Before Charlotte De Witte’s set this year, techno didn’t have an obvious home at Coachella.
For decades, the Sahara tent was one established space for techno, with artists like Kevin Saunderson and Richie Hawtin playing there as far back as 1999. In the 2010s, Martin Garrix and Dillon Francis took over Sahara with their giant forms of dance music. Consequently, artists in the house and techno realm started playing the Yuma tent, Coachella’s onsite nightclub.
Since then, Yuma has hosted myriad major players in techno — from Drumcode boss Adam Beyer to uptempo queen Amelie Lens and the underground mysticism of Nicole Moudaber. But now, techno is out of the underground, and artists dealing techno beats can be found on almost every stage...
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