Even when the dancefloor is far away, the music keeps pulling us back. Between meetings, late nights, and office speakers pushed a little too hard, certain sets have soundtracked our days and sparked instant flashbacks to packed rooms, open-air moments, and shared highs. So once again, we’ve gathered the DJ sets and live performances that stayed on repeat for the XCEED team throughout 2025. Plug in, turn it up, and press play.
2manyDJs at Rock Werchter
The Dewaele brothers did it again (as they always do). This 2manydjs set was pure genre clashing finesse through some of the greatest cuts in music. A letter in a bottle that was thrown at the sea of history as a bookmark to understand their impact and legacy. It can’t get more “them” than this.
Avalon Emerson at The Loop, Dekmantel Festival 2025
This set is the definition of how to properly charm a mainstage. Avalon Emerson feels like home whenever Dekmantel is involved, but she definitely grew to a headliner level after seeing what she delivered this past edition. Starting already with a very intense kick off, she only went upwards in an addictively electrifying progression that merged breaks, electro and stomping cuts.
Ben Sterling at RAW Cuts Skatepark Pop Up, NYC
The Raw Cuts crew is doing an incredible job for the community. These free parties are hosting some of the hottest names in the current tech house circuit, so the US crowd can taste what’s cooking. And from the many good sets they brought us yet another year, we had to highlight Ben Sterling’s at a skatepark, proving the British DJ is on his prime, not only being joined by iconic artists on a series of B2Bs around the best clubs in the world, but also delivering groovy and fresh sets on his own.
Ben UFO at The Lot Radio
He’s the definition of a forward-thinking selector. Both through his label Hessle Audio and his DJ sets, Ben UFO still expands the limits of club music, not caring about any genre or tempo, but cirurgically linking tracks that make your body move and bringing them to his own universe.
Bicep at Resident Advisor RA.1000
The arena-conquering duo known for their gritty rave to skyscraping arpeggios was one of the highlights of the RA.1000 mix series. Bicep delivered a condensed hour that got us from dub techno and screwface breaks to São Paulo garage, before a tide of signature synths floods the zone, featuring names from new wave of artists that are set to follow the Belfast icons’ steps. Stadium-sized intimacy at its finest.
Chaos In The CBD at Mixmag Lab London
Warming up in the office for their INPUT visit earlier this summer, we had this mix on repeat. The perfect way to describe what Chaos In The CBD is: unpredictably fun. House cuts to please the purists, but not scared to start very slow in an almost-meditative state, neither to push the accelerator as much as is needed to wrap up a party in a frenetic state.
E.lina at Días de Campo Festival 2025
We will never thank The Mudd Show enough for this one. We left El Tipi stage thinking that a superstar was born, and we’re so happy to be able to play again and again what surely was one of our favorite sets of Días de Campo 2025 (and you’ll surely find us again dancing until our shoes break on her 2026 set as she is recently confirmed for the next edition). Don’t sleep on E.lina, and get your tickets to catch her again on DDC 2026 on XCEED.
Evan Baggs & Rey Colino at RADAR, Dekmantel Festival 2025
What a discovery this was. We casually played this in the office trying to keep the spirits up after a tough day, and by the end of this set, we were all jumping off from our chairs, looking for “the track ID guy” in the comments section and screaming how good this was. Evan Baggs and Rey Colino, you won a couple of true fans after this one.
Four Tet at Horst Arts and Music Festival 2025
We were lucky enough to catch this one live, and as many of you already know, good old Kieran can be… a pretty unpredictable catch. From Four Tet‘s wide range of intensities, he nailed this one. He read the Kiosk x The Lot stage’s atmosphere perfectly and made us dance through an hour that felt (really) short.
Jamie xx at CBC Music Live
The British producer has been making waves again in the festival circuit since the release of his latest album. Jamie xx‘s hybrid DJ sets and his attention to the identity of each crowd made catching him live an unrepeatable experience, mixing seamlessly in each set his all-time classics, newest releases, and a wide variety of sharpened club-focused set of vinyl digs, nostalgic sounds and fresh talent.
TEED – The Yellow Sun Mix
We religiously play every DJ set TEED (fka Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs) releases. Not only he’s an admirable producer (shoutout to his recently released LP ’Always With Me’), but surprisingly if you only know him from that facet, he is an amazing curator when it comes to DJ sets. Always discovering some house elegance and underrated producers when checkin his tracklists, and this set didn’t fall short to the expectations.
Tim Sweeney’s Best of 2025 on Beats in Space
When someone’s been shaping taste for over two decades, you listen. After meeting Tim Sweeney in person at the Apple Music studios in NYC and unpacking his mindset in our NIGHTMAG Talks feature, it’s clear he’s one of the most trusted ears in the game. His annual “Best of” show on Beats in Space is more than a playlist, it’s a carefully considered reflection on the tracks that truly mattered. No hype, no filler. Just selections that are set to become timeless from a selector who sees the bigger picture.
Revisiting these sets gets us close, but nothing replaces being there in the flesh—feeling the room, the system, and the collective energy in real time. If these recordings sparked the itch to get back out, you know where to look. Head to XCEED and start lining up those next dancefloor moments, the ones you won’t just replay, but actually live.
