Endurance, rhythm, body intelligence — no rules. Come out of a 6-hour set feeling like you ran a marathon, but with clarity instead of exhaustion.
The leg up
Someone sent you the first link. Now send it forward.
A HÖR link at the right moment. A BCCO mix from a friend. OXID exists to be that moment for the next person — wherever they are, whatever concrete city they're in.
Engineering roots
Oxidation. The name and the colour are one.
Rust is iron reacting with time — an energy-releasing reaction, the chemistry of every abandoned factory. The orange you see across this platform isn't a design choice. It's oxidation made visible. Juan Atkins studied technological futures when he named techno; we named this for what happens to the buildings it was born in.