07/30/2025

5 Can’t-Miss Sets At BEONIX Festival 2025

Since its launch in Cyprus three years ago, BEONIX Festival has annually transformed the island nation into a summer travel hotspot for house and techno lovers from around the globe, attracting over 25,000 yearly attendees with performances from the genre’s most storied DJs on the sun-drenched Mediterranean Coast.

The three-day celebration is back on the shores of Limassol this September 19-21, this year unfolding throughout ETKO, a sprawling open-air venue on the site of a historic former winery, with headline sets from Armin van Buuren, Adriatique, Boris Brejcha, Anfisa Letyago, Shimza, Maceo Plex, Dubfire, Kevin Saunderson, Roger Sanchez, and Len Faki.

But the talent doesn’t stop there. Over 50 acts spanning progressive and melodic techno, house, trance, and live experimental sonics are slated to perform across four stages throughout the weekend. From driving kicks to hypnotic grooves and ethereal melodies, read on for five can’t-miss sets at BEONIX Festival 2025.

Octave One (Live)

Octave One are heroes of Detroit Techno’s second generation. Helmed by brothers Lenny and Lawrence Burden, the sibling collective has sat atop the genre’s proverbial Mount Rushmore since they debuted in 1989 with “I Believe,” a Motor City anthem released on Derrick May’s famous Transmat Records that cemented their place among fellow greats like Carl Craig, Robert Hood, and Jeff Mills.

Joined by revolving studio contributions from the three other Burden brothers—Lynell, Lorne, and Lance—Lenny and Lawrence have toured globally for over three decades, continuing to prove Octave One as one of techno’s most groundbreaking live acts.

Featuring a beefy analog live setup they call “the mothership,” their riveting performances are fiercely Detroit, rooted in techno’s origins as an exploration of man’s synthesis with machine. But when it comes to their selections, the group is all about eclecticism, blending funky grooves, house flutters, squelchy acid, and soulful rhythms across a lifetime of releases as Octave One and Random Noise Generation.

Juliet Fox

Wrapping the breadth of rave music in a pulsing techno package, Juliet Fox is one of the genre’s most dynamic high-speed selectors.

Over more than a decade, the Australian-born DJ, producer, and label head’s driving releases across heralded imprints like Drumcode, Filth On Acid, MOOD, Three Six Zero, Armada Music, and her own TREGAMBE label have propelled Fox from her hometown of Adelaide and Australia’s clubbing capital, Melbourne, to the world’s most lauded techno temples in London, Barcelona, Berlin and beyond—and a Juliet Fox DJ set is reflective of that global journey.

Known to curate her tracklists to the taste and energy of local crowds and mix mainly on the fly, Fox’s performances expand the techno blueprint to pull from a multitude of musical influences, whether its Detroit’s industrial kicks, the bouncing left-field doof music of down under, deep and hypnotic grooves by way of the UK and Spain, the high-speed raves of Amsterdam, or wherever she’s headed next.

Carlo Lio

When it comes to house and techno, Carlo Lio is Toronto’s leading man. Over the last two decades, the Toronto native DJ, producer, and label boss’ sweeping influence has rippled from the heart of the city’s bustling club scene to Europe, South America, and beyond.

Lio’s A&R work alongside Nathan Barato and Kareem Cali as co-founder of the scene-shaping Rawthentic Music and On Edge Society has given life to some of the world’s most playable 4×4 tunes, while he continues to hold down regular appearances at top clubs on both sides of the Atlantic and nurture the scene locally. But more than his role as a foremost industry figure, on the decks he’s one of the underground’s quiet juggernauts, peddling deep, pulsing tech house, minimal grooves, and chugging techno basslines.

Beyond his own imprints, Lio’s productions have landed on heralded labels such as SCI+TEC, Bedrock Records, Cocoon Recordings, Drumcode, and MOOD. As of late, he returned to Carl Cox’s Intec to help relaunch the legendary label earlier this year, and has put out recent cuts on Eli Brown’s Arcane and Anthony Attalla’s Incorrect Music, in addition to “Xanadu,” his latest thumper for Rawthentic.

AVALAN ROKSTON

AVALAN ROKSTON is the pandemic-era brainchild of Grammy-nominated Dutch sensation Avalan and rising German producer Rokston. After connecting in Amsterdam during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2022, the dynamic duo has quickly garnered acclaim as one of most intriguing pairings in melodic techno with a bevy of valuable cosigns from the top selectors in their sonic palette, including recent collaborations with Argy and Mathame and releases on leading labels like Island Berlin, Upperground, and MHA.

Setting the scene alight with their fusion of trance, techno, progressive, and cinematic sounds, the pair of multi-hyphenate musicians—Avalan, a producer and vocalist, and Rockston, a producer and songwriter—weave live instrumentation and vocals into their electrifying live shows. As they continue to blow up, catch one of Europe’s most promising next-gen acts before they go nuclear.

Yulia Niko

Above all else, Yulia Niko’s two-decade career has been driven by musical immersion. Committing to her beat-driven pursuit at the age of 15, the Russian-born producer and DJ later moved to New York in her early 20s to grab a degree in music production and soak up the scene at its source.

Every year since, this unwavering commitment to music has lifted her to become one of deep and melodic house and techno’s most technically gifted producers, breaking through on prestigious labels like Crosstown Rebels, Watergate, 8bit, and Hottrax with support from the likes of Damian Lazarus, Nicole Moudaber, and Jamie Jones.

With a hand in various underground scenes across the globe from NYC and Ibiza to Berlin, where she served as an esteemed resident of the clubbing capital’s legendary late Watergate nightclub, and a keen ear for spotlighting the next generation of 4/4 stars with her newly minted label, AXEPT Music, Yulia Niko lives and breathes dance music—step into her world for a rare Cypriot performance.